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FESTIVAL 2006

Four Days choose for its eleventh year of the festival three Prague localities, Alfred ve dvore (Alfred in the Couryard) and Ponec Theatre, which are allied theatres of Four Days association and abandoned house in the centre of Prague (former dental clinic) in Jungmannova 21. The house became the heart of the festival. Beside well-known theatre and dance companies from Europe, Canada and USA, the interactive site-specific project HOUSE was presented. HOUSE aim was to enliven public space with art – artistic event and interaction that influences and surprise Prague inhabitants in the places they would not expect it. Project included theatre performances, visual art projects, installations, and lectures about architecture, film screenings and others.

Theatre and dance performances from a different world

Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway): The Convent

Secondhand Woman (Czech Republic): Už muž

MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch (Germany/France): Under the Green Ground

Systeme D / Dominique Porte (Canada / France): Plus seule qu’en solo

The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental (USA/Columbie): El Conquistador

Teatr CINEMA (Polsko): Mum, I would like to dance Mahler

Kristýna Lhotáková, Ladislav Soukup, Teatr Cinema Small Duets at the Heart of Europe

Jiří Adámek: Tics tics politics (vocal extempore)

Site specific projects:

Side Effects - interactive theatre - unique interactive art ambulance in the house of cultural services more »

Indications – exhibition of current conceptual artists more »

Odradky (inhabitable spaces) – sonic, imaginative and kinetic dialogues with the sub-terrain of the location more »

Site Diagnostic Art - installations and art projects of VŠUP, DAMU, FAMU, FaVU, ČVUT, JAMU, and other Czech and foreign artists more »

Surgery Hours - presentations of exhibit artists and galleries, exhibition tours more »

Archtherapy – lectures and discussions about architecture:

Archtherapy - Projektil architekti – active speech through the whole House… Atelier creates architecture focused on tradition, innovative typology, and technology. Organized by Kruh association. more »

Archtherapy - Martin Rajniš „Building and right to rebel” – lecture . What does he think of? What does he create and for who? What makes him angry? Is it possible to build buildings according to own ideas in the Czech Republic? more »

Archterapie - Zdeněk Fránek – lecture
Zdeněk Fránek is an architect whose buildings mark very idiomatic character. He received archiweb prize in 2005 for his achievement for architecture. more »

Treatment in the Private Ward – diagnosing Jungmannova Street and its surroundings:

Zdeněk Perský – Crimes of Persian prince in the Prague streets – lecture with video material from eighties of 20th century. Zdeněk Perský (* 1966) is former criminal. Since 1980 he operated mainly in surroundings of Wenceslaw Square – Lazarska street – Main Train Station. He spent together fourteen years in the prison for theft, cheats and robberies. In 1999 he started with meditations and writings. He ended the crime life and his aims are to rectify his former colleagues from jail

doc. PhDr. Jiří T. Kotalík, CSc - Architecture Historian, author of over eighty expert articles, essays, reviews, catalogue texts and publications concerned with modern architecture, art and cultural heritage protection (working, for instance, with the Ten Centuries of Architecture project, Flying through the Czech World or Face of Our Land – Home Landscapes, to name a few).

Happy Hour – cabaret-musical hours - see the program:

Happy Hour - Divadla Archa: Archa.lab – chemical processes in the theatre
Happy hour of laboratory experiments. Diametrical spins, nodal field, non-localized radicals, orbital, and hybrids. Explosion danger

Happy Hour – Cakes and Puppets Theatre – Treatment by banality. Folk entertainment, embarrassed jokes, and live music, which nobody asked for. No discount for free, three in one and here we are for you! Under the screen the secret of small sweaty forehead is revealed. Party Mark: XXL take it easy Cakes and Puppets

Happy Hour – Three Old Cows (in co-operation with Komedie Theatre)

Happy Hour - Handa Gote & B4: Computer Music - stage chill out
Music for disconnected computers accompanied by 8-bit game projections and game consoles. An ever-changing crew of theatre handymen and members of music group B 4 now takes on the theme of personal computer history and obsolescence. On the ruins of worthless modern computers there is try for resuscitation of the computers of our childhood.
Účastníci pokusu/experiment participants: Procházka, Švábová, Hybler, Smolík, Freudl, Kropáček, Singer

Happy Hour - Home made Make at home? Make a home? Where my home lies? And where my roots grow from and what spices the home nest? The idea is certain that this will be a great evening. Global village of uncovered intimacy free of “faults?” but communicating the “Hey, Man!” Mamapapa is an independent NGO set up and managed by artists for artists. Since 1997 the organization has implemented over 50 complex projects in the Czech Republic as well as abroad working with more than four hundred artists. The household will involve: Ridina Ahmed, Johana Švarcová, Anička Bubniková, Ágnes Kutas, Dragan Stotčevski, Jaroslav Kořán, Michael Delia, Jan Holeček, Pavol Smolárik, Jarda Svoboda, Martin Janiček, Matija Solce and Tomáš Žižka.
May Thirty at Seven, One Evening of Meditation Prior to the Children’s Day
Organized by mamapapa o.s.

Meet the Meal in Me – skilful, unadulterated cooking with Halka Tresnakova and guests more »

Home and Abroad – international theatre symposium about travelling more »

Art in Heart – Artist Magazine, Divus Publishing House and Eastern Alliance Association: Public Divisions Projection of contemporary Czech and Slovak video art. more »

Art Crash! – It’s All Been Done Before! A professional agency clarifies the originality of your artistic ideas

EA Petition Center - for the first time in history of the Czech Republic you can sign all available petitions at one site more »

Café Kazisvět – by Jednotka/Unit

Symposium

Home and Abroad – international theatre symposium about travelling - are current theatre and dance groups the travel companies or do they have the real necessity to confront their work with the international audience? Believe or not, what happened to our artists on their trips abroad… The symposium is held within the European theatre net Festivals in Transition more »

Concerts

The Richie Success - – industrial R´n´R, electronic psychedelia , guitar groovy, German texts and dancing rhythms of musicians from Prague, New York and Switzerland

ŽIVÉ KVETY (Slovakia) – the first concert of the well- known Slovak band in Prague! They have released already four CDs in Slovakia! They are closely connected with cult theatre Stoka from Bratislava. They characterize their music as “normal songs”

WWW – Ondřej Anděra and his rap mutation – concert

Co-organizer:

hlavní město Praha, Manghi Group, Městská část Praha 1.

In co-operation with:

Kruh, Jednotka/Unit, o.s. mamapapa, Školská 28, Divus, Asociace Mlok, Radio lemurie, VŠUP, FAMU, DAMU, ČVUT, JAMU, FaVU.

Supported by:

Ministerstvo kultury ČR, Státní fond kultury, Alfred ve dvoře, Divadlo Ponec/Tanec Praha, Goethe- Institut Prag, Institut Français de Prague, Canadian Embassy, Polský Institut
v Praze, Divadelní ústav, WD LUX, AltySound, Panasonic.

Media Partners:

Přehled kulturních pořadů v Praze, Radio 1, Český rozhlas 3 - Vltava, České noviny, Taneční zóna, Umělec, Prague TV.

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