Nothing else, Mothers
The composition of the relationship between mother and daughter. Tenderness and strength, detachment, definition and acceptance. An original production by Dominika Špalková and Anna Klimešová.
The composition of the relationship between mother and daughter.
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged their knowledge and experience. This exchange takes place verbally and non-verbally, consciously and unconsciously. Knowledge and emotions flow between two bodies connected from birth. Tenderness and strength leave an imprint in the movements, we experience detachment, definition and acceptance.
“Nothing Else, Mothers” is about looking beyond subjective memory, the strength and power of our feelings. The transmission of emotional patterns from generation to generation. To what extent do we allow ourselves to be influenced by our primary relationships and received patterns of behaviour? And if we uncover them, can we transcend them?
Dancer Cécile Da Costa and actress Antonie Formanová dance and perform about a shared act of understanding.
Premiere: September 13th, 2021, Palác Akropolis, Prague
Theme and direction: Anna Klimešová, Dominika Špalková
Choreography: Cécile Da Costa
Performers: Antonie Formanová, Cécile Da Costa
Music: Marie Čtveráčková
Scenography: Karolína Kotrbová
Light design: Eliška Kociánová
Producer: ProFitArt, z.s.
Partners: Palac Akropolis, Alfred in the yard, Festival 4+4 days in motion, Fundacja Pałac Gorzanów
Supported by: International Visegrad Fund, Capital City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic
Reviews
“Mother and daughter, one of life’s most complex and interesting relationships. Anyone could talk for hours about how many hints about how to do things better we heard in his youth and how much we hated it. Yet now we do the same to our own daughters and see our own moms in ourselves… I saw the mother-daughter relationship truthfully, without theatricality and with ease for the first time today in the extraordinary dance-theatre performance “Nothing Else, Mothers” with Antonie Formanová and Cécile Da Costa. Everyone can find themselves in it. Thank you for staging a gem that is not about superficiality, but about values.”
(Monika Havlová, LinkedIn, February 2025)