Johana Pocková / POCKETART: To the Madonna with Rust

The production is inspired by the personal experience of an unexpected encounter, which after years re-emerges from the depths of memory and comes to life. Solo singing with dance movement, light with fog, water with metal, moments of harmony and moments of anxiety guide a common dialogue about things that we can only touch in rare moments. For years, the memory has been overgrown with rust, and the details of the painting in the chapel have disappeared. Instead, a new image is created, composed of memories, dreams and associations, which take their form in a theatrical image.

What is it like to experience something that transcends us spiritually? For some it happens in a small forgotten chapel, for others when meeting an exceptional person. Some wait for this moment all their lives. The creators of the production invite you to a joint ceremony, a brief stop and silence.

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Johana Pocková (*1992) graduated from the Duncan Centre Dance Conservatory in Prague, completed a six-month internship at the Peridance Capezio Centre in New York and two years at the SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). She is currently devoting herself to auteur choreography. In 2017, she won the Jarmila Jeřábková Award for her choreography MURDER!A little comic book history. In recent years, she has also presented the productions Why Not Now?, Onto the Scale!, Full Warehouses of Emotions and the dance film Folds of Touch. Together with Sabina Bočková, she is the creator of the performance The Lion's Den, which was selected for the Czech Dance Platform 2020, among the top 20 productions on the European platform Aerowaves 2021. Her work has been supported by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance organization and in 2022 with the duet The Lion's Den she will be part of the European project for young audience Shape It!. Her latest work together with Sabina Bočková and Inga Zotová-Mikshina, Treatment of Remembering  won the International Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 27th edition of the Czech Dance Platform and it was selected for the Aerowaves22. In 2019 she founded the dance association POCKETART and in 2020 she won the first Dance News Award for her contribution to the dance scene. As a performer, she collaborates with the Tantehorse, Cirk La Putyka and tYhle companies.

 

Concept, choreography, performing: Johana Pocková
Music: Martin Tvrdý
Scenography, costumes: Vendula Tomšů
Light design: Jiří Šmirk
Dramaturgical cooperation: Miřenka Čechová
Dramaturgical consultation: Cécile Da Costa, Dora Sulženko Hoštová
Folk and classical music recordings: Johana Pocková
Classical music recordings: Lumír Pock
Graphic design: Magdaléna Hejzlarová
Thanks to: Jan Tomšů, Tomáš Knapek
Produced by: POCKETART
Co-produced by: Tanec Praha / PONEC - dance venue, Tantehorse, SE.S.TA - Centre for choreographic development
Financially supported by: Capital City of Prague , Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic
Supported by: Plum Yard, Dance News