APARTMENT 24
Apartment 24
Our lives move in spirals—from the double helix of our DNA to the rituals of our everyday existence—repeating, shifting; sometimes spiralling upwards, sometimes downwards, but never quite coming back to the same place.
Combining elements of dance, theatre, mime, music, projection and design into a synchronised and ever evolving loops Apartment 24, investigates how tells the story of a relationship falling apart as the memories of the past grow into a kaleidoscopic visual language.
Apartment 24 is a new take on dance theatre: a work of richly detailed and deeply nuanced physical storytelling, where movement becomes memory and repetition becomes revelation. Bringing virtuosic precision to everyday gestures, to reveal an intimate story of love, loss and anguish. Like a Swiss watch slowly tearing its own heart out.
Credits:
Concept, direction and choreography: Jos Baker
Artistic assistance: Jeanne Procureur
Composer: Christos Parapagidis
Created with and performed by: Adam Sojka, Paolo Terranova, Lukas Lizama Garrido, Jana Hampl Maroušková, Paula Morejón García, José Guzmán
Costume Design: Simona Rybáková, creative collaboration Barbora Kotěšovcová
Assistant Director: Madlen Moravcová
Projection: Michal Kříž
Light Design: Michal Kříž
Lights: Robert Štěpánek
Sound Design: Eva Svobodová, Kryštof Leiský, Jos Baker, Christos Parapagidis
Production: Soňa Hájek Bartková
Photo: Patrik Borecký
Rehearsal photos: Ye Lun
Staged at: LV&C_STUDIO8, Komedie Theatre
Producer: Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Co-production: Prague City Theatres
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, City of Prague, State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic
Premiére 10.10.2026 v divadle Komedie
Please note that this production uses strobe lighting, which is not suitable for audience members with epilepsy.
REVIEWS:
"Jos Baker’s production fused physicality and matter, highlighting sensitivity and dramatic necessity at their intersection,and thereby the need to defend intuition and engage with the invisible—the imperceptible to the eye."
"A meticulously detailed anatomy of the breakdown of human coexistence, rendered through an almost grotesque deviation from ordinary behavior and rising from the dark memory of an uncleansed space, became—conversely, through its deliberate schematic nature—fertile ground for a wealth of associations to take root."
HANA STREJČKOVÁ / OPERA+
"Lenka Vagnerová & Company did not disappoint. Their original new piece brought something slightly different to the Czech dance scene, executed with sheer excellence. Above all, it gave the audience plenty of food for thought—not only about interpersonal relationships in general, but especially about one’s own approach to everyday life."
KRISTINA SOUKUPOVÁ / DANCE CONTEXT
"Apartment 24 is a highly original dance production that works with banal, everyday movements to tell the story of a relationship and, in fact, of the apartment where it all takes place. Thanks to precise choreography, the creators succeeded in capturing human everydayness and its transformations within an intensely atmospheric setting featuring inventive visual elements. It is somewhat different from what we have come to expect from Lenka Vagnerová & Company, but without doubt an exceptionally compelling work capable of drawing you in completely."
POPELČINY KNÍŽKY
"One household, a married couple, and an imaginary cat. In an endless loop of repeating the exact same actions, routine,boredom, and alienation gradually creep into the lovers' bond. Situations recur in a spiral; each settles into the apartment's walls like a memory of an event bound to return, yet altered—until the final repetition diverges so far from the original pattern that the chain breaks. Yet the dark shadow of misunderstanding remains hanging over the apartment as a memento for those who enter next."
LUCIE KOCOURKOVÁ / DIVADELNÍ NOVINKY (DIVADELNÍ NET)