Choreographer and dancer Simona Machovičová, in collaboration with 420PEOPLE, present her new dance performance, PULPS, which portrays the actual perception and experience of human emotions in interpersonal relationships. The dance duo, created exclusively for the Studio Maiselovka venue, will feature a pairing of two dancers (Simona Machovičová & Jindřich Panský) combined with original live music by Václav Havelka.
“Our paths cross. Sometimes, it is only for a moment; sometimes, they merge and never separate again. Emotional layers of our inner selves absorb the juices of our relationships. Joy, sorrow, heartbreak, devotion, infidelity, infatuation, abandonment... a cycle.”
CAST
Choreography: Simona Machovičová
Performing: Jindřich Panský, Simona Machovičová
Music: Václav Havelka
Costumes: Mars Industries by Martina Machovičová
Light design: Tomáš Morávek
Production: David Borovský, Anna Borovská
PR & marketing: Aneta Jochim, Filip Tatoušek
Poster: Michal Heriban
Photo (cover): Pavel Hejný
Premiere: 29. 2. & 1. 3. 2024 / Studio Maiselovka
Duration: 50min (no interval)
returns 2025
12. & 13. 1. 2025 / 19:30 / Studio Maiselovka
27. 4. 2025 / 19:30 / Studio Maiselovka
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“A partnership between two people. Each carries an equal share of responsibility for love, mutual care, respect and knowledge. A balance between two halves. PULPS shows the different stages of a relationship between two lovers, one of whom is a woman and the other a man. In our play, we want to open your perception just enough to make the performers’ gender negligible. So that you might be able to identify with one of the parts of the couple, regardless of gender, but rather based on your own relationship experiences. What have your relationships been soaked in? Have you ever been “drained to the last drop” because you keep coming back despite your common sense objections? Or do you see yourself as the one who (un)consciously drains love itself and/or hurtful hatred?” These are the questions captured by the PULPS performance.
The choreography of PULPS conveys the contemporary concept of the meaning of “relationship” and the actual form of emotions. The performance is accompanied by Václav Havelka’s original live music. Václav Havelka, musician, singer and frontman of the band Please The Trees, has been experimenting recently. After his previous EP, City Fox on Acid (2016), the album Exhale Extender (2019) is another collection that maps the dimensions of the American primitive genre. But unlike the noisy debut, whose sonic palette evoked the collision between wildlife and the rampaging city, the new album feels more like a return to the cave. An organic and expansive guitar meditation, wrapped in a hands-on drone, draws heavily on the giants of the genre and the New York guitar avant-garde. His live music, composed for the Pulps performance, builds loosely on his previous work. Fashion designer Martina Machovičová and her brand Mars Industries introduce a new visual dimension to the production.
