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Three ballet productions from three talented young choreographers who create their art to the music of Czech composers. The artists will present their different views on the topic of time.
Teď² (Now²)
Choreography: Ondřej Vinklát
Music: Marek Pavlíček
Assistant Choreography: Igor Vejsada
Set design: Valentina Hejdová
Costume design: Pavel Knolle
Light design: Karel 'Karlos' Šimek
Performing: 2 dancers
World premiere: 18th December, 2016, Vinohrady Theatre Prague
Duration: 20 minutes
To live means to be perceived. To get to know oneself through the eyes of someone else. To find immortality in the consequences of words and actions which pervade eternity.
(based on David Mitchell)
Chvilka POEzie (Time for POEtry)
Choreography: Marek Svobodník
Music: Jaroslav Ježek and Bedřich Nikodém
Music collage: Marek Svobodník
Assistant Choreography: Igor Vejsada
Set design: Petr Siedlaczek
Costume design: Pavel Knolle
Light design: Karel 'Karlos' Šimek
Performing: 5 dancers
World premiere: 18th December, 2016, Vinohrady Theatre Prague
Duration: 20 minutes
Dark slapstick comedy based on the motifs of the famous poem The Raven by A. E. Poe.
„Waiting brings a good many distractions, such as death for instance.“
Mysterium času (The Mystery of Time)
Choreography: Hana Polanská Turečková
Music: Miloslav Kabeláč (1908 -1979) - The Mystery of Time, op.31; Jan Bubák - Introduction
Assistant Choreography: Igor Vejsada
Costume and set design: Vladimír Houdek
Costume production and set design implementation: Klára Vostárková, Karel Vostárek
Light design: Jakub Sloup
Performing: 7 dancers
World premiere: 18th December, 2016, Vinohrady Theatre Prague
Duration: 30 minutes
A dance production of Hana Polanská Turečková exploring the motif of space-time continuum as a completely natural, self-evident factor; nothing appears to be more certain than the irreversible, unrepeatable sequence of events in nature and history referring to the theory of relativity and philosophical questions related to our past, depths of space, the origin of life and certainty of death.
