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04/092021

Cie Pieds Perchés – OK(N)o

Full show acrobatics, aerials, experiment, hand2hand, indoor, juggling, object manipulation, outdoor, physical theatre, site specific, street arts

Cie Pieds Perchés – OK(N)o

Public space/private space/intimacy. Blending circus, dance and physical theater, the site-specific OK(N)o project questions the very notions of private and public space as it attempts to identify the places where individual freedom can be found within these two realms. OK(N)o is meant to be performed in indoor and outdoor environments, in different cities and in varying forms. It plays with the idea of observing and being observed which involves putting the audience in the position of both the observer and the observed.

Length 30-50 min, Fexible in function of the demand Who is it suitable for? For all audience

Contact

Stéphanie NDuhirahe
Email address production@ciepiedsperches.com
Telephone number +420 773 525 196

About Cie Pieds Perchés

The Czech-Swiss Cie Pieds Perchés company consists of performers Morgane Widmer and Stéphanie N’Duhirahe and musician Roman Džačár. In their performances, they focus on current social issues which they approach from the perspective of humor, dance and aerial acrobatics.

Web company:  www.ciepiedsperches.com

Creative team

Concept: Stéphanie N’Duhirahe, Morgane Widmer (Cie Pieds Perchés)
On stage: Stéphanie N’Duhirahe, Morgane Widmer, Roman Džačár + invited performers
Collaborators/Performers: Filip Zahradnický, Michaela Stará, Cécile Da Costa, Daniel Kvašňovšký, Jana Ryšlavá, Lucie N’Duhirahe, Marina Mezzogiorno, Brown, Lili Parson, Chloé Démétriadès, Phillipe Droz, Elsa Bouchez
Outside Eye: Lukáš Karásek
Music: Roman Džačár
Video design: Dsu Ranger
Producer: Hedvika Zýková, Eva Roškanuková
Production: Schmilblick Association
Supported by: Hlavní město Praha, Ministerstvo kultury ČR, Cirqueon, KD Mlejn, Depo2015, La ville de Nyon, Région de Nyon, Studio PRÁM, EEEEH! La Grenette, Studio Alta, Cooltour, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bern.

OK(N)o

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04/092021

Cirk La Putyka – Kaleidoscope

Full show acrobatics, aerials, balance, clowning, indoor, object manipulation, outdoor, site specific

Cirk La Putyka – Kaleidoscope

Insane jumps on a giant teeter board, group dance numbers, aerial acrobatics as well as flights on the trampoline. A flurry of gags and tricks, pumping music and laughter, hypnotic images contrasting with a summer party in the open air. Traditions meet modernity, seasoned La Putyka members mingle with fresh circus blood. A total of eight acrobats, actors and dancers shine throughout the show like pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope. Stop thinking. Open your eyes, lend us your ears and plunge into a flashy collage of art and joy.

Length 50 min Who is it suitable for? 4+

Contact

David Ostružár, produkce
Email address david@laputyka.cz
Telephone number +420 774 806 154

About Cirk La Putyka

Since 2008 the originally small group of enthusiasts who wanted to create a single performance has grown into a grouping of almost one hundred actors, dancers, acrobats, musicians, producers, technicians, doctors, make-up artists and other professionals.
Following the unexpected success of the debut show La Putyka the brothers Rosťa and Vítek Novák founded Cirk La Putyka. Since then as the groups’ artistic director and managing director respectively, the two brothers have been defining the direction and speed of travel of our theater and contemporary circus wagon.
Over the first ten years of our existence, we have created more than 20 projects, cooperated with more than 300 people of 25 nationalities, given more than 1,500 performances and visited more than 21 countries.

