Enya Belak

R A P T U R E

Constant pulse, looking for life.
Shadows and light.
For light.

CREDITS

Concept
23Poems

Choreography
Kristýna Peldová

Choreographic collaboration and interpretation
Eliška Benešová, Tereza Krejčová, Kristýna Peldová, Karolína Šnajdrová

Visuals, video projection, graphic design
Enya Belak

Dramaturgical collaboration
Aljoša Lovric Krapež

Music
Kristijan Krajnčan, Rok Zalokar

Technical realization
Matěj Kubíček

Production
23 Poems Collective z. s.

Co-production
Tanec Praha z. ú. / PONEC – divadlo pro tanec

The project is supported by
Prague City Hall, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague 8 City District, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Prague

We would like to thank the following for their cooperation in the creation of this project:
Stodola Drozdov – František Fabián and Kateřina Lanči, SIRAEX Festival – Zora Breczková, ÚL Cultural Space – David Fejgl, Zuzana Sýkorová, Petra Blau, and all private donors who contributed to the realization of this project

Premiere: PONEC, 30th September 2025

Prague, Czech Republic

www.23poems.com

Photography

Artists’ Portraits: Enya Belak
Performance Documentation: Karolína Malá, Vojtěch Brtnický

ABOUT

Four female bodies move through a landscape of vertigo, pulsation and exhaustion.

Rapture is a ritual of effort — a conscious search for vertigo, for the moment when chaos and order can coexist. Through rhythm, light, and breath, the performance traces the fragile boundary between order and chaos, intimacy and exposure. In shifting shades of blue, Rapture becomes both a confession of a collective pulse, trembling at the edge of transformation.

Rapture invites the audience into a shared state of alertness and fragile sensitivity, where emotion becomes rhythm and rhythm becomes an encounter. What begins as a ritual of endurance expands into a meditation on being — on the constant effort to hold, to let go, and to find life again in the trembling afterglow.

FROM THE PRESS

Dance Context: Rapture is an intoxicating, captivating, and almost magical spectacle, made up of powerful and energetic fragments arising from ritual, passion, surrender, and deep contemplation. [Tobias Waller]
OPERA+: Their flowing hair can refer to freedom and madness, to the wildness of a natural tribe, but also to the realm of mythology and fairy tales. But the overall impression of the choreography leaves an imprint of great female power, apparently one that tears through what binds and envelops it. [Lucie Kocourková]

PERFORMANCES

BEHIND THE SCENE

Choreography of shadows and light, nearness and absence, creates a living kaleidoscope that twists the audience’s perception of bodies’ presence, way of being.