Tomáš Janypka

Creator, choreographer, performer and facilitator of Somatic Dialogue. A graduate in Physical Theatre at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. As an independent artist as well as a member of the collective ZDRUHESTRANY, he has a list of curious collaborations to his record, among them Jaro Viňarský, Sonja Pregrad, Dominique Boivin, Daniel Gulko, Helle Bach, Lenka Flory, associations tYhle, mimoOs and Temporary Collective.



His strength lies in subtlety and openness to genres and approaches, while his focus concentrates around intimate events, the perception of the body and its limits, the weight of things on the physical and the spiritual plane, as well as the physical and emotional sharing thereof with the viewer. His works include song lines: expedition 97/18 (2019, with Sabina Bočková), Eight Cups and the Devil (2021, with Roberta Štepánková), Completing the Sphere (2021, a year-long interdisciplinary research in the architectural and visual project with Juraj Gábor), and more.
 


Since 2020, he has been in the cast of the participatory inclusion-driven project PRIMA (Viktor Černický) which engages local communities of non-dancers. As a performer he opened the gala ceremony of the Prague Quadrennial 2023. In collaboration with Jazmína Piktorová and Markéta Stránská he explores the boundaries of the forbidden in a project designed for children and adults called Oh, And That’s Forbidden? (to be premiered in 2024). Under the guidance of Berrak Yedek he became a certified facilitator of Somatic Dialogue, he also works as an artistic mentor and teacher at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) in the international MA DOT programme.