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16th Performing Arts Festival, Prague
October 15–22, 2011
Archa Theatre, Alfred ve dvoře Theatre, MeetFactory, Studio Alta, ÚLUV, Stadion Bohemians 1905 (Ďolíček), non-traditional spaces
An exhibition of contemporary art
Curators: Kateřina Fojtíková, Marianna Serranová, Gabriela Kotíková, Sodja Lotker, Lenka Vítková, Markéta Vinglerová, Karina Kottová, Terezie Nekvindová, Markéta Stará, Vjera Borozan, Jiří Ptáček, Ondřej Horák, Filip Polanský, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dušan Záhoranský, David Kořínek, Martin Mazanec, Jiří Zemánek, Jan Pfeiffer, Matyáš Chochola, František Kowolowski, Jan Freiberg. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Pavel Karous, ad.
14. 10. Exhibition Opening 8 p.m.!
Exhibition opened daily from 15. till 22. 10. (weekends: 1 pm–10 pm, working days 4 pm–10 pm). ÚLUV – former Center for Folk Art Production, Národní 36, Prague 1 (entrance from Charvátova Street no.10), 2nd + 4th floors
ArtMap's bookshop finds a temporary "refuge" inside the ÚLUV building, with the aim of gathering art-related literature – theory, artists' books, and catalogs – all in one place.
Festival bar, open daily
Oct 14 9 p.m. -
ÚLUV opening party: The Fakes DJs
Oct 15 9 p.m. -
Opening Party Festivalu 4+4 dny v pohybu: DJ LIQUID A
Oct 19, 10:30 pm - DJ SHALOKIM party
Oct 20, 9 pm - HIFI JAZZ LOUNGE PARTY with TAWAT DJS (dj OLLGOY + dj KID DYNAMIT)
Oct 22 9 p.m. -
Closing party: DJ Voita (Breakbeat.cz), DJ Wokurka (The Tchendos)
Interactive installation and video projection at the ÚLUV vestibule.
At our attractive offices, you can find information on tours and make your ticket purchase.
The aim is for ProLuka to become an open-air gallery, a public space, and a place for cultural and social interaction.
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Curators: Kateřina Fojtíková, Marianna Serranová, Gabriela Kotíková, Sodja Lotker, Lenka Vítková, Markéta Vinglerová, Karina Kottová, Terezie Nekvindová, Markéta Stará, Vjera Borozan, Jiří Ptáček, Ondřej Horák, Filip Polanský, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dušan Záhoranský, David Kořínek, Martin Mazanec, Jiří Zemánek, Jan Pfeiffer, Matyáš Chochola, František Kowolowski, Jan Freiberg. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Pavel Karous, and more.
ÚLUV opening party: The Fakes DJs
Festival bar Happy BARrels (ÚLUV 1st floor)
Party Games with Invisible Playground
The Field Office Prague opens its doors for the first time to allow a
limited group of brave adventurers to test elements of its upcoming Release.
Find true love! Smuggle tetris pieces! And use the prototype of our new
detection device for secret street poetry! Test runs will be announced
throughout the party."
Before Your Very Eyes, the latest project by renowned German-British ensemble Gob Squad, comes to Prague mere months after its successful world premiere in Berlin. Czech audiences are thus lucky to see this exclusive international show soon after its premiere – thanks to enthusiastic reviews, interest in the show is immense throughout Europe. Before Your Very Eyes will go on tour over the coming years – that is, until the children grow up. The performance's main protagonists are children ranging in age from eight to fourteen.
Festival bar Happy BARrels (ÚLUV 1st floor)
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Czech premiere!
Destined to be a must-see spectacle! The legendary "one-oh-fives" (loosely translated, "Vosto5" means "Give it 105%") offer their own playful interpretation of Czech history. Against a backdrop of real historical events, they present the story of a fictitious resistance group, a kind of Czech League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Written and directed by Jiří Havelka.
Fragments of original dance performance for free interpreters created for 4 + 4 Days in Motion festival 2011 in solo perfornance. A woman lost somewhere in a sandy landscape - in a pit with no bottom, in a chasm without ladders. Reconciled with her fate and adapted to life in an unfavourable place where no one else can live. An ever-present light from the watchtower doesn't allow her to sleep nor to dream.
Do you like action? Want to play around in places that you previously only walked past given them a second thought? Then try out this extraordinary experience in ordinary life, an innovative "street games" project on an invisible playground in the streets of Prague.
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To take part, please make a reservation by sending us an email to fieldoffice@invisibleplayground.com with the subject "ATTENDING".
Site specific - Noah's Ark at the foot of Mt. Ararat. A slide lecture.
Towards the end of summer, author and geologist Václav Cílek unexpectedly departed for Mt. Ararat in order to study a natural object resembling, in size and shape, Noah's Ark.
