SECOND PRACTICE

In today’s reality, caregiving responsibilities still largely fall on women. At the same time, we are immersed in virtual pseudo-truths, opinions and the endless amount of information that reaches us. Many of us live in a state of constant tiredness. In such a context, the simple gesture of pausing, listening to ourselves and following our body and desires can become a political act. Private is political.

From this perspective, Martina Hajdyla Lacová – woman, dancer and mother of three small children – steps on stage. Her now almost forty-year-old body carries many public and private stories. “Second practice”, drawing on thirty years of professional experience and body/dance memories, creates space for her return to what is crucial to her existence – acknowledging her dance & body history, listening to herself in dance and finding pleasure in moving. The show also invites the audience on a journey through glimpses of past and present together with her.

The performance touches the desire of a dancer, a woman and mother, to immerse deeply in herself through a practice that, in the numerous responsibilities, chaos, tiredness and constant distraction of everyday life, has become secondary – the practice of mindful dancing in the here and now.

The solo of Martina Hajdyla Lacová created together with choreographer Renata Piotrowska-Auffret thus opens not only a personal story, but also a wider image of what today’s society lacks, needs or what is being questioned.