a corporeal guide through presence, human relationships and other adventures

 

Is it possible to experience anything like a pure moment of presence? Or do we always carry our past, our prejudice, our plans and the culmination of our experience? Can we find the way in between the hectic production of meaning and the resignation to understand by perceiving? The way to experience time of different sort, when we simply watch dance? And do you think you see what I see?

YOU ARE HERE is a surprising derailment "for presence" that changes one's perspective and sensitivity to the world around us. The audience, together with the dancers, experiences the joy of creation while embarking on a thrilling adventure in which prejudices about dance (and other things too) are forgotten.

YOU ARE HERE was created by – director Petra Tejnorová, dancers and performers Jaro Viňarský, Tereza Ondrová and Nathan Jardin, stage designer Adriana Černá, sound designer Dominik Žižka, light designer Tomáš Morávek, producer Michal Somoš - in collaboration with philosopher Alice Koubová, dancer and choreography & directing assistant Matthew Rogers, graphic designer Jaromír Skácel, dramaturgical eye of Marta Ljubková and with You...

 

Premiere: 26 & 27 September 2016, Ponec - dance venue, Prague, CZ
Audience Award at Czech Dance Platform 2017
Coproduction: SKOK! o.z. & Tanec Praha z.ú.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.
Partners: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Alt@rt, The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Slovak Arts Council, The International Visegrad Fund

 

Photo: Kathrine Thude, Michal Hančovský (Ponec Theatre archive), Ján Chmelík