LUSH BLAST: Tasting the Untamed

CHOREOGRAPHY Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
CREATION AND PERFORMANCE Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielińska
MUSIC Ola Zielińska, Vi Huyen Tranová
DRAMATURGY Maikon K SET DESIGN Natálie Rajnišová
LIGHT DESIGN Raquel Rosildete, Teres Bartůňková
PRODUCTION Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.

PARTNERS CO.LABS in Brno (CZ), Divadlo Radost in Brno (CZ), Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ), Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ), Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe (RO), Hellerau in Dresden (DE), Dock 11 in Berlin (DE)

THANKS TO Erik Baláž, Alina Hriscanu, Ondrej Kameniar, Anna Poppa and the team of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, for guiding us through Tatra and Fagaras Mountains and sharing stories about wilderness, Carolyn Hall and Matthias Nuß for exchanging perspectives on the relationship of science and art.

SUPPORTED BY Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Recovery Plan and European Union, Culture Moves Europe and Goethe Institut, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Hall, Czech-German Future Fund, IDU Prague and PerformCzech, Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin

LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed is a dance performance which cuts through notions of wildness, domestication and vulnerability. Emerging from fieldwork in the Carpathian Wilderness, it transposes ecological, political, and multi species somatic insights into dense embodied experience. Performers use their physicality and chains, voices, and live electronic music as landscapes of rage and reciprocity. They shift between fluid synchronicity, poignant songs and acidic humor, shaping a dramaturgy of vital ritual - a sensual feast and battlefield.

LUSH BLAST is an intimate, challenging, collective work reclaiming power as a vital force rather than a tool of control: an embodied poetics of empowerment, interdependence, and forest logic.

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