Walk With The Stones
As we walk deeper into the forest, a quiet choreography begins to unfold—unintentionally danced by million-year-old stones, century-old trees, and our decades-old human bodies.
An artistic slow hike exploring deep time and layered stories embedded in the landscape.
We offer you our lens and way of being, to experiment and interact with presence and meaning that aren’t immediately apparent: geological time, structural forces, histories of formation and erasure.
To notice how the land speaks back, not in words, but through texture, rhythm, gradient, and gravity. This shared, embodied experience opens a living dialogue with the landscape, fosters cross-disciplinary exchange, and cultivates sensitivity to the more-than-human world we are part of.
composed of elements of projects by Zden Brungot Svíteková and SVUNG research group.
credits:
created by: Kinga Szemessy, Luca Borsos, Napsugár Trömböczky, Zden Brungot Svíteková
performed by: Luca Borsos, Matthew Rogers, Napsugár Trömböczky, Štěpána Nlasa Mfuta, Zden Brungot Svíteková
production: OSTRUŽINA z.s., SVUNG research group
supported by: MKČR
thank you:
to Landscapes: Velká Fatra, Nízke Tatry, Seyðisfjørdur – Vestdalen, Minämäkki, Sobieszewo, Sermermiut, Niakornaq, Pakitsup, Bornholm, Hlubočepy, Tetiaroa, a.o.
to geologists: Barnabás Korbely (HU), Girts Stinkulis (LT), Mário Olšavský (SK), researchers and staff of the Czech Geological Survey to collaborators and all those who joined the journey
Luca Borsos (SVUNG) works as a freelance performer and applied theatre practitioner engaged in artistic and community projects. in several different roles (performer, a mediator/facilitator, drama pedagogue, organizer or movement researcher). She likes to focus on non-verbal, movement-based, and sensorial experiences. She also worked in many collaborations such as Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes project in SÍN Culture Center, theater collective Stereo Akt, teaching movement and theater to teens, currently within the “ART FOR TAKEAWAY” (ART-RAVALÓ), the socio-art project for young adults (18-24 years) raised in state care.
Napsugár Trömböczky (SVUNG) is a freelanced transdisciplinary artist, applied theater expert, puppeteer and puppet maker focusing on participatory performances, community theater and art for social engagement. They desire to challenge the canonical and neoliberal understanding of art and theater. Their recent work and interest is rooted in ecofeminism and anticapitalism, with a goal of sharing knowledge and creating a space for building a more (environ)mentally sustainable future. In their practice, they often include visual artforms and crafts, created with organic, foraged and secondhand materials.
Zden Brungot Svíteková (OSTRUŽINA) is an international dance artist, collaborator and co-founder of Ostružina. Her focus lies in movement research, exploring sensorial and somatic approaches and active spectatorship. Zden thrives in creative dialogues within interdisciplinary collaborations. She has a long-standing artistic research on the Earth’s body titled Geology of Being (GOB) which investigates the intersection of contemporary dance performance and geology. She is also involved in upwording, a practice evolutionising thinking through everyday use of language, and collaborates with the Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA, for which she leads projects in the context of creative education.As we walk deeper into the forest, a quiet choreography begins to unfold—unintentionally danced by million-year-old stones, century-old trees, and our decades-old human bodies.
An artistic slow hike exploring deep time and layered stories embedded in the landscape.
We offer you our lens and way of being, to experiment and interact with presence and meaning that aren’t immediately apparent: geological time, structural forces, histories of formation and erasure.
To notice how the land speaks back, not in words, but through texture, rhythm, gradient, and gravity. This shared, embodied experience opens a living dialogue with the landscape, fosters cross-disciplinary exchange, and cultivates sensitivity to the more-than-human world we are part of.
composed of elements of projects by Zden Brungot Svíteková and SVUNG research group.
credits:
created by: Kinga Szemessy, Luca Borsos, Napsugár Trömböczky, Zden Brungot Svíteková
performed by: Luca Borsos, Matthew Rogers, Napsugár Trömböczky, Štěpána Nlasa Mfuta, Zden Brungot Svíteková
production: OSTRUŽINA z.s., SVUNG research group
supported by: MKČR
thank you:
to Landscapes: Velká Fatra, Nízke Tatry, Seyðisfjørdur – Vestdalen, Minämäkki, Sobieszewo, Sermermiut, Niakornaq, Pakitsup, Bornholm, Hlubočepy, Tetiaroa, a.o.
to geologists: Barnabás Korbely (HU), Girts Stinkulis (LT), Mário Olšavský (SK), researchers and staff of the Czech Geological Survey to collaborators and all those who joined the journey
Luca Borsos (SVUNG) works as a freelance performer and applied theatre practitioner engaged in artistic and community projects. in several different roles (performer, a mediator/facilitator, drama pedagogue, organizer or movement researcher). She likes to focus on non-verbal, movement-based, and sensorial experiences. She also worked in many collaborations such as Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes project in SÍN Culture Center, theater collective Stereo Akt, teaching movement and theater to teens, currently within the “ART FOR TAKEAWAY” (ART-RAVALÓ), the socio-art project for young adults (18-24 years) raised in state care.
Napsugár Trömböczky (SVUNG) is a freelanced transdisciplinary artist, applied theater expert, puppeteer and puppet maker focusing on participatory performances, community theater and art for social engagement. They desire to challenge the canonical and neoliberal understanding of art and theater. Their recent work and interest is rooted in ecofeminism and anticapitalism, with a goal of sharing knowledge and creating a space for building a more (environ)mentally sustainable future. In their practice, they often include visual artforms and crafts, created with organic, foraged and secondhand materials.
Zden Brungot Svíteková (OSTRUŽINA) is an international dance artist, collaborator and co-founder of Ostružina. Her focus lies in movement research, exploring sensorial and somatic approaches and active spectatorship. Zden thrives in creative dialogues within interdisciplinary collaborations. She has a long-standing artistic research on the Earth’s body titled Geology of Being (GOB) which investigates the intersection of contemporary dance performance and geology. She is also involved in upwording, a practice evolutionising thinking through everyday use of language, and collaborates with the Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA, for which she leads projects in the context of creative education.