15th Internation Theatre Festival
4+4 Days in motion, Prague

October 15 - 22, 2010

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About festival

Festival present contemporary inovative theatre projects, unique site-specific projects, exhibition, projections, concerts …..Every year the festival presents ca twenty groups from all over the world. The particularity of the festival is to enliven objects of the Prague architecture by theatre and presentation of international projects co-produced by Four Days.

During its twelfth years of existence the International Theatre Festival Four Days in Motion not only found its own audience but also achieved prestige abroad for moving from place to place. After past years of the festival in non-typical theatrical spaces - old sewage plant in Bubenec (1998), factory halls of CKD Karlin (1999), former Holesovicky Brewery (2000), theromantic environment of Tyršův House, Nosticova Hall and Újezd's surroundings (2001) and typical theatrical space Ponec Theatre (2002) and in the area of former brickwork in Šárecké Valley (2003) we have decided to continue to enliven untraditional places of the Prague architecture. Thus the festival has re-injected life into specific localities within Prague’s industrial architecture and gained a unique position among the local cultural scene. In 2005 festival 4 + 4 Days in Motion was held on 18th and 19th May in the Prague ZOO and from 20th till 25th May moved to the ice hockey stadium HC Hvezda in Prague 6 Vokovice. In 2006 become the heart of the festival the house in the centre of Prague (former dental clinic) in Jungmannova 21 and international companies were presented in theatres Alfred ve dvore (Alfred in the Couryard)and Ponec Theatre . Next year we cooperated with famous Dutch group Theatre SILO. Together with Czech artists they tailored the space of the Agricultural Museum in Prague to ask the audience and passers by the crucial questions of cultivation – the site-specific project named KULTIVAR. Jednotka/Unit built up amazing bar at the Letná park and theatre performances took place in theatres Archa and Ponec.
In 2008 the collective “work” by 70 artists called Big Gruppen Hybrid Painting Session came into life during one week in Holesovice halls 23 and 24. The festival bar was again created by Jednotka/Unit and the performances took place in Archa Theatre, Ponec, La Fabrika and Hall Alta 30.

At the same time the festival with its varied genre overlap, untraditional spaces and accessibility attracts and addresses spectators from various social backgrounds creating an audience which combines both a professional and non professional public. Thanks to this overlap of individual genres, visitors of theatre are brought into contact with visitors of concerts, of fine art and with lovers of dance music. In this respect the festival is quite unique within the Czech context. During the course of the festival, workshops, performances and seminars take place. On the creation of the Site-Specific projects, the Four Days works together with the Czech organization mamapapa which focuses on the preparation and education of progressive performers of the performing arts from the whole of Europe. The integrate part of the festival is the cooperation with the group Jednotka / Unit which has been the creator of the design of the festival non traditional spaces and the unique bar.

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