Dance in the Gallery: Museography Choreography

“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.

THU 5/9, 5–⁠7 pm (booking here, workshop in English)

WED 11/9, 3:30–⁠5 pm (book here, tour will be held in Czech)

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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

Project manager: Martin Maryška

Project concept: Marie Kinsky

On-site production: Eva Dryjová

Marketing/PR manager: Martin Říčan

Graphic design: Anastasia Vrublevská

Photography: Dragan Dragin

Media partnership: Opera Plus, Dance Context

Thanks: Petr Soukup. Lucie Kocorkocá