70 horses running across the space
performance
If we openly share our desires, what will happen? And what will happen if we start to fulfill them, on stage, in the audience? How would their confession change the very moment and the social setting we’re part of NOW, among friends, strangers, comrades?
Seventy horses running across space.
People crushing birthday cakes on each other’s faces.
The sound of waves crashing against the walls.
This improvisation-based performance invites the audience into a playful, absurd, and poetic exploration of longing. A pool of hidden desires, collected both anonymously before the show and in the moment of their emergence, serve as the engine. From this pool, performers pick, interpret, distort, or fulfill these wishes through movement, storytelling, object play, and whisperings. Sometimes delicately, sometimes with 70 wild horses’ worth of chaos.
Alica Minar and Tim Winter explore how desire can act as a radical engine in dark times. As social and political climate roughens up, desires hold the power to open our gaze for the horizon of possibilities and alternatives ahead. Yet, they might as well overwhelm us, sitting as a Freudian whisper on our shoulder, telling us that everything is never enough. Or may even be corrupted, unleashing dark spirits, and turning into social landslides?
Humor, absurdity, and the echo of karaoke hang in the air.
You may not leave fully satisfied, but definitely more curious.
Nothing is promised, but something might happen.
A dance of what-ifs.
A whisper of longing into a stranger’s ear.
A moment of softness and joy.
Biographies
Alica Minar is a Slovak choreographer, performer and curator based in Berlin and Prague. On the basis of her artistic research she is looking for an intensive physical experience for the audience. Her works offer strong visuality, where abstraction and narration go hand in hand. In her creations, she intuitively searches for humor and poetry that arise through bizarre situations. She is committed to research burning yet omitted aspects of difficult societal topics and dissect them together with the audience. On the basis of choreographic scores and principles of clowning, she continuously researches how nudity and costumes distort the reality of the dancing body and its relationship with objects. Since 2023, she has been developing her interest in conceptualizing and curating projects to support the dance community, including the Dancetopia Symposium and Fest of Fools. Since September 2024, she has been part of the programming team at Studio ALTA.
Tim Winter works as a performer and choreographer, and is based in Berlin. He is interested in bodies on the threshold of observation and action, and their involvement in the emergence of situations. His works include performance and installation, linking movement, sound and video art. Beside dance, Tim has a background in environmental sciences and economics, and explores the gap between scientific knowledge production and its societal and bodily perception. His current production ‘Outside Inside’ (Premiere May 2025, Berlin) deals as a hybrid site-specific and staged performance, with bodily involvement in the production of space. Tim has recently cooperated with Fine Arts artist Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith (Oslo/Paris) on permafrost thaw and artist and scientist Clemens Winkler (Berlin, Matters of Activity Cluster) on the loss of control in global change processes.
