Provoke (Yourself) by Dance!
Michal Nikodem
- Tuesday Sep 21 / 20:00, School
A dance performance that isn’t a performance but a world of ideas
Imagine arriving at a performance that seems to have been waiting for you. It wanted to be for you. It wanted to be about you. Is that even possible in our adult world of reason, where we think that there is no room for our individual ideas because we have to somehow work “together”? But we have a lot of ideas. It is the core of our life, the world we can draw from but which can also influence us. Our ideas are most vibrant when they are provoked. So then: Let yourself be provoked by dance!
Perhaps you will find that this is your theme, which is encoded into the performance. And perhaps only afterwards, when you go for bite at the bar with a friend, acquaintance, or colleague, will something happen… But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Art isn’t always there to present us with impossible riddles. Art is also there to help us understand ourselves.
Michal Nikodem is a psychotherapist and relationship counselor with 11 years’ experience. In his self-development workshops and seminars, he works with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, NLP, family constellations, and elements of Gestalt therapy.
Jitka Čechová is a graduate of the Duncan Centre Conservatory (2017). She has created the original performances transFormace, Nymfa, Chiaroscuro Hédonistico, DeProfundis (for the Open House Festival), and Growth (for the opening ceremony of MOCAPE, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shenzhen, China). As a dancer, she has collaborated on the performances White Piece (choreography: Sofia Krantz, Days of Jerusalem) and Pulsar (choreography: Michal Záhora). She is also a founding member of the Tanec pod Jedličkou project (Jedlička Institute 2016, 2017).
Yuri Korec studied dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, from which he earned his doctorate degree in 2018. He also completed a certified Rolfing® program from the European Rolfing Association in Munich (2009–2011). He is currently active as an independent freelance choreographer.
Daniel Raček first took an interest in folk and social dancing in his youth. Since 1992, he has focused on contemporary dance and contact improvisation. After graduating from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Comenius University and from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, he began to work at the Štúdio Tanca theater in Banská Bystrica. Since 1999, he has worked as a freelance artists at home and abroad.
Václav Chalupský studied piano and debuted in 2019 under the stage name Chalupski with the album Vortex. Since 2017, he has focused on compositions for dance performances and audiovisual projects. He teaches at the Duncan Centre Conservatory.
Story, idea, directed by, guide: Michal Nikodem
Music: Václav Chalupský
Choreography: Jitka Čechová, Yuri Korec
Performers: Jitka Čechová, Daniel Raček
Artistic supervision, production: Honza Malík
