"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

PR and marketing
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Jakub Urban

Manager
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Matěj Fišer

Marketing
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media coverage

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

The way we shape the theme grows out of a trust that, through working with it and through the development of movement material, sound design, and scenography, it will naturally be transmitted to the audience on multiple levels. We focus on evoking kinesthetic empathy through repetitive and meditative movements. We are interested in creating images of femininity and sexuality that can carry multiple meanings and that emerge fluidly through small shifts and transformations over the course of the entire performance.

Lucie Kocourková

Interview

Not only symbolic but quite literal shackles, in which the naked bodies were entangled at the very beginning, produced an unusual sound effect with even the slightest movement. Their clinking added force to the overall austere aesthetic and, combined with the dancers’ nudity, evoked surreal—often unsettling—images in the subconscious.

Rozálie Andělová

Recenze

It comes across as an act of protest and a demonstration of freedom: of nature and of the human being. Their sabbath no longer depicts a specific situation; it is simply an explosion of untamed energy. The women do not hesitate to stand directly facing the audience, which is confronted with their strength.

Lucie Kocourková

Review

The interview articulates one of the most important contemporary trajectories of experimental dance: a line that understands dance not as a product, technical performance, or an aesthetic supporting dominant ideology, but as a way of relating — to others and to oneself — as a specific form of knowledge.

Hana Polanská Turečková

Interview