Peel the Onion is a fascinating exploration of emotions, sensations and hidden layers of human identity through movement. What masks do we wear in society? What do our bodies reveal when they speak without words? The performance invites the viewer to explore the deep emotions hidden beneath the surface of everyday gestures.

The performance is part of the international festival TANEC PRAHA 2025.

Workshop/artist talk

We invite you to a meeting with Brazilian performer and choreographer Clara da Costa, following her solo performance Peel the Onion. Clara's work combines a European experimental approach with her Brazilian roots and during the talk she will offer an insight into her creative process, discussing the themes of emotional and physical layers that she explores in her work, as well as presenting her movement research Corpo Único, which invites every body to awaken to intuitive and authentic movement.

Clara da Costa
dancer, choreographer and teacher. She studied Major Performance at SEAD in Salzburg, Austria. She also studied at the Tisch School of the Arts - NYU in the USA. She has collaborated on projects and performances with international choreographers. She led the CORPO ÚNICO workshop for Cirque du Soleil artists in Austria.

She has worked in musical theatre as a choreographer, director, performer, movement coach and also as a resident director. Her audiovisual work includes movement direction and choreography, as well as interpretation and production of music videos, short films and documentaries.

Since 2003 she has been leading Corpo Único workshops in Brazil and Europe. She has recently collaborated with Grupo Tápias (Brazil) and Yana Reutova (Ukraine) in the Czech Republic and Brazil. She premiered Womanhood at the TANEC PRAHA 2024 festival and Peel the Onion at the opening of PONEC's new 2024/2025 season in the Czech Republic.