#4. Dance Review: Scáling

Dance Review for Spring Forward Festival / Springback Academy 2026

Scáling

Markéta Stránská & Charlie Morrissey (CZ/UK)

The encounter begins not with a movement, but with a gaze. Setting aside her crutches, Markéta Stránská navigates the stage on a single leg, meeting Charlie Morrissey at the centre - who doesn't merely support her, but expertly fills the negative space, merging two distinct bodies into one emotionally fluid organism. Through shared contact, perception and sensation, the duet becomes a poem in constant flow.

The focus shifts from limbs to fingers; skin contact opens a new sensory connection. Even as the improvisation demands they collapse or lose balance, their gaze never breaks. The magnetic concentration pins the audience’s breath to the living sculpture they create.

Ultimately, Scáling reflects the social threads that bind us together. While society constructs rules to compensate for physical ‘limitations’, Morrissey and Stránská demonstrate the simple, often forgotten art of sensing one another. They rewrite the traces of human interaction, one balanced move at a time.