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The story of seven characters, born from fourteen images. Of fourteen hands, getting rid of sixty-six kilos of unhappy meat and of the whiteness of two hundred and six bones. Of fourteen funny images searching for ten thousand lost dreams and of one meaningful reason to exist....
"I’m here, I’m behind you, I’m in your eyes, in your voice, in your heart. You can’t see me, but I can see you." Can Albert manage to outstep his shadow? Can he do it alone? A fantastic imagination versus dwarfish courage. Fear comes to the theatre. Vojta Svejda again places a dramatic bet on pa...
A sprightly performance full of life, colours, women laughter but humour above all. The dancer – mostly women, has set the objective to entertain not only tehemselves but also the spectators without using any special technical devices. All riches are drawn from the dancerś personalities, from the ze...
A Finnish tango on male and female sides of ourselves. This is a gender ruthless performance with two chairs and two actors, one of whom, to the surprise of the others, open an envelope marked NEVER OPEN THIS. He does so to the benefit of all and, luckily, only once....
Led by Vera Ondrasikova This workshop is designed for professional as well as amateur dancers, actors and everyone interested in contemporary dance. The workshop is available in two levels: pre-intermediate and professional. A programme for theatre groups can also be prepared. The lectures of Vera O...
Conversation on Melodrama Mexicano is a performance that reflects on the fact of feeling as a cultural phenomena. It is based on the belief that we learn to feel in a particular way depending on our family and media environment heritage. It analyses Mexican melodrama through clichés of movie stereot...
The workshop is lead by members of Lighting Design InstituteThis workshop is designed for a wide range of professionals in the field of the performance arts and presentation design – scenographers, directors, choreographers and dancers, lighting designers, sound designers, production managers etc....
What will happen on the stage this time? Not even the members of D.I.S.HARMONIE know the answer as they feed the spectators improvised sketches which evolve on stage without any preparation. Four actors and one musician entertain and surprise everyone who is willing to share the adrenalin rush of...
A performance awarded jarmila Jeřábková second price at the New Europe 2008 festival nad the Sazka Award 2009.The decision is just a beginning of something. When a person makes a decision, they get to a strong stream and the stream takes them where they did not intend to be....
Dance of the Paper Dancers is a unique event for 23 dancers, performers and musicians. Some dances and studies - which comprises a series of group and solo dance pieces - have the character of a `sudden decision\', others have been worked to the smallest detail. The drama and singularity of the happ...
Dance Through the Fence is the result of a collaboration between professional artists, asylum seekers and foreigners who have found a new home in the Czech Republic. This theatrical mosaic tells the real stories of refugees from Chechnya, Burma, Georgia and Kurdistan....
"Day of Ire" consists of three parts created and performed by Vojta Švejda, playing the electric guitar, Pierr Nadaud in motion and Frédérique Griot, who writes and declaims texts. The origin of this project was inspired by the biblical Book of Job....
The performance is based on a simple model – a group of young Cubans – sometime in near future – play a Fidel game at a beach to fight boredom. The players involved in this game are able to meet the heroes of their revolution, i.e. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Arnald Ochoa – these three public figur...
Friday has enclosed himself in a bird cage and Robinson has probably gone mad. He grows chrysanthemums, gladioli and memories. Small flags flutter above the island and music is everywhere. A feast is being prepared, even a sailboat may arrive! The crocodile has finally found his lost upper jaw a...
Dominance and submission - a study of two antagonistic principles. Electronic language (sound) in EASY tOlk means the transmission of video "score" through animation of horizontal straight lines into a stereo sound (video OUT > audio IN). A range of frequencies emerges, which may, arranged in certai...
One woman, one voice, one body, one self-service performance. What can one woman actually do alone, to be able to eventually create something, to make a performance? Loneliness as the point of departure of creativity. This performance has been inspired by how the American poet Emily Dickinson and ma...
Spilling from the mouths of characters, memories, associations and images do not easily connect into a logical whole. Their speech awakens memories of today’s Europe, where the essential connections are laking. Can contemporary Europeans still believe in something?...
A bizarre look at lives overflowing with the everyday. Major events happen without us noticing as because we are preoccupied with daily routines. Until one day we realize that making coffee takes longer than giving someone a hug......
EXIT 89 takes place at a service station on the 89th kilometre of the D1 motorway. In 1992, the former Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček was killed here in a road accident. On the anniversary of the tragedy, six people from different walks of life meet here....
Communist period. Four people of four different nations in one asylum camp. Who will go to the U.S.A., the dream land? Why are they leaving and why they do not want to come back? Will they find a common language? We also want to promote communication within the Visegrad region to prove that there ar...
