"Loud visuals in which narration and abstraction go hand in hand"

Alica Minar & col. is an artistic collective founded in 2020 by Slovak choreographer and performer Alica Minar. Loud visuals in which narration and abstraction go hand in hand are typical of her work. Through bizarre situations, she intuitively searches for humour and poetry, while exploring and dissecting the neglected sides of burning societal issues together 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 or carpathian wilderness in LUSH BLAST. Alica Minar works in a multidisciplinary way at the intersection of dance, object theatre, light, sound and text.

Our team

Alica Minárová

Artistic director, Choreographer, Performer
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Katarína Bakošová

Author, Editor, Administrator
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Lenka Vořechovská

Choreographer, Dramaturg
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Tereza Vacková

Social media and communication
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Kristýna Sudková

PR and Media relations
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Anna Solianyk

Production
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media coverage

"For me, Dancetopia is more than a festival. It is a community of people who want to think about art, about dance, about where dance can take place, in what kinds of spaces, and under what conditions.", - Lucia Kašiarová.

Hana Polanská Turečková

Rozhovor

"Dance is still a marginalized and narrowly defined art form,” says Isabel Lewis. “That is one of the reasons I accepted the role of Co-Artistic Director of Tanzquartier Wien: to advocate for dance as a contemporary cultural practice that can speak to and actively participate in contemporary discourse. The problem is not that the field lacks brilliant ideas, brilliant artists, researchers, or articulate voices. I believe this marginalization is connected to a European cosmology that still carries a fear of the body—a fear of its unruliness, because the body exceeds standardization and control.

Hana Polanská Turečková

Interview

Rather than attempting to represent nature on stage, they transpose what they have learned from the forest to their bodies. The result is a performance where bodies move fluently and with stress, where we hear bodies singing and screaming.

Susanna Ylikoski

Review

It is an audience friendly and fairly accessible approach, which is by no means a drawback, the inspiration taken from the artworks is evident, and the audience can recognize which works the dancers are engaging with at any given moment and entering into dialogue with.

Lucie Kocourková

Review

The October edition of the Dance News podcast, titled Dance Guide, focuses on the social and economic position of dancers in the Czech Republic and on women’s experiences in this field.

Natálie Bulvasová

Podcast

Just as water (or really, milk) finds the path of least resistance, the performers’ actions mirror a principle of nonviolent, natural flow, cutting through every millimeter of their gently pulsating bodies.

Rozálie Andělová

Review