Posers

Transformational dance-theater performance about poses, masks, and authenticity.

Is there anything at all between mundane consumption and bizarre esotericism? This is the question raised by the original performance POZÉRKY, which combines expressive dance, drama, and physical theater, navigating the border between comedy and drama. The performance draws the audience into an adventurous search for answers to both spoken and hidden questions. It artistically and theatrically explores themes of shedding masks and poses, discovering authenticity, humanity, empathy, and collaboration. It humorously yet painfully illustrates that excessive extremes and subsequent polarization are not solutions to inner unrest, worries, or the loss of contact with oneself. "Sometimes we are so caught up in family or societal programs, traumas, and defenses that we distance ourselves from each other and from ourselves. The performance was created to support understanding, openness, and respect for different life paths, to promote humanity, kindness, and authenticity," states the project's author. POZÉRKY also serves as a catalyst for emotions – offering the audience space for laughter, tears, and deeper reflection. It opens up taboo topics, encourages perspective, activates critical thinking, and fosters contact with one's own values and opinions. The performance tells the story of when we are truly ourselves and when we lose ourselves in masks, roles, and mental programs that lead us into dead ends of our own inflated emptiness. It touches on themes such as upbringing, relationships, addictions, spiritual bypassing, fear, manipulation, and the struggle to survive it all. The performance is suitable for audiences aged 10 and up. Authorial team: • Author of the performance: Mirka Papajiková • Music: Pejtra Bauer Horská • Costumes: Mirka Papajiková