Děti U (Children U)
Tantehorse (Czech Republic)
| Oct 5 Saturday | 14:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale | |
| Oct 5 Saturday | 15:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale | |
| Oct 5 Saturday | 16:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale | |
| Oct 6 Sunday | 14:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale | |
| Oct 6 Sunday | 15:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale | |
| Oct 6 Sunday | 16:30 | Usedlost Bulovka (open-air) | Online ticket sale |
A performative walk from the Bulovka homestead to the Cibulka homestead.
Tantehorse, a multi-genre theatre project supporting children’s palliative care, seeks an artistic take on the theme of hope for a good life after losing a child. During a two-hour performative walk between five different stops in Prague 5 – a performative lecture, participatory reading, an audiowalk, a dance installation, and singing – the audience will experience care for life, dying, and death from different perspectives – from the position of a witness, a parent, and finally the child itself. The result is shaped by the viewer based on their own experiences, feelings, and emotions.
The only way out is through.
The project’s actual creation was preceded by an intensive research phase during which the artists met with doctors, bereaved parents, and people working in bereavement care in non-profit organizations over a period of three months. Awareness-raising trips throughout the Czech Republic are planned for the next few years.
Tantehorse is a renowned Czech theatre company that acts as a platform for original works, producing high-quality, socially resonating productions. It is also a producing platform, creating space for new choreographers and authors in the field of dance and movement art.
Its front line includes movement productions that, since the beginnings of Tantehorse, have regularly achieved international renown (Light in the Darkness, S/he is Nancy Joe, Faith, etc.), multi-genre and innovative productions (Osudety – on the border of performance, installations, and escape games), performative lectures (Fears), performative productions (30-hour Momentum), and in particular the entire documentary series of autobiographical monodramas Invisible I-III, about invisible women- artists with extraordinary life stories (Hannah, Barbora, and Iris).
The second line includes productions that are created to support the mentoring of young artists, whether through tantelab, a long-term laboratory bridging the end of studies and a professional artistic career, in which performers, in a safe environment, gain both theoretical and practical stage experience in varied activities, as well as the Emergency Dances series, which gives young choreographers the opportunity to create their first original works. Emergency Dances has already had four rounds of performance, in which more than twelve original works were created (among them, Jáma Lvová and Sádlo Ridina Ahmed).
Tantehorse aims to bring new and original influences to the Czech dance and theatre scene, investing in detailed research processes, cross-overs, and immersive projects. It is led by Miřenka Čechová, a recognized author, director, choreographer and performer, who’s highly award-winning and socially critical thinking has provoked and altered the Czech theatre scene together with Tantehorse since 2010.
The ensemble’s other leaders include dramaturg and theatrical lecturer Kristyna Boháčová, choreographer and performer Markéta Vacovská, and philosopher Alice Koubová.
Duration: 2,5–3 hours
Language: Czech, English
Project Curators:
Markéta Vacovská, Miřenka Čechová, Kristýna Boháčová
Performers and Artists:
Markéta Cukrová is an opera and concert singer active internationally as a soloist in major opera houses and original independent projects.
Alice Koubová – philosopher with an interest in performative philosophy, vice-dean of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Linda Dušková – dramaturg and director, teacher at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Ran Jiao – Chinese dancer and performer, interdisciplinary artist living in Prague
Andrea Opavská – dancer and performer, teacher in the dance department of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Kent Sjöström – educator and artist, engaged in physical theatre and performance
Aleš Čermák & Jindřiška Křivánková – a creative duo focusing on the research of embodied, multisensory forms of perception that move towards performativity
Roman Zotov-Mikshin – dancer, choreographer, and educator, co-founder of the artistic group Ferst Dadler
Petr Boháč – artistic director of the theatre ensemble Spitfire Company, director of Palác Akropolis
Professional, research team:
Mahulena Exnerová – Chair of the Section of Children’s Palliative Care of the ČSPM ČLS JEP, Head of the Children’s Ward and DIOP of Hořovice Hospital
Klára Berková – neonatologist and founding member of the support and palliative team, Institute for Mother and Child Care in Podolí
Lenka Kohoutková – senior worker at the Centre for Guidance, Support and Palliative Team for Children at the Children’s Hospital HK
Kateřina Barčíková – paediatrician at the Department of Resuscitation Care for Children and founding physician of the Children’s Support and Palliative Team, Thomayer Hospital, external paediatrician at the mobile hospice Journey Home
Vítězslav Vurst – hospital chaplain in the support and palliative care team of the Olomouc University Hospital and in the mobile hospice You are not alone
Zdenka Volavá – director of the organization Dlouhá cesta, coach
Martina Hůlková, Lenka Blažejová, Tibor Abel, Kateřina Procházková – bereaved parents
Sodja Lotker – dramaturg, teacher at DAMU
Production team:
Jan Honeiser – project manager
Veronika Hladká – production Lab Zones, research FR and regions
Karolína Anna Hudská – executive production of the performance
Filip Horn – technical performance production
Adéla Brabcová – PR and marketing
Cooproduction: Palac Akropolis and 4 + 4 Days in Motion
Supported by: Czech Society Palliative Medicine, The Vlček Family Foundation, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, City of Prague
The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The City of Prague has supported the activities in 2024 with CZK 600,000.
