Contemporary dance for the public with Jitka Sara Pániková

Experience contemporary dance in all its diversity. You can come once, several times or regularly. The only requirement is a desire to discover.

Every Tuesday evening, the Galaxie cultural station opens a space where the body becomes a means of exploration, sharing and joy in movement. Here you will meet various personalities of the Czech dance scene and their different approaches. Each lesson offers a different perspective on contemporary dance - from working with breath and rhythm to improvisation and contact to the perception of the body in space. Thanks to this variety, you will have the opportunity to try different perspectives and paths of movement and find your own. Dance here is not about performance, but about an experience that at the end of the day connects you with yourself and the world around you.

Illustration photo by Kiti Wullich

Jitka Sára Páníková is a choreographer and performer whose work combines movement and acting as a means of exploring social themes and the boundaries of the human body – both physical and psychological. She graduated from the Performing Public Space Master’s Program in the Netherlands and also completed several programs at the Peridance Capezio Center in New York. She is a member of the artistic and production platform tactic , with which she creates original projects such as dis pla y (awarded the Czech Dance Platform Award) or SLIP GRIP . She has collaborated with artists from China, Israel, Brazil and the Czech scene (PocketArt, Tereza Lenerová, Petr Šavel, Pulsar). She is part of the international research project iCoDaCo and is currently also working at the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP) , where she develops her interests in architecture and public space.

"I believe that dance builds inner strength and integrity in us and that bodily experience is autonomous intelligence. Dancing is an experience, a thrill, and a joy. Thanks to dance, we can be more present, more awake, and more sensitive to ourselves and our surroundings."