Jitka Sara Páníková: SLIP GRIP

The performance SLIP GRIP by the choreographer Jitka Sara Páníková and the composer Natálie Pleváková is a ride on the edge. Literally.

The performer puts on roller skates, which she does not know how to use. A body that has spent its entire life striving for perfect control suddenly finds itself on unfamiliar ground. It balances, reacts. It questions its habits. A space is created where sincerity replaces precision, and where the ride begins just where certainty ends.

Instead of certainty, the search for balance. Instead of performance – presence.

Fragility meets determination on stage. It's not about falling, but about trusting what will happen when there is nothing left to hold on to. For introverts in a noisy world, for anyone who has ever found themselves out of rhythm and yet continued to dance through the world.

And if you're waiting for instructions on how to get out of it, SLIP GRIP won't provide any. Just the ride. Unpredictable, unpolished – and perhaps liberating precisely because of that.

What if it's precisely when we lose control that we really start to ride?

Choreography, concept, dance: Jitka Sara Páníková

Music: Natálie Pleváková

Dramaturgy, costumes: Debora St.

Lighting design: Katarina Morávek Ďuricová

Choreography coach: Tereza Lenerová

Production: Veronika Ilíková

Producer: tactic

Co-producer: Moving Station, DanceConnected

Special thanks: Wayne Jordan

With financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Culture Fund

Jitka Sara Pániková is a performer and choreographer. Her work focuses on interpretation, original choreography, and site-specific interventions in public spaces. As a performer, she collaborates with the POCKETART Collective (Fairy Tales), the Brazilian dance group Grupo Tàpias (FANTASMAS), and the 2VA collective (Vyprovokuj se tancem). She has been working with dancer Tereza Lenerová (Existuje dojem bytí, Rukavičkářské závody) for a long time, and their performance dis pla y won the main prize of the jury at the Czech Dance Platform 2022. In the past, she has collaborated with Israeli choreographer Sofia Krantz, Chinese choreographer Shi Bo, and Czech choreographer Michal Záhora, among others.

Jitka also devotes herself to solo work. Her original projects include Frankie Teardrop, performed at the Duncan Centre and at the Prague Pride Festival (2020), De Profundis, created for the Prague Crossroads Festival (2020), Chiaroscuro Hédonistico, presented at the Alta Theatre, and the production A ještě bych dodal (And I Would Add), created for the opening of the new Alta Theatre space (2023).

The performance is presented as part of the Malá inventura festival.