Web company: www.laputyka.cz

Creative team

Directed by: Maksim Komaro
Assistant director: Daniel Komarov
Stage design: Pavla Kamanová
Music: Jan Balcar
Costumes and makeup: Kristina Záveská
Technical cooperation: Oldřich Procházka, Daniel Hajtl, Prokop Štěpánek
Light design: Jan Mlčoch
Hair: Jan Balcařík, Lenka Habartová
Photo: Jiří Šeda
Video: Jakub Jelen
Graphic design: Martin Sršeň (Vosa)
Production: David Ostružár
Produced by: Cirk La Putyka
Aerial hoop choreogtaphy: Ilona Jäntti

Reviews/Awards of the company

– Theater of the Year (2020)
– Czech Lion – TV Naživo (2020, together with Jatka78 and Heaven’s Gate, exceptional audiovisual achievement)
– Bez Granic Festival Award (2019)
– The Young for Young Festival Audience Award (2011, 2012, 2018)
– Thálie Award Nomination (2017)
– Czech Theater DNA Award (2017)
– Czech Dance Platform Award (2017)
– Divadelní Noviny Award (2017)
– Skupova Plzeň Festival Award (2012)
– Total Theatre Awards Nomination, Edinburgh (2011)
– Theater Production of the Year (2010)
– Sazka and Divadelní Noviny Award (2009)
– Alfréd Radok Prize Nomination (2009)
– Next Wave Festival Award
(2009)

Kaleidoscope

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04/092021

Holektiv – Crows

Full show acrobatics, aerials, experiment, flow arts, indoor, outdoor, physical theatre, site specific

Holektiv – Crows

They live next to people’s home the same way they occupy their secluded forest territories. Their color, hunched posture and fondness for carcasses have made them a symbol of death. However, they also symbolize the birth of a new life. Crows are bearers of dreams and secrets. Crows are also a physical performance accompanied by live music which takes place on a single object.
The Crows performance was created in 2020 with the intent to produce a show in a non-theatrical environment. The Czech Museum of Music was chosen as its original location. However, Crows can also be performed in the open air.

Length 45 min Who is it suitable for? 10+

Contact

Andrea Vykysalá / Sára Pospíšilová
Email address mail@holektiv.cz / andrea.vykysala@gmail.com
Telephone number Andrea + 720 423 778 / Sára + 724 006 503

About Holektiv

The Holektiv company was founded in 2015 when Andrea Vykysalá, Eva Stará and Karolína Křížková decided they wanted to work together. Thus, a purely female ensemble emerged on the Czech cultural scene. Since then, they have created a unique style with poetry-like esthetics.

Web company: www.holektiv.cz

Creative team

Concept and performed by: Andrea Vykysalá, Karolína Křížková
Supervision: Eliška Brtnická
Object and set design: Studio Herrmann & Coufal
Music: Terezie Vodička Kovalová
Costumes: Michaela Čapková
Lights and sound: Niels Doucet
Production and PR: Andrea Vykysalá, Sára Pospíšilová
Supported by: Czech Ministry of Culture, Prague City Hall, HAMU, Czech Culture Fund, Cirqueon, Jatka78, and KD Mlejn

Crows

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04/092021

Balancealots – Link the Click

Work in progress acrobatics, balance, clowning, hand2hand, juggling, object manipulation, outdoor, street arts

Balancealots – Link the Click

In an urge to connect with the environment, the two quirky & colorful individuals show the difficulty of learning to work together by trying to find the balance between the two extremes of social connection: the online and the offline presence.
They drag their wonky kart everywhere they go, bringing life to any street corner, through a complex mashup of skills and live beats to generate positive energy.
The show includes partner acrobatics, live music & comedy to create a spectacle that makes weirdness oddly normal.

Length 30 min Who is it suitable for? 4+

Contact

Aleš Hrdlička
Email address info@aleshrdlicka.cz
Telephone number +420 773 676 735

About Balancealots

Balancealots are a contemporary circus company of two emerging artists: Hannah Lennox and Aleš Hrdlička who graduated from Codarts Circus Arts in 2020. The Scottish-Czech duo is fresh, colorful and eager to connect with the audience through hand balancing and juggling whilst making statements by simply being.

