LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed

Promotion photography for LUSH BLAST performance.

Alica Minar and Dorota Michalak's choreography is based on the earth of the Carpathian Mountains. Can dance reconnect us to the land, to the earth, and create intimacy?

This dance evening explores the relationship between nature and art, between wilderness and domestication and different cultural representations of nature.
Tree trunks and limbs, crumbling mountains; chains that begin to vibrate. Lyrical songs are interwoven with biting humour and the audience is led through different atmospheres. How much wilderness is still in us and around us?
With their bodies and voices, the performers transform themselves into something that is not human, inviting us to a sensual feast that is also a cruel battlefield. Influenced by their own journey into the wilderness of the Carpathian Mountains, Alica Minar and Dorota Michalak understand power as a life force and not as an instance of (social) control.