YOUR GHOSTS, MY SHADOWS
Premiere: September 14, 2025, Komedie Theatre, Prague
The production Your Ghosts, My Shadows is a unique collaboration between Emilie Leriche and Pascal Marty and the Lenka Vagnerová & Company ensemble. Together with music composed by Wolff Bergen, they will create an original and authentic production for six core company dancers.
As a departure arises, one question persists: Why leave?
To which we respond, but why stay?
Regardless of choice the result is inevitably that of two realities: The “here” and the “there”, us caught in between. As present in whatever space we occupy, as the spaces we could have been but are not. At times absent to the physical bodies trying to hold us in the now, as part of us has stayed with those we’ve let go.
Departures are funny like that - they test the limits between these two sides, bending their very fabric, blurring lines and stories and time. They make us wonder how it might be over there, projecting us into these other realities. As fictional as it may seem, this “other side” is a tangible space. Imagining what’s right beyond the edges of our present moment, we manage to exist in these other places by proxy but without ever being there. It’s not -of course- all fantasy, as reality is precisely what motivated us to leave, or sometimes to stay.
Places and situations may drive us in or out, but their people make us linger…
It is of these places that this work intends to speak: the ones we have no choice but to return to.”
Credits:
Written and Directed by: Pascal Marty & Emilie Leriche
Choreography: Pascal Marty & Emilie Leriche in collaboration with the dancers
Sound Design / Original Score: Wolff Bergen
Costume Design: Simona Rybáková
Light Design: Karel Šimek
Performers: Adam Sojka, Leo Terris, Lukas Benjamin Lizama Garrido, Jana Hampl Maroušková, Paula Morejón García, José Martinéz Guzmán
Lights: Jan Hugo Hejzlar
Sound: Eva Svobodová
Production: Soňa Hájek Bartková
Costumes / props / stage production: Monika Jonášová
Foto: Vojtěch Brtnický
Staged at: LV&C_STUDIO8, Komedie Theatre
Producer: Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Co-production: Prague City Theatres
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, City of Prague
Creators:
Emilie Leriche and Pascal Marty are exceptional artists and choreographers, deeply committed to dance and theatre and with significant experience in dance film, writing, and dramaturgy. They have worked alongside and collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Yoann Bourgeois, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Sharon Eyal, Paul and Christine Blackman, Club Guy & Roni, Roy Assaf, Marina Mascarell, Ohad Naharin, and others.