What is good and what is evil? Is joy stronger than sorrow? A performance with interactive programme aims at bringing contemporary dance closer to children and at enabling them to conceive dance as a possibility of creative self-fulfilment. During interactive parts that intermingle with parts of the...
I recently opened my old physics exercise book and it said: "A coil is coil, nothing to be done about it! Without colils no radio can play." For many physics is an abstract and difficult field of science. Likewise dance can seem abstract and incomprehensible to many. That’s why I have achosen a simp...
Figure 41 presents a rare specimen of i i r i s d e m i - f o l i e. This species is not poisonous, but considering the fact that it only blossoms in solitude, one is unlikely to encounter it. It also remains a mystery whether it is a predator or prey. Its scent is described as a "Houdini hallucina...
“Cizinci v Čechách” (Foreigners in Bohemia) – a project systematically presenting, cataloguing and supporting non-commercial work by foreign artists residing in Bohemia since 2002. The aim is to foster long term creative collaboration between them and Czech artists. This illustrates the phenomenon o...
Frostily technologised stories from undefiled Nordic nature. Indulgence in listening to the Suomi internet radio got DNO theatre company to Lapland. Gnarl brought from Lapland as a puppet, Japanese technology as a principle. Did you also took Lapp for Jap when you were a kid?...
Don\'t you sometimes wish you could go back to the enchanted garden of childhood? Well, here it is: a garden where you can meet a loud-mouthed hockey-playing tom-cat, a wise whale, and a dwarf who\'s been there so long he\'s lost all his paint....
Hidden Landscape is a surrealistic fairy tale where five characters project their hidden cravings, sexual fantasies and fears to a fictitious mind of one person. It tells a story of dualism, of our hidden faces we show in various situations. It tells a story how we ourselves are often victims of pos...
The performance is a quick excursion into the history of the Czech nation. The simplicity and the sincerity of story-telling take priority ahead over the common phrasing of the text. The actors use their puppets skills. The music in performance is live and played by the actors. The stage is simple,...
"In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make. The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it… But in the love poetry of every age, woman longs to be weighted down by the man\'s body… The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come...
Hurry up slowly and you can get more things done than you thought. A dance project touches upon being in a rush as a way of life, in which speed and effectiveness prevails over quality. The hurry which makes us shorten or postpone every seemingly unimportant thing to the END or perhaps INDEFINITELY?...
A unique experiment which connects choral chanting, calligraphy, motion and video screening. The spectator is a witness to several layers of the composition, self-inspiring and merging into a unique shape: The minimalist motion of the vocalists, the dynamic motion of the performer and their visual a...
This performance originated during the residency of Dora Hoštová and Lenka Bartůňková in New York in 2007. Inspired by the different culture, they created two parts of the choreography in New York. The final version was concluded with the young actors Jakub Tvrdík and Jakub Gottwald. In 2008 the pro...
The reconstruction of one of the legendary meetings of two men: the famous German writer and publisher Hermann Schlechtfreund with his admirer, journalist and beginner poet Joshka Lipnik. This time mister Schlechtfreund seduces and pulls Joshka Lipnik into dangerous game of secret services and spy t...
Another of the audiences of an aspiring poet and journalist Jozhka Lipnik with his idol, a famous German writer and publisher Hermann Schlechtfreund. This time the old man suspects that Jozhka Lipnik is in love. And he is suffering from serious anxiety over the opening of the Schengen zone...The per...
A dewdrop served with a lump of summer and the midnight howling of dog roses. Little Ema is on the track of the biggest secret of the Kingdom of Flowers. The first spring buttercup guards the Northern Gate. Grey-Green Excellency is waiting.Make Your Own Little Plane Theatre was founded by Anička Duc...
La Cantina is a stupefying story of a strange love which could only happen in Mexico. A live band plays continuously. The booze is running out in Pulqueria. The heavy evening air has succumbed to the smell of blooming gardenias. The Grim Reaper is painting his nails … The performance is followed by...
Movement theatre with a minimum of text choreographed by Adéla Laštovková Stodolová. Three couples swap in different variations in search of Mr. and Mrs. Right in wanderings on love and loving. Three women, three men. In nature, in between the trees, in a lawn. They can smell their scent, their...
All knowledge, thoughts, feeling and our visions are kept between the pages of innumerable books. The need of self-expression and the urge of all individuals to leave something in this world after the end of thein existence have always existed. A book is a representation of humankind; it is a Window...
