Premiere: October 30–31, 2025, Jatka78, Prague
Abstract
Four bodies and hundreds of kilograms of tyres intertwine in a physically demanding performance that explores the fragile relationships between people and their environment. The unpredictable pile of tyres that dominates the scenography, and dictates human action, gradually transforms into a living, dynamic architecture. PNEU is a performance where rules unexpectedly disappear and reappear, chaos becomes structure, and imbalance turns into a driving force.
Viktor Černický presents a work that balances on the edge of contemporary circus, dance and visual art. It is a stage essay about effort, exhaustion and the restoration of strength, about physical and mental endurance. About the desire to keep a sense of lightness even in moments when everything is falling apart. About a place where disorder becomes fertile ground for seeking new meaning.
Video trailer
Creative team
Concept: Viktor Černický
Performance: Valentin Verdure, Marek Menšík, Viktor Černický, Lukas Blaha Bliss / Matěj Pour
Artistic consultation: Joan Catalá
Production: Petra Hanzlíková & ZDRUHESTRANY
Photo: Jakub Dušek
Co-production: Jatka78
The performance was created as part of the CIRQUEON residency program – Center for New Circus and the A-I-R Rezi.Dance Komařice program. The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague.
Technical requirements
On the request.
Forms of presentation
The project can be performed both in a theater/big top and outdoors.
Blackbox.
Site specific.
Information about the company
Viktor Černický works interdisciplinarily at the crossroads of dance, performance art, circus and visual art. He is currently based in Prague. His projects awarded both the Main Prize and the Audience Award of the Czech Dance Platform 2019 are regularly supported by Tanec Praha. He received the Audience Award and the Main Prize of the Czech Dance Platform 2019 and was nominated for the Jury Award both in the main category and in the Dancer of the Year category. In 2019 he was also nominated for the Divadelní noviny Award.
His work is frequently presented on European and Asian stages and festivals, including Paris, London, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Helsinki and Rome. He has been among the artists supported by Dancenet Sweden and is part of the prestigious Aerowaves Twenty20 selection.
Viktor works across artistic disciplines, with the core of his practice being a physical reflection and relationship to objects. Within the two-year project Shape It, he examines the artistic process together with young audiences (and for young audiences) in Finland, Italy, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. In PRIMA, a work intended for the general public, he invites local communities to take their place on stage, both in the creative process and in the performance itself. The project was commissioned and co-produced within the BeSpectACTive network, which fosters dialogue between the public and artists across Europe.
In addition to his own creations, he has collaborated and performed with artists such as Dominique Boivin (FR), Daniel Gulko (FR), Sonja Pregrad (CRO/DE), Cirk La Putyka (CZ) and Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté (BE). Since 2019, he has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he supervises artistic processes in the international Master’s programme Directing of Devised and Object Theatre.
