CONCEPT:
Tereza Lenerová, Adam Vačkář

CHOREOGRAPHY:
Tereza Lenerová 

SCENOGRAPHY:
Adam Vačkář 

DANCERS:
Jitka Čechová, Edita Antalová, Eva Rezová

MUSIC:
Natálie Pleváková

COSTUMES:
Overall Office, Marjetka Kürner Kalous

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION:
tactic, Alena Cardová

SUPPORTED BY:
Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic, Tanec Praha, z.ú. / International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA, Benedikt Rejt Gallery

PREMIERE:
June 27 2023, Gallery of Benedikt Rejt, Louny

DURATION:
20 min

AGE:
All ages

  

  

 

 

 

 

A “taxon” is a designation for a group of specific organisms that have common specifications. A new taxon evaluates whether or not it is an advantage to learn to live with a new body or to get rid of it. Its mutating body, which is just learning to walk, does not know its possibilities. We follow the process of transformation, as if the body transforms like an open source code. The new creature is locked within the limits of its development and slowly subdues the prostheses that "nature" has given it. For now, it can only touch the verticality.

 


Tereza Lenerová graduated from The Theaterschool Amsterdam. She gained experience as a dancer with various choreographers in the Czech Republic and abroad. With her duet Variable with Einat Ganz, she qualified for Aerowaves Spring Forward. For other experiments, she co-founded the space Truhlárna, where she created her most successful solo to date – Swish, which was awarded the main prize at the Czech Dance Platform and received a number of invitations to prestigious festivals abroad. Her next work Don't Stop received special jury recognition at the Czech Dance Platform 2019 and is part of the Aerowaves Twenty21 prestigious selection. In 2021, she introduced choreographies dis pla y, which she created together with Jitka Čechová, and There Is a Sense of Being which follows the performance series Taxon. 

Adam Vačkář graduated from ENSBA in Paris. He has participated in residency programs at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Residency Unlimited in New York. His works have been exhibited at exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, the Pompidou Center, Art Basel, the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Morsbroich Museum and other places. In his work he deals with the relationship between man and nature.

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Photo: Adam Vačkář
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický

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