Tra-Ce

This performance is the result of a joint creative work by a choreographer, a dancer, a composer and a video artist. Trace, due to the four creators, represents the four separate but not entirely unconnected conditions of human self. These four aspects of human self – the instinctive one, the self-reflective ironic one, the one in trance and the conscious ego – ceaselessly search for their identity, at times completely absorbed in their role, at others testing their boundaries and transcending their frames. Through a grotesque representation, the choreographer makes the torments of the search for self-identity seem light and playful.
The four square-shaped platforms that form the space of performance symbolize the four independent but inextricably intertwined aspects of identity. The blue light projected on the set creates the illusion of a swimming pool. The dancer’s costume – frog legs, swimming goggles – completes this image.

After many grand-scale and visually shocking performances, Frenák has this time created a restrained, almost minimalist universe, with a work that focuses on intimate, inward-looking spirituality.