Last Dance + Ark Rave Session: Connor Schumacher

Tereza Ondrová's project Last Dance and multidisciplinary rave performance ARK Rave Session by Connor Schumacher at Akropolis Palace.

< em>Last Dance

In the project Last Dance, Tereza Ondrová returns to her solo Call Alice, to try to revive the loss in the pandemic. In this one-off solo, set in a ballroom where we dance together as a whole, Ondrová will dance as one. She dances to recover and discover how loss can be transformed.

Through returning and working with materials from the past, they work in the Temporary Collective with the concept of non-growth - creation from one source - or recycling. We are trying to rethink our working methods and focus on sustainability issues on a personal, professional and environmental level.

How do you dance with someone who has left? Can you bring him back through dance? Can his absence bring you back to yourself? How to overcome loss? Losing a loved one? Or the loss of an ideal? Or a vision of the future?

ARK Rave Session

Guided multidisciplinary rave performance ARK Rave Session< /em> is created to help participants “come to their senses”. Connor Schumacher is a dancer and artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ARK/Connor Schumacher art director and partner at Dansateliers Rotterdam. He creates social choreographic works for theaters, museums, festivals and clubs. He also uses his practice to create educational and consulting workshops to strengthen soft skills in groups and institutional dynamics.

Discovering the core value of the dance floor: The essence is you. Dance is not fleeting. He is a living, breathing, pulsing, sweating testament to what makes us fundamentally human. It is physiology, psychology, sociology and phenomenology in our every step. It's great | natural experience. What we do physically becomes our mental skills. So what do we practice on the dance floor? Inclusion - cooperation - understanding and appreciation of difference - self-confidence - resilience - patience - stress management - conflict resolution, these are just some of the basic human skills that we can practice on the dance floor.