The 4 + 4 Days in Motion — Crime Scene , which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025, is introducing a new format. Extending the festival to four months, from September to December, will allow for deeper connections with the Jižní Město neighborhood and its residents. The nine-hall Galaxie will become the center of the program, which will include residencies with public performances, thematic group exhibitions, foreign theater companies, performances, site-specific projects, interventions in public space, community activities, and visual arts programs for all generations. exhibition program The exhibition program, known as Crime Scenes, consists of two exhibitions this year. The first, Head in Head, is the work of visual artist David Böhm and writer Ondřej Buddeus. The interactive exhibition was originally created at Sladovna Písek and is intended for both children and adults. The second exhibition, entitled Housing Estate, is a visual testimony to life in one of the largest Czech housing estates — Jižní Město. Curators Denisa Václavová and Ondřej Horák invited two dozen artists of several generations (e.g., Magdalena Jetelová, Eva Koťátková, Josef Bolf, Kurt Gebauer, Tomáš Svoboda, and others) to the former cinema hall to reflect on the urban landscape, public space, and everyday reality of this “city within a city.” The exhibition is also being created in collaboration with local residents. Theater and dance program → Program The British-German collective Gob Squad will present an ironically playful performance entitled Western Society, which explores digital loneliness through karaoke videos taken from the internet – live, with the help of the audience and in golden costumes. Basel Zaraa, a Palestinian artist, will present a very intimate installation for one viewer entitled Dear Laila, in which he shares personal memories of home, war, and exile through a model of his house in a refugee camp in Damascus. All this for his five-year-old daughter Laila and those who become part of this interactive solo installation. Belgian performer and visual artist Miet Warlop hypnotizes the audience with ritualistic movement in Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break, which transforms the tradition of dervish dance into contemporary theater. In The Dancing Public, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen transforms the theater space into a crowded dance hall. In SACRE!, the Swiss ensemble Theater HORA, together with choreographer Teresa Vittucci, reinterprets Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring through the bodies of performers with mental and physical disabilities, breaking down established notions of the “professional” stage. Musician and improviser Tomaž Grom from Slovenia will present an intermedia performance that pushes the boundaries of music and sound space. More