GUEST
CHOICE OF ARTISTIC COUNCIL
CZECH PREMIERE
CONCEPT:
Tomáš Danielis
PERFORMERS:
Nikola Kišacová, Tomáš Danielis
TEXT:
Peter Šulej, Nikola Kišacová, Tomáš Danielis
MUSIC:
Anthony Rouchier, Ľubomír Panák
COSTUMES:
Lenka Sršnová a Archív
PRODUCTION:
FEYNMEN
PRODUCER:
Tomáš Danielis
“For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the production INNER GARDEN, Tomas Danielis appears in a duet alongside young dancer Nikola Kišacová. The work in progress offers an intimate view of a dialogue between bodies, space, and the performers’ inner worlds. It explores what it means to be close to one another—across generations, experiences, and perspectives. It asks what we inherit beyond social structures, genetics, or practical material things: personal frameworks of gestures, shared (mental) spaces, meanings (emotional, intellectual, personal), experience and knowledge, silence—small and large (and often repressed) details of human existence. What happens when lived experience becomes performative material? What do we pass on unintentionally? What remains of a person after they are gone?
Although the work is personal, it touches on broader questions of identity, memory, and coexistence within a fragmented social landscape. These themes resonate with current shifts in fundamental social values, a sense of belonging, intergenerational dialogue, and the dichotomy of “traditional vs. non-traditional cultures.”
Tomáš Danielis is a choreographer, media artist, and curator whose practice is grounded in the principle of holistic perception—connecting body, text, image, sound, and space into a unified artistic form. His works move at the intersection of dance, performance, and intermedia art. He has received several international awards, including the Contest – TanzRat Wien prize (2007), and is considered one of the leading figures of his generation in Slovak dance. Nikola Kišacová has been studying dance at the Dezider Kardoš Private Conservatory since 2021, during which she performed in the ballet Scheherazade and the musical Smoliari in a co-production with Divadlo Nová scéna. In 2023, she took part in a performance led by Tomáš Danielis featuring the installation Phase Modulations at the cultural venue Nástupište 1–12, and since 2024 she has been working on the projects Faidrós and Inner Garden as part of the Radical Empathy group. In the same year, she became a two-time European champion at the Dance Out and Showtime Dance competitions.
