Over the course of four evenings in 2025, artists—individuals, ensembles, and artistic collectives—will have a unique opportunity to present their work, whether in progress or fully completed. For three days, they will have access to the Ponec Theatre stage for intensive preparation, culminating in an open performance.

OPEN STAGE is designed for anyone looking to push their boundaries, share their artistic vision, and engage both professional and general audiences.

The audience is welcome without restrictions—come and be part of this creative dialogue!

The solo titled CADAVRE EXQUIS explores the memory of the body and the fluctuating desire for existence and non-existence. The dance monologue portrays the body pulsating, wounded, and the body disappearing, missing, absorbed by emptiness. 

Cadavre exquis or Exquisite Corpse refers to a surrealist game in which words or images are composed and assembled in a chain of random associations with the intention of disrupting logical and causal reasoning. In this dance performance, the principle of cadavre exquis proposes a specific way of perceiving. What can arise? A hybrid creature, new being – the consequence of the collective subconscious. A metaphor for a shapeshifting human who finds their self in multiple identities. 

The word itself cadavre – corpse – evokes a body without identity, nameless matter, a zero point. The movement becomes a scream, bizarre, grotesque, terrifying, a liberating struggle for existence. Body memory creates its own narrative space from which images, gestures and dynamic traces of movement emerge. 

The choreography is freely inspired by the surrealist visions of Toyen (1902-1980), born Marie Čermínová, a Czech avant-garde artist. Who or what is Toyen? Spectre, beast, restlessness, wasteland, caught in the trap of reality. The experience of physicality and the inner tension of Toyen's dreamlike paintings are the foundation for a specific movement vocabulary that transfers the references from Toyen's work into an abstract dance form. Cadavre exquis explores various body states, awakens the imagination, reveals new meanings and leaves room for interpretation. 

The solo processes the pressures of contemporary life while following the example of the Surrealists – it provokes a state in which reality and dream, present and past, obvious and obscured merge into one reality.

Joan Goméz Alemany (Spain) completed his master's studies in composition, opera, and musical theater at Kunst Universität in Graz. His compositions have been performed at prestigious festivals such as Darmstädter Ferienkurse, impuls, ManiFeste-IRCAM, reMusik.org, Ensems, Mixtur, and Mostra Sonora Sueca. He has collaborated with orchestras such as SWR under the baton of Gregor Mayrhofer and JOGV conducted by Pablo Rus Broseta. In 2022, his first chamber opera premiered at the Opera in Graz, conducted by Leonhard Garms.

Marie Nečasová (Czech Republic) earned a bachelor's degree in Theory and Performance Practice of Early Music at Masaryk University in Brno. She studied composition with Hannes Löschel at ABPU in Linz and completed an internship at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Lyon. She is currently studying Music Publishing at AMU in Prague, focusing on contemporary music publication. Her compositions have been performed at festivals such as Brucknerfest, Leicht über Linz, and Hortus Musicus. She has collaborated with ensembles such as Ensemble Delirium, Ensemble les Émissaires, and JIM Chamber Orchestra.