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For 20 years now, my research has been pivoting around of translation. Translating, rewriting, not oneself into the world but the world within us, as a human being amongst other human beings, the only horizon being vertiginous complexity. Translation as mediation between cultural plurality and human universality. Openness-Dialogue-Interbreeding-Decentering. To eventually translate the stranger within us.

To celebrate the 20 years of Dame de Pic is to celebrate two decades of encounters, coincidences, journeys, sharing, smiles, compositions and doubts. 20 years of “stories”. Those who know me have heard me say a thousand times that life always beats us when it comes to imagination. This is one of the reasons I have so many times listened to my gut feelings, to the incessant calling within to look at things differently, to go out and meet new people, to try new ways of thinking, observing, working and, above all of that, being.

This is a history of perspective. In this sharing of the delicate, in all those encounters, what has always mattered most were the questions, the connections, the exchanges and reflexions that abounded over time.

Taking time together and knowing to spend it together. All these encounters have helped me navigate through oceans of uncertainty where all the pillars of my existence have been shaken. To me, the encounters were archipelagos of certainty.

I’ve always thought that all was a matter of translation… playing with languages, searching for a natural rhythm and trying to tear the walls within oneself, exploring the territory of the “in between” without ever fixing the meaning, always remaining open to the imaginary, the ephemeral, as fragile as can be.

With passion and detached at the same time, overrun by doubts, with ever more questions and uncertainties as to being on stage presence.

All of these encounters have occurred naturally and they have always come with kindness and care, with the urge to create and maintain together a completely different space, anchored in play, in poetic sharing, in curiosity, thought, in the exploration of the self and the world around. All of this while keeping alive the notions of liberty, dreaming and surprise.

To celebrate the 20 years’ anniversary at Ponec, a theatre house I have opened with my colleagues - light designers, visual artists and dancers, in 2001,  is very moving, I can’t say otherwise…

This evening of “Cartes Blanches” isn’t a demonstration of all talents even though each of them as a very singular touch. It is a moment of sharing with a spirit of playfulness. My wish is to share with the Prague audience and also to thank Yvona who has always trusted me and who gave me the opportunity to discover Prague, its audiences and its artists.