Can dance mend our ties to the land and
intimately imbricate us? Lush Blast is a walking performance in an urban
park, exploring the relations between natural and artificial, wild and
domesticated and cultural representations about nature. Four performers
guide the audience through varying spaces and situations, asking what
remains of the wilderness in and around us. Using their physicalities
and voices, they constantly morph their presences in a quest to become
something other than human, inviting us into a sensual feast and cruel
battlefield. After spending time in the Carpathian Wilderness, the
choreographers want to re-articulate power as a vital force rather than a
tool of control. What would happen if humanity gave up controlling and
exploiting “nature”? What should be sacrificed for this to happen?
CREDITS
Choreography:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
Creation and performance:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielinska
Music: & the romantic horse
Dramaturgy: Maikon K
Text: Katarína Bakosová, Maikon K
Stage design: Natálie Rajnisová
Light research: Raquel Rosildete
Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
PARTNERS
Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ)
Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ)
Hellerau -
Europäisches Zentrum der Künste in Dresden (DE)
SUPPORT
Czech-German Fund for the Future
State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic
Bazaar Festival Residency
Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
CAA Berlin
PERFORMANCES
HELLERAU - Kulturgarten Opening, Dresden (DE), 20.05.2023
BAZAAR FESTIVAL - Science Blast Evening, Prague (CZ), 22.03.2024
STUDIO ALTA - Alta Zeny, Prague (CZ), 02.07.2024
STUDIO ALTA, Prague (CZ), 11.10.2024