Colony Collapse is based on the Colony Collapse Disorder (CDD), an environmental crisis that occurs when the worker bees cannot feed the honeybee hive. Due to starvation of the colony and the queen, the bee population declines and since bees pollinate many plant species, this phenomenon can impact agriculture throughout the world.
Choreographed by Marisa Ricci, the piece explores the themes of nature, life in the colony, and loss. Community, motherhood, connection, delicateness, and disorder have all inspired Colony Collapse. Textured movements and distinctive aesthetics are performed with many musical genres, including classical and avant-garde.
Viewed with VR glasses, immersive dance video WITHIN invites the public to enter the mind of a choreographer. Each member of the audience controls the story and travels with a dancer through the ruins and natural landscapes of the Spanish Basque country. A virtual reality metaverse, the piece showcases real human bodies moving as one with nature.
WITHIN was born thanks to INNOCULT, a European project promoting the development of art and technology prototypes. It was presented during MEET, in Milan, and supported by Dantza Labea, Eszenabide and Espacio Punto de Fuga. So far, the piece has been shown in Cinedans, BLV Art, MEET, Labo Xl, Teatro Barakaldo, and the Dantzan Tzan Festival.
An esoteric game dating as far back as Ancient Times, Tarot is based on myths and individual experiences creating an infinite poetry for our multiple rebirths. In The Moraline Escapees, Nicolas meditates on the mystery of the Magician and starts an internal journey to understand our deepest self.
Realizing the world is losing its humanity, Nicolas Zemmour choreographs love, sharing and loneliness, but also the joy and responsibility of taking charge of our own freedom in a strange world.
In this solo, choreographer Rebecca Margolick studies the Dybbouk tradition in Jewish mythology. It is said that if our dead are not correctly buried, they can possess the body of the living, usually women. Although being possessed by a Dybbouk was sometimes considered punishment for a grave sin, it may have been (according to Professor Rachel Elior) a desperate attempt for women to free themselves from the constraints of a patriarchal society.
Through traditional Ashkenazi and Yiddish dances, choreographer Rebecca Margolick reinterprets the myth and folklore. Through the embodiment of ancient stories, Reservoir is a tribute to the resilience of Jewish women, resonating with contemporary movement and highlighting a past that remains present in our bodies to this day.
The collaboration of artists from different continents brings new experiences and themes as well as diverse perspectives. In Africa, the eldest are naturally the most respected members of the family and society, and their departure from life is the most important celebration of wisdom, experience, and goodness. How do perceptions of death and finality of life differ or meet in places as unalike as Ghana and the Czech Republic?
Lenka Kniha Bartůňková and Ridina Ahmedová travelled to Accra, Ghana in 2019 to record interviews on the topic of “death” and begin the creative process. They worked on the original performance with dancers from Ghana, the Czech Republic, and seniors. COVID stopped it, but in the summer of 2021 the Ghanaian version was staged directly in Accra. Dominik Žižka captured the most powerful moments from it and TANEC PRAHA Festival presented it in 2022.
Two women, both dancers, both the same age, are said to have a remarkable physical resemblance. At first, they have no idea about each other, maybe they just heard that everyone has a double somewhere. Is it possible to find answers through another person? What makes us identify and connect with others and ourselves? Tereza Ondrová and Francesca Foscarini on a journey between a documentary and an intimate statement, one’s own body and personal experience.
In their joint work, they touch on a number of topics, such as the female psyche and its changes, loneliness, vulnerability and, finally, acceptance of the state in which the performing arts currently finds itself. And even though these two women don’t know each other, can they share an emotional bond that transcends geography? In 2020, a Czech-Italian dance project was created – a duet by Tereza Ondrová and Francesca Foscarini. Due to the worldwide pandemic, rehearsals are at first postponed, then moved, then done remotely – via the platform Zoom. Subsequently, rehearsals continue. Constant attempts at new ways to survive, adaptations of an adaptation. On the way between a documentary and an intimate statement, one’s own body and personal experience.
What are we talking about when we talk about dance? Can we really explain what dance is?
Based on the “Let’s Dance” show directed by Petra Tejnorová and the Czech dance company VerTeDance, this piece presents several solutions to overcome apprehensions about contemporary dance with a touch of humour and irony.