everybody should wanna dance
“They pass you by: they do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure […]. This is a hard sight for man to see; for, though he thinks himself better than the animals because he is human, he cannot help envying them their happiness – what they have, a life neither bored nor painful, is precisely what he wants, yet he cannot have it because he refuses to be like an animal.“
Friedrich Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
Fettered to the moment
choreography



Concept, choreography: Jana Tereková
Dance creation and performance: Edita Antalová, Daniel Raček/Lukáš Zahy, Jana Tereková
Sound, music: Stroon, Joseph Champagnon
Dramaturgy: Jana Smokoňová
Lights: Ján Ptačin
Costumes: Gabriela Paschová
Production: bees-R
Partners: Supported by using public funding from Slovak Arts Council. The project was implemented with the financial support of the Bratislava City Foundation. A bénéficié de la mise à disposition au C ND Center national de la danse. Bratislava self-governing region. SE.S.TA Center for Choreographic Development, Prague. TICHO a.s., Bratislava
Ethologists, biologists and neuroscientists have recently proven that animals are able to project themselves in time, to plan their actions. But are we capable of that too? We know about the ongoing mass extinctions and the upcoming catastrophes. Nevertheless, we continue to develop the illusion of our superiority, with which we justify our full rights over all the other forms of life in order to accelerate our pace of production and plundering of natural resources.
So are we even capable of reflecting the future? Are we able to stop our arrogance? Inspired by the work of a musician and a bioacoustician Bernie Kraus, who, for decades, has studied and recorded sounds found in nature without human activity: soundtracks of larvae, flowers, or monkeys, the music of the piece is inspired and composed of more or less concrete organic sounds. The movement vocabulary is, among other things, inspired by the vibrations of these sounds. The dancers work with the sensitive, actively listening bodies, which intuitively respond to the sound vibrations. They create bodies that can be seen as either human or non-human, or both at the same time – as an animal, as a machine, as something in-between.
photos Noro Knap

Fettered to the moment: Out of the Black Box
dance instalation
Theme, choreography: Jana Tereková
Dance creation and interpretation: Edita Antalová, Lukáš Zahy, Jana Tereková
Created with: Daniel Raček
Sound design, music: Stroon
Musical collaboration: Joseph Champagnon
Dramaturgy: Jana Smokoňová
Lights: Ján Ptačin
Costumes: Gabriela Paschová
Graphic design: Amalia Roxana Filip
Production: bees-R
Adaptation of the work into the form of a dance installation created for "white cube": new passage of time, new associations of sound and dance, new points of view for the viewer, new colors of dance, new performers.
photos Noro Knap

















