KET has decided to continue its collaboration with last year's IKF Polish winners on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the V4 and to invite the young choreographers to extend last year's creations into a full evening performance. This time, Magdalena Skowron, choreographer and dancer from the Krakow Dance Theatre, will present her work The Lungs of the Earth, which will be shown on the opening day of SŐT7.

The Lungs of The Earth explores the movement, presence and respiration of plants, especially trees. It draws on a world that cannot be described in words at all. Through their bodies and senses, the dancers try to experience the processes that take place in plants: movement combined with air, deepening the breath, sighing, the relationships between trees, oxygen and cellular respiration or motherhood in the human-plant relationship. Through movement, the performance tries to express the presence of trees in the world, their impact on the environment or even the phenomenon of the "fearlessness" of trees. The research was inspired by the texts of Eduardo Coccia's book The Life of Plants.

"Breath is not just air in motion, but a flash, a discovery, a means of revelation. Logos, language, causation. The breath of every living thing is the plant itself, the world: breath. It is a rhythmic movement, a regular and indefatigable silent wave without noise, which goes to the edge of the horizon and then returns to us to hit our bodies, to fill our lungs with a great boom. All repetition, deepening and change, happens in the breath itself." / Eduardo Coccia /