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 the joy of 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.

Jitka Sára Páníková is a choreographer and performer whose work connects movement and acting expression as means of exploring social themes and the physical and psychological limits of the human body. She holds a master’s degree in Performing Public Spacefrom the Netherlands and has 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 Prize) and SLIP GRIP. She has collaborated with artists from China, Israel, Brazil, and the Czech scene (including PocketArt, Tereza Lenerová, Petr Šavel, and Pulsar). Jitka is part of the international research project iCoDaCo and currently works at the Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP), where she develops her interests in architecture and public space.

Illustration photo by Kiti Wullich