This one man performance (with Howard Lotker) is inspired by the strange character and fate of Freud’s talented student – leading psychiatrist, scientist and writer Wilhelm Reich – a pioneer in studies on the connection between the mind and body. The style of HoME theatre compels viewers to examin...
Is love a beautiful, liberating and joyful thing or a psychic disorder – a mental disease? If love is good, why do we feel so bad? A tragic dance comedy directed by one of the founders of the famous DV8 analyzes the myth and the truth of being in love. Dark humour, sweet ´n´ sweating bodies, and...
“…children’s playground: The sandy time dances whirling The future scorpions spread around the playground Through a wide river into a darkened empire Childhood scatters …” Not just a bit of poetry on the television! But a flow, a frequency which is always in the air. Just ditch the logic and...
A collective authorial project that deals with the topic of decision-making, direction and navigation. The authors use light, new technologies and sound as a partner for the dancer and reveal new relation between movement, music and light....
Crazy postmodern dumb punk pantomime music impro show. Each evening follows a preset topic that the two protagonists: mime Vojta Švejda and musician Jan Kalivoda try to explore from all possible angles. The technique of the play is based on repetition of gestures that, through rhythmization and...
The international theatre group Secondhand women present their newest project Money Transformance. The piece deals with our naive or realistic ideas about how money can solve all our troubles. How does the exchange market work – sex for comfort, money for losing freedom in work. We jump from one st...
The performance is a tribute to the beauty and mystery of mushrooms, following the example of John Cage, the composer and mycologist. The stage is a space where live music inspired by the sound of simpl acoustic instruments meets with photographic projection and online microscopy, minimalist motion...
HoME does not offer run-of-the-mill theatre, it offers theatre as a play. A play which changes and develops with the active involvement of the public, so that every evening it can end in a different way. You might know HoME theatre from their successful residential theatre project DoMA/at ho...
All the characters in this piece are women. Women who are driven by the desire for cognition, self-revelation and mutual understanding. The aim of the project was to search for meeting points between two independently existing forms of art, video and dance. We look for answers to how video is able t...
An experiment that combines a range of musical variations and dance figures in a single project. Each musician or a group controls the dancer on the stage. The dancers dance only to the music they are assigned and thus three alternating and interweaving sections of music and dance are created. The w...
Reality vs. imagination. Unendurable conditions vs. existence. Warmth of memories and the fucking cold. A performance about loneliness, friendship, waiting for help that doesn’t come, about fidelity and hope. A performance about losing things, consciousness, values and the close ones. About lo...
He is deaf. He got deaf from being yelled at over the years. Now he watches the others as he would watch a silent movie. The others lost their voice from endless yelling. They keep on yelling mutely. That day he would have explained them everything, but he fainted before he could say a w...
The follow-up to the successful all-year-round project entitled Metamorphosis famfulare - improvised punk pantomime shows which stem from the will to create a crazy show using pantomime, clownery, words and music....
In the past a lot of people tried to reach the North Pole and many of them returned from the freezing Arctic frozen. However, 140 year ago in Zábřeh the Czech Honza Welzl was born. He reached the North Pole on foot and settled there for thirty years. Come to see how the Eskimos hunted. And how a na...
Do not run any suspicious files with an .ism extension: existential.ism, human.ism, natural.ism… Satre\'s No Exit was imported into a text database. The system was attacked by a worm sartre.exit. Sartre worm pretends to be a new version of old benign executables existential.ism, human.ism, natural...
Lecturer: Mgr. Jiří Siostrzonek, PhD. The project is designed for all those who want to perceive the surrounding world differently, to reinterpret events, meetings, landscape, town, symbols etc. The project will result in perhaps a fresher look at the surrounding world, and allow us to poetically an...
“My heart belongs only to you,” wrote a young poet on the immaculate body of a paper girl. “My heart belongs only to you,” she wrote on the young man´s paper body marked by several postal voyages. They wanted to stay together forever. But suddenly he had to go. He promised to return… An interna...
Lecturer: Jan Nepomuk PiskačThis is a course designed to develop public speaking skills and self-confident and clear communication with others. The basic educational approach is learning to speak or express oneself verbally, a process which is inseparable from use of the voice, gestures and movement...
A meeting of seven female dancers whose motto is: don’t pretend to be anyone but yourself. Director and choreographer Jan Komárek presents the performers with situations which provoke them to explore their own authorial abilities....
Kind, brave, handy, sensitive, clever, handsome, well-built, smart but by no means a softie. The ideal man. Does that make any sense to anyone? What do women really want from us? What do we want form ourselves? Are men really more aggressive, more adventurous, more competitive, more strong-willed,...