Web company:  instagram.com/balancealots www.aleshrdlicka.cz  www.hannahlennox.com

Creative team

Artistic coach: Joris De Jong
Co-production: Circusstad Festival Rotterdam
Set: Jan Smrkovský
Supported by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Fonds Podiumkunsten, KD Foundation

Special thanks: Lucho Smit, Cirqueon, Werkplaats Diepenheim, Circusstad team, Botovna, Lena Hermann, Borre, Alessio Sev Motta, Børre Isac L’orange
Photos by: Manon Verplancke

What we need

We are looking for a partner who would help us finance the project and space for a residency, so that we can further develop the project into a full-length performance.

Link the click

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04/092021

Losers Cirque Company – COLLAPSE

Full show acrobatics, hand2hand, indoor, outdoor

Losers Cirque Company – COLLAPSE

A collapse is a part of life, an experience that destroys, shatters and crushes. A collapse may harden us, strengthen us or just routinely recur without us even realizing its happening. Without collapses, there’s no progress, no expansion of limits, no way to move forward. We are interested in the essence of a collapse, what it does to an individual and what it does to an entire society. Will the society turn its back on those who have collapsed? Will the society take advantage of someone’s collapse or offer them a helping hand?

Length 75 min Who is it suitable for? 6+

Contact

Eva Tázlerová
Email address eva@unitedarts.cz
Telephone number +420 605 285 601

About Losers Cirque Company

This crazy contemporary circus gang has already premiered almost a dozen productions most of which are still regularly presented at venues and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. Losers also offer regular gymnastics and partner-acrobatics lessons for the public. Since 2020, they’ve managed their own theater called Divadlo Bravo!

Web company: www.loserscirque.cz

Creative team

Original idea: Petr Horníček, Tomsa Legierski, Matyáš Ramba
Director: Tomsa Legierski
Choreography: Matyáš Ramba
Stage design: Petr Horníček, Štěpán Kuklík, Amar Mulabegovič
Animation: Amar Mulabegovič, Jan Šíma – Hyperbinary
Music: Vladimír Mikláš, Josefina Žampová
Costumes: Lucie Červíková
Light design: Michael Bláha, Amar Mulabegovič
Sound: Karel Mařík
Production: United Arts

Reviews/Awards

“Once again, the Losers Cirque Company is pushing the limits of the human body and the law of gravity with playfulness, elegance and grace of movement. This time, they charm the audience with a poetic tour of life’s collapses which are everyone’s faithful companions since the plays of childhood. The show offers an innovative interpretation of the collapse as a paradoxical phenomenon, one that pushes us down while lifting us up, slows us down while pushing us forward, hurts us while making us stronger. I also applaud the sensitive and spot-on live musical and vocal accompaniment which adds power the overall impression.” – Helena Grégrová, I-DIVADLO

COLLAPSE

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04/092021

Eliška Brtnická – Fish Eye

Work in progress acrobatics, aerials, experiment, indoor, object manipulation, physical theatre, site specific

Eliška Brtnická – Fish Eye

I fall apart and reassemble, I keep changing form. I’m searching for what I am, what is shaping me and what keeps changing my structure. I float and sometimes, I get attached to glass.
Pressure turns into a wave, motion into images, impacts into sounds, water surface into flickering flashes.
A blend of dance, installation art, fashion and aerial acrobatics with a live accompaniment of ultrasound dolphin frequencies.

Length 40 min Who is it suitable for? bez omezení

Contact

Eva Roškaňuková
Email address eva.roskanukova@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 731 416 427

About Eliška Brtnická

I graduated in non-verbal theater at HAMU in Prague where I later earned a PhD with a project on aerial choreography. I passed a one-year course in circus dramaturgy organized by the CNAC and ESAC circus schools. I tend towards performances driven by a visual concept, as well as site-specific and documentary stage productions.

