CRINOLINES

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THE PERFORMANCE WAS POSTPONED UNTIL 2023

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Crinolines is a performance by Sharona Florsheim adapted for two dancers in a public space in Prague.

The work depicts the encounter between a moving body and a rigid crinoline. The voluminous crinoline dress, which was fashionable in the 19th century, can serve as a metaphor for the social constraints that characterise communication through digital networks at the expense of physical contact, exacerbated by the pandemic of Covid-19. The crinoline, with its networked structure, acts as an extension of the living body, altering its physical dimensions, limiting freedom of movement and possibilities for intimacy. It is a social construct that, despite being severely restrictive, was widespread and fashionable in its time. Based on a metal structure weighing up to twenty kilograms, the size and weight of the dresses prevented wearers from walking through doors or sitting down, and at times even caused death due to fire and accidents. As the dancers cope with the physical limitations, human strategies of acceptance, resistance and playfulness are manifested, each creating a specific emotional and physical world.

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The performance is realised with the kind support of the Israel Embassy in Prague.