great health
In this performance, choreographers Anya Kravchenko and Anton Vdovichenko, together with composer Anastasia Tolchneva (Lovozero), examine ideas about health, the limits of medicine, and self-healing.
By weaving together digital aesthetics, wellness practices, scientific judgement, and somatically sensitive dance, the authors explore the ability of consciousness to trust the sensory reality of our bodies when it comes to health.
«Great Health» does not provide prescriptions, but it captivates, like the pulsating envelope of a soap bubble, like an alternative scenario of reality.
The choreography is based on health exercises, but does not adhere to them exactly; distortions accumulate and form a series of dances.
Dance is weaved with the speech — along the piece the dancers recite scientific, philosophical and poetic theses, confronting speech with the reality of the body in motion.
The sound and scenery of the work borrow vibrations and forms of the human body (biosignals, shapes of the organs, texture of the skin), placing the action in the interior of a hypothetical health or entertainment club.
Choreography, dance, concept: Anya Kravchenko, Anton Vdovichenko
Sound: Anastasia Tolchneva (Lovozero)Set design and costumes: Dasha Malinina
Lighting: Emil Avramenko
Video: Sasha 3aets
The premiere took place on 14 and 15 December 2024 as part of the performance programme of the exhibition New New Era commissioned by the GES-2 House of Culture. In July 2025, the performance was shown at the Summer Theatre of New Holland as part of the festival «Dance crazy of itself and love».
The work quotes texts and statements by poet Lisa Robertson, movement researchers Bonnie Baybridge Cohen, Linda Hartley, athlete Wim Hof, researcher Joe Dispenza, philosophers Timothy Morton, Vladimir Bibikhin, Peter Sloterdijk, Ivan Illich, art theorist Susan Sontag, and the Dalai Lama.