LUSH BLAST - tasting the untamedcurrent project

trailer LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed

LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed is a dance performance which cuts through notions of wildness, domestication and vulnerability. Emerging from fieldwork in the Carpathian Wilderness, it transposes ecological, political, and multi species somatic insights into dense embodied experience. Performers use their physicality and chains, voices, and live electronic music as landscapes of rage and reciprocity. They shift between fluid synchronicity, poignant songs and acidic humor, shaping a dramaturgy of vital ritual - a sensual feast and battlefield.

LUSH BLAST is an intimate, challenging, collective work reclaiming power as a vital force rather than a tool of control: an embodied poetics of empowerment, interdependence, and forest logic.

Choreography:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
Creation and performance:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breeanne Saxton, Ola Zielińska
Music:
Ola Zielińska, Vi Huyen Tranová
Dramaturgy:
Maikon K
Stage design:
Natálie Rajnišová
Light design:
Raquel Rosildete, Teres Bartůňková
Production:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
Thanks to:
Erik Baláž, Alina Hriscanu, Ondrej Kameniar, Anna Poppa and the team of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, for guiding us through Tatra and Fagaras Mountains and sharing stories about wilderness, Carolyn Hall and Matthias Nuß for exchanging perspectives on the relationship of science and art.