Performing

Adela Jordakova on stage in the static pose with lights illuminating her

The Rope and Me- project from my studies at SKH

photo by František Ortmann, Letní Letná 2023

Performing

Most of my time is not on stage — it is in the gym, on the rope, working as a clinician or coaching other people. Developing my own dynamic vocabulary, discovering new transitions, and applying foundational moves into more complex pathways.

Looking for what feels right in this body, on this rope. The rope is not primarily a performance tool for me — it is an ongoing practice, a source of knowledge, and honestly, just something I genuinely love doing. There is a quiet overcoming in it that the stage doesn't quite replicate.

When it does reach the stage, it's centered on vertical rope, developed through training at SKH and CREAT (Valencia). My current solo work, The Grip / Sevření, premiered as a work-in-progress at Festival Letní Letná in Prague in August 2025, and continues to tour and develop from there. Alongside solo work, I perform in ensemble productions — including Aquanauts with Cirkus Cirkör — and have taken the stage at festivals and platforms across Europe: Prague Aerial Convention, MUCH Festival Budapest, CREAT Valencia's Cabaret Benéfico, Festival Roztocfest, MoveFest Ostrava, SKH Stockholm showcases, the Czech Cabaret Show, and site-specific performances with Festival FunFatale, Airgym Art Company and Cirkus Mlejn.

The Grip

The Grip combines a vertical rope, floorwork, live spoken word and voiceover. It creates a space where professional knowledge gradually collides with personal experience.

The performance begins from a place of certainty. It is based on the principles that I teach and believe in as a physiotherapist.

Consistency. Discipline. Structure.

However, as the performance progresses, this certainty gradually disintegrates. What begins as a lecture turns into personal questioning.

The rope has become a space where I can question them. Where does discipline end and rigidity begin?

The audience is invited to observe, reflect and become aware. They will see circus technique, hear scientific findings and gradually find themselves in the middle of a conversation about what we hold on to and rely on - knowledge, habits, our own identity and the need to have things under control.