Fish Eye

I am crumbling away and reforming myself over and over again, constantly changing my shape. I am searching for what I am and the power that is recasting me, remoulding me, transforming me. Drifting, I stick to glass from time to time.

“Changeover is a challenge and it is essential.” – D. H. Meadows

Fish Eye envisions a fusion between nature and technology. Inspired by nature, humans create technology as a “second nature.” Movement is generated by the technical elements. A waterscape of plastic coral reefs floats with its constantly transforming beings, who resolutely try to find a sustainable form of themselves through evolution

A circus performance at the intersection of dance, plastic art, fashion and installation in the ultrasound of deep-sea creatures.

Concept, performer: Eliška Brtnická
Sound design, performer: Stanislav Abrahám
Lighting design, technicians: Prokop Vondruška, Michal Horáček, Vlado Veleta
Costume collaboration: Petra Vlachynská, Dagmar Bednáriková
Production: Eva Roškaňuková
Production: Cirkus Mlejn, z.s.
Video trailers: Jakub Dušek, Zuzana Staregová
Supported by the City of Prague and the Ministry of Culture

Eliška Brtnická is a performer, choreographer, dramaturg and director. She graduated in non-verbal theatre from the HAMU in Prague, where she completed her PhD in 2018, focusing on contemporary circus. In 2010 she founded the company Cirkus Mlejn, the name under which she creates her projects. In 2017 she completed a year-long course in circus dramaturgy at the prestigious French circus school CNAC in Châlons-en-Champagne. She has been involved in artistic research in the field of contemporary circus for many years. She is also the dramaturg of the international festival Fun Fatale.