Comfort Women + Biorytmus

In 1991, the first victim recorded as “comfort women”, one of the women who were forcibly abducted by the Japanese army during World War II to serve as sex slaves for the soldiers, made her first public testimony. To this day, Japan denies any guilt, arguing that the women themselves chose to make a living through prostitution. But army records describe “comfort women” as imported goods, not human beings. Several commemorative statues have been erected in honour of these women around the world, but Japan has taken legal action to have them removed.

The term “comfort women” is hardly to be found in any school textbooks in Japan today, which is why young people have no idea about this part of their history.

The show aims to convey to the public the true picture of this dark part of history that has been wiped from the consciousness of younger generations by showing stories from the accounts of a few Asian women. How did this experience affect them for the rest of their lives, if there was any left afterwards?

**Lukáš Homola: *Biorytmus*** \

The dance performance *Biorythm* is inspired by everyday life. The year has its months, which in turn have their weeks, the weeks their days and the days their hours in which people shape their lives. All of them sometimes do the same things, at the same time, but in a different place.