Renata Piotrowska – Auffret
As long as we dance
The performace’s point of departure is the current pandemic situation we find ourselves in, which gave death more than just one fatal meaning. The pandemia has thrown social death upon us, changed our habits and usurped all our attention. The performance As Long as We Dance is a revolt – a revolt of those, who are or were in the most complicated of situations – that is, women and mothers. The feminist dimension of the performance guarantees that As Long as We Dance is not merely a product of this particularly extreme period of our time, but a universally valid image of our society. Dance is the major narrative tool, although the general concept of the performance is multigenre, radically employs spoken word and distinctively artistic stage setting.
Choreography: Renata Piotrowska-Auffret and the performers
Performers: Cécile Da Costa, Martina Hajdyla Lacová, Zuzana Sceranková, Johana Schmidtmajerová, Veronika Švábová, Diana Toniková
Dramaturgical advisors: Jan Horák and Joanna Leśnierowska
Scenography and costume design: Tereza Beranová
Music: Simon Auffret
Assistant director and collaboration on choreography: Jan Bárta
Light design: Joanna Leśnierowska
Video: Eliška Kociánová
Translation: Barbora Hrušková
Production: Studio Hrdinů
Premiere: 24th of January 2022, Studio Hrdinů, Prague, Czech Republic
pictures Joanna Lesnierowska