Art historian and curator Viktor Čech wrote a Poetheoretical Commentary on Choreographic works in progress which were presented at the end of the Coaching Residencies in National Gallery Prague and Studio Alta, on August 28th ant 29th, 2019. This year the artist who attended Coaching residencies were Laura Brechmann (DE), Elena Iachininoto – Kees Huisman (NE), Sara Bocchini, Tomáš Janypka (SK) – Sabina Bočková (CZ), Johana Pocková (CZ) and were coached this year by dramaturge and director of Montreal dance Kathy Casey (CA) and choreographer and dramaturge Ana Dubljevic (SER).
Laura Brechmann
Constant state on the edge between balance and imbalance.
Sphere – the perfect form
The Ball – the soft pal
Gravitational centre of the planetary system
The face full of effort
The failure, the Fall
Closed circle of energy – Action and Reaction
Where are the boundaries of the body?
How is it seen and how it is physically experienced?
In stamina?
In the will?
In the lines of force?
At the point of contact?
In our ability to project them?
The body
Elena Iachininoto – Kees Huisman
The rhythm emanating from your headphones…
The Walk,
The liberated sight in darkness
The run,
The joy,
The Freedom of shadows
The crudity or sophisticated sprezzatura?
Individuality of body expression or just loose side of the rope?
Dance out the existential weight of the first step away…
Do not think, just move!
Sara Bocchini
She and It
Exercise with the burden of narration
The thing as storyteller
History as coalescing of physical realities.
The Body as object, as playing stone on the game board of the stage.
Merging of roles and identities
Appearing and Disappearing.
She and her historical counterparts
Atonement
Tomáš Janypka – Sabina Bočková
Choreography narrated
Dependency of the beauty
Horizontality of the plane
Verticality of identity
The role, the author – as the layers of fluids in B52 cocktail.
The Weight of mutual emotions
Memory as the slowest movement
The back, the front – dialogue of presence
The doubts
Certainty of the other one…
Johana Pocková
The Delight of plastic smile.
A sweetened taste of deep-rooted anxiety on your lips
Old memory of the painter’s imagination
Shallow waters of technologized simulacra
Impossibility of release
Prisoner of society
The bonds are holding
Desire to escape into the picture.
The body that wants to be two-dimensional representation
Followed by Advertising…
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