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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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