POETICAL BODY

Poetic Body continues the exploration initiated in the production Prometheus, the story of the creator who shaped humans from clay and brought them fire — stolen from the gods on Mount Olympus — fire as a symbol of consciousness, creativity, and inner light. Prometheus was aided in humanizing humankind by Apollo, the god of art and light, who showed him the path toward ennobling humans through music, dance, and drama, along with many other things previously reserved only for the Olympian gods.

While Prometheus focused on the act of giving fire to humankind and the rebellion against divine authority, Poetic Body explores the consequences of this gift for humanity — particularly on the levels of art, culture, and inner development.

Only with Prometheus’s gifts did humans truly become human, a poetic body, transcending their primal nature and becoming aware of themselves as creative and sentient beings. Without poetics, consciousness, spirit, art, and knowledge, a human is merely a bare body without life.

Poetic Body seeks the physical expression of poetic thought, revealed in the way movement emerges, in bodies that feel, think, and remember, and once again delves into the archetypal dimensions of human existence and spiritual evolution.

A body that thinks, feels, and speaks in the language of dance becomes a vessel of ancient memory and, at the same time, a contemporary interpretation of humanity’s search for meaning and the beauty of existence, guided by the fundamental question: What makes us truly human?

Poetic Body is a dialogue between different choreographic aesthetics. Designed as a triptych, MN Dance Company collaborates with two guest choreographers, each with their own unique poetics and choreographic voice. Together, they create a multilayered dance world intertwining myth, body, and movement, committed to seeking depth, artistic integrity, and dance poetry.

Through dance as the poetry of the body, they explore the boundaries between body and spirit, between inner worlds and collective mythology.

“Time and again, dance enchants us — especially in the creative process. Our bodies offer us so many possibilities and solutions.”
— Michal Rynia & Nastja Bremec Rynia