Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel’s Duet "Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls" Scores in Europe
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The project Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls has been appreciated by a European platform Aerowaves: from more than 500 entries forty experts have chosen it among the TOP 10 european works for 2014. It is already the third participation of Šavel in the prestigious selection. The award-winning duet is presented by Studio ALTA, the producer of this successful project, only once until the end of this year - on Monday 25th November at 19.30. Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls puts together two distinctive creators who met on the project Much More Than Nothing by ME- SA company. While Tereza Ondrová is the leading figure of a prominent Czech dance ensemble VerTeDance and "Dancer of the Year 2010", Peter Šavel is among sought-after performers in Brussels, an important center of contemporary dance. The piece Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls deals with themes of gender stereotypes that society instills in us from childhood.
The project draws inspiration from questioning pop culture symbols. "Gender - the sexuality of personality - is much more than a biological phenomenon (as is the case with sex) a social phenomenon. The essence of what it means to be a man or a woman, is not based solely on the amount of estrogen or testosterone in the body, but it is in a substantial extent the result of social influence or decision, education, process of socialisation, " explains Peter Šavel. Movement and dance in this project become a means to express the contrast between the expression of body and soul, between genetic givens and social prejudices in an attempt to challenge various social stereotypes and view gender theme purely physically. The creators promise to open a fantastic world in which male and female principle may not be the same as a man and a woman.
Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls received as a part of inclusion in the TOP 10 also an invitation to Spring Forward Festival which takes place the last weekend of April in Umea, Sweden – the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2014. Video trailer of the performance on https://vimeo.com/69251543 Source: ALTA Studio