In her award-winning site-specific project, Eliška Brtnická transforms industrial landmarks into a space for acrobatics, live music and a new perspective on well-known places. An exceptional experience that is always created for only one location - in our case, for the chimney in the newly opened Nové osmičky complex in Frýdek-Místek.
Performer and aerial acrobat Eliška Brtnická has been transforming chimneys, towers and other industrial landmarks into a unique space for contemporary circus and movement theater for many years. Her site-specific project Komín connects acrobatics in heights, music and the architecture of the place in an experience that cannot be transferred to a theater hall.
MOVE Fest Ostrava moves Komín in our area. It is here that a unique dialogue between the performer, the monumental building and the surrounding space will take place. The audience will thus not only see a performance, but a place that, thanks to this documentary and movement performance, will momentarily acquire a completely new meaning.
The project brings facts, but also emotions associated with this symbol of the industrial era. Currently, there are many blasting of chimneys that are no longer in use. However, with their demolition, the memory of the place also disappears. Can these buildings be preserved?
You will be seated in beach chairs under the chimney and you will be given headphones with an expert commentary that intertwines with the experiences of members of the Association of Czech Chimney Sweeps. Meanwhile, the movement of three female performers on the chimney will reveal its physical parameters, dimensions, stability, strength and material, but above all its inherent verticality. The chimney thus turns from the backdrop of the performance into the main protagonist. For a single evening, it will come alive as a witness to history, a technical monument and a space for contemporary art. And maybe it will make us look with different eyes at all the other chimneys that we normally pass by.
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