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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

Filip Zahradnický – Collection of Sceptical Pleasures

Full show balance, clowning, experiment, indoor, juggling, object manipulation, outdoor, physical theatre

Filip Zahradnický – Collection of Sceptical Pleasures

“A Collection of Sceptical Pleasures” is a full-length solo performance by Filip Zahradnický which uses juggling, object manipulation and movement as its principal means of expression. The show presents an abstract collage of scenes and images inspired by the necessity and the futility of art.
Filip Zahradnický creates his own space where abstract art and particular objects come together to spawn surreal situations which challenge the genre of contemporary circus performance and art exhibition.

Length 55 min Who is it suitable for? 10+

Contact

Filip Zahradnický
Email address filip.zahradnicky@seznam.cz
Telephone number +420 721 077 855

About Filip Zahradnický

Filip Zahradnický is Czech circus artist and juggler. He studied at The Academy of Modern Circus in Copenhagen. He presented his graduation act “VERMILION” at Festival Mondial du Cirque De Demain and won two awards. As a member of Cirk La Putyka, he perfomed at the Chämaleon Theater.

Web company: www.ringjuggling.com

Creative team

Concept, set design, production: Filip Zahradnický
Supervision: Petter Wadsten
Choreographic cooperation: Michaela Stará
Light design: Karel Šimek
Music: Vojtěch Bor
Technical consultation: Olin Procházka

Co-producer: Cirqueon – A Center for Contemporary Circus
Supported by: Ministry of Culture Czech Republic

Reviews/Awards

“Filip Zahradnický projects well planned aesthetics and precise craftsmanship in connection with unifying framework concept.” – Dance News

”There was something spectacular beyond human perception.” – Theater Newspaper

Collection of Sceptical Pleasures

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04/092021

Jonatán Vnouček a Michaela Stará – JOHNNY & JENNY

Full show clowning, object manipulation, outdoor, slapstick

Jonatán Vnouček a Michaela Stará – JOHNNY & JENNY

A Colorful Portable Toilet Romance.
A JOHHNY SERVIS portable toilet company technician is doing the daily routine when he runs into a stubborn and somewhat mischievous girl who turns his ordinary workday into an extraordinary adventure.
Original manipulation tricks, precise dynamic action and a bit of magic on top of it – that’s Johnny & Jenny, a grotesque comics-style battle to rule of the toilets for the whole family.

Length 45 min Who is it suitable for? For all audience

Contact

Zuzana Drábová
Email address johnnyajenny@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 775 028 269

About JOHNNY & JENNY

Jonatan and Michaela are schoolmates from the Department of Nonverbal Theater at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. They graduated in 2020. During their studies, they met on several creative projects. Street show JOHNNY & JENNY is their first project together. They are currently based in Prague (Czech Republic) where they work as actors.
Michaela Stará is a dancer and performer, focused mostly on movement and physical theatre. She likes to combine styles, genres and techniques. One of them is a combination of pingpong juggling with dance style Vogue and Tutting. Jonatan is a clown and performer interested in improvisation. He also does circus technique cyr wheel.
Those two together are a unique duo which makes creative and surprising shows.

Web company: www.facebook.com/JohnnyAndJennyTheShow

Creative team

Performers: Jonatán Vnouček and Michaela Stará
Co-directed and co-supervised by: Ondřej Holba
Supervision: Lukáš Houdek
Photo: Matouš Bičák
Supported by: HAMU Nonverbal Theater Department, JOHNNY SERVIS

Reviews/Awards

“…The pink cubicle is a woman’s house. A comical battle between the two protagonists ensues. The woman won’t give up her pink cubicle but the technician has a job to do and the cubicle has to be trucked elsewhere. They’re playing cat and mouse – or Tom and Jerry, to be precise – setting up traps for each other and fighting for their territory like lions. It’s a comical spectacle…” – Dance News

“Johnny & Jenny is a family romantic slapstic comedy by performers Jonatán Vnouček and Michaela Stará which tells the misadventures of a portable-toilet technician whose path is suddenly crossed – or whose cubicle is suddenly occupied – by a lady with a sense of humor.” – Dance News

JOHNNY & JENNY

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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

Squadra Sua – Across

Full show clowning, indoor, object manipulation, outdoor, physical theatre

Squadra Sua – Across

A surreal clown comedy directed by Jos Houben and Veronika Poldauf Riedlbauchová.
Five clowns are on their way from point A to point B, or maybe from B to A, or if you want, to point C via a load of other points. They’re on the path everyone loves to stroll through their inner world. You can’t avoid a story no matter how hard you try.
Five clowns in smart jackets bring up a heavy question: to be or not to be. It’s so heavy that at least one of them should lose some weight. Five clowns stick to their course without asking where the sticks came from. Dream logic and everyday absurdity ceremoniously intermix in suspended buckets. But if you trip, don’t kick the bucket!

