Crying Girls

The premiere of the new work Crying Girls by Eva Priečková and Zuzana Žabková will take place on June 10 at Telocvičňa.

The stereotype of the “crying girl” often evokes hypersensitivity or emotional overload, yet crying can also be an act of power, vulnerability, radical honesty, and release after an emotional peak. Crying Girls embodies this through women in their late thirties who are reliving their girlhood in bodies subject to decay, while referencing the uncompromising spirit of Thelma and Louise.

The work was developed by Eva Priečková and Zuzana Žabková as a continuation of their long-term collaboration on a trilogy exploring the female body, vulnerability, decay, and transformation (Bodies in Trouble, 2018; Weak Women, 2023). While previous works dealt with “fossilized bodies” and exhaustion, Crying Girls asks what might grow from them—sublimity, levitation, and tangible mysticism.

The stage becomes a sensory landscape: the delayed choreography focuses on floating, emerging, and support, where the performers hold each other in fragile, shifting balances—fallen angels rising through tears and the hollow space of the mouth.

Unlike sudden catastrophes, ecological collapse unfolds slowly, almost invisibly. Crying Girls emerges from this gap—it presents mourning as a bodily practice over the loss of the more-than-human world, while simultaneously singing and honoring this loss aloud and collectively.

Supported by public funds from the Fund for the Support of the Arts.