MÍŠENSKÁ
SOOT AND SMOLDER
One perfect model of the Prague apartment building at Míšenská 3, four floors, four centuries, and four members of the Brotherhood of Chimney Sweepers. Mysterious instigators of human destinies, or simply narrators of real-life stories who reveal to only a small audience the story of one building and two notorious Prague occultists. The fame and fall of the “Prague Devil,” Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, and the “Spanish Count from Kutná Hora,” Felix Achille de la Cámara del Campo y del Padrone.
Author: Adolf Mendelhof a kol.
Stage design: Rufina Bazlova
Dramaturgy: Adam Mensdorff-Pouilly
Cast: Edita Valášková, Adolf Mendelhof, Daniel Horečný, Šimon Dohnálek
50 min. / in Czech
Photo: Rufina Bazlova
BACK TO ANTWERP
EVA REZOVÁ: BACK TO ANTWERP
“A memory, a look back, a confession after a half-year-long internship in Antwerp. Feeling of the unknown, threat, fear, and uncertainty. Determination, realization, euphoria, perseverance, gratitude, and thank you.”
Choreography: Eva Rezová
Performers: Michaela Dzurovčínová, Jana Maroušková, Natalia Metodijeva, Martin Vokal, Jakub Domorád
Sound design: Jakub Domorád
Projections: Adela Křižovenká
Costumes: Polina Akhmetzanova
Light design: Tomáš Morávek
Production: Anna Němcová, Natálie Večerníková
Supported by: HAMU
30 minutes, in Czech
Photo: Michal Hančovský
NOV
THIRD // SPACE: NOV
The journey into the collective unconscious begins with birth. It is full of slippery roads and leads to the very bottom of our souls where we meet our fears, doubts, dilemmas and most importantly ourselves. What do we fear the most? What is it like to see oneself in the lights of trams passing by the darkened windows of a synagogue? An experimental performance nov (new moon) is based on the Siberian report bearing witness to the birth of a shaman; the performance peeks in the depths of human horror and invites the audience to meet the fears which only belong to them but at the same time are common to all mankind. A fifty-minute trip to the dark side of the moon offers the possibility of an open dialogue with doubts which on and on call to be answered.
Authors: Martina Dobiášová – Aneta Fodorová
based on Liščí žena by Ondřej Pivoda
Directed by: Martina Dobiášová
Dramaturgy: Aneta Fodorová
Supervision: Vojtěch Bárta
Stage design: Matěj Sýkora, Michal Kindernay
Costumes: Jana Hauskrechtová, Matěj Sýkora, Adequate stuff
Consulting: Juliana Höschlová
Sound: Michal Kindernay
Audiovisual by: Michal Kindernay, Dominik Žižka
Production: Barbora Fremlová
Technical support: Vojtěch Nebeský
Cast: Žofie Blechová, Jana Hauskrechtová, Marta Vítů
Supported by: Ministerstvo kultury ČR, Státní fond kultury ČR
The project was developed in cooperation with Chemické divadlo. Authors would like to thank the organization Nová síť for the support and provision of rehearsal space, and to the organization SE.S.TA – Centre for Choreographic Development for an invitation to artist residency. Our gratitude goes to the association Krajinou přílivu and Václav Špale for all their support and the opportunity to work at the Libeň Synagogue.
50 minutes, in Czech
Photo: Veronika Poslední
ÁRBAKKINN
MANUS ART COLLECTIVE: ÁRBAKKINN
A landscape as a body, a body as a landscape. Time which passes peacefully, distant from the time we experience. A body is perceived as part of a whole. It is part of naturalness, a landscape of its own right that seeks to be strong and adamant like cement buildings and architecture that surround it. Feelings, sensitivity, and intelligence bind us to nature more than we realize. A human being is a mass with impact on the landscape, shaping it as it searches for its place.
Choreography, concept: Štěpána Mancová
Dancing: Šimon Klus, Šárka Říhová
Music: Konstantin Wolkenstein
Collaboration on Movement: Eva Stará
Light design: Josef Malík
Supported by: Ministerstvo kultury, koprodukce DW7, Studio ALTA
38 minutes, no language barrier
Photo: Votěch Brtnický
NOT A TOY
SZ² TANEČNÍ GRUPA: NOT A TOY
The performance was created on the basis of my own experienced emotions and asking existential questions. In childhood, every day is a new adventure, we are not afraid to discover the unknown, we throw ourselves headlong into situations that we would think too much about in adulthood until we change our minds and prefer to return to our comfort zone. As children, we create an imaginary world, which is a second reality for us, which, however, disappears during our adolescence and society unconsciously shapes us to its own image. We become a product of alination in a daily repeated routine
Creative team: Eduard Adam Orszulik, Barbora Rokoszová, Jakub Hřebíček
28 minutes, no language barrier
Photo: Ivana Marija Hope
FIVE BOOKS
IAN MIKYSKA, VENDULA TOMŠŮ: FIVE BOOKS
Vendula Tomšů and Ian Mikyska’s performance Five Books will guide the audience through the times of the universe, planets, and the present, using books, sounds, poetry as well as one’s own breath. Capacity is limited to 12 people.
Creative team: Vendula Tomšů, Ian Mikyska
Suported by: KALD DAMU
30 minutes, in Czech and English
Photo: Monika Abrhámová