Summer Prague Will Be Enriched by the Theatre Odyssey Full of the Coloured World of the Theatre, Fantasy, Movement and Dance
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Joyful emotion, pure energy, creativity, but also disturbing testimonies through dance and kinetic theatre will be brought in the middle of summer in the centre of Prague by the new international Theatre Odyssey review. The Prague part of the extensive four-year project Meeting the Odyssey will perform under this title from 20th to 30th July on the Forman brothers‘ Mystery Boat, in the Hybernia Theatre and in the circus arena in the Zítek orchards. Joining forces are over a hundred dancers, (puppet) actors and performers from eleven countries throughout Europe.“By ship or on land the theatre artists will travel across Europe for four years, bringing joy, creativity but also raising uneasy questions and seeking answers to them together with the public,“ says Šárka Pavelková from the production platform ProFitArt, which is arranging the Czech part of the project, and she adds: “Twenty five years ago, in the stormy summer of 1989, Mir Karavan cruised Europe, a project which brought together alternative theatre artists from the then East and West. Across the continent it found a path of understanding and freedom which shortly after people fought for and won. But this path remains difficult and tortuous and utterly necessary. For this reason the Theatre Odyssey has embarked on a long journey around Europe...“Summer Prague’s cultural offer will be enlivened by the world famous studio Farm in the Cave, the leading physical theatre ensemble Teatr Novogo Fronta, dancer and choreographer Lenka Vagnerová, the performer Patricie Poráková or the Polish group Opolski Teatr Lalki i Aktora. This will arrive in Prague with a performance inspired by the mythical story of Odysseus‘ wife Penelope Waiting for the Rain, prepared especially for the Theatre Odyssey. It will be played to the Prague audience shortly after its successful premiere in Opole in Poland and in Berlin, with the famed (puppeteer) actors then continuing north to Copenhagen and Helsinki.For the youngest visitors (and indeed for all the playful audience irrespective of age) a new circus arena will grow in the Zítek orchards at Palacky square. Nabídne divadelní představení a klauniády v podání v oboru jedinečných ansámblů Sacra Circus Števa Capka, Squadra Sua, La Mauvaise Graine či Divadla Minor. It will offer theatre performances and clowning performed in the field of unique ensembles Sacra Circus Števa caps, Squadra Sua, La Mauvaise Graine and Theatre Minor. Most of the performances will be preceded by creative workshops where children learn new things in a playful way and will also be able to participate later in the show. Dospělým návštěvníkům pak zpestří letní noci na Vltavě dílny argentinského tanga či koncerty Jany Vébrové, jež se uskuteční po skončení hlavního programu na Lodi Tajemství. For adult visitors their summer nights will then be livened up on the Vltava Argentine tango workshops and by the concerts of Jana VÉBROVÁ, which will take place after the main program of the Mystery Boat.
Tickets for individual performances of the Theatre Odyssey for CZK 250 can be purchased through Ticketportal and Eventim. Visitors who will want to visit on the relevant day of the program on the Mystery Boat and in the Hybernia Theatre can take advantage of specially priced packages. Special packages are also available through the Hithit server. Detailed information about Theatre Odyssey can be found at www.odysea.proand at the international web pages of the project www.meetingtheodyssey.eu. The Odyssey is organized in the Czech Republic by the production platform ProFitArt (www.profitart.cz).
The festive opening of the Theatre Odyssey on Sunday 20 July will belong to the internationally recognized dancer and choreographer Lenka Vagnerová and her performance Riders, winner of the Dance Production of the Year 2013.The performance that is full of dynamic motions and dance tells a fascinating story of confrontations between the individual and nature.Even before the festive opening, the Theatre Odyssey will start its first year by an open-air performance held directly on the Wenceslas Square. A sanely mad and spontaneous performance of Much More Than Nothing will be given by the independent dance group ME-SA together with Peter Šavel and Stano Dobák. The legendary Package of the Japanese choreographer Shusaku Takeuchi returns to Prague after three years performed with bravura by 420PEOPLE.The audience had to wait even longer to see the award-winning performance SCLAVI/The Song of an Emigrant by the internationally famed theatre studio Farm in the Cave. This captivating audio-visual show inspired in the stories and songs of the Ruthenian ethnic group and noetic texts by Karel Čapek will be played three times (23, 24 and 25 July). During the twelve years of its existence, the Farm won several national and international awards, including the Total Theatre Award, the Grand Prix Golden Laurel Wreath Award or the Fringe First Award.The director and founder of the group Viliam Dočolomanský is the only Czech winner of the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities.
