Fairy Tales - POCKETART - One Dance Festival 2024

A Big Pulse Dance Alliance co-production, Fairy Tales is a dance performance with a strong visual identity for 8 female dancers and 2 musicians.
Going into the themes of womanhood and the values that femininity brings to our world, they are coming back to places of their childhood to reveal the processes of becoming oneself. It’s like trying on different roles, as if it was just another game or another dress. Roles we all know from well-known fairy tales or real-life figures. We are creating new fantasies for ourselves, reimagining our identities and the way we see our happy endings.
POCKETART collective is an internationally acclaimed team of creators working in the field of contemporary dance and physical theater under the direction of choreographers Sabina Bočková and Johana Pocková. As part of its projects, the team brings together artists from the fields of dance, music, scenography, fine arts, and light design. Their work has toured internationally in Europe, Africa and South America, their pieces have been part of Aerowaves Twenty21 and Twenty22 and presented at various festivals including Tanzmesse 2022. With their works they are part of European projects such as Shape it! and Big Pulse Dance Alliance.
The work of the team is characterized by tackling topics that go beyond the personal experience of the individual and touch upon societal issues such as manipulation through media, global environmental threats, stress in a competitive environment, or the position of an individual in the corporate work system. The creators try to approach these topics comprehensively through detailed work with all theatrical components. For each of their works, they always look for a new stylisation of physical expression unique to the topic at hand, creating dance images from specific body references. Through their distinctive poetics, visual purity and strong original music, the performances aim to give birth to a spiritual experience, compelling the audience to reflect on our society.