XIII PragueMicroFestival 2021

Michaela Králiková

Michaela Králiková is a dancer and performer working mainly in the field of contemporary dance and improvisation. She is a guest artist at the international theater studio Farm in the Cave in Prague which focuses on physical theater and multimedia theater forms. She studied dance at the Private Dance Conservatory in Košice (SK) and Art Factory International in Bologna (IT). She is a part of various contemporary dance performances, site-specific events and installations (her ongoing project: Lepetit, Little Prince by Credance company; Just Ask Her choreographed by Rado Piovarči, Deep Breath choreographed by Stanislava Vlčeková). She is an author of the movement research Sign Dance Project. The research was aimed to use Slovak sign language as a tool for creating new dance vocabulary that carries the symbolic at its abstract form. She was a former member of The Slovak State Traditional Dance Company in Bratislava (SK).

Jana Orlová

Jana Orlová is a Prague-based performance artist, poet, and researcher. Orlová has been involved in performance and border art forms in her critical and curatorial practice. She also publishes her studies abroad. Orlová has released three collections of poetry in Czech Republic and five abroad, her poems have been translated to several more languages, for example also into Chinese, Arabic or Hindi. She has taken part in many performance art events over Europe, also in Canada, and the US. In her practice, performance art is living poetry, and she perceives her body as a field of event, working with ritualistic and holistic approaches. Her work is marked by a combination of a minimalistic form and a raw statement.