3–12 Nov 2023 |
Trade Fair Palace NGP, Prague
Choreographer Alice Chauchat (FR/DE), together with dancers Hana Polanská (CZ), Nhung Dang (CZ) and Ran Jiao (CN/CZ) and in dialogue with curator Michal Novotný, opens up research on the “choreography of relationships” staged by the National Gallery Prague’s latest permanent exhibition, 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era.
During the first phase (research), Chauchat and Polanská, together with dancers Nhung Dang (CZ) and Ran Jiao (CN/CZ), explore the internal dynamics of the exhibition’s hanging and their possible echoes in choreographic structures. Next year, the team will present the results of this process as a dance performance.
We invite you to encounter the work in progress during two presentations where the artists will share their latest experiments and engage in framed conversations.
Dance and movement transform art galleries. Visitors discover new ways of understanding and perceiving visual art. In parallel, choreographers, curators, and visual artists share their know-how and enrich each other's professional and artistic work or communication with the public.
Dance in the Gallery is a transdisciplinary project exploring multi-layered connections between movement and visual arts in the site-specific context of an art museum. The Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA has organised the project annually since 2012 with the National Gallery Prague and other galleries and museums.
How is an exhibition a choreography? Can dance reveal the relationships at work in an art show?
FIRST VISIT (INITIAL EXPERIMENTS)
Sun 5 Nov at 4 pm, Trade Fair Palace
Visit the artists in the gallery. They will share their initial movement experiments and reflect on them in a discussion.
SECOND VISIT (INTERIM RESULTS)
Sun 12 Nov at 4 pm, Trade Fair Palace
Check again how far the team has come in the project’s first phase. A guided tour and further discussion with the makers, choreographer and curator will frame the presentation.
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Guided tour
12 Nov at 3 pm
Curator Michal Novotný will explain the context of the permanent exhibition 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era.
Artist at work
3–12 Nov
Visitors to the gallery can encounter the artists working at various places around the Trade Fair Palace during the opening hours.
Škola tančí v galerii
12 Nov at 2:30 pm
See the presentation of children from the SE.S.TA's School is Dancing project at the Trade Fair Palace. In it, schoolchildren experience learning through creative movement. What happens when our body turns into a pencil and slides across the floor instead of paper?
Trade Fair Palace (Veletržní palác), National Gallery Prague
Dukelských hrdinů Dukelských hrdinů 47, 170 00 Praha 7
Tue–Sun 10 am–6 pm / each Wednesday in the month 10 am–8 pm
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Alice Chauchat (FR/DE) is an acknowledged dance artist based in Berlin. Anchored in notions of collaboration and ethics of togetherness, her work is an ongoing research which takes the form of choreography, teaching, collective practices and writing. It has been presented in more than 20 countries around the world. Chauchat’s unique craft in revealing the materiality of thought and the layered reality of bodies as always simultaneously physical, intellectual, social and emotional makes her an influential artist of her generation. [ … ]
Nhung Dang is a Czech-Vietnamese performer and theatre-maker based in Prague. She has local and international experiences as a performer, performing with Temper Theatre in the United Kingdom and touring with the award-winning Sleepwalk Collective across the UK and Spain. Her projects question identity and look for the symbiosis of physical theatre, contemporary dance, solid visuals and poetic text. She has recently released a short film Me oi in Hanoi, and is preparing a Prague premiere of a theatre short piece Motherland. [ … ]
Ran Jiao is a performance artist originally from China living in Prague. Her work explores the places that are created between bodies and relationships. She approaches relationships spatially and space as relationships. Influenced by ecofeminism, she uses performance as a tool to rethink social and environmental interconnectedness. Her performative formats straddle the boundaries of movement, installation and object performance. She holds an MA from DAMU in Prague and a BA from the University of Hong Kong. She has performed at various festivals (Tanec Praha, Malá inventura, Bazaar, PQ) and is a member of the Lovable Humans collective. [ … ]
and a scholar who graduated from History of Art at Charles University and Choreography at the Academy of Performing Arts. In her theoretical reflections and interviews with Czech and foreign artists, she focuses on how to give art back a voice that encourages change in society. During her prosperous artistic career, she has worked as a soloist at the National Theatre and collaborated on dozens of projects with renowned choreographers and artists. [ … ]
Free entry to the presentations, including the exhibition.
We recommend booking the guided tour due to limited capacity.
Meeting at the ticket office in the foyer of the Trade Fair Palace.
In collaboration with:
National Gallery Prague
Supported by:
The Capital City of Prague
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
State Culture Fund
