CHOREOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH ON WILDERNESS
Initiated with a visit to the Kôprová and Tichá Valleys in Carpathian Mountains, hosted by Hellerau - European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.
Working with the notion of wilderness touches on several
aspects simultaneously: the question of power relations between humans and
land, the practice of letting go of control in favor of building collaborations, zooming into biological processes enabling alliances between
living and dead matter, and shifting attention from static objects to dynamic
fluxes and interdependencies. It became a mixture of dance, cooking and carpentry. Throughout the process, we
collected stories about woods and wilderness told from many different perspectives - focusing on the forest ecosystem as a nexus of interspecies relations, politics and biological processes. We created dance scores and worked with somatic storytelling to access embodied knowledge and celebrate energy
flows, focusing on sun as a primary energy source and glucose
as the substance manufactured by photosynthesizing organisms that all living beings exchange.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept, research & performance Alica Minar, Dorota Michalak
Scientists Erik Baláz (ecologist, activist, film director), Matthias Nuss (entomologist, biologist)
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
PRESS & MEDIA