A performative query about body memory, its confines and ability of renewal. Triggered by personal experience with a chronic inflammatory spinal disease that gradually changes the movement repertoire of Lenerová, the choreographer explores the concept of discomfort and loss of flexibility. Together with collaborating artists, with whom she has a history of co-creation, she poses a question: Is it possible to maintain flexibility, even when everything inside and around is stiffening?
Rigidity is a fact. Even the world and society, despite its endless motion, are hardening and growing a new protective shell. Can we no longer afford to be as soft, or have we become tired of unstableness? Two qualities of movement stand in opposition to each other – a necessity of flexibility, reminiscent of a plant that stretches and pulls for space, and an undeniable fact of gradual shortening, tightening the reins, hitting the limits, resembling a shock and expulsion into inner space.
The less we move, the less we are capable of movement. Is this a change of state? Or perhaps society is simply evolving while it’s me who is stiffening like a barren, thirsty land, facing the reality of my aging, human body?
Concept, Direction: Tereza Lenerová and kol.
Choreography, Dance: Tereza Lenerová
Dramaturgy: Maja Hriešik
Music, Sound Design: Filip Míšek
Lighting Design: František Fabián
Costume Design: Radka Vyplašilová
Mentoring: Alessio Castellacci
Graphic Design: Alma Vančátová
Photo: Eda Babák
Production: Simona Gallová
PR: Marika Mazáková
Producer: tactic z.s.
Co-producers: Švestkový Dvůr, Moving Station Plzeň
Project Partners: Divadlo X10, HUB 800 Cultural and Creative Centre Vysočina, DIOD Jihlava, Studio Truhlárna
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Hall, State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic
Special thanks: Pavla Vachunová, Bohouš Pospíšil
Premiere
14.9.2026 / Moving Station, Pilsen,
12.10.2026 / Divadlo X10, Prague,
22.11.2026 / Švestkový Dvůr, Malovice
Reviews:
While in her previous production Rukavičkářské závody (Glove Concern) Tereza Lenerová dealt with skin, this time she goes deeper beneath it. Back then she focused on the bodies of others, both human and animal; now she claws more at her own bones, cartilage, muscles, fasciae, tendons, flesh…
As in Rukavičkářské závody, in Karapax Tereza Lenerová once again puts her own skin on the line (literally, “goes to market with her skin”) and draws on her own biography in the creative process. She is once again accompanied by dramaturg Maja Hriešik.
Jana Bohutínská, 14 September 2026, Taneční aktuality
https://www.tanecniaktuality.cz/recenze/pater-mezi-pruznosti-a-tuhnutim-tereza-lenerova-tanci-autobiograficky-a-odvazne
