Dance Prague 2026: Mizu – When a Piece of Ice Dances

A poetic performance combining dance, new circus, and puppetry.

Dancer and choreographer Satchie Noro, together with puppeteer Élise Vigneron, have created a pas de trois in which we witness a dialogue between a melting body made of ice, a living body, and a puppeteer who subtly guides and keeps both in motion.

The work is part of a landscape composition at Košutecké Lake and takes place on a pontoon with a wooden structure resembling a crescent moon in the middle of the water's surface. Before the audience, a human figure made of ice awakens—fleeting from the very first moment. Gradually, an intimate dialogue unfolds between the dancer and the ice being, leading to a fragile, at times almost maternal relationship. Mutual support, subtle weight transfer, lifts and rotations—all unfold in the rhythm of inevitable transformation.

Mizu is a poem about natural transience and about relationships that change with every touch. The dialogue between woman and ice reveals the uniqueness of each moment—before its form dissolves.

After studying classical dance, Satchie Noro worked in Berlin and New York, then joined prominent dance companies in France. Since 2000, she has devoted herself to aerial circus techniques and founded her own Companie Furinkaï in 2002. For the second time, she has made it into the TOP 20 artists of the European platform Aerowaves.