Dreams of burning puppets 
Tranzit gallery, Bratislava, SR 2018

curator : Eliška Mazalanová
perf. 40 min

http://sk.tranzit.org/en/project/0/2018-03-15/dreams-of-burning-puppets

This performance, designed as a layering and mixing of several methods of spiritual development and therapeutic practices, which ZZ combines with contemporary dance and performative lecture elements, emphasizes self-awareness methods such as meditation, hypnosis and somatic techniques. Although the performance focuses on the individual, it also touches on the folds in which individualism and the collective spirit overlap. 

Zuzana Žabková draws inspiration from folk mythology and the upcoming spring solstice. In terms of folk traditions as well as new mystical and religious movements such as neo-Paganism, this is a semantically and symbolically full moment representing a significant milestone in the transition from one state to another, purification and a new beginning. ZZ revives pagan rituals and ceremonies – such as the burning of the Morena (Marzanna, pagan goddess) in Slavic tradition – with the intention to create a symbolic temporary space, an “other temporality” which rejects the linear concept of time in favor of a cyclical but permanent and unchanging time of ritual.