Length 70 min Who is it suitable for? 9+

Contact

Klára Vančáková
Email address squadrasua@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 737 902 769

About Squadra Sua

Our work oscillates between boisterous outdoor slapstick and refined stage productions, both based on the clown archetype and the principles of clown acts. Seen from a clown’s perspective, life’s everyday adventures are revealed as both ordinary and transcendental.

Web company: www.squadrasua.cz

Creative team

Directed by: Jos Houben and Veronika Poldauf Riedlbauchová
Clowns: Roman Horák, Lukáš Houdek, Michal Chovanec, Robert Janč, Ondřej Klíč
Set and costume design: Petra Vlachynská
Music: Jan Šikl
Light design: Michal Kříž
Supported by: Ministry of culture ČR, City of Prague, Jatka 78, Zdravotní klaun o.p.s., Cirqueon, Music Faculty AMU in Prague, Divadlo Bolka Polívky, DIOD Jihlava

Reviews/Awards

links only in czech:

Taneční aktuality (Dance News)
Divadelní noviny (Theatre News)
Operaplus.cz

Across

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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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04/092021

Viktor Černický – PLI

Full show balance, clowning, indoor, object manipulation, outdoor, physical theatre, site specific

Viktor Černický – PLI

PLI brings together 22 conference chairs, obsessive rhythm and one devoted man. On a small platform, Viktor Černický dives resolutely into the effort for indefinite construction, reconstruction and deconstruction of the Universe. The outcome is an intelligent and playful solo – a physical metaphore for endless human dynamics, patience and striving that turns even the most ordinary objects into incredible pieces of architecture.

Following the baroque philosophy of Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz, PLI is an unpredictable and humorous performance where baroque robustness is replaced with spatial modesty and material minimalism.

Length 40 min Who is it suitable for? 0-999

Contact

Viktor Černický
Email address viktor.cernicky@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 607 734 063

O souboru Viktor Černický

Viktor Černický creates works that straddle the fine line between dance, performance, circus, and physical theater. He heads the long-term research project called The Body as Object / The Object as Body which looks at the dynamics of relationships between the object and the subjective individuality of the performer.

His first solo performance Parolapolea earned him nominations in categories Dancer of the Year and Dance Performace of the Year at the 2017 Czech Dance Platform. His latest solo piece PLI, presented after 2 years of work in November 2018, received the Audience Award and Total Award of Czech Dance Platform 2019. With this performance Viktor has received an international recognition and become a part of Aerowaves Twenty20 selection.

Viktor is currently involved in the European project Shape It!, focused on mediating dialogue between dancers and young audiences, and is preparing a new work in a co-production of the international network BeSpectACTive! In addition to his own work, he collaborates with, among others, Daniel Gulko, Dominique Boivin, Cirk La Putyka, or Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté. Since 2019 he has been a guest teacher at the Prague DAMU in the international program Ma DOT.

Web company: en.palosantoprojects.com/viktor-cernicky

Creative team

Concept / choreography / performance: Viktor Černický
Light design: Zuzana Režná
Dramaturgy: Lukáš Karásek
Technical realization: Drahomír Stulír
Co-production: PONEC Dance Theater
Premiere: November 11, 2018, PONEC – dance venue

In collaboration with: PONEC – dance venue (CZ), BuranTeatr Brno (CZ), CNK Záhrada Banská Bystrica (SK), Théâtre De L’arsenal Val-de-Reuil (FR), CIRQUEON Praha (CZ), Alfréd ve dvoře Theatre (CZ), Studio Alta and Festival Bazaar (CZ), Pôtoň Theatre (SK), Festival Kiosk (SK), CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa (IT)

Financially supported by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and The City of Brno.

Reviews/Awards

Audience Award and Total Award of the Czech Dance Platform 2019.
Theater News Award 2019 nomination for concept and choreography.
Dance performance of the Year and Dancer of the Year nominations at Czech Dance Platform 2017.

“PLI is not just a great performance, it is a visionary step. A window into the theater of the future where fundamentals of conventional art forms no longer apply.” – Martin Macháček, Dance Zone

“A unique piece, dazzling with its genius simplicity and absolute harmony of all elements.” – Josef Bartoš, Dance News

“Such incredibly powerful is this childlish world with its simplicity, craziness and fears.” –Veronika Hrabalová, Dance Zone