Treatment of Remembering

‘Imagine yourself breathing.’ Three performers undergo a procedure “Treatment of Remembering“ together with the audience in a time when nature, consumed by humanity, no longer exists. In poetic dance paintings, they fall into a state of remembering nature in an emptied space-time. Through the artificial imitation of the world, which has pushed out the real world, they point to the ever-increasing replacement of the natural environment with the artificial products of human activity. By awakening memories of long forgotten experiences, the treatment of remembering procedure draws attention to the uniqueness of physical and emotional experiences connected with nature. The sensitivity of sound design and original music, together with extreme light atmospheres, enhance the intensity of sensory perception and thus complement a work filled with a constant vibration of origin and extinction. Yet from the artificially created atmospheres of calm emerge strong concerns, encouraging the viewers to reflect on their own relationship with the environment. During spring 2021 the performance was transformed into an outdoors version, which can be presented in parks, gardens and other natural environments. The outdoors version of the original theater piece Treatment of Remembering creates a tension between artificially created sterile scenography and the living environment which surrounds it. The performance Treatment of Remembering won the Czech Dance Platform International Jury Award 2021, the Czech Dance Platform Audience Award 2021 and got the 1st Dance News Award for the originality of the concept. Treatment of Remembering is also part of the AerowavesTwenty22 selection. The performance toured nationally in the Czech Republic as part of the festival TANEC PRAHA 2021, it was presented as part of the BAZAAR festival in Prague, MOVE fest Ostrava, Czech Dance Platform, Spring Forward Elefsina (GR), Tanzmesse (DE), NU Dance Fest Bratislava (SK), Danza Estate festival Bergamo (IT), IN2IT Dance Festival (NO), Obnazeni festival and more. Premiere: 5.10.2020, PONEC - dance venue, Prague