Last Dance – a solo for a dance hall

How do you dance with someone who is gone? Can you bring them back through a dance? Can their absence bring you back to yourself? How do we overcome loss? The loss of someone close to us? Or the loss of an ideal? Or vision for the future?

In Last Dance, Tereza Ondrová returns to her opening solo from Call Alice to revisit a loss from the pandemic. In this one-time-only solo, set in a dance hall where we dance as many, Ondrová will dance as one. She will dance to recover and to discover how loss can be transformed.

By revisiting and working with materials from the past, Temporary Collective works with the concept of degrowth – creating from one source – or recycling. We attempt to rethink our working methods and focus on themes of sustainability on a personal, professional and environmental level.

Credits:

Created by: Tereza Ondrová, Petra Tejnorová

Choreography and performance: Tereza Ondrová

Music: Jiří Konvalinka

Cooperation on spatial graphics: Von Saten

Light design: Katarína Ďuricová

Sound design: Jan Sedláček

Production: Temporary Collective / Júlia Pecková, Daniela Řeháková

Supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, the NextGenerationEU – Czech Recovery Plan and The Prague City Hall.

Links: https://www.facebook.com/…collectiveCZ https://www.instagram.com/…_collective/ https://temporarycollective.cz/

ARK Rave Session

Revealing the essential core value of the dancefloor: You are the Substance. Dance is not ephemeral. It is the living, breathing, pulsating, sweaty proof of what makes us essentially human. It is physiology, psychology, sociology and phenomenology in every step we take. It is a super | natural experience. The things we practice physically become our skills mentally So what do we practice on the dancefloor? Inclusion – cooperation – understanding and appreciating difference self-confidence – resilience – patience – stress management – conflict resolution are just a few of the essential human soft skills we practice on an intentional dancefloor. A guided, multidisciplinary rave performance. ARK Rave sessions are made to help you come to your senses.

Connor Schumacher is a Dance Artist based in Rotterdam, NL. The artistic director of ARK/Connor Schumacher and associate artist by Dansateliers Rotterdam. He makes Social Choreographic works for Theater, Museums, Festivals and Clubs. He also uses his practice for educational and consultation workshops for empowering soft skills in groups and institutional dynamics.

Links https://www.instagram.com/…rschumacher/ /…humacher.com