WITH US!

Intergenerational dance performance

With Us! (Mit Uns!) is an intergenerational and inclusive dance performance by Silke Z.

Karel, a dancer aged 66 and David a 27-year-old dancer with trisomy 21 meet and share their bodily landscapes, measure their individual bodily shapes and challenge each other’s movement forces.

They encounter each other in a completely human way: like father and son or like best friends.

WITH US! TWO

Intergenerational dance performance

In WITH US! TWO, dancers David Winking and Karel Vaněk explore partnership as a multifaceted and dynamic relational structure that cannot be reduced to romantic constellations but encompasses various forms of coexistence. The bodies become vessels of relationship: they react to one another, support one another, contradict one another, or create tension between them. Who is perceived as an equal partner? Whose bodies are considered “capable” or “different”? As different physical and biographical perspectives collide, partnership becomes a space where social hierarchies can be reproduced, but also disrupted and shifted.

WITH US! TWO sees itself as a contribution to increasing the visibility of people with Down syndrome in the context of the performing arts. The production thus positions itself at the intersection of current discourses on diversity and articulates the vision of an inclusive artistic practice that not only integrates different bodies, life realities, and forms of expression but also recognizes them as equal and aesthetically productive elements.

THE AGEING BODY Pro Series #1

Dance performance and Artist talk by Silke Z. & Liisa Pentti

The Ageing Body Pro Series #1 is the first part in a series of dance performances dedicated to the professional challenges and particularities of female freelance dance artists in the context of ageing.

In dialogue with choreographer Silke Z., Liisa Pentti confronts her artistic identity and the process of ageing on stage. Together they reflect on their past and present experiences, such as the need to balance artistic autonomy with earning a living as well as the physical demands and the role they play in the ageing process. 

Using dance techniques to approach their questions from biographical and social perspectives, Silke and Liisa ask: Which experiences in their professional careers have been or continue to be formative? What power relations have they experienced, helped shape, endured and dismantled as women? What role does ageing play in this?

The Ageing Body Pro Series brings active professional female dancers, aged over 60 and from a variety of nationalities and dance backgrounds, to the stage, highlighting their journeys and histories and providing the audience with an accessible insight into dance creation processes