How to cope with the heavy feeling of loneliness? How to explain it? And why is it sometimes strongest when we are surrounded by people? Even  when we are together, in the end we are each on our own in life.Sometimes it's the easier way. Being together requires openness to ideas and opinions, a willingness to listen and make compromises.What will unexpected meetings and crossing fates bring? And does physical closeness mean emotional closeness?

The triptych is a reflection of the author's chance encounters with various artists during two years in Prague, where she fled before the war.
 

Part I. - Lost 

Their stories are different, but they have one thing in common: they all fled from an occupied country and are confronted daily with the trauma, uncertainty and fear that comes with being a refugee in a foreign land. They are kept above water by their creativity, the ability to create and the opportunity to find a new community - an artistic family.
Five Ukrainian dancers, torn from their homes, are here and now. Each for herself and yet together.

The first part of the triptych presents the work of more Ukrainian artists. It is inspired by Anton Ovchinnikov's verses written during the war in Kyiv and the music of the Canadian-based Ukrainian radical anti-Putin band Balaklava Blues. Tomáš Kerle took care of fine-tuning the sound atmosphere.

 

Part II. - Invisible Traces

Fingerprints, a tangle of inconspicuous lines, hiding our uniqueness and genetic heritage. Invisible traces, unconsciously left in our surroundings, on things and people. We are covered by them too. Others have left them on us, on the surface, but also inside, as fleeting evidence of an experienced closeness. We create these invisible connections every day; we are the bearers of them, either unwittingly or by our own will.

Czech performers Jitka Čechová, Katy Jabůrková, Žaneta Musilová and Lukas Bliss Blaha participated in the creation of the trio, inspired by the shape of the "barre" object by graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts, which can evoke, for example, a fingerprint.

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Yana Reutova worked as a dancer, choreographer and teacher in the Odessa region. In 2014 she founded Dance Theatre Plastilin and created several performances receiving some awards. She organized the Dance Platform Most festival (5 years) and worked a lot with children (Creative Kids project) and her students. After that she started the Speaking with the Body festival, which took place only once.

In March 2022, she took her daughter and several students and fled from the war to Prague, where she now works. She danced in projects by Anna Källblad, Nicole Beutler, Flávie Tápias and POCKETART. In addition, she leads workshops for children and develops her own creative work with various artists. As part of a project for children of Ukrainian refugees, she created the interactive performances "On the Road" and "Time of Childhood." On 30 September 2023, she premiered the triptych "Together Alone" with dancers from Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Burkina Faso.

The triptych concept "Together Alone" succeeded in the European competition within the first EFFEA Open Call https://www.effea.eu/ and was one of the 40 supported projects.

 

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