Our earth is full of worlds within worlds. Each of these microworlds lives its own unique life. Through micro-movements, body landscape, and small objects, the performance focuses on tiny things in plain sight that are often overlooked. Set against the backdrop of a frantic and vast world, viewers are invited to start appreciating small and vulnerable everyday things again. This playful and poetic performance explores the fragility of our existence, charming both adults and young audiences alike. Microworlds offer an open space to children and adult viewers in which everyone and everything is an important part of it and has its own unique potential that can develop and thus create common microworlds together with others. The production softens the viewers’ perception, trains their attentiveness and concentration, and teaches them to play with a minimum of resources.
This performance will also be shown in Botkyrka May 8
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Jazmína Piktorová is a choreographer based in Prague. Interested in the intersection of movement education and creating for young audiences, she engages in long-term research into subjects that challenge both her and the audience. She is a co-founder of ZDRUHESTRANY, a collective with Viktor Černický and Tomáš Janypka. Her latest piece Microworlds received the 2023 Czech Dance Platform Award and the Audience Award, as well as a nomination for the Thalia Awards and is part of selection Aerowaves Twenty24.
Sabina Bočková is a choreographer based in Prague. Since 2019 she has created works as part of POCKETART collective. Her works were part of Aerowaves Twenty20, Twenty21 and Twenty24 and took part in Shape It, a project for young audiences. Her most recent project Fairy Tales is part of the Big Pulse Dance Alliance. Fascinated by simple body language, she transforms movement through choreographic structures while at the same time addressing topics that echo social and cultural issues.
Concept: Jazmína Piktorová
Choreography and performance: Jazmína Piktorová, Sabina Bočková
Sound design: Václav Kalivoda
Dramaturgy: Mária Danadová
Visual collaboration: Simona Gottierová
Lighting design: Jiří Šmirk
Photo: Adam Mráček
Consultation of Magic tricks: Aleš Hrdlička
Research: Monika Kováčová, Alessandro Lumare and Simona Lobefaro / Segni mossi
Production: Anna Gazdíková & ZDRUHESTRANY
Co-production: Studio ALTA, DRAK Theatre, PIKI Theatre
Supported by: Centrum for choreographic development SE.S.TA, REZI.DANCE Komařice, Studio TEP39, Punctum, Slovak Institute in Prague, SNG Schaubmarov mlyn, CNK Záhrada Banská Bystrica and Czech Centre/Embassy of the Czech Republic in Stockholm.
This project is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Prague City Council, the City of Brno, and the Slovak Arts Council.
