PLI

A solo production at the intersection of dance, physical theatre and visual art that delivers a visually compelling study of balance, endurance and creativity.

22 conference chairs, an obsessive rhythm and one body in constant interaction with the space. In PLI's solo production, Viktor Černický becomes both architect and living building material, transforming ordinary objects into fascinating visual compositions in an endless cycle of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Space is constantly taking shape under his hands - dynamic installation meets performative precision, movement turns into sculpture, chaos into a perfectly organized whole.

Since its premiere in 2018, PLI has been performed on more than 120 stages worldwide - from the first ever performance of Czech choreography at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, to Barcelona, Rome, Stockholm, Bangkok, Hong Kong and more. Out of nearly 700 different projects, PLI is one of the top twenty European performances in the prestigious Aerowaves Twenty20 catalogue. Young audiences in London helped adapt the project for younger ages in Shape It. In 2019, PLI won both the Audience Award and the Main Award of the Czech Dance Platform. For the concept and choreography, Viktor Černický received a nomination in the category Dance Dance and Movement Theatre in the 2019 Theatre Newspaper Awards. Nevertheless, this project remains almost unknown in Prague.

"Leibniz connects the seemingly impossible. He gets us to think about the complexity and subtlety of this world using very simple and understandable principles. He multiplies and folds them, bends them in every possible way and so many times, until finally we are faced with the World as a sophisticated architectural work. It is a world extremely rich in detail, very elaborate in style, robustly shaped and hard to believe, and yet very simple, modest and absolutely true. Leibniz was a true child of the Baroque era. The idea that led me to create a show that bends our imaginations and melts our breath without being shallow in form or straightforward in expression, thus ultimately stems from Calvin's playful bending of fiction and non-fiction, and from Leibniz's need to reflect a reality that often becomes transcendent for a free human being." (Viktor Černický)

DOX presents the work of Viktor Černický as part of its programme of support for established Czech performers with an original stage language.