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YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK – MOTORÁČEK THE TOP OF DANCE ART

Bulldogs on their points – hardly another creature has more consummate grace than the dancing dog. Motoracek ́s adaptation of the Pas de Quatre from Swan Lake combines everything: the mythology, the dance, the music, and the cultural criticism. The word itself – Swan Lake – dream world, we often search in the light blue heaven, the rustle of trees, under the reflecting water surface – and wipe them away with a wry grin.

MOTORACEK STARS IN THE DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY

Technically clean, slender art of dance, elegant choreography pantomime humour and splendid costumes blur the view on the cyclical human picture of the 19th century, which this type of art originated, as the precisely realized dance steps and the laughable costume degraded the dancers to feathered clockwork.

A youth wasted in dance studios, a ruined back and worn out discs are the re- ward for a year long slavery in the treadmill of ballet. Beside the absurd amount of money the classical ballet swallows this antiquated art form irreversibly damages the dancer’s health and so causes still greater damage to the economy. Motoráček, the dancing bulldog shows us with the help of a computer programme a classical ballet without risks to health and damaged disks. With dainty jumps she leaps over the destructive body culture background, her tutu fluttering jauntily in the wind. The dog while in her reproductive age, dancing tramples the aura of classical ballet, collapsing the high culture of the dusty Bard.

In May 2006 I bought a French bulldog on e-bay and christened her Motoráček. I had in mind that she could earn some money if she bred as often as possible and I could auction her puppies. This homage to my literary model Schwejk, the dog dealer from Prague, turned out to be a mistake because she showed no interest whatsoever in reproducing and even a visit to a fertility clinic couldn’t further my plan. But, the animal had other talents, and maybe these could bring commercial success.

She was attractive, didn’t really know what she wanted and allows herself einiges gefallen. Moto didn’t care what idiotic costumes she ran around in – quite the opposite, she seemed to enjoy it. As we noticed she would do anything for half a grain of rice, the case was clear: this dog appeared pre- destined for the contemporary art business. Assisted by peanut butter and biscuits we taught her a couple of dance steps – the rest I completed with a computer programme.

Her first entrance was with a variation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker at the Liste 07, where her innocent interpretation enchanted both the public and critics alike. Later we introduced the dance of the little swans from Swan Lake in her youtube repertoir. A year later with this dance Motoráček made her entrance at the Art Basel and in 2009 she was on the Fridericianum’s list of artists.

At every vernissage Motoráček, in Pajazzo or ballerina costume could not be missed and she had a fine sense for important players in the art world. Instinctively she sat on the laps of Bice Curiger and Rein Wolfs. Since then Motoráček has retired from show business, but always welcomes advertising spot assignments