Web company: eliskabrtnicka.com

Creative team

Concept, performer: Eliška Brtnická
Sound design, performer: Stanislav Abrahám
Light design, technics: Vlado Veleta, Prokop Vondruška
Costume cooperation: Petra Vlachynská
Production: Eva Roškaňuková

What I need

A space with a strong sheet of glass/window for artistic residency (with the possibility to perform a work in progress).

Fish Eye

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04/092021

Losers Cirque Company – Audition

Work in progress acrobatics, aerials, hand2hand, indoor, juggling, outdoor

Losers Cirque Company – Audition

As over-the-top acrobatic show as a massaged CV. Losers Cirque Company are bringing the new show – The Competition – and only the audience decides the winner.

“We’ll call you back!” A sentence everyone has heard at least once. Today you’re going to hear it again. They will call you back indeed – if you become the chosen one of the applicants armed with fine-tuned CVs who are just getting ready to fight for… for what? Does it even matter? The winner-to-be now has to hide their true self, their principles, and their self-respect to prove they’re the very best. Or at least fake it until they make it and overcome the rest. Succeeding in the game with no clear rules is not going to be easy. Who is going to show the judges the most delightful cocktail of talent, pretence, and ambition?

Length 70 min Who is it suitable for? 6+

Contact

Eva Tázlerová
Email address eva@unitedarts.cz
Telephone number +420 605 285 601

About Losers Cirque Company

This crazy contemporary circus gang has already premiered almost a dozen productions most of which are still regularly presented at venues and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. Losers also offer regular gymnastics and partner-acrobatics lessons for the public. Since 2020, they’ve managed their own theater called Divadlo Bravo!

Web company: www.loserscirque.cz

Creative team

Directed by: Petr Horníček
Choreography: Tomáš Pražák
Script: Matěj Randár, Petr Horníček
Script editor: Matěj Randár
Supervision: Radim Vizváry
Music: Kirill Yakovlev
Costume design: Lucie Červíková
Stage design: Petr Horníček
Light design: Michael Bláha
Sound: Karel Mařík
Produced by: United Arts

Featuring: Karolína Křížková, Sára Stoulilová, Josefína Vandasová, Kirill Yakovlev, Petr Dlugoš, Adam Rameš, Lukáš Borik, Petr Dvořák, Jiří Bělka

Audition

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04/092021

MansterVille – Propane Punk Circus

Work in progress acrobatics, clowning, flow arts, juggling, outdoor, site specific, street arts

MansterVille – Propane Punk Circus

MansterVille is an interactive amusement park including a music stage and a multifunctional geodesic dome. Our work is site- and/or event-specific, so we work with artists of different skills. The planned project builds on the performance Ex Rotam, which features clown acts, live music, trapeze acrobatics and a final fire show with pyrotechnic effects.
The performance follows a simple story which unfolds around a gradually assembled giant MansterWheel. First, there is just one cage where an acrobat moves freely. The other cage is replaced by an acrobatic trapeze. Story segments alternate with acrobatic and fire-dance interludes accompanied by live music by a perfect line-up of drummers and Djs.

Length approx. 45 min Who is it suitable for? 6+

Contact

Linda Lomozová
Email address mansterville@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 731 600 356

About MansterVille

MansterVille is a fiery propane-punk theme park.
It is an interactive gallery and at the same time, an environment for artistic production of almost any kind. Its author is Vojta Štulc. We are not a typical performance company but a well-coordinated team that creates a unique background for cooperation with performers, lecturers and other creators.

Web company: www.mansterville.com

Creative team:

Ex Rotam concept
Author: Vojta Štulc
Choreography: kolektiv
Light design: Vojta Štulc, Jakub Plecitý
Sound: Petr Rachman, Robert Taschner
Artists: Vojta Štulc, Jiří Jelínek, Miroslav Zach, Jan Lacina, Filip Šebšajevič, Jaroslav Kotil & další
Production: Linda Lomozová
Photo: Jan hromádko

What we need

We need skilled acrobats who can bring the rotating trapeze number to a higher level.

Propane Punk Circus

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