Adrienn Hód, Martina Hajdyla, Soňa Ferienčíková / Me-Sa / Bod-Y: SOFT SPOT (Slovak Dance Platform 2023)

Soft Spot is an experimental physical performance born out of cooperation between dancers Martina Hajdyla, Soňa Ferienčíková and choreographer Adrienn Hód. Through improvisation and a research of the physical body, they explored the relationship between body, personality and meaning. What do we perceive when we look at the human body? What does the face, the gesture, the posture, the movement tell us? How do we communicate through the body with others? Soft Spot plays with the blurring of human qualities, asks what defines us as humans, and looks for a hidden, sensitive “soft spot” in ourselves.

“Soft Spot is an experimental study that challenges established ways of interpretation and deconstructs traditional movement conventions. It forces the audience to transcend the rational mode of thinking, granting them freedom of movement. In the work of established choreographer Adrienn Hód the extraordinary physical performance of performers Martina Hajdyla and Sonia Ferienčíková is simply stunning. Reduced to mere bodies without facial expression, they explore the subtlety and complexity of meanings inscribed in corporeality. Powerful piece that has received admiring reviews on several dance platforms and festivals.”

(Michaela Pašteková)