Collaboration of 420PEOPLE (dancing company) and BERG Orchestra. One exclusive evening of music and movement connected.

To want to or to have to dive into the unknown, finding the new with humour and without senseless fright. Knowing the right moment to come up again, poetically breathe in and out, regardless of the fact that we can’t be sure what awaits us next. How relatively important to us are the instruments we operate with – voices, bodies, musical instruments… To what extent are we able to reflect upon them, to distinguish them from others while time keeps passing and changing the space around us? Shall also the roles in this piece change as points of view change? … Nataša Novotná

The author of music for Resonance in Walking Distance, composer Jan Trojan lists among his sources of inspiration the experience with the depth of lightness brought about by forgiveness and a quotation by the famous Czech poet Vladimír Holan: “Such is destiny that there is no stability without trembling.“ Trojan further comments on the project: “This time it is not only musicians or dancers who will play, sing and resonate… the weird and distant medium will also sing to the full the song of its existence and power: setting a metal plate in motion, vibrating a piece of wood, moving with small objects… we are similar – a moving mass of muscles and bones, breathing, loving, resonating… imprinting our vibrations in time…”

This production created by 420PEOPLE in coproduction with the BERG Orchestra, both of them leading contemporary companies in the Czech Republic, is a next step in the series of their unconventional stage projects. An original composition for brass instruments and electronics by Jan Trojan will resonate in an inquisitive choreography by Nataša Novotná.

A production by 420PEOPLE and BERG Orchestra, in coproduction with the New Stage of the National Theatre. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague and the Visegrad Fund.