In addition to the opening night, Lenka Vagnerová will participate in the programme with another treat.On28 July, the Hybernia Theatre will host the premiere of the co-production performance the Sorcerer, prepared togetherwith the German choreographer Felix Landerer. The themes of illusions, manipulation, sorcery, magic and the phenomena of fear as one of the strongest human emotions are studied from various points of view. The dance platform Lenka Vagnerová & Company is the author of another performance on the programme - La Loba, that is based on two strong stage personalities – the singer Jana Vébrová and the dancer Andrea Opavská. Andrea’s brilliant performance justly earned the Dancer of the Year 2014 prize. After each performance, Jana Vébrová appears again, this time as a singer. At the concerts, she will also christen Ivan Acher´s new album with the stage music from the Riders and La Loba. Mah Hunt, the performance winning the viewer’s prize at the Czech Dance Platform, is another of the festival’s attractions.
The dancer and performer Patricie Poráková and her project Quilombo that invites into the mysterious world of the passionate Argentinean tango is also praised by the critics. The author cooperates with excellent Argentinean tango dancers. This sensuous dance will occupy the Mystery Boat during three evenings – from 20 to 22 July. A milonga is organized after every performance so that the audience could try to practice what they have just seen on the dance floor.The other festival premiere Waiting for the Rain presented by the Polish group Opolski Teatr Lalki i Aktora is one of the four projects created during the four-year voyage of the international project Meeting the Odyssey. Actors, musicians, dancers and puppets meet on the stage. Their first performance falls on Saturday 26 July. On 30 July, the theatre program will be closed by With Unarmed Forces, a joint work of two top movement theatre groups – the visual Clipa Theater from Israel and the Prague-based Teatr Novogo Fronta.The Theatre Odyssey offers both current and mythological topics inspired, among others, by Homer. In each town in which it drops anchor it will tell one of the episodes of the Ulysses´ journey adapted by young artists under the direction of the members of the Italian Cada Die Teatro to a similar story from the given country’s history. These performances are called Instants, Performances in the Present Moment. The Prague performance held on 27 and 28 July on the Mystery Boat deals with Ulysses´ Descent into the Underworld. Is there a reference to the Czech underground?
The evening titled the Essence of Dance will also belong to young artists and their works. Many interesting and promising performers will be seen: the performance BOIby Katarína Kalivodová and Martin Talaga is a fusion of dance and traditional folk songs from various regions in Slovakia lead by the questions and answers to what is “masculine”; the duo Hand to Violin prepared a “new circus” performance in which they combine equilibristics, modern dance and violin playing; the movement research group Loco:Motion Company comes with its Kismet; “brilliant technique enables physical dialogue during which the audience remains breathless,” wrote a critic about Tešlon a Frkl, with the subtitle“Movement Encounters of the Third Kind”,a performance ofthe dancers Lukáš Karásek and Florent Golfier.
Joyful emotion, pure energy, creativity, but also disturbing testimonies through dance and kinetic theatre will be brought in the middle of summer in the centre of Prague by the new international Theatre Odyssey review. The Prague part of the extensive four-year project Meeting the Odyssey will perform under this title from 20th to 30th July on the Forman brothers‘ Mystery Boat, in the Hybernia Theatre and in the circus arena in the Zítek orchards. Joining forces are over a hundred dancers, (puppet) actors and performers from eleven countries throughout Europe.
“By ship or on land the theatre artists will travel across Europe for four years, bringing joy, creativity but also raising uneasy questions and seeking answers to them together with the public,“ says Šárka Pavelková from the production platform ProFitArt, which is arranging the Czech part of the project, and she adds: “Twenty five years ago, in the stormy summer of 1989, Mir Karavan cruised Europe, a project which brought together alternative theatre artists from the then East and West. Across the continent it found a path of understanding and freedom which shortly after people fought for and won. But this path remains difficult and tortuous and utterly necessary. For this reason the Theatre Odyssey has embarked on a long journey around Europe...“
Summer Prague’s cultural offer will be enlivened by the world famous studio Farm in the Cave, the leading physical theatre ensemble Teatr Novogo Fronta, dancer and choreographer Lenka Vagnerová, the performer Patricie Poráková or the Polish group Opolski Teatr Lalki i Aktora. This will arrive in Prague with a performance inspired by the mythical story of Odysseus‘ wife Penelope Waiting for the Rain, prepared especially for the Theatre Odyssey. It will be played to the Prague audience shortly after its successful premiere in Opole in Poland and in Berlin, with the famed (puppeteer) actors then continuing north to Copenhagen and Helsinki.
For the youngest visitors (and indeed for all the playful audience irrespective of age) a new circus arena will grow in the Zítek orchards at Palacky square. Nabídne divadelní představení a klauniády v podání v oboru jedinečných ansámblů Sacra Circus Števa Capka, Squadra Sua, La Mauvaise Graine či Divadla Minor. It will offer theatre performances and clowning performed in the field of unique ensembles Sacra Circus Števa caps, Squadra Sua, La Mauvaise Graine and Theatre Minor. Most of the performances will be preceded by creative workshops where children learn new things in a playful way and will also be able to participate later in the show. Dospělým návštěvníkům pak zpestří letní noci na Vltavě dílny argentinského tanga či koncerty Jany Vébrové, jež se uskuteční po skončení hlavního programu na Lodi Tajemství. For adult visitors their summer nights will then be livened up on the Vltava Argentine tango workshops and by the concerts of Jana VÉBROVÁ, which will take place after the main program of the Mystery Boat.
