Contemporary Training
Layering of movements and attentive sensuality. Applying elements of continuum, contact improvisation, basic neurological patterns. Movement inquiries that effect on fluidity. Spirals and waves, moving through breath and sound, subtle pulsations, shifting towards a multiple fluency and a fullness of senses. Rhythms contained in the upper thoracic region, abdominal cavity compression, vibrations of bone cells within the sack of bones, awareness of displacements, producing visceral energy. Emphasizing soft parts, flesh and organs, electric essence of sensation. Touch and body contact as a proposal for hybrid togetherness. Pouring weight and receiving weight through essential structures. Addressing physicality and creative forces with imaginative materials. Offering phrases and sentences of actions that form a base for relationships and orientation in space.
born and raised in the Czech Republic, lives in Vienna. She studied philosophy, Czech literature and contemporary dance, she has worked as a choreographer and performer, and she teaches dance. Prokopová has received a scholarship from the Start Stipend of the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office, and she was awarded a danceWEB scholarship in 2012. Her artistic work focuses on interactions between sound and text and on an imaginary anatomy of the body.
In Austria, she has previously worked alongside Liz King and Christine Gaigg / 2nd nature. Her latest work includes Corpse of a dance piece as part of imagetanz (brut, 2015) and It beats soft in the veins (WUK performing arts, 2017), also presented at 8:tension, ImPulsTanz, and most recently Knuckles become clouds (TQW Studios, 2019).
This training runs from 3 till 7 June 2019.