Johana Pocková

Johana Pocková (*1992) is a choreographer, dancer and co-founder of the POCKETART collective, under which she has been creating her authorial works since 2018. She graduated from the Duncan Centre Dance Conservatory in Prague, completed a six-month internship at the Peridance Capezio Centre in New York and two years at the SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). Now she is working as an active choreographer of her authorial works. In 2017 she won the Jarmila Jeřábková Award for her choreography “Murder! A Little Comic History”. After her studies she presented works “Why not now?”, “Onto the Scale!”, “Warehouses Full of Emotions” and a dance film “Folds of Touch”. Together with Sabina Bočková she is a co-author of the performance “The Lion's Den”, which was selected for the Czech Dance Platform 2020 and shortlisted for the prestigious European platform Aerowaves Twenty21. In 2020, together with Sabina Bočková and Inga Zotova-Mikshina, she presented a project “Treatment of Remembering”, which won the International Jury Award and an Audience Award at the Czech Dance Platform 2021 and was selected for Aerowaves Twenty22. Her work was supported by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance and in 2022 she was part of the European project Shape It! for young audiences with the performance “The Lion's Den”. In 2020 she was awarded the 1st Dance News Award for her contribution to the dance scene. As a performer, she has also collaborated with companies as Tantehorse (O: Family Therapy, Vivisectic), tYhle (Suitcaseboarding, Seismic) and other independent artists. In her work, Pocková is interested in social and cultural themes that transcend personal experience, as well as the inner spiritual places of the individual. She then searches for a specific physical and visual identity for the subject of the work. In her artistic practice, she seeks themes and performative treatments that are stepping out of the stage and reaching into the social sphere in collaboration with different age groups. She is also interested in connecting dance with other art forms such as classical singing, acting, scenography and visual arts.

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