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2+4 Days in Motion 7th International Theatre Festival 16th. - 21st October, 2002 Divadlo Ponec, Husitská 24A, Praha 3
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| JAN PUSCH (Germany) "into the blue" Critics say that Jan Pusch is one of the few contemporary German artists who can converse well about the body. Pusch goes even further than that in this attempt to glean images of the body's future. In three different solos, featuring perfect use of interaction between projected video and a live dancer, he moves step by step along the edge between the material and immaterial, the concrete and the abstract, between the body and the idea. Each individual solo proves that in the virtual world there are no physical, temporal or special limits and that it is the human mind that writes the rules of its own world. In 2001 "into the blue" received Prize of the Critics, International Competition for Choreographers, Hannover
"In all three solos the human body provides the best transparency for limitless projections - spoken in concrete terms as well as in figurative sense. "into the blue" is Jan Pusch's fascinating choreographed adoption of relevant questions we are all occupied with." Hamburger Morgenpost
co-produced by: Jan Pusch and Kampnagel Hamburg, April 2001 supported by: Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Goethe Institut Prague
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AKHE (Russia) "Pookh and Prakh" This notorious Russian company, bred of chaos and provocation, the visions of Rasputin and the irony of Chekhov, presents a short piece "about love"(!) From their scatter-gun collection of miniature scenic fragments both sanctity and parody shine forth. The company speaks in a language of images, freely borrowing elements from all the genres: theatre, visual art, optical illusion and natural elements. Front men Maksim Isaev and Pavel Semtchenko go far beyond their background in visual art, passing unhindered over the borders between artistic disciplines, and often collaborate with other theatres and film productions. AKHE are radicals who submit their minds and bodies to extreme duress; for them the stage is a site for accidents and collisions to take place in real time, and each performance is an open possibility.
While the audience's senses are assaulted in many ways, from the unexpected bang of a gun to the smell of a cigar, the three actors in this production push themselves to phisical and mental limits... So check your knowledge of Ionesko and Dali at the door, becouse the jorney on which St. Petersburg avantegarde conceptual artists AKHE take you in their sublime production of Pookh and Prakh (Down and Dust), goes in completely different direction The Scotsman
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YELLOW RABBIT PERFORMANCE "Somalia Yellow" One Yellow Rabbit is a small but influential company well known in many countries for its "performance theatre" style: literary yet boldly physical performance. When the Rabbits learned about painter and video artist Allan Harding Mackay, "official war artist" for the Canadian military's missions to Somalia and Afghanistan, they challenged him to come onstage with them. The resulting performance is a provocative live interrogation of the war artist himself against the background of his stunning video shot in Somalia in 1993, and an evocation of the violent emotions at work in the operation in that ended in the brutal murder of a Somali youth.
One Yellow Rabbit is everything theatre should be: daring, dangerous and disturbing" The Toronto Star
Haunting and disturbing... but there's a sly wit and penetrating intelligence at work here as well" The Globe & Mail
In English with Czech subtitles by Dana Hábová part of: Canadian Season in Prague
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PHILIPP GEHMACHER (Great Britain) "Holes and Bodies" Philipp Gehmacher studied at the two important London schools - The London Contemporary Dance School and the Laban Centre. During these studies he focused on the search for style and formal beauty in dance, taking the road of analysis and research. His work belongs to that part of the intellectual movement in contemporary dance which puts tough demands on the spontaneity of the European body. The trio "Holes and Bodies" stresses the relationship between body and time, the importance of speeding up and slowing down, memory and amnesia. His choreographic structures provide subtle yet firm material in which body, space, and time are the subjects of equal importance in Gehmacher's world.
"Through the accenting of the duration of the piece in the intersubjective space between dancer and audience, we were compelled to realise our contingency and complicity in performative materiality - our participation both in dancing bodies and in the holes of performance." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell
supported by: London Arts, The Jerwood Space, Moving East, The Place and the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund 2000, The British Council
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CAROL BROWN (Great Britain) "Sleeping in Public" In this short, 15-minute solo, choreographer and performer Carol Brown reveals the quiet, dormant, inert body-against images of the late night city's commotion. The projection of architectural fragments and spoken text enhance this contrast between the body at rest and the urban environment's hum. The multitalented Carol Brown has made a continuing project of systematic work on the relationship between body and space, and especially between movement and architecture. Two years ago our festival presented her ambient installation "Shelf Life", created with digital artist Esther Rolins. Digital technology and the new media are endemic to Brown's work, as is her ability to give form to our world's magic and bizarre visions.
"The roar of traffic mixed with clear flush of stage sound of Russel Skoon. It was as if we heard sounds of two conflicted human rhythms - uncoordinated beating of the city life and the inert pulsing dramatized by Brown's body. The best example of justification of live art - life simply reshaped into art." The Guardian
supported by: The British Council
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VELMA (Switzerland) "Rondo" In this hour-long concert performance the Swiss company Velma brings music and scenery together in completely new and innovative fashion. The Rondo multidisciplinary project combines music, dance, drama, visual art elements and film, but is no artificial construct. The creation of a new kind of spectacular experience, as austere an intricate as a zen drawing. Velma, which usually creates various types of music producitons, strives in this unique way to bring the audiences of music and theatre together.
If you watch a concert as if it was a theatrical performance it will have this quality that we aim to put on stage... Velma
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NEBESKÝ - DAVID PRACHAŘ "It's time for IT to change!" (all in all) Czech Premiere!!! Finding the impulse in E. AJARA's novel "Grand calin" Egon L. Tobiáš wrote the text of "IT's time for IT to change!".
"The one thing I insist on, categorically and screaming within, so as not to disturb the neighbors, is to have someone to love"
direction: Jan Nebeský performed by: David Prachař and Miloš Mejzlík music: Martin A. Dohnal stage design and costumes: Jana Preková
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LHOTÁKOVÁ "Question for Next Year" Czech Premiere!!! The past and present experiences of Mrs. Iva Gottliebová, a woman with a wealthy past / a woman of rich experience, born in 1925, inspired the Lhotáková-Soukup team to "Question for Next Year". The work of this pair is often based on the observation of day-to-day reactions and models of behaviour in people: in their past successful work "Venus with a Rubik's Cube" they focused on young anorexic women and in the more recent "Trans-it!" on people in motion in public places - streets, parks, and train stations. Mrs. Gottliebová is more than just the subject, during the process she also became a close collaborator, a member of the creative team and one of the new work's protagonists.
"Kristýna Lhotáková starts from scratch with each new piece. This is not a total experiment, it's not something never seen before, but it sure is completely unlike anything you've seen before." Dance Zone
production: Four Days co-produced by: CCN de Franche-Comté-Belfort
(F), supported by: Ministerstvo kultury České republiky, hlavní město Praha, AFAA, Région Franche - Comté, Bohemia Magica, Český literární fond
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