New Blood on the Stage 2020

MICHAELA STARÁ

The animal we carry in ourselves. The deeply rooted secret. Happiness, emotionally dependent. Partner, or host?

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A parasite is an organism, a parasite is an animal, a parasite is a mystery, a parasite is a metaphor for the animal inside us. The parasite can find happiness only at the expense of someone else. The parasite changes and adapts only to be loved, so let’s face it, we might all have one in ourselves.

A dance-theatre performance exploring the boundaries between Vogue and Tutting with visuals inspired by sci-fi movies. These dance forms play thematically with the contrast between femininity and animality.

The performance was created and supported in cooperation with Palác Akropolis and also as a part of the master ́s degree at HAMU at the Nonverbal Theatre department.

Concept and performer: Michaela Stará
Direction: Ondřej Holba
Supervise: Eliška Brtnická
Music: Petr Kolman, Vojtěch Bor
Light design: Jiří Šmirk
Stage design and costumes: Debora Štysová, Eliška Šebestová
Production: Public Art / Palác Akropolis

Supported by: Public Art/ Palác Akropolis, HAMU, Ministerstvo kultury ČR, Hlavní město Praha
Premiere: 29th September 2019, Palác Akropolis

40 minutes, no language barrier

Photo by: Vojta Brtnický

Prague is not Czech is a travel agency with a focus on looking for the real Czechia. Through its activities, it creates a happy universe in which the differences of city-countryside, visitor-tourist, travel agency-art project stop being important. Still, it’s even more important to meet and share our common values: beer, sausage, and shots!

Creative team: Adam Dudek, Andrea Dudková, Anna Chrtková, Eva Sýkorová
Supported by: DIFA JAMU v Brně, IDU

česky nebo anglicky / Czech or English

Premiere: 6-16.6. 2019, Prague Quadriennale

Photo: Pavlína Taubingerová

8LIDÍ

Devised by the theatre group 8lidí utlitizing a directorless, collective collaboration approach, Press Paradox takes as a starting point Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, whose assassination in front of his door after flying to Kiev shocked global media. But one day after his death, alive Babchenko appeared at the press conference and claimed that the whole murder was staged to actually avoid a factual assassination. What are today’s journalists threatened with? When to give priority to your personal safety and when to comply with the ethics of the journalists profession?

8lidí: Petr Erbes, Nina Jacques, Boris Jedinák, Anna Klimešová, Karolína Kotrbová, Zuzana Sceranková, Vendula Tomšů a Viktorie Vášová
Music: Ian Mikyska
Production: Emílie Formanová, Alice Kofláková

Supported by: DAMU, Divadlo DISK
Premiere: 14th December 2018, Divadlo DISK

65 minutes, in Czech (English subtitles)

Photo by: Oskar Helcel

JURAJ MITRO AND COLL.

The author of this performance, Juraj Mitro, was inspired by the eponymous novel Le Voyage autour de ma chambre, written in 1794 by French soldier and aristocrat Xavier de Maistre, who was inspired by the novel Sentimental Journey around France and Italy by Laurence Stern, who was inspired by the Don Quijote de la Mancha of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, who was inspired by the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, who was inspired by Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, who was inspired by the Holy Scripture, inspired by Jewish history, mythology and the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus, this performance is demonstrably drawn from the roots of human creativity itself.

Performing, direction and dramaturgy: Juraj Mitro
Scenography: Andrea Dudková
Light design: Jan Tranta
Music: Tomáš Vtípil
Coach: Dalibor Buš (coach)
Mentor: Jaro Viňarský

Supported by: JAMU, Studio Marta
Premiere: 14th March 2019, Studio Marta, Brno

39 minutes / in Slovak

Photo by: Libor Máca

NOVA DANCE
We are made of sugar and iron. We are made of petals and floral scents. We are made of thorns and solid roots. We are made of passion and courage. We are made of goals and paths. We are made out of loud laughter in public and of weeping crying behind closed doors. We are made of bruises and healing scars from fighting.

From independence. From vulnerability. Out of love.
And most of all, we are made out of the dust of the earth.

Choreography: Eva Urbanová
Dancers: Francesca Amante, Eva Urbanová, Sara Angelucci
Music: Aid Kid, Hindi Zahra, Johann Sebastian Bach
Costumes: Eliška Šebestová
Production: Natálie Matysková
Consultations: Jan Kodet

Supported by: HAMU, Rebis plus s.r.o.
Special thanks to Zuzana Šlechtová, Květoslava Urbanová and Stanislav Urban
Premiere: 26th September 2019, Divadlo DISK

35 minutes, no language barrier

Photo by: Michal Hančovský