2023/2024 performance public space wilderness

LUSH BLAST:
WALKING PERFORMANCE

OUTDOOR DANCE PERFORMANCE
duration: 50min

Can dance mend our ties to the land and intimately connect us? Lush Blast is a walking performance in an urban park. It explores the relationality between natural, artificial, wild, and domesticated. The performers guide the audience through varying atmospheres, from evocative songs to acidic humor, asking what remains of the wilderness in and around us. Using their physicalities and voices, they morph their presences in a quest to become something other than human, inviting the audience into a sensual feast and cruel battlefield. After spending time in the Carpathian Wilderness, the choreographers reclaim power as a vital force rather than a tool of control over land, ecosystem, and body.

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
STUDIO ALTA - Natura Extrema, Prague(CZ), 30.05.2025
REGIONY FESTIVAL, Hradec Kralove(CZ), 26.06.2025
KIOSK FESTIVAL, Zilina(SK), 24.07.2025

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:
Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR - #TakeHeart Residenzförderung
Hellerau-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste
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.”

Breanne Saxton

“WE ARE TURNING THE AIR INTO FLESH. WE ARE A SWEET ENERGY STORAGE. WHISPERING STORIES OF SENTIENT WILDERNESS.”

photos: stephan floss

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