Soft Core - Emergent Strategy (kolektívne pohybové vzdelávanie)

Soft Core - Emergent Strategy (collective movement education)

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Eva Priečková/False Move invites you to a weekend exploring dance, mutual interpersonal and "more than human" relationships, rest, heaviness and lightness through sensitive listening, collective thinking and movement sa.

When:
25. and 26 October 2025
10.00 - 13.00

Where: TELOCVIČNA - Residential Dance Center,
Račianska 78, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava

How much: Sliding Scale: 40 - 60 euros (according to your current income and possibilities. If the price is too high for any reason, please contact Eva at eva.prieckova@gmail.com)
DROP IN possible - 20 euros/ one day

**People who can participate on both days are warmly encouraged!

**For whom: for all those interested in researching dance and movement in and around us, previous experience is not necessary, a certain curiosity to explore the "unknown" will come together. The space is not fully barrier-free, please contact us if you need assistance at: eva.prieckova@gmail.com

Tickets: https://goout.net/sk/soft-core-emergent-strategy/szrylby/

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SOFT CORE : Emergent Strategy

“How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale.”
(adrienne maree brown)

Soft Core is a metaphor for resistance against a strong and stable center. How can softness, delicacy, or weakness be our creative inspiration? Thanks to them, how can we dive together towards deeper relaxation and listening to each other? Rub honey on wounds, cracks and holes in us? Soft Core is a movement-based collective education that emancipates embodied sensory experience as an equal knowledge of body and mind. He does not avoid critical thinking, nor play and experiment. It is reflection, contemplation and immersion in the study of movement, but also throwing off coats and breaking free from the shackles of everyday life.

At the same time, Soft Core asks: What and how shapes our individual and collective body? Personal experiences, social relationships or global challenges? How to stay aware of these challenges, not become reactionary but responsive? Can dance help us with this?

Soft Core can be disoriented, crooked, slumped, tired and paralyzed by the world around us. We will use improvisation as an antidote to prescribed thinking and, without over-romanticisation, we will try to find reciprocity through movement that is not given in advance, often turns in a circle and may not have a clear direction - false movement. However, we will try to look for the ability to act in this movement.

It is a safe space that tries not to offer one template, a silent discipline.
It is a safe space where things can fail, but then be re-created in mutual dialogue.
It is a space in which we actively work with consent, trust and constant search for mutual care. Because listening remains essential.

SOFT CORE is initiated and facilitated by Eva Priečková in cooperation with the Telocvičňa space.
Since 2015, it has been hosting movement education for people of various movement experiences and skills. Participants come from different professions and backgrounds. Eva tries to offer a kind of horizontal line.

Eva Priečková (Berlin, Bratislava) is an interdependent dance artist, facilitator of dance education Studio - Soft Core. She received her master's degree at the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As Eva Priečková/False Move, she organizes workshops, lectures and events that combine embodied movement experience with critical thinking about the body and relationships. She is interested in dancing in different groups, ecosomatics, mourning and celebration rituals, learning to move within and around oneself, and dancing outside the ballroom. Eva facilitates exercise courses for different groups of people - social workers, the Roma minority and the elderly. She is interested in the potential of dance education towards social justice, interpersonal responsibility and emancipation from the unconscious repetition of normative behavior. For her, dance is an act of the impossibility of taming bodies, curious observation of the world around us, imagination, awe or sensitive listening and everything that cannot be expressed in words. She is currently a doctoral student at JAMU in Brno.

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ENGLISH:

Eva Priečková/False Move invites you for collective learning of dance, mutual human and more than human relationships, gravity and grace, rest and restoration through a method of deep listening, collective thinking and moving.

WHEN:
25.- 26. October 2025
10.00 - 13.00

WHERE: Telocvičňa - Dance Residencies Centre, Nová Cvernovka Račianska 78, Bratislava

FOR WHO: For all those interested in exploring dance and movement in and around us, no previous experience is necessary, some curiosity to explore a bit of the "unknown" will help
The space is unfortunately not yet fully accessible, please write to us in case you need assistance. eva.prieckova@gmail.com

HOW MUCH: Sliding Scale 40 - 60 euros (according to your actual income and possibilities, If you wish to participate but money is currently a problem for you, don't hesitate to write to Eva - eva.prieckova@gmail.com)
DROP IN : 20 euros/class

people who can participate throughout the whole weekend are highly encouraged to sign in

Tickets: https://goout.net/sk/soft-core-emergent-strategy/szrylby/

SOFT CORE : Emergent Strategy (collective movement practice)

“How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale.”
(adrienne maree brown)

SOFT CORE is a metaphor for resistance against a strong and stable center. How can softness, tenderness, or weakness be our creative force? How can we use them to make us dive together towards deeper rest and mutual listening? Smear honey on the wounds, cracks and holes within us? Soft Core is a movement-based collective education that emancipates embodied sensorial experience as equal awareness of body and mind. It doesn't shy away from critical thinking or play and experimentation. It is reflection, contemplation and immersion in the exploration of movement, as well as shedding coats and unshackling oneself from the only living reality to imagine "otherwise" together.

At the same time, Soft Core asks: what and how shapes our individual and collective bodies? Personal experiences, social relations or global challenges? How to remain receptive to these challenges, to become not reactive but responsive? Can dance help us with this?

Soft Core can be disoriented, tilted, falling, tired, and paralyzed by the world around us. We will use improvisation as an antidote to prescribed thinking and, without excessive romanticization, we will try to find mutuality through movement that is not predetermined, often revolving in circles and without a clear direction – false move. However, we will try to find the ability to act in this movement. To practice an agency.

We will prioritize movement tasks through the method of guided improvisation, somatic trips, contact work in pairs, triads, groups. We will practice consensual touch and the so-called "safe and brave" space.

It is a safe space that embraces differences, problems, conflicts and discord.
It's a safe space that tries not to offer one template, a silent discipline.
It's a safe space where things can fail, but then re-create themselves in dialogue with each other.
It is a space where we actively work with consent, trust and a constant search for mutual care. Because listening remains essential.

The studio is initiated and facilitated by Eva Priečková in collaboration with the Telocvičňa space. Since 2015, Eva has been hosting movement education for people of different movement backgrounds and skills. Participants come from different professions and backgrounds. Eva tries to offer a kind of horizontal line. With our differences, what can be the common ground? And is dance a medium through which we can connect?

Eva Priečková (Berlin, Bratislava) is an interdependent dance artist, facilitator of the dance education Soft Core. She received her Master's degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As Eva Priečková/False Move she organizes workshops, lectures and events that combine embodied movement experience with critical thinking about the body and relationships. She is interested in dance in various groups, ecosomatics, rituals of mourning and celebration, collective learning and re-learning, and dance outside the dance flow. Eva facilitates movement classes for different groups of people - social workers, the Roma minority or the elders. She is interested in the potential of dance education towards social justice, interpersonal responsibility and emancipation from the unconscious repetition of normative behaviour. For her, dance is an act of impossibility to tame bodies, of curiously noticing the world around us, of imagining, of awe or sensitive listening, and of everything that cannot be expressed in words. She is currently a PhD student at the JAMU in Brno.

photo: Ján Skaličan