SE.S.TA Blog

Moving in time as plants having a different pace and rhythm which we usually disregard. Moving in space of nets, nests, hollows, corners, tunnels, caves, cellars, undergrounds. Pawel Dudus is an artists, choreographer and dancer who is through his queer, migrant and feminist lense rethinking the old, hierarchical and patriarchal way of holding, dealing with or executing POWER as DARKNESS – the quality of lacking color (color=diversity) a synonym for secrecy, wickedness, evil and ignorance. Pawel was one of the participants who took part in this year interdisciplinary residency Incubator 2019 which was teasing the notion of obscurity. After the week spent in the castle in Žďár nad Sázavou Pawel shares the conversation with his friend on how to grasp the notion of obscurity 

A few ideas around the figure of the coach within the residency programme offering guidance in the process of choreographic invention by Jean Christoph Paré, choreographer, dancer, Étoile at the Paris Opera, teacher, researcher in Mouvemnt Analyses, ex- director of Conservatoir de Paris and last but not least the coach who is part of the Residency with coaching in Prague since its beginning. 

Marisa Hayes a Franco-American scholar and artist who had published books and articles about dance for a variety of print and electronic media for Dance Magazine, The Society of Dance History Scholars, and The International Journal of Screendance will be one of this year moderator during Choreography forum on Czech dance platform 2019. She was happy to share her article and thoughts about her current research exploring the theme of Expanded Choreography.

Choreography forum which takes place also this year during Czech dance platform invites Lorenzo Conti - professor of History of Theater and Performance on Academy of Susanna Beltrami in Milan in Italy to be one of two moderators discussing and reflecting current palpable themes in contemporary dance creations. His current research is focused on Audience development and we are glad to share his paper which will be part of his upcoming publication.

The night long reading performance Useless lands by Catalina Insignares and Carolina Mendonca, which is a compilation of fictional and theoretical texts that speak about a pre-industrial-revolution world takes place in the Music school in Žďár nad Sázavou on Friday 29th of March 2019 from midnight till the morning in the frame of the interdisciplinary residency Incubator organised by centre of choreographic development Se.s.ta in the castle in Žďár nad Sázavou. In order to introduce the way how both artists think choreography and why they consider expanded choreography as a tool to gather and act, we introduce the excerpt of their interview which was released in Watt - contemporary dance magasine in 2018 and which can guide you in the process of their thinking.