How to practise and inhabit an exhibition? How do the bodies of artworks haunt our bodies? And what about the emotions we feel when discovering a new place or work of art? The Baroque Old Masters II in the Sternberg Palace provides a reference to the project Dance in the Gallery: A Fancy, a kind of choreographed parade for “more art in our lives!” moving between the collections and Baroque palaces of the National Gallery Prague in Hradčany.
The SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development has invited French choreographer Alban Richard, who will engage in a dialogue with NGP curator Andrea Steckerová, three Czech choreographers, and inspiring people of Prague’s local community to create a choreographic activation-performance in the form of a Baroque futuristic guided tour.
January 15th – June 1st, 2025 Chamäleon Berlin, Berlin* July 28th – 29th, 2025 GREC festival, Barcelona August 1st – 2nd, 2025 La Strada, Graz August 8th, 2025 Danseu Festival, Piles August 14th – 31st, 2025 Letní Letná festival, Prague October 23rd – 25th, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch November 5th – 6th, 2025 MAC Créteil, Créteil November 15th – 16th, 2025 Cirkuliacija, Vilnius November 27th – 29th, 2025 Le Diamant, Quebec March 6th, 2026 Steps Festival, Neuchâtel March 8th, 2026 Steps Festival, Vevey March 11th, 2026 Steps Festival, Baden March 13th, 2026 Steps Festival, Bulle March 18th, 2026 Steps Festival, Sierre March 21st, 2026 Steps Festival, St. Gallen March 24th, 2026 Steps Festival, Delément March 26th, 2026 Steps Festival, Schaffhausen March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Nyon Duration: 70 minutes *adpated version with longer duration
With Play Dead, the Canadian company People Watching has created an astonishing debut work. The show will be re-staged exclusively for the Chamäleon in order to artistically expand the facets of the Chamäleon stage with its extraordinary and powerful aesthetic.
In a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, eight curious individuals dissect the beauty and absurdity of the human condition. A reverie, a purgatory, a place where anatomical logic and gravity don’t seem to apply. Through an otherworldly hybrid of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, People Watching create contemporary circus that flows like water, sometimes gentle and reflective, sometimes relentless and impactful. Play Dead pushes physical boundaries at the intersection where circus and dance meet to celebrate life in all its eccentricity, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.
