Seismic is a dance and physical theatre experience where the ground beneath your feet never stands still – a performance that places the scenographic construction at its conceptual heart.
The action unfolds on an unstable, fragmented platform that tilts, shakes, and breaks in response to the protagonists’ movements. This precarious surface forces the characters to reveal themselves – alone, in pairs, or as a group – while risking both balance and control. They navigate relentless instability, provoke risks, alter behavior, and threaten to lose the ground beneath them. Situations shift from the everyday to the absurd, from the banal to the metaphorical.
Through dance, humour and scenographic installation that seems to have a life of its own, Seismic explores a relationship of mutual dependence: the body is exposed to the mechanics of the space and to the presence of others. Everything is in constant transformation – a whirlwind of events where power dynamics emerge and dissolve without clear origin.
● Marie Gourdain is a French choreographer, set designer, and visual artist who has mainly developed her artistic activities in Prague since 2010, while also working on projects across the rest of Europe. Her practice fuses visual arts and contemporary dance, drawing on graphic and sculptural composition combined with a detailed analysis of movement. The result is a complex choreographic expression that is visually focused and explores the manipulation of props and the use of stage constructions, while also allowing space for intuition, improvisation, and humour.
● Felix Baumann lives in Berlin and works internationally as an artist with an interdisciplinary approach blending physical theatre, dance, circus, and visual art. Humour is his creative enigine – a tool for resilience and a way to examine contemporary issues, metaphors, and the absurdities of everyday life.
“Seismic” is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Norway
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