experiment

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

Eliška Brtnická – HANG OUT

Full show experiment, outdoor, site specific, street arts

Eliška Brtnická – HANG OUT

“The greatest danger in life is that we become too cautious.” (Japanese proverb)
One of today’s highest values is safety. An increasingly extensive system of rules and standards is supposed to guarantee that “nothing can happen to us” in public space. Where and at what risk is it still possible to wander outside, hang out, hang up and hang out? Do our children still go out alone? Safety has become our mantra, but don’t we miss the trembling, because of which we jump with a parachute or at least go to the circus?
Performer and acrobat Eliška Brtnická deal in her audio walk performance HANG OUT with remote and forbidden places in public space, where you maybe always wanted to climb.

Length 40 min Who is it suitable for? 0-100

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: www.eliskabrtnicka.com

Creative team

Concept, performance, stage design: Eliška Brtnická
Script: Eliška Brtnická, Viktorie Knotková
Voiceover: Tereza Hofová
Dramaturgy: Viktorie Knotková
Supervision: Stéphanie N’Duhirahe
Sound design: Roman Džačár, Stanislav Abrahám
Production: Eva Roškaňuková, Iva-Hedvika Zýková
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
In cooperation with: KD Mlejn, Cirqueon, Roundabout Europe
Supported by: Prague Municipal Authority, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Reviews/Awards

links only in czech:

Taneční zóna (Dance zone)
Divadelní noviny (Theatre News)

HANG OUT

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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

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

Alžběta Tichá – Stav

Work in progress aerials, experiment, flow arts, indoor, outdoor, site specific

Alžběta Tichá – Stav

We are all constantly changing…
The STAV solo performance is a metaphor of a woman’s life path. Time is running and she is changing at every moment. Who was she in the beginning and who is she now? What comes next?
The constant yet unconscious metamorphosis of the physical and mental state is visualized and communicated through the movement of the acrobat.
The story serves as an inspiration to gain awareness of the transformations we undergo in life.

Length 18 min Who is it suitable for? 6+

Contact

Alžběta Tichá
Email address betkaticha@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 777 357 207

About Alžběta Tichá

Alžběta is a Czech circus performer. She stared as a dancer at the Duncan Center dance conservatory in Prague. Afterwards, she graduated in aerial acrobatics from Codarts-University of Arts in Netherlands in 2020. Nowadays, Bětka’s interest lies in a conceptual research of aerial acrobatics.

Web company: www.pragueaerial.com/

Creative team

Performer: Alžběta Tichá
Concept: Alžběta Tichá
Collaboration: Cécile da Costa, Ondřej Holba
Music: Jakub Štourač
Light design: Vojta Brtnický
Partners : Codarts – University of the Arts, KD Mlejn, Cirqueon
Supported by: Zero Point festival

What I need

At this moment, this project is nearly completed. For this performance, I am looking for a co-production. I am still working on the stage design and dramaturgy and I am seeking financial support. I would be really happy If i could find some production support/help as well.

Stav

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04/092021

Ondřej Holba – And Who Is Useless Now?

Full show dance, experiment, object manipulation, outdoor, physical theatre, robots

Ondřej Holba – And Who Is Useless Now?

And Who Is Useless Now? is an original theater performance about a man, four robots, one slightly elitist artificial intelligence, and the transfer of responsibility to technologies.
While Wendy the A.I. is trying to use art to win humans’ acceptance as a thinking being, Florent who shares the stage with her is beginning to doubt his human mind. How much freedom and human qualities are we willing to sacrifice for comfort?

Length 45 min Who is it suitable for? 6+

Contact

Ondřej Holba
Email address ondrejholba@protonmail.com

About Ondřej Holba

As a director, performer and teacher, I specialize in original movement theater performances, contemporary circus and circus pedagogy. My past projects include Still life (2016), Kukačka (The Cuckoo, 2017), Parazit (Parasite, 2019), And Who Is Useless Now? (2019), Johnny & Jenny (2020), Indický běžec (The Indian Runner, 2020) and Narušení (Disturbance, 2021).

Web company: www.whois.ondrejholba.cz

Creative team

Original idea, director: Ondřej Holba (CZ)
Co-author and performer: Florent Golfier (FR/CZ)
Artistic advisor: Heli Väätäinen (FIN)
Light design: Martin Hamouz (CZ)
Music: J. S. Bach, Ferenc Liszt, Roman Zabelov
Photo: Benn Murhaaya, Vojtěch Brtnický

Reviews/Awards

links only in czech:

Taneční aktuality (Dance news)
CIRQUEON.cz

And Who Is Useless Now?

