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Čtyři dny | Four days

Screaming Fish (CZ)

Hairways

/ Theatre
Oct 13 Monday
/ premiere
19:30 Palác U Stýblů
Oct 16 Thursday 19:30 Palác U Stýblů
Oct 17 Friday 19:30 Palác U Stýblů
Price: 200 CZK / 150 CZK

„Strong swelling tresses, carry me away!“ Images tangled up in the memory of our hair.

Every culture gives different meanings to hair, and hairstyles have evolved throughout human history. Hairstyles have allowed people to express their relationship to society, identify with certain groups or faiths, express their opinion or sense of style… Hairstyles have evolved not only over history, but during the lifespan of individuals, becoming a part of a person’s life story, memories and experiences. Our hair accompanies use through life and changes as we do. Whether we like it or not, hair is part of the human body which communicates with those around us. We show it off, hide it, ruffle it, decorate it…

The Ryba řvoucí or Screaming Fish group explores the connections between the world of hair and the life experience of the individual, placing them into surprising contexts, contrasts and playful images, crossing from day-to-day life into the worlds of the abstract and the purely surreal. In movement, in space, in light, and in sound, hair appears as a day-to-day material that can symbolize the miraculous transformation of characters on stage. These are hairways that grow, ripple, shorten, fray and weave, waving in the winds of the hairdryer.

The Screaming Fish or Ryba řvoucí group creates nonverbal performances with a strong emphasis on visual elements. The group’s most significant work to date has been what started as a student projec t entitled Bathrooms, exploring new approaches to theatre-in-the-home and to visual performance. The project comprised a ten-part series of perfomances created in the bathrooms of people’s homes from 2009 to 2013, and three theatre productions in the Czech Republic and France: Bathrooms part I: Soap (2011, Studio Řetízek, Praha), Beauty (2012, Manufacture de Chaussures, Bordeaux) and Bathrooms: part II: Beauty (2013, Alfred ve dvoře Theatre, Prague).

Screaming Fish takes as its inspiration everyday materials, which it sees as the essential impulse for new themes and motivations. Final performances are created after a phase of pure experiment yielding scenographic materials, photographs, created objects or performance art works. The group develops the scenographic and theatrical possibilities of these materials in the contexts of both nonconventional and conventional theatre space.

Duration: 60 minutes
No language barrier

 

Creative team:

Performing: Anežka Kalivodová, Sofia Adamová
Concept: Tereza Benešová and the Screaming Fish collective
Lighting design: Jan Beneš, Matěj Beneš

Sound: Michal Cáb, Filip Jakš
Set design: Tereza Benešová, Aňa Šebelková
Photography: Aňa Šebelková

Produced by: Helena Čtyroká

www.rybarvouci.cz

 

With the support of:

Motus, producers of the Alfred ve dvoře Theatre, the City of Prague, the State Cultural Fund, The Czech Ministry of Culture, 4 + 4 Days in Motion.

 

Hairwaves / Exhibition

Palác U Stýblů, 2nd floor

Ready-made objects, made during last year in the process of creating Trasy vlasů show.

Opened after the show Hairwaves 13., 16. a 17. 10. (8.30– 10 pm)

also
thu 14.10. 4-8 pm
wed 15.10, 4-8 pm
thu 16.10. 4-8 pm
fri 17.10. 4-8 pm