DEVOURER

One body, a bunch of black balls, a clear task and endless greed. A dance performance inspired by the principles of the clown figure and black hole theory, DEVOURER exists only to have. In a determined effort to take everything for its own, it absorbs light, inhales space and materialises time. Its transformation manifests gradually. A body of greed caught in action. How can the “self” be maximised? Singularity. It’s a hypothetical point. “I am a star, I shine like a supernova…or have I become a black hole?”

Choreography and Performance: Alica Minar
Music: Etienne Haan
Light Design: Raquel Rosildete
Dramaturgy: Lenka Vořechovská
Text: Katarína Bakošová
Set and Costume Design: Claudia Besuch
Costume Collaboration: Hana Brandejs, Sabryna Nitihardjo
Choreographic Assistance: Evgenia Chetvertkova, Tereza Sikorová
Production: Alica Minar & col. z.s. & rawtrip GbR

Project Partners: Teatr ROZBARK, Bytom (PL), Moving Station, Plzeň (CZ), Záhrada, Banská Bystrica (SK), Tělocvičňa – Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava (SK), Marzahn studios, Berlin (DE), ELITE a.s., Varnsdorf (CZ), CO.LABS, Brno (CZ)

Financial Support: Czech-German Future Fund, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (DE), Performing Arts Residency, Visegrad fund (SK/PL), Basel Stadt – Kulturpauschale (CH), PlaST.dance (SK)

Instagram: @alicaminar
Facebook: @alicaminar

About the company

Alica Minar & col. is an artistic collective founded in 2020 by Slovak choreographer and performer Alica Minar. Her work is characterised by loud visuals, in which narration and abstraction go hand in hand. Through bizarre situations, she intuitively searches for humour and poetry, while exploring and dissecting the neglected side of burning societal issues in collaboration with the audience: greed and unlimited expansion in DEVOURER, the relationship between people and water in PERMEANCE, human anger in EXPLOSION, being overwhelmed in WOBBLY, rediscovery of the forest in WOODS WON’T VAPORIZE and the Carpathian wilderness in LUSH BLAST. Alica Minar works with a multidisciplinary approach at the intersection of dance, object theatre, light, sound and text.

Alica Minar & col. works primarily in the Czech Republic and Germany. The collective has presented their work at the Czech festivals Malá Inventura (2020, 2021, 2024), Nultý bod (2021), BAZAAR (2021, 2024), Prague Quadriennale (2023) and TEH Conference 93 (2022), and abroad at the Performing Arts Festival in Berlin (2020, 2023) and the Ecosistem Festival in Bucharest (2023). In 2024, they are planning the premiere of the project LUSH BLAST, which focuses on the perception of rewilding as a tool for getting rid of control and the first edition of the SYMPOSIUM DANCETOPIA, a space for dreaming about dancing beyond utopia or dystopia.