Dance performance

Andrea Miltnerová: The Dance of Magnetic Ballerina

Concept, choreography and movement: Andrea Miltnerová

Sound and lighting design: Jan Komárek

Duration: 35 minutes

Production: MOTUS - Alfred in the Courtyard Theatre, Prague.

This dance performance by the acclaimed Czech-English artist is based on movement in the context of moving images and manifold rhythmical musical or sound structures. The magnetic ballerina moves within a minimalistic but diversified space created with the intention of widening the normal perception and experience of the dancing action. The intense choreography of movements merges with a collage of sound sequences, while the interactive lighting design accentuates the non-violent, but partly vulnerable and at times even somewhat disturbing and intentionally offensive concept of the dance performance – which, as a whole, accentuates primarily the dancer’s unusual and uncontainable obsession with movement.

 

Andrea Miltnerová is an English dancer and choreographer with Czech roots. Currently she lives and works in Prague. In the recent years she has been intensively engaged in Baroque dancing and its creative fusion with contemporary dance: she is engaged in reconstructions of Baroque operas, but she also creates her own dance performances based on the exploration of movement and ethno-choreographic elements. She was born and studied in London, but later she moved to Prague to collaborate as ballerina with the National Theatre of Prague. She also collaborates with different Czech and foreign choreographers.

 

The performance is also part of the programme of the City of Women festival.

Coproduced by Dance Theatre Ljubljana and City of Women