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Camille Mutel: A Gesture Between Life and Death. A Relationship Appears
What separates life from death – a gesture. French choreographer Camille Mutel follows gestures in daily life, in ritual, in the countryside – tracing each movement until it becomes more than itself… We bring an interview with her from the international KoresponDance Festival 2025 in Žďár nad Sázavou where Mutel talks about her work drawing from tea ceremonies and French country tradition, and ends up with her twisting approach to collaboration with non-artists.
Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi: Dangerous Beauty of Flags
A fabric dances in the air. Your body mimics. Your chest expands, your gaze lifts, your breath deepens, your spine straightens, you feel pulled toward something greater than yourself. It’s beautiful, yet a technology of persuasion that bypasses critical thought and plant political affects directly into our bodies. In their performance AeReA (2019), which recently unsettled audiences at the KoresponDance festival, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi (IT/DE) strips flags of their national insignia to reveal their “plastic essence”. However, this raises questions: if the performance reveals the mechanisms of political spectacle, does it simultaneously reproduce them?
Dávid Somló: Choreography of Sound, Art of Restraint
Hungarian artist Dávid Somló makes do with little. He collects twigs in the forest himself, then simply lets viewers balance them on the smallest point of their finger knuckles. Holding fragile nature in balance, all shrinks to one point in time and space. It’s an economical gesture – unsustainable in its instability, yet profoundly sustainable. The participatory performance Delicate Balancing of Twigs emerged as a work in progress within the Green Streets of Europe project, where artists develop methods for more sustainable performance art. Both ethos and aesthetics lie in restraint and modesty.
Zden Brungot Svíteková & Napsugár Trömböczky on Vigil Custody: What Can Stones Teach Us About Humanity?
Dance relies on the human body – for it may be the most anthropocentric of all art forms. Yet through the body, we are connected to our environment – people and the entire geosphere. How can we simply be with that? How can we transcend human self-centeredness in aesthetics and ethics? The project Vigil Custody explores the question of “how to be” – both physically and intellectually, through art, and the science of geology. In this conversation, Zden Brungot Svíteková (Ostružina, SK/CZ) and Napsugár Trömböczky (SVUNG, HU) traverse a multilayered landscape of reflections on the material intelligence of bodies – both stone and human – on their mysteriously intimate kinship, and on the methods and language of art and science that sensitises us to that.
Associate artists
Selected Associate Artists receive long-term care and service from SE.S.TA, including management and marketing advice.
Associate Artists 2025: Agáta Jarošová, Alžběta Tichá, Roman Škadra.
We thank all of the makers and artists – whether performers or teachers – with whom we have had the chance to collaborate, on both long- and short-term bases. We are proud of our collaborations.
Artists and collaborators
Internationally projects and collaborations
In collaboration with almost 30 international partners, we contribute to the development of the movement arts at an international level. We are currently involved in the following projects and networks:
- Climbing over Chemnitz – art in situ with local communities
- EFFE (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) – a prestigious designation and a network of festivals with excellent artistic and community programming
- Centre Culturel de Rencontres – a European network designating cultural centres that enliven historical monuments through the arts and culture
- BeInternational – artistic creation in public space
- Green Streets of Europe – a sustainable path for the performing arts
- 3STRANGERS – an international artistic and community project
Festival Korespondance
14th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, New Circus and Physical Theatre
17–19 July 2026 at Žďár nad Sázavou Estate
Since 2008, we have organised the KoresponDance International Festival of Contemporary Dance, New Circus and Physical Theatre. We focus on site-specific projects, the intersection of artworks with architecture and collaboration with local communities. KoresponDance brings unforgettable experiences to the Žďár Estate, always in the second or third weekend in July. An introductory program takes place in June in the towns of Žďár nad Sázavou, Jihlava, and Nové Město na Moravě. The family atmosphere draws thousands of visitors to the Estate each year. Come and experience it for yourself!
SE.S.TA's PARTNERS
We thank our partners from different areas, field and regions.
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