The Lion`s Den

The Lion’s Den started as a performative research on media, political populism and their manipulative powers. Two performers are becoming the embodiment of physical and visual images inspired by the media space. In their unceasing duet, together with the audience, they fall into a symbolic lion’s den, opening an abyss of uncertainty. In their piece, Sabina Bočková and Johana Pocková balance on the borders between entertainment and perversity. They travel from manipulating the audience to self-manipulation, oscillating between the roles of leaders and victims. With unusual lightness and an openness of meaning, they are passing through the known figures common as social/cultural references and doing so, space for interpretation, critical thinking and the audience’s own positioning is created. The Lion’s Den is an electrifying performance with strong emotional charge and high intensity. In combination with vivid live music, the created atmospheres are used and sometimes abused for powerful emotional pressure. The performance The Lion`s Den has been nominated for the Czech Dance Platform 2020, selected in the AerowavesTwenty21 as one of the top 20 european performances of 2021. It was invited to the Kenya International Theater Festival 2020, festival TANEC PRAHA 2020 and 2021, to New Baltic Dance Festival 2021 in Lithuania, festival Julidans in Amsterdam, Krakow Dance Festival, B.Motion festival in Bassano del Grappa and more. In 2021 the Lion`s Den was part of the European project for young audiences Shape It!. Premiere: 3.12. 2019, PONEC – dance venue, Prague