Tickets for individual performances of the Theatre Odyssey for CZK 250 can be purchased through Ticketportal and Eventim. Visitors who will want to visit on the relevant day of the program on the Mystery Boat and in the Hybernia Theatre can take advantage of specially priced packages. Special packages are also available through the Hithit server. Detailed information about Theatre Odyssey can be found at www.odysea.pro and at the international web pages of the project www.meetingtheodyssey.eu. The Odyssey is organized in the Czech Republic by the production platform ProFitArt (www.profitart.cz).
The festive opening of the Theatre Odyssey on Sunday 20 July will belong to the internationally recognized dancer and choreographer Lenka Vagnerová and her performance Riders, winner of the Dance Production of the Year 2013. The performance that is full of dynamic motions and dance tells a fascinating story of confrontations between the individual and nature.
Even before the festive opening, the Theatre Odyssey will start its first year by an open-air performance held directly on the Wenceslas Square. A sanely mad and spontaneous performance of Much More Than Nothing will be given by the independent dance group ME-SA together with Peter Šavel and Stano Dobák. The legendary Package of the Japanese choreographer Shusaku Takeuchi returns to Prague after three years performed with bravura by 420PEOPLE.
The audience had to wait even longer to see the award-winning performance SCLAVI/The Song of an Emigrant by the internationally famed theatre studio Farm in the Cave. This captivating audio-visual show inspired in the stories and songs of the Ruthenian ethnic group and noetic texts by Karel Čapek will be played three times (23, 24 and 25 July). During the twelve years of its existence, the Farm won several national and international awards, including the Total Theatre Award, the Grand Prix Golden Laurel Wreath Award or the Fringe First Award. The director and founder of the group Viliam Dočolomanský is the only Czech winner of the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities.
In addition to the opening night, Lenka Vagnerová will participate in the programme with another treat. On 28 July, the Hybernia Theatre will host the premiere of the co-production performance the Sorcerer, prepared together with the German choreographer Felix Landerer. The themes of illusions, manipulation, sorcery, magic and the phenomena of fear as one of the strongest human emotions are studied from various points of view. The dance platform Lenka Vagnerová & Company is the author of another performance on the programme - La Loba, that is based on two strong stage personalities – the singer Jana Vébrová and the dancer Andrea Opavská. Andrea’s brilliant performance justly earned the Dancer of the Year 2014 prize. After each performance, Jana Vébrová appears again, this time as a singer. At the concerts, she will also christen Ivan Acher´s new album with the stage music from the Riders and La Loba. Mah Hunt, the performance winning the viewer’s prize at the Czech Dance Platform, is another of the festival’s attractions.
The dancer and performer Patricie Poráková and her project Quilombo that invites into the mysterious world of the passionate Argentinean tango is also praised by the critics. The author cooperates with excellent Argentinean tango dancers. This sensuous dance will occupy the Mystery Boat during three evenings – from 20 to 22 July. A milonga is organized after every performance so that the audience could try to practice what they have just seen on the dance floor.
The other festival premiere Waiting for the Rain presented by the Polish group Opolski Teatr Lalki i Aktora is one of the four projects created during the four-year voyage of the international project Meeting the Odyssey. Actors, musicians, dancers and puppets meet on the stage. Their first performance falls on Saturday 26 July. On 30 July, the theatre program will be closed by With Unarmed Forces, a joint work of two top movement theatre groups – the visual Clipa Theater from Israel and the Prague-based Teatr Novogo Fronta.
The Theatre Odyssey offers both current and mythological topics inspired, among others, by Homer. In each town in which it drops anchor it will tell one of the episodes of the Ulysses´ journey adapted by young artists under the direction of the members of the Italian Cada Die Teatro to a similar story from the given country’s history. These performances are called Instants, Performances in the Present Moment. The Prague performance held on 27 and 28 July on the Mystery Boat deals with Ulysses´ Descent into the Underworld. Is there a reference to the Czech underground?
The evening titled the Essence of Dance will also belong to young artists and their works. Many interesting and promising performers will be seen: the performance BOI by Katarína Kalivodová and Martin Talaga is a fusion of dance and traditional folk songs from various regions in Slovakia lead by the questions and answers to what is “masculine”; the duo Hand to Violin prepared a “new circus” performance in which they combine equilibristics, modern dance and violin playing; the movement research group Loco:Motion Company comes with its Kismet; “brilliant technique enables physical dialogue during which the audience remains breathless,” wrote a critic about Tešlon a Frkl, with the subtitle “Movement Encounters of the Third Kind”, a performance of the dancers Lukáš Karásek and Florent Golfier.
Josef Bartos
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