Brazilian choreographer Flávia Tápias is returning to the TANEC PRAHA festival after a year. Last year, her site-specific project Rotas Afora, in which both local and Ukrainian dancers participated, was performed in the streets of several Czech cities. At this year's open-air festival, she will present her production of Fantasmas, on which she collaborated with the Czech dancer Jitka Čechová. Both theatre and dance are transient moments that linger only in our memories. Fantasmas doesn't unfold a linear narrative but delves into the absurdity and enchantment of inhabiting the stage, of art, and of life itself. Flávia Tápias drew inspiration from the renowned Brazilian playwright Fernando Caruso's text Os Dojs Fantasmas and created a production for one actor and two dancers.

The performance uses spoken word in Czech and in English.

Flávia Tápias is a choreographer, performer, movement director and contemporary dance teacher, graduated from Faculdade Angel Vianna in Brazil. She is artistic director of the Tápias Festival and director and curator of the international contemporary dance festivals Dança em Trânsito and Correios em Movimento, held in Brazil and France. She teaches contemporary dance technique and choreographic composition at various international festivals and performances. In the last years she has performed in Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Czech Republic, USA and South Korea, among others.

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