Part I – Lost
Their stories are different, but they have one thing in common: they all fled from an occupied country and are confronted daily with the trauma, uncertainty and fear that comes with being a refugee in a foreign land. They are kept above water by their creativity, the ability to create and the opportunity to find a new community – an artistic family.
Five Ukrainian dancers, torn from their homes, are here and now. Each for herself and yet together.
The first part of the triptych presents the work of more Ukrainian artists. It is inspired by Anton Ovchinnikov’s verses written during the war in Kyiv and the music of the Canadian-based Ukrainian radical anti-Putin band Balaklava Blues. Tomáš Kerle took care of fine-tuning the sound atmosphere.
concept, choreography: Yana Reutova (UA/CZ)
dancers: Olena Korotkova (UA/CZ), Anastasiia Pavlovska (UA/CZ), Yana Reutova (UA/CZ), Anastasiia Reshetnik (UA/CZ), Liza Taldykina (UA/CZ)
light design: Pavel Kotlík (CZ)
music: Balaklava Blues (CA/UA), Tomáš Kerle (CZ)
poetry: Anton Ovchinnikov (UA)
recitation: Olesa Usata (UA)
premiere: 30. 9. 2023 PONEC – dance venue
production: Soňa Rizmanová (CZ)
producer: Tanec Praha/PONEC – dance venue
Part II – Invisible Traces
Fingerprints, a tangle of inconspicuous lines, hiding our uniqueness and genetic heritage. Invisible traces, unconsciously left in our surroundings, on things and people. We are covered by them too. Others have left them on us, on the surface, but also inside, as fleeting evidence of an experienced closeness. We create these invisible connections every day; we are the bearers of them, either unwittingly or by our own will.
Czech performers Jitka Čechová, Katy Jabůrková, Žaneta Musilová and Lukas Bliss Blaha participated in the creation of the trio, inspired by the shape of the “barre” object by graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts, which can evoke, for example, a fingerprint.
concept: Yana Reutova (UA/CZ)
choreography: Yana Reutova (UA) with performers: Jitka Čechová (CZ), Žaneta Musilová(CZ), Lukas Bliss Blaha (CZ)
interpretation: Jitka Čechová (CZ), Žaneta Musilová (CZ), Lukas Bliss Blaha (CZ)
music: Tomáš Kerle (CZ)
set-design/object: Lucie Podroužková & Štěpán Rubáš (CZ)
premiere: 27. 5. 2023 Žižkovské mezidvorky / Krenovka
production: Soňa Rizmanová (CZ)
producer: Tanec Praha / PONEC – dance venue
