Enya Belak, Kristýna Peldová

Unfolded Moments

23 min

#vr

Slovenia, Czechia

Unfolded moments is a hybrid dance and visual performance that takes the performer on a journey through the human mindscape, exploring inner shadows, fears, and identity. The performance traces moments of personal crisis and portrays how one navigates selfhood through inner struggles. Through movement and video projections, the creators play with contrasts between visible and invisible, transparency and subtlety. A crisis emerges as an urge to escape, disrupted by overwhelming visual and external stimuli. This tension overpowers the desire for calm, compelling the body to respond and adapt to an intense environment of shifting forces. Unfolded Moments captures the sensation of a scattered mind in its desperate search for focus and peace. The dance here unfolds between the manifested and unmanifested … in the place of duality – dark and light.

23 minutes of hidden landscapes of the mind.

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bio

Enya Belak is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans film directing, choreography, and beyond. With a background in contemporary dance, her research focuses on the body as the primary subject. Since her MA in Directing Fiction Films at Goldsmiths University London, she has contributed to many film, music video and dance projects, as well as co-developing an innovative method for recording dance in virtual reality. Her directing work includes the acclaimed documentary ‘Aerowaves at 25’. As a choreographer, Enya recently presented the live dance duet ‘BLUFF’; and the multi-genre project ‘Blue Ink’, which encompasses dance, VR 360° film, and hybrid performance.

Kristýna Peldová (born Šajtošová, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic) is a dancer, performer, choreographer and pedagogue working across contemporary dance and performance. She graduated from the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, where she studied dance and pedagogy, and later completed her bachelor’s degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp in Belgium. After returning to Prague in 2016, she collaborated with Spitfire Company. Since 2017, she has been based in Slovenia, contributing to numerous contemporary dance and performative art projects. In 2020, she joined NEST, a multidisciplinary cultural organisation, and in 2023 became a member of the 23Poems collective. In January 2026, she received the Slovenian national Ksenija Hribar Award for Promising Artist.

credits

Direction Enya Belak

360 Filming and postproduction Igor Crnković

Sound recording Ivo Vičić

Technical Support Sanjin Valić, Željko Dešić, Petar Pavin

Production Management Croatian Cultural Centre (HKD)

In partnership with Ringside, Pilot Media

Funded by the European Union.

 

Guest screening production En–Knap Productions

In collaboration with Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Platform