Eliška Brtnická & coll.: Thin Skin (CZ)

Creation/performance: Eliška Brtnická, Alžběta Tichá, Filip Zahradnický (Lukas Bliss); concept/direction: Eliška Brtnická; sound design: Roman Džačár, Stanislav Abrahám; light design: Martin Špetlík; light technician/materials: Prokop Vondruška; costumes: Tereza Kopecká; production: Cirkus Mlejn, z.s.; coproduction: DOX

Body and material – two elements in one space whose existence are mutually dependent and which, for all the flexibility, fragility, and instability of their form, seem to defy the laws of gravity. Thin Skin is a visual-kinetic performance and meditative work of movement that combines elements of contemporary circus with physical theatre and seems to bend time in the process. Moving sculptures disappear as quickly as they appear. Their archetypal skeletons can be wrapped in meaning, or just let go. The body is pushed away into matter, the image into the mind, time bends. This intuitive physics demonstrates the basic principles of being in the earth’s gravitational field. Thin Skin is fragility, vulnerability, instability. The production won the International Jury Award at the 29th Czech Dance Platform.

Eliška Brtnická is a performer, choreographer, dramaturge and director. She graduated in non-verbal theater from the HAMU in Prague. In 2010 she founded the company Cirkus Mlejn, under the name of which she creates her projects. She also has been involved in artistic research in the field of contemporary circus for many years.

Alžběta Tichá is an acrobat and performer. She graduated from the Duncan Centre Dance Conservatory in Prague, where she developed her new circus skills, especially aerial acrobatics.

Filip Zahradnický is a performer and juggler. He graduated from The Academy of Modern Circus in Copenhagen. He is a member of Circus La Putyka, with whom he performed at the Berlin Chamäleon, has performed in several international projects and is also a solo artist.

This performance is part of festival Prieniky, so the A4 annual membership card does not apply.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation. The event was also supported by Nadácia Slovenskej sporiteľne, ZSE, Prvá stavebná sporiteľňa.