The action takes place in a forgotten village from a remote valley. It’s been very long since something happened or was heard there. Perfect silence and the impossibility to trace the passing of time. The total lack of noise and information that could create new memories, dramatically affected the d...
Myslela si, že dokáže velké věci, ale ve skutečnosti byla dost neohrabaná. Měla ráda mlíko a vrnění ledničky. Poslouchala dýchání rostlin a za závěsem si představovala noční oblohu. Viděla věci, které nikdo jiný neviděl - čajovou konvici, ramínko na šaty, nebo květináč. Aby poznala skutečnost, musel...
The lead character is saturated with information that hecannot process, analyse and evaluate anymore. He burstswith it. THE DRAIN describes the moment when all of thenews he is exposed to become too much and he needs to let everything flow out, just like a blocked drain.The performance balances...
The tragedy was caused by the ungrounded wire. In this tragicomic drama you will see a group of well-grounded actors, a Van de Graaff Generator and lots of scintillating optical fibres. The storm is approaching and the stage is filled with static electricity and anticipation…...
The staging is a free continuation of the Hamlet part II. project performed at the Komedie Theatre in 1998. The authors have now found inspiration in the work of Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa takes us into a world which permanently reminds us of its place in space and time. A world of ever-present res...
(no language barrier) A scenic composition oscillating between physical theatre and a puppet show. A performance based on a remarkably precise “score“. A woman dragged into a struggle she can neither win nor lose. Once and forever. Confronting herself - face to face with her second, no less tangi...
A fairy composition of a family dinner during which reality slowly fades away. A mono-debate on the topic of monsters is raised. Is the reflection in a digital mirror scarier than the more authentic recording of our own shapes? And isn’t it safer to become a phantom of our own reflection before...
Anne Frank is dying in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - neither a symbol of suffering of the prisoners nor a heroine of the unfinished diary but a thirteen year-old girl violently robbed of her life, her dreams and desires. This awareness is crucial for our dramatic story of an adolescent girl and...
The weep-songs are traditional Slavic songs for the dead. This tradition is the loose inspiration for the new production, in which SKUTR confront the old world of our great-grandfathers with contemporary central-European life. Do will still carry the roots of our old traditions within us, and can we...
A dance and art fresco on the feelings of vanity, intolerance and the impossibility of understanding. Physical theatre with the surrealistic flair of a rotting society that has decided to destroy itself. Each performance is an original painting by Jan Miko, made as part of the central character’...
(no language barrier) Conductorial comedy drama that points out the inimitability of the moment. Him and Her, taking gruel together in their own time-space. They have their intensive dreams and wishes, interfering and clashing. She is obsessed with desire for peace and satisfaction, naive fairy...
The primary inspiration stems from the squeaking sound of brakes and inscriptions on rusting train wagons. The atmosphere of a different time imprinted on old rural train stations and crumbling rusty iron scrap was remoulded in the Trains project into an abstract industrial picture. A concert for...
Two solos verging between dance and physical theatre and one "image duet" constitute an evening of aesthetic and scenic vision of the director and light designer Jan Komárek. The common denominator of both performances is the theme of "parting"....
Twilogy is a kind of theatrical peek into the theme of twins, of being not quite one. About couples and doubles… about united brothers, sisters andlovers. About advantages and disadvantages of being together. And alsoabout knitting....
Alma and Her Sister Amanda. Amanda and Her Cousin Alma. Amanda and Her Terribly Secret Friend Alma. Alma and Her Mirror Amanda. Amanda and Her Beloved Alma. Amanda’s Alma. Alma’s Amanda. Same, similar but different. Best friends, best enemies. Two minds - one secret, two moods - one problem....
Unicorn - an existence based crimi story for one actor - is in a spectre of the Spitfire Company their first play where there is the main part in dramatic text. The direction does not underline physical, motion action. Minimal pieces of expression stress out absurdity of the Jiří Jarkowsky´s text. T...
"Bodies, thoughts, behaviour, everything that happens can change and will change. It is happening inside of us. But we cannot change and will not change." (Eric Bernie)Everyone of us is exposed at least once in their life to a more or less binding decision. If our sense and sensilibility are in acco...
Life in a once populated community that is presented to the viewer in a time of their decadence when only three people live there. They escaped from a common world and created new, safe surroundings with their own rules they had agreed upon at the beginning. The initial foundation idea has alr...
Three short solo performances - BIO-GRAF, X, HIDDEN ROOMS - by the winners of Jarmila Jerabkova award 2006 and CJJ 2007 award...