Dance in the Gallery: Museography Choreography

Dance in the Gallery: Museography Choreography (Alice Chauchat)

8/10 2024, visit anytime between 10 am–⁠13 pm
9/10 2024, visit anytime between 14 pm–⁠17 pm

Venue: Trade Fair Palace

“A collection of relations… a vibrating field of tensions...”

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Alice Chauchat (FR/DE), together with dancers Hana Polanská, Nhung Dang, Ran Jiao and Daniela Kolková, complete their work on the “choreography of relationships”, staged by National Gallery Prague’s permanent exhibition 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era.

In the first, research phase, and dialogue with curator Michal Novotný, the artistic team explored the internal dynamics of the exhibition’s hanging and their possible echoes in choreographic structures. The team will now present the results of this process as a durational, ongoing dance performance. You are also invited to the accompanying workshops, special guided tours, and conversations.

The exhibition displays an ongoing dissolution of binaries that continue to operate discursively and politically, varying across different times. Artworks, aesthetics, and methodologies are placed in shifting categories, which, while not disappearing, lose their presumed fixity.

Within such a metastable situation, where dances emerge and respond to each other, Chauchat stretches time and points the attention to the singularity of each dance. Echoes and contrasts permeate space and time, with the tension of anticipation never fully resolving. Visitors are invited to spend time with this situation, sense the vibratory field among the dancers, and observe the dances from afar or up close, as they appear along with the unfolding but often inscrutable relationships between them.

Alice Chauchat is an acknowledged dance artist based from France, now based in Berlin. Her work is ongoing research anchored in notions of collaboration and ethics of togetherness. It involves choreography, teaching, collective practices, and writing. Chauchat’s unique craft in revealing the materiality of thought and the layered reality of bodies as always simultaneously physical, intellectual, social and emotional positions her as an influential artist of her generation. She has created works that resonate with audiences worldwide in theatres, museums and urban spaces.

GUIDED TOUR

Wed 9/10, 2.30–4 pm (book via GoOut)
A special guided tour of the exhibition 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era will present works and artists of Czech art from the second half of the 20th century as a testimony of the times, highlighting the connections between them.

CONVERSATION WITH ARTISTS

Wed 9/10, 5–6 pm
Meet the creative team at the end of the performance and learn about the ideas behind the project.

CHOREOGRAPHIC FORUM 2024

Tue 8/10, 2–6 pm, Kampus HybernskáJoin a discussion workshop on the topic of community and audience reflecting Museography Choreography with Branislava Kuburović.

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Info at www.se-s-ta.cz

Free entry (performance and workshop, without exposition)

Produced by: Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA
In collaboration with: National Gallery Prague
Choreography: Alice Chauchat
Dancers: Hana Polanská, Nhung Dang, Ran Jiao, Daniela Kolková
Curatorial collaboration: Michal Novotný
Sound: Adam Veselý
Project manager: Martin Maryška
Project concept: Marie Kinsky
On-site production: Eva Dryjová
Marketing/PR manager: Martin Říčan
Graphic design: Anastasia Vrublevská, TAMDEM
Photography: Dragan Dragin, Adéla Vosičková
Media partnership: Opera Plus, Dance Context, Dance Zone
Thanks: Petr Soukup, Lucie Kocourková, Becka McFadden