"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

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

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Accompanied by live music, a struggle unfolds — with metal and with one’s own body — full of tension, yet also a certain dose of animality. The duo fights chains like animals caught in shackles, or like flies trapped in a web just before the spider arrives. But what, in this case, is the monster? The environmental crisis, war, industrialization — or the human being itself?

Petra Kupcová

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To exist as a flower or as a stone, to touch the unknown within one’s imagination. This is not an expression of naivety, as it might seem at first glance, but rather a means of awakening magical and speculative thinking.

Barbora Etlíková

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This year’s theme is regeneration and ecology, including systems such as sustainable artistic practices, queer ecology, ecosystem thinking, and eco-somatic approaches. These themes are also reflected in the work of the selected residents.

Redakce Opera PLUS

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