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04/092021

Cirkus TeTy – Peeping Janes

Work in progress aerials, experiment, indoor, physical theatre

Cirkus TeTy – Peeping Janes

Peeping Janes is the second of three performances commemorating the 10th anniversary of Cirkus TeTy and takes up the theme of the contrast between idealized expectations and the reality. In our experimental approach to the subject of maternity, the stage is occupied by maternity’s most fundamental impulses: mothers, non-mothers and children. The show lives in the borderland of contemporary circus, dance, and physical theater, and features aerial acrobatics using a suspended rope tunnel.

Length 45-60 min Who is it suitable for? 12+

Contact

Jana Ada Kubíčková
Email address produkce@cirkustety.cz
Telephone number +420 776 203 313

About Cirkus TeTy

Cirkus TeTy is a small independent company from Prague founded in 2011 which focuses on aerial acrobatics and discovering new materials and shapes for the discipline. In 2021, TeTy will present their sixth premiere: Voyeky/Peeping Janes which they have co-created with invited performers from across the Czech independent contemporary-circus scene.

Web company: www.cirkustety.cz

Creative team

Director and artistic supervisor: Martina Hajdyla Lacová
Movement laboratories: Markéta Vacovská, Cécile da Costa, Eliška Brtnická
Acrobatics supervisor: Stéphanie N’Duhirahe
Performers: Jiřina Jonáková, Kateřina Klusáková, Kateřina Petrlíková, Klára Hajdinová, Michaela Stará, Pavla Rožníčková, Stéphanie N’Duhirahe, Veronika Smolková, Auro, Borek, Dorka, Lío, Nela, Róza and Sára
Scene and Costume design: Lucia Škandíková
Music: Ivo Sedláček
Light design: Karlos Šimek
Produced by: Jana Ada Kubíčková, Pavla Rožníčková
Supported by: CIRQUEON, KD Mlejn, Prague Municipal Authority, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Czech Culture Fund

Peeping Janes

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04/092021

Stárková, Blaha, Menoušek – LAVABO

Full show experiment, indoor, juggling, object manipulation, physical theatre, site specific

Stárková, Blaha, Menoušek – LAVABO

LAVABO is a physical performance with contemporary circus elements . The performance is the result of exploration of both physical and spiritual cleansing and hygiene, a transient experience connected to the body, and those moments when we are alone.
Where does the human body end and the mind begins?
The face is one of the only part of the body we never see. The only times we see it is in a bare reflection or reproduction.
LAVABO is a physical performance with contemporary-circus elements. The performance is the result of an exploration of physical and spiritual cleansing and hygiene – transient body-related experiences in our moments of solitude. Where does the human body end and the mind begin? The face is the only part of our body we can never see except as a reflection or a reproduction.

Length 55-60 min Who is it suitable for? 12+

Contact

Lukas Blaha
Email address lukas.bliss@gmail.com
Telephone number +420 774 567 702

About Blaha, Stárková, Menoušek

The Blaha, Stárková, Menoušek trio met during their studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (KALD and KND). In 2018, they cooperated on the DÓ project – a physical-theater haiku with circus elements. In their work, they combine research of juggling and object manipulation with physical theater and dance. They search for atypical theatrical and non-theatrical spaces which are key to their productions.

Web company: facebook.com/inscenacelavabo

Creative team

Authors: Jana Stárková, Lukas Blaha, Ondřej Menoušek
Sound design: David Herzig, Kryštof Blabla
Light design: Rufina Bazlova
Production: Damaris Kopecká
Photography: Tasya Nafigina
Trailer: Martin Kubalec
Full show footage: Mikuláš Hrdlička
Photo: David Konečný

Supported by: CIRQUEON, DAMU, HAMU, BiOOOcz, Nadace život umělce

Thanks to: Indigo Ale Bar, Kasárna Karlín, Lázně Toušeň Spa, Kamila Menoušková, Eliška Vavříková, Sára Pospíšilová, Anna Šurovská – a little.

The performance was created in a residency program by CIRQUEON – A Center For Contemporary Circus

Reviews/Awards

LAVABO was selected for the Czech Dance Platform 2020 showcase festival.

“The mindfulness and the raw energy which Lukas exhibits as he moves through the various motifs and symbols of the show create an explosive mix which makes the audience absorb his every movement, desire to interpret it, fear the outcome and have immense fun all at the same time.” – Dominik Melichar, Divadelní Noviny (https://www.divadelni-noviny.cz/cirkopolis-no-3-1).

What we need

We are currently searching for new partners and spaces to tour and explore. Ideally in the form of a few day research and rehearsal phase to tailor the show to the specificity of the location, followed by the actual show itself.

LAVABO

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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

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).