FESTIVAL TANEC PRAHA 2025
DIRECTION, DRAMATURGY, CONCEPT:
Sten Heijster (FI)
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Adriana Štefaňáková (CZ)
PERFORMERS:
Adriana Štefaňáková, Sten Heijster
MUSIC:
Barbora Xu, Joe Acheson
SCENOGRAPHY AND ANIMATION:
Sten Heijster
CREATIVE CONSULTANT, TECHNICAL ASSISTANT, LIGHT DESIGNER:
Francis Belte
SPECIAL THANKS:
To Bike Kitchen Helsinki for lending us the tricycle and helping with repairs.
To Evgeniia Markevich, who helped kick off the project and scouted locations in Helsinki while it was still freezing outside.
To Vytautas Bikauskas for reassuring me when I thought the projector was going to explode any minute.
To Claire Desmartin and François Destores for their loving support and storytelling advice on the animation.
To Sini Saari for taking me to various inspiring circus performances—at one of which I met Barbora Xu, whose music became a major source of inspiration for the animation.
To Timon Schapals for helping in the workshop with building the mounting plate connecting the projector to the tripod.
DURATION:
40 min
PREMIERE:
13.6.2025 Karlovy Vary
The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture.
Unusual Artist Tirip
Luminous Daisies is a short dance performance telling the story of a Leucanthemum vulgare, with seven petals. This daisy gradually loses all its petals, every one of them symbolising a different stage in its relationship with love. Adriana Štefaňáková and Sten Heijster will take you through this story whilst wandering around the city. With the help of hand-drawn projected animations and our mobile projection bike, even the smaller unknown corners of concrete will come to life.
I’m Sten Heijster. I’m an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Espoo, working at the intersection of moving image, public scenography and performance. In my practice I am interested in exploring playful transformations of public spaces through audiovisual interventions and performances. Having previously studied fine art, my approach is poetic, non-media specific, and driven by experimentation and Improvisation. Movement plays a major role in my work. My drawings evoke feelings and memories of innocence, fragility, childhood, and violence. I translate my experiences into lines and movements. Sometimes recognizable shapes and forms emerge from my explorations. I love sharing my discoveries with the curious eyes around me.
Adriana Štefaňáková is a dancer, artist, choreographer and coach. She performs as a dancer in Jatka78 venue, with Dekkadancers, etc. She studied at Codarts University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, followed by an internship at Tanz Kassel, Germany, and it was during her studies that she met the multi-genre artist Sten Heijster.
