The movement laboratory will
focus on the issues of critical thinking in dance and
performance, body politics and relationships, neoliberal
tendencies in self-care techniques, and somatic dance. Together,
we will look at these problematic areas of dance education and
offer you tools to get closer to collectivity, cooperation, and
belonging in times of social and environmental crises.
Instructors Eva Priečková and Zuzana Žabková have several years
of experience with expanded choreography, movement
improvisation, creative work, touch work, active imagination,
critical thinking, and group facilitation, ensuring that all
voices are heard equally, especially those struggling with
persistent oppression and indifference.
The movement laboratory will
focus on the issues of critical thinking in dance and
performance, body politics and relationships, neoliberal
tendencies in self-care techniques, and somatic dance. Together,
we will look at these problematic areas of dance education and
offer you tools to get closer to collectivity, cooperation, and
belonging in times of social and environmental crises.
Instructors Eva Priečková and Zuzana Žabková have several years
of experience with expanded choreography, movement
improvisation, creative work, touch work, active imagination,
critical thinking, and group facilitation, ensuring that all
voices are heard equally, especially those struggling with
persistent oppression and indifference.
Eva Priecková
is an interdependent dance artist, researcher, and curator,
primarily working around the residency and artistic research
centre Telocvičňa in Bratislava. As Eva Priečková / False Move,
she hosts the educational platform SOFT CORE, which brings
together embodied movement practice with critical reflection on
the body and relationality. Her work explores dance in diverse
communities—including older adults, Roma communities, and social
work contexts—as well as ecosomatics, more-than-human relations,
and rituals of grief and celebration. She is a co-curator of the
international symposium Contaminations. Through her artistic and
research practice, she investigates the potential of dance
education to foster social justice, mutual responsibility, and
emancipation from the unconscious repetition of normative
patterns of behaviour. For her, dance is an act of resisting and
provoking docile bodies and minds through mutual listening,
improvisation, awe and sensuality, weirdness and imaginations
and through everything that cannot be expressed in words. In
2026, she completed her PhD at the Janáček Academy of Performing
Arts (JAMU) in Brno. She deeply values collaboration and has
worked for many years with Yuri Korec and Co., Zuzana Žabkovová,
Katarína Poliačiková, Sonja Pregrad, and many other inspiring
artists.
Zuzana Zabková
is an artist, dancer, and choreographer exploring the body as a
prophetic apparatus, always in touch with something beyond
itself. Drawing from wounds, weakness, and brokenness as holy
strategies for survival, she works with somatic fiction and
collective play structures as laboratories for new forms of
social relations. She is the co-founder of björnsonova, a
platform, fictional character, community, and multifaceted dance
form spanning various temporal, spatial, and artistic
dimensions. She holds an MA from the Institute for Applied
Theatre Studies in Gießen and is currently pursuing a PhD at the
Faculty of Visual Arts in Brno. She lives and works between
Frankfurt am Main and Prague.
Eva Priecková
is an interdependent dance artist, researcher, and curator,
primarily working around the residency and artistic research
centre Telocvičňa in Bratislava. As Eva Priečková / False Move,
she hosts the educational platform SOFT CORE, which brings
together embodied movement practice with critical reflection on
the body and relationality. Her work explores dance in diverse
communities—including older adults, Roma communities, and social
work contexts—as well as ecosomatics, more-than-human relations,
and rituals of grief and celebration. She is a co-curator of the
international symposium Contaminations. Through her artistic and
research practice, she investigates the potential of dance
education to foster social justice, mutual responsibility, and
emancipation from the unconscious repetition of normative
patterns of behaviour. For her, dance is an act of resisting and
provoking docile bodies and minds through mutual listening,
improvisation, awe and sensuality, weirdness and imaginations
and through everything that cannot be expressed in words. In
2026, she completed her PhD at the Janáček Academy of Performing
Arts (JAMU) in Brno. She deeply values collaboration and has
worked for many years with Yuri Korec and Co., Zuzana Žabkovová,
Katarína Poliačiková, Sonja Pregrad, and many other inspiring
artists.
Zuzana Zabková
is an artist, dancer, and choreographer exploring the body as a
prophetic apparatus, always in touch with something beyond
itself. Drawing from wounds, weakness, and brokenness as holy
strategies for survival, she works with somatic fiction and
collective play structures as laboratories for new forms of
social relations. She is the co-founder of björnsonova, a
platform, fictional character, community, and multifaceted dance
form spanning various temporal, spatial, and artistic
dimensions. She holds an MA from the Institute for Applied
Theatre Studies in Gießen and is currently pursuing a PhD at the
Faculty of Visual Arts in Brno. She lives and works between
Frankfurt am Main and Prague.
