Performing: Radim Vizváry, Nina Vangeli and chosen people from the audience

Concept, Director: Miřenka Čechová

Choreography: Jiří Bartovanec

Music: Matouš Hekela

Costume design: Jiří Bartovanec

Set design: Miřenka Čechová, Jiří Bartovanec

Light design: David Prokopič

 

Lessons of Touch - Manifestation of the body in its extreme forms

 

Sight discriminates, touch frees. Search for the topic of intimacy and finding out how far our inner tolerance reaches.

 

The director Miřenka Čechová together with the choreographer Jiří Bartovanec ask themselves why we are afraid of touch of a stranger’s body, of our own body, of another person's body and how far our inner tolerance reaches. The speactator sets off on a journey in the topic of intimacy.

The performer Radim Vizváry becomes a guide and at the same time the object of his own research. First on his own, then in an intimate duet with Nina Vangeli and finally with the audience undergoes a rehearsal of his own exposure.

 

Part one:

Me and my body with all its folds, curves, cavities that fill and empty, resonate, deepen and contract, fold, stretch and open.

 

Part two:

Me and he, who approaches me, smells me, touches me with his fingers, tongue, washes my hair, slips me on the floor, strangles me and licks me, I am his material, his body is my body, it penetrates me on the verge of ecstasy and then bites, scratches, digs nails into me. And I allow him everything because I know that it is I who controls it all and drives it on.

 

Part three:

Me and them, the strangers. How does it happen that someone is a stranger and then he is no longer a stranger? So, what do they have to do? Make me feel safe? Let me peek inside? Let me touch their wounds and scars and the body that has been silent so far? Why am I afraid of a stranger?