“I don’t want strangers to touch me on the subway. And yet I hope that if I were to fall one day, someone would come to me.”
POINT OF TOUCH stems from these words. Not from a desire to celebrate closeness or from the belief that we can truly understand one another, but from the question of what makes another person affect us. Blending documentary fragments, personal memories, imagination, and dance, the performance explores how human connections emerge. Though not intentionally political, it reflects on coexistence beyond the illusion of complete understanding. Instead of asking us to become the same or accepting that we are too different to connect, it suggests a third possibility: we do not have to agree in order to remain side by side.
Choreography: Alica Minar
Dance: Yelena Arakelow, Aneta Bočková, György Jellinek, Jakob von Kietzell, Valerie Renay, Matthew Rogers, Lenka Vořechovská
Dramaturgy: Katarína Bakošová, Lucia Kašiarová
Music: Vi Huyen Tranová
Costumes and scenography: Magdaléna Vrábová
Light design: Félix Noslier
Choreographic assistance: Olesia Usata
Production & PR: Alica Minar & col.
Language: English
Duration: 50 min.
Partners & Residencies: Studio ALTA, Prague (CZ); Dock11, Berlin (DE); Tatwerk, Berlin (DE); HAUT, Copenhagen (DK); Truhlárna, Prague (CZ); Nová Cvernovka, TELOCVIČŇA – Residency Centre for Dance and PLAST – Platform for Contemporary Dance, Bratislava (SK)
Financial Support: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Czech State Cultural Fund, Prague City Hall, HAUT Copenhagen, Czech-German Fund for the Future, European Union, Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut