Zden Brungot Svíteková

Recidency center	BIRCA
Recidency type	BIRCA women
Art form	Choreography Dance Site-specific
Time of residency	May 2024
Country	Czech-republic Slovakia
Contact info	zden.b.s@ostruzina.eu, zden.svitekova@gmail.com gsm/whatsapp: +420 732 58 97 33
Definition of artistic practice?	Anchored in movement, dance, choreography in dialogue with geosciences poetics of the scientific language, writing texts and scores.
Title of the investigation at the residency	Techniques of Gaze
Description of investigations and findings	Investigations: Geology of Bornholm island – tectonics, stratigraphy Translation of scientific information into movement principles, choreographic scores for indoor (white cube) and participatory settings Scores and score-writing for researching landscapes and ecologies Practice of constructive rest as a deposition Movement learning from the Earth as a movement partner Tidal sedimentary structures and dynamic: deposition, erosion, altering intensity and direction of the current Findings: Possibilities for format(s) of sharing artistic process A viable, sense-full/meaningful way of how to transpose this research indoor from the actual natural environment Poetics of tectonic events Techniques of gaze as a framework title / ways of relating (perceptual, kinaesthetic, cognitive, experiential)
What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice?	Understanding the process, its essential components, methodologies, ramifications Merging the bodily, experiential, movement based, choreographic and the cognitive, artistic, poetic and scientific Envisioning meaningful formats and settings of dissemination of the work
What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with?	Questions brought: How to process, present research and material from previous research phase How to use vocabulary extracted from scientific papers as a generative tool for choreography Leaving with: Role/importance of danced encounters with various rock formations in this practice in the long run? What knowledge does the body gather and produce from these varied encounters? How to deal with site-specific character of the research or work created? What story is there to be told?
Transformative, creative moments at the residency	I believe it was the one to one card reading - I recollected the moment of performing a piece based on Earth Run by Anna Halprin. I was aware of the score, have never done it with her. Nevertheless what came out of the work with a group of elementary school students was one of the best participatory performances ever. There was a sense of community, everybody was included, everybody contributed every voice was heard and there was an enormous authenticity of the voices. Authenticity and relevance
Keywords for the work done at the residency	Field work, Geology, Lithology, More than human, Natural environments, Somatics, Tectonics, Tides
Research locations	Hammershus, Helligdomsklipperne (Holy Cliffs), Krystalsøen (Crystal Lake), Natur Bornholm, Ringebakkebruddene, Svartingedal
Further documentation	BIRCA Women 2024_sharing materials
Photos documenting the research
Videos of work in progess or reflections
Webside links	https://youtu.be/ikqeIm-HOCA https://wordpress.com/page/zdenkabrungotsvitekova.wordpress.com/2825

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