SILENT

SILENT is an audio performance for a group of audience members in a public space that consists of movement/workout instructions for body and thought over the course of 35 minutes. The audio is started by one voice and continued by the next to create a series of voices that together develop one landscape of thought and movement.

SILENT responds to the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on the public space, on closed borders and the inability to travel, and on exposed vulnerabilities of our bodies. How do we as individuals in such a world connect with each other? What does the body remember and what does it forget? Can we create new bonds? Can we experience closeness in such a world? How have our bodies changed in this time? The body in the main role – in the space between loneliness and sharing. Explore a new experience with us!

The performance takes place with headphones, which will be available for everyone to borrow on-site.

The performance follows up on other activities of the international research project DANCING MUSEUMS, of which SILENT is a part. The organizer is Tanec Praha in cooperation with the Prague City Gallery and the National Theatre.

Premiere: 19. 9. 2022, Václav Havel Square, Festival TANEC PRAHA

^{Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický}

September 2023, FiraTarrega tour

Location:

Václav Havel Square

Creators and collaborators

Concept: Petra Tejnorová, Tereza Ondrová, Sodja Lotker

Direction: Petra Tejnorová & kol. | coll.

Dramaturgical consultation: Sodja Lotker

Voice choreography: Tereza Ondrová , Masako Matsushita, Ingvild Isaksen, Petra Hauerová, Sally E. Dean, Fredrik Petrov, Jonathan Ibsen

Research with artists: Matthew, Rogers, Helena Arenbergerová, Tomáš Janypka

Technical production: Katarína Morávek Ďuricová

Sound Supervision: Jan Sedláček

Sound Design: Stanislav Abrahám

Production: Temporary Collective / Daniela Řeháková

Director’s Assistant: Roman Poliak

Production Assistant: Adina Hanáková

Co-production: Tanec Praha z.ú. / TANEC PRAHA – festival

The performance is presented with the support of Tanec Praha z.ú. / PONEC – dance venue

Reviews (in Czech):

SILENT – TENKÁ HRANICE MEZI SAMOTOU A SDÍLENÍM (en: THE THIN LINE BETWEEN SOLITUDE AND SHARING)

“Silent offers a strange but very profound experience. It brings a pause, a focus on oneself, but at the same time a sense of belonging with others that has been so tarnished in recent months.”Kristina Soukupová, 5.10.2021

Silent: Svět ve světě(en:The world in the world)

“The feeling when suddenly the “observer” is left standing in a strange position and perhaps without shoes in the square of busy Prague is very liberating. And if this project was meant to respond to a pandemic time without freedom of travel, it has beautifully managed to evoke a feeling of complete freedom that one does not have even in real travel. Because he is not burdened by whether he just needs to change at the airport, whether he won’t get lost, and whether he packed everything on his list. He travels in his thoughts.” Natálie Paulusová, 06.10.2021
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TOURING
2023
FiraTarrega, Tarrega, Spain, ES

2022
Festival TANEC PRAHA, Karlovy Vary, CZ
Festival TANEC PRAHA,
Hradec Králové, CZ
Czech Dance Platform, Prague, CZ
festival Malá Inventúra, Prague, CZ