OSTRUŽINA / Zden Brungot Svíteková & SVUNG research group / Luca Borsos, Napsugár Trömböczky |CZ/SK/HU|: Walk with the Stones

Join us for a slow, artistic walk that invites you to perceive the landscape unlike the ordinary.

As we walk around the pond and deeper into the forest, we are accompanied by million-year-old stones, century-old trees, and our decades-old human bodies that carry memory. Together we enter a layered terrain where geological time, structural forces, and histories of formation and erasure meet.

We pause to attend to details that might go unnoticed. The artists will offer a lens and way of being, sensing, and moving — while inviting you to open a space for your own embodied dialogue with the landscape. To notice how the land speaks back — not in words, but through texture, rhythm, gradient, and gravity.

This shared experience connects performance, geology, and a cultivates sensitivity to the  more-than-human-world we are part of.

Composed of elements of projects by Zden Brungot Svíteková and the SVUNG research group.

CREDITS

created by: Kinga Szemessy, Luca Borsos, Napsugár Trömböczky, Zden Brungot Svíteková 

performed by: Zden Brungot Svíteková,  Napsugár Trömböczky, Matthew Rogers, Luca Borsos

production: OSTRUŽINA z.s., SVUNG research group

supported by: MKČR

photo credit: Zellei Boglárka

thank you:

to Landscapes: Velká Fatra, Nízke Tatry, Seyðisfjørdur - Vestdalen,  Minämäkki, Sobieszewo, Sermermiut, Niakornaq, Pakitsup, Bornholm, Hlubočepy, Tetiaroa, a.o.

to geologists: Barnabás Korbely (HU), Girts Stinkulis (LT), Mário Olšavský (SK), researchers and staff of the Czech Geological Survey

to collaborators and all those who joined the journey

Running time: 90mins

BIO

Luca Borsos (SVUNG) works as a freelance performer and applied theatre practitioner engaged in artistic and community projects. in several different roles (performer, a mediator/facilitator, drama pedagogue, organizer or movement researcher). She likes to focus on non-verbal, movement-based, and sensorial experiences. She also worked in many collaborations such as Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes project in SÍN Culture Center, theater collective Stereo Akt, teaching movement and theater to teens, currently within the "ART FOR TAKEAWAY” (ART-RAVALÓ), the socio-art project for young adults (18-24 years) raised in state care.

Napsugár Trömböczky (SVUNG) is a freelanced transdisciplinary artist, applied theater expert, puppeteer and puppet maker focusing on participatory performances, community theater and art for social engagement. They desire to challenge the canonical and neoliberal understanding of art and theater. Their recent work and interest is rooted in ecofeminism and anticapitalism, with a goal of sharing knowledge and creating a space for building a more (environ)mentally sustainable future. In their practice, they often include visual artforms and crafts, created with organic, foraged and secondhand materials.

Zden Brungot Svíteková (OSTRUŽINA) is an international dance artist, collaborator and co-founder of Ostružina. Her focus lies in movement research, exploring sensorial and somatic approaches and active spectatorship. Zden thrives in creative dialogues within interdisciplinary collaborations. She has a long-standing artistic research on the Earth's body titled Geology of Being (GOB) which investigates the intersection of geology and contemporary dance performance. She is also involved in upwording, a practice evolutionising thinking through everyday use of language, and collaborates with the Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA, for which she leads projects in the context of creative education.