PRIMA

In PRIMA, a diverse cast of non-professionals and experienced dancers investigates the boundaries between the individual and the collective. Viktor Černický presents a choreographic equation where shared movement and rhythm become the common denominator of change. PRIMA is a dance work that liberates movement, fosters variability and unfolds anew each time we look at it: right here, right now.

By working with a local group of people every time it‘s presented, PRIMA offers a way to reach out to the unknown and connect. It underlines the relational power of dance and nourishes the ties within the community in every new location. Viktor Černický composes a richly layered dance performance where experience of life and expressivity of art meet in one single electrifying moment. Emerging from silence, the soundtrack is modest: the rhytm of steps, the melody of breath, the resonance of a jump… For the group of performers who create a unique community in the course of three days of preparation, each performance is new, always the premiere.

About the company

Viktor Černický is a dance artist, dramaturg and teacher whose works straddle the fine line between dance, performing arts, circus and visual arts. He is based in Prague, Czech republic. His work, awarded with Total Award and Audience Award of the Czech Dance Platform 2019 has been repeatedly supported by TANEC Praha. He‘s a nominee for the Total Award and Dancer of the Year Award at 2017 Czech Dance Platform as well as for 2019 Theatre News Award. His creation PLI has been broadly presented by European and Asian venues and festivals, including Paris, London, Helsinki, Rome, Vilnius, Bangkok or Hong Kong among others. He is an Aerowaves Twenty20 artist.

Viktor works across artistic fields, having the thinking process and ambiguity of the subject/object relation at the core of his work. In the frame of a two-year Creative Europe project Shape It, he has been rethinking the artistic process along with and for the young audiences in Finland, Italy, Czechia and the UK. In PRIMA, a piece designed for the general public, he has encouraged local communities to take their place on stage in the creation process as well as in the performance.

Alongside his own work, he has also collaborated and performed with e.g. Dominique Boivin (FR), Daniel Gulko (FR), Sonja Pregrad (RS/DE) Cirk La Putyka (CZ) or Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté (B). Viktor is a guest teacher at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and supervises the artistic processes of the students at the international Ma Directing of Devised Theatre programme.