POCKETART Collective

The Lion`s Den FUCHS OPEN-CALL for performers / fee included

Choreographers Johana Pocková, Sabina Bočková and musician Lukáš Palán from the POCKETART collective are coming to Brno with an adaptation of their project Lion`s Den UNLIMITED and are looking for people interested in dance for a creative collaboration, which will result in a joint public site-specific performance on the 130th anniversary of the birth of architect Bohuslav Fuchs. Come together with us to enliven the public space of the former Moravian Bank building (now Komerční banka) and connect the aesthetics of Fuchs' work with the aesthetics of dance through an artistic experience. ABOUT THE PROJECT Lion`s Den UNLIMITED is a new format of the original duet by Sabina Bočková and Johana Pocková, which deals with the themes of media manipulation and political populism. In the project, professional dancers meet with interested members of the general public and together they participate in a creative workshop to prepare a site-specific dance performance for the public. The adaptation allows the original theatre piece to take on a new dimension and deepen the intensity of the theme. The creative encounters of a unique local group are conceived by the creators with lightness and emphasis on deepening the relationships between the diverse groups, giving room for the possibility of mutual inspiration to emerge. The aim of this specific edition of the Lion`s Den FUCHS project is an attempt to bring to life a part of Bohuslav Fuchs' life before 1945, when the architect was increasingly restricted by the communist regime and eventually falsely accused and condemned. Through physical and expressive work with more general phenomena such as political and media manipulation, each*of the participants*in the project is placed in the ambivalent role of the oppressed and the oppressor. Thus, in the final form of the performance for the public, the participants and the audience will experience, through the powerful choreography of gestures and emotions, the energy of the large group and the geometrically precise connection of movement with the monumental bank building, the fatal impact that political power, its strength and its falsity, can have on the lives of individuals. This phase of Fuchs' life thus becomes both a distorted mirror of the current global political climate and a reminder of the rise of radical and populist tendencies within it. more information here (or send us a message regarding the more info in ENG):

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