Glove Concern

The skin is the embodiment of a thin line that separates the inner and outer worlds. The sensory organ with which we perceive the surrounding world, it is a rare material. The surface of the body can also reflect what’s inside. Our skin is hypersensitive, just like society as a whole – exposed and scared. What does skin say about us and what is its value? It can no longer protect us in the world we have created, so we prefer to go through it “with gloves on.”

Since time immemorial, we have killed animals to wear their skins on our own, to warm, protect and beautify us. We take upon ourselves the responsibility for prioritising the utility of the surface over the preservation of the life within. As time goes on, the leather-making craft is dying out. Not because we don’t want to continue wearing flexible and tough leather, but because people have been replaced by machines. We don’t want to have anything to do with death anymore.

In Glove Concern, human and animal embrace. Which of them is the endangered species and what is actually dying out here? Put yourself in the skin of someone or something else for a moment.

The performance was part of Czech Dance Platform 2024 and the Mala inventura festival.

About the company

Tereza Lenerová graduated from The Theaterschool in Amsterdam. She first gained experience as a dancer with various choreographers in the Czech Republic and abroad. Later, as a choreographer with Einat Ganz, she qualified for Aerowaves Spring Forward with the duet Proměnná. For further experiments, she co-founded the space Truhlárna, where she created her most successful solo, Swish, which received the main prize at the Czech Dance Platform and a number of invitations abroad to prestigious festivals such as Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Julidans NEXT and Tanzmesse.  Lenerová often collaborates with artists from other artistic backgrounds, working intensively with musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and theatre directors. She has long collaborated with Tomáš Dvořák alias Floex, visual artist Adam Vačkař and lighting designer Jan Hugo Hejzlar. Her next work, Don’t Stop, was part of the prestigious AerowavesTwenty21 selection, among others.  In 2021, she presented  dis pla y, a performance created with Jitka Čechová, which won the main prize of the Czech Dance Platform 2022, and There is a Sense of Being.  In 2023, she founded the association tactic, z.s., which produced her latest performance, Glove Concern, and is currently producing Jitka Čechová’s new project, The World That Can’t Stop Talking.