DEKKA KICK-OFF: Distortion

The first part, PARALLAX (Alice Silná), draws on the motif of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Reality shifts depending on who is looking. During the performance, photographs are created in real time and enter the action as displaced, fragmentary images of it. Perspectives are assembled and broken apart at once – and with them, so is the notion of a single truth.

The second part, 눈빛 Nun-bit (Eliška Nevoralová), focuses on the power of the human gaze as the most honest form of communication. An anonymous crowd appears on stage, yet each individual carries their own complex story. Gazes meet and miss one another. The choreography works with emotions that can be expressed through a look – and for which words are not enough.

The third part, Over the Rainbow (İpek Özgen), explores how repeated everyday gestures transform over time, creating new meanings and ways of being. The piece starts from simple actions of care and embodied memory that are shared and repeated. Over time, these actions shift and lose their original function. What was familiar becomes something else.

The triple-bill evening Distortion was created as a work of the second edition of the DEKKA KICK-OFF project, in which a selected group of young talents aged 18 to 28 were given the opportunity to create their own performance. This experimental project is organized by DEKKADANCERS in collaboration with ARCHA+ and Jatka78.