Thank you for an amazing year of MOVE Fest Ostrava 2025!
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MOVE Fest Ostrava 2025 through the eyes of photographer Kamil Hauptmann
Take a look at how Kamil Hauptmann captured what can hardly be put into words – the energy of movement, the silence between gestures, and the moments when the city itself became a stage.
His photographs remind us how MOVE Fest resonated through bodies, spaces, and within us.
On the same wave – in harmonious resonance and creative dissonance
Resonance. A word we know from physics as well as from music. When the frequencies of two objects align, they begin to vibrate together. A gentle impulse is enough to create a wave that spreads through space – but also through the body, the mind, the soul, and the heart.
Such resonance is also one of the fundamental pillars of movement, and therefore of artistic creation and performing arts. A dancer resonates with the music, with the space, with the audience, with their body, with the idea of the piece, with shared emotions. And thus something deeper than just a performance is created – islands of attunement and experiences that continue to resonate within us long after.
For the 12th edition of MOVE Fest Ostrava 2025, we have selected works that resonate. With the values of European society, with our experiences, with human desires and doubts, with faith in beauty, humor, perspective, and understanding. And it is precisely these works that we are spreading throughout Ostrava’s cultural spaces this year – to you, the audience. We believe that in each of them you will find something that resonates with you, something you already know, or on the contrary, something you only now need to hear, see, and experience…
From subtle humor and playful imagination in the Norwegian music-dance family performance Rock Me Baby, through the scents of childhood and the call of faraway places in Divoké husy. (Wild Geese), the passion for football and love for art in the cult production A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football by Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani, to the contagious energy of young dancers in this year’s edition of the curated evening Fresh Dance dedicated to the work of students of movement disciplines from Czech and Slovak art schools. In the streets of Ostrava, we will discover the genre of artivism and, together with Direct Action Theatre, we will Serve and Protect (Pomáhat a chránit). In unconventional spaces where you might not expect dance, both humor and solitude will resonate in Tomáš Janypka’s Lonesome Cowboy, while Prague’s Dočasná Company will combine sound, image, and movement, a little bit Out Of Control, in harmonious resonance and creative dissonance. To conclude, we will learn together How To Watch A Moving Body and, with Viktor Černický, discover the charm of simplicity (and tyres) in PNEU.
Throughout the festival week, in addition to the main program, you can also look forward to movement workshops, the Czech premiere of the dance film Zenit, and – for students (and curious enthusiasts) – a student symposium Přicházení (Emergence), organized in cooperation with Vize tance, where participating students under the guidance of Sabina Bočková and Johana Pocková will rehearse a unique Ostrava version of the performance Jáma lvová UNLIMITED.
Come. Let’s resonate.
