AN OUTDOOR DANCE PERFORMANCE
LUSH BLAST is an intimate, challenging, collective work reclaiming power as a vital force rather than a tool of control and exploitation: an embodied poetics of empowerment, interdependence, and forest logic.
The project began in the summer of 2022, when, during our first field study in the Carpathian Wilderness, we encountered a young bear and an over 800 year old arolla pine. Since then, we keep learning from the old-growth forests and wildlife about what ‘power’ and ‘relatedness’ mean.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Choreography Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
Creation and performance Dorota Michalak/Polina Sonis, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielinska
Music & the romantic horse
Dramaturgy Maikon K
Text Katarína Bakosová, Maikon K
Costume Natálie Rajnisová
Light research Raquel Rosildete
Production Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
Photos Darja Lukjanenko, Vojtech Brtnicky
PARTNERS:
Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ)
Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ)
Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste in Dresden (DE)
SUPPORT:
State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic
Czech-German Future Fund
Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin
“THE DANCE OCCURS WHEN THE SKIN IS EATEN, WHEN THE SUN IS PHOTOSYNTHESIZED, WHEN THE WATER TRAVELS THROUGH OSMOSIS, AND IT DOESN'T STOP, AND THERE IS NO RUSH TO PERFORM.”
“WE ARE TURNING THE AIR INTO FLESH. WE ARE A SWEET ENERGY STORAGE. WHISPERING STORIES OF SENTIENT WILDERNESS.”
PRESS & MEDIA