Sabina returns to us from New York, where she was a resident artist at the GPS/Global Practice Sharing program hosted by Movement Research in collaboration with Bazaar Festival and its partners. In New York, Sabina presented a similar extract of her future work at the celebrated Judson Church in Manhattan.

Female sexuality is still regarded as problematic in many social contexts, its connection to spirituality rendered either completely impossible or, on the contrary, commercially exploited. Dancer and choreographer Sabina Bočková’s new project Making Love contributes to an authentic and meaningful renewal that combines these aspects of our being. Her physical research integrates many points of view, discovering, through the body of a single dancer, the wide range of physical manifestations of female sexuality, its overlap with spirituality and the perception of these aspects in the contemporary context.

“I feel a fundamental need to truly integrate female sexuality as an ordinary part of our society that is accepted without prejudice. I want female sexuality to no longer need to be hidden. I want to find a way to express that it does not belong to anyone. The question for me is, how can I experience it for myself and simultaneously share this experience with spectators so that they can connect to their own sexuality? I think that sexuality, as a public matter, is a huge topic in our society and my goal is to contribute to the free and authentic experience of our bodies without worrying about the external point of view.”

This work aims to create an intimate, safe space, where it is possible to share and investigate not only female sexuality but human sexuality in general. To support a general faith in the fact that sharing physical intimacy with other people in today's digitised age is possible and offers an irreplaceable experience.

UExcerpt of a work in development with discussion.

Credits:

Concept, choreography, performed by: Sabina Bočková

Music: Lukáš Palán

Set design: Simona Gottierová

Light Design: Dano Kozlík

Dramaturgical assistance: Viktor Černický, Jazmína Piktorová

Mentoring: Carolina Arandia

Managing producer/booking: Anna Gazdíková

Produced by: POCKETART collective

Partners: REZI.DANCE Komařice, CO.LABS Brno, Jatka78, Womenopedia/ArtFarm České Budějovice EHMK 2028, Bazaar Festival, Movement Research

This project was supported by the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Bio

Sabina Bočková (*1995) is a choreographer and dancer based in Brno (Czech Republic). She studied classical and modern dance at Dance Center Prague and, after dancing in ballet companies for three years (South Bohemian Ballet, Prague Chamber Ballet), shifted her viewpoint on dance and decided to work as a freelance artist. Since 2019, she creates her own authorial works in the POCKETART collective. In 2019, in collaboration with Johana Pocková, she created a duet, The Lion’s Den, which was selected for the 26th edition of the Czech Dance Platform and AerowavesTwenty21. This work was inspired by mass media and political populism. The same year, she created songlines: expedition 97/18,  another duet in collaboration with Slovak performer Tomáš Janypka, which delves into the loss of a close one. In 2020, in collaboration with Johana Pocková and Inga Zotova-Mikshina, she created another full evening piece, Treatment of Remembering, which tackles the topic of environmental pollution. Treatment of Remembering won the International Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 27th edition of the Czech Dance Platform and was selected for AerowavesTwenty22. With The Lion's Den, she took part in Shape It!, a European project for young audiences. In 2022, she and Jazmína Piktorová created the duet Microworlds, selected for AerowavesTwenty24. In 2024, she and Pocková premiered Fairy Tales, a piece for eight  female dancers and 2 musicians as an Upscaling coproduction with Big Pulse Dance Alliance. Alongside her own work, she has collaborated as a performer with Tantehorse company, tYhle and choreographer Marie Gourdain and, most recently, Cirk La Putyka.

Fascinated by simple and obvious body language, she transforms movement through choreographic structures while at the same time addressing topics and themes that echo social and cultural issues.