Microworlds

MICROWORLDS Our planet is inhabited with worlds within worlds. And each of these microworlds lives its own unique life. Through micro-movements, landscapes of body, and playing with small objects, the show directs the viewers’ attention to small details often invisible with the naked eye.

This playful and poetic production explores the fragility of our existence, to the enchantment of children and adults alike.

It offers an open, playful and creative space where everyone and everything is an important and indispensable part of the whole. Joining their distinctive potentials, all participants can create shared microworlds together. The production draws children’s attention to tiny little things and details surrounding them, which sensitizes their perception, improves their mindfulness and concentration, and teaches them to play with the simplest means.

JAZMÍNA PIKTOROVÁ is a choreographer, performer and lecturer based in Prague. She explores the possibilities of combining dance and movement education with children’s productions, focusing on long-term research and topics that are challenging for the audience and for her as well. She creates under the ZDRUHESTRANY collective, which she co-founded with Viktor Černický and Tomáš Janypka. Her latest production, Microworlds, won the 2023 Czech Dance Platform Award and the Audience’s Award; it has also been nominated for the Thalia Awards and has been included in the prestigious Aerowaves Twenty24 selection. As a lecturer in arts and education projects, she brings movement and creativity to schools.

SABINA BOČKOVÁ is a choreographer and dancer. Together with Johana Pocková, they form the POCKETART collective. Their creations are part of the European Aerowaves platform, the Czech Dance Platform and the Shape It! and Big Pulse Dance Alliance. In addition to her own work, she has long collaborated as a performer with the groups Tantehorse and tYhle, with choreographer Marie Gourdian, with Cirque La Putyka and others. Fascinated by plain, or mundane, body language, she transforms movement through choreographic structures, reflecting pressing social and cultural issues.