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At the end of September 2019, SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development in collaboration with Prague City Gallery presented the installation Pavillon Fuller in the form of a performance. Pavillon Fuller performs the interaction of dance, space and architecture. It investigates their relationship through a simple installation built of wood and a light rope system, which remains in the Troja Palace gardens as part of the exhibitions and as an invitation to dialogue and encounter. Pavillon Fuller references the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect and the founding father of tensegrity, the principle applied in the Pavillon’s construction. What does choreographer and dancer Jordi Galí, creator of the project, have to say about Pavillon Fuller and other subjects?

Rozhovor s francouzským choreografem Jeanem Gaudinem, který kromě toho že dlouhodobě spolupracuje s choreografickým centrem Se.s.ta jako kouč během Rezidence s Koučinkem pravidelně na konci Srpna se také tvořivo podílí na vzniku několika uměleckých projektu v Čechách i zahraničí. Zajímalo mě jaký je jeho pohled na otázky choreografie a tvorby samotné. 

Marie Kinsky, who organised, moderated and created the concept of the Choreographic Forum held during CDP, stated that the aim of the forum was not to critically evaluate performances, but to take them as reference points to better understand how we work as artists and how we communicate with the spectator. In other words, what tools do today’s artists use to express themselves and communicate with spectators, why are these the tools in use and via what means does communication take place?

Six artists one scientist and one architect together with three lecturers and three guides were part of this year Interdisciplinary Incubator which took place in residency Zámek Žďár and Sázavou. During the week 11th -16th of March 2018 they were all together elaborating the notion of circulation through the scope of different fields. Sharing experiences, work in progress, political and cultural loops, conventions and transgression beyond them. What stayed was a circle without center lot of pointless traces and relations on the mind maps, touched and sweaty rooms in the castle. Here are some of the testimonies from the participants who had will to take part and came to the center of Santini’s gothic-baroque land and shared their work and themselves in the loop of this ongoing spiralling. 

It’s obvious that the Centre for Choreographic Development is about creative, rather than presentation, strategies. It has long concerned itself with creativity and the process of artistic creation, without emphasis on a performance or a resulting product. The aim thus becomes creative process itself, which can be used in the longer-term development of the artist’s work. SE.S.TA is aware that phenomenon of innovation is the result of investment in the individual and has long brought this neoliberal idea, which is part of the cultural and educational policies of all developed countries, to the Czech dance environment. Interdisciplinary Incubator: SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development, 11.3-16.3.2018, Žďár nad Sázavou.