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In the main role: photographers. How are they depicted in film, and what is reality? Photographs and screenings on the media image of photographers.
with Lukáš Beran and Vladislava Valchářová (Research Centre for Industrial Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University)
The tour will head towards the "Waldeska" on the corner of Vršovická and Moskevská streets, a factory owned today by Koh-i-noor. Here in 1907, businessman Jindřich Waldes and engineer Hynek Puc started producing small metal goods, including snap fasteners.
a compiled evening on the subject of remapping
A lecture by Václav Hájek
Botič Creek is one of Prague's most important creeks, and was the site of human settlement already in the distant past. The Botič valley is thus a mixture of cultural and natural landscapes.
By far the funniest Scandinavian theater ensemble, Jo Strømgren Kompani will be making its fourth appearance at 4+4 Days in Motion, where its previous three shows received enthusiastic ovations. Last year's dance homage to the art of football as seen through ballet was a masterly combination of "low-brow" sports and the "high-brow" world of art. This year, the leader of Norway's independent scene arrives with an equally entertaining subject: coffee-drinking. The ensemble's members present a society of coffee connoisseurs as they gather for their favorite daily ritual, when suddenly their calm is interrupted by a horrible incident – one of the group's members finds a used tea bag! An extensive investigation is launched, which raises a number of important questions: Is there a traitor among us? Or is it a worldwide tea conspiracy?
Workshop
A presentation of developments in contemporary dance and a discussion of its current state.
The evening dedicated to Ján Mančuška.
The aim of the evening is not to be a pathos-laden tribute to Mančuška, but a kind of critical séance of his work. Guests include critics and theoreticians, who have been asked to write a short critical review of one of his works of their choosing.
This unique Brazilian show goes literally to the bone – to places where, to use the author's words, "Franz Kafka meets Michael Jackson." The play turns the cult of beauty – a phenomenon that can be seen both in the Czech Republic and in Brazil (a country known as the kingdom of plastic surgery) – on its head.
Czech premiere!
Aristocrats talking about wealth, about the problems faced by an accelerating world.
Visions, plans, strategies, questions, answers, ideas, etc.
The Arts Institute – Theatre Institute follows up on a meeting held in March 2011 at Divadlo v Celetné on the subject of promoting Czech theater abroad and the Institute's role in this area.
Symposium
How are artists, production agencies, producers, or state, regional, and municipal grant systems responding to new trends in art? Is the new artistic generation still in puberty or are the cities, regions, and the state already in retirement?
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To take part, please make a reservation by sending us an email to fieldoffice@invisibleplayground.com with the subject "ATTENDING". Tickets can be purchased directly at the Field Office.
Czech premiere!
The six-year-old Czech artistic ensemble Handa Gote, whose philosophy is influenced by (among other things) minimalism, often focuses on so-called "small histories." This time around, the ensemble takes a look into its own personal archives. Choreographer and dancer Veronika Švábová (who has collaborated with the Forman Brothers Theater, Krepsko, and the National Theater) explores her family history, looking for important moments and seeming trivia that remain in the memory of her family to this day.
A presentation of three current contests for transforming Zlín's city centre – the redesign and renovation of the "Gahura Prospekt", Comenius Park, and the pedestrian underpass on Labour Square.
with TAWAT DJS (dj OLLGOY + dj KID DYNAMIT)
Intimate version of popular party specially for people in motion.
Dancin´party in the style of acidjazz/funk/soul/boogie/disco...
Retro - future outfit & dancin´shoes advantage
An activity for the preservation of endangered and abandoned buildings.
+ 8 p.m. Art and all-night entertainment with A2 (IQ+1, RUiNU, DJs)
The term SOCIAL ACUPUNCTURE was invented by the artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex, novelist, essayist, actor, and director Darren O'Donnell.. Eva Verity, artistic producer of Canada's Mammalian Diving Reflex, will discuss the ensemble's unconventional (by Czech standards) projects, many of which bear truly unusual titles: Haircuts by Children!, Slow Dance with Teacher, The Best Sex I Ever Had (this last piece features German and Canadian senior citizens).
Follow the Field Office Prague live on fieldofficeprague.com
To take part, please make a reservation by sending us an email to fieldoffice@invisibleplayground.com with the subject "ATTENDING". Tickets can be purchased directly at the Field Office.
Videoart
Horror – oddities – violence - porn – perversion. An evening of videos for the Pavlovian reflex, selected on the basis of suspense, humor, and entertainment value. The aesthetics of B movies on the very edge of good taste. Get ready for a ticklish program from the video archives of the AVU Research Centre.
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This captivating piece for seven dancers from various countries – which, according to its authors, "finds the beauty within the tension between hero and human". The performance's main characteristics are its perfect movement technique, infectious energy, lightness, inventiveness, and humor. The unusual stage design, with ropes of shimmering diamonds and superhero costumes, was created by Deja Donne's artistic director, the Czech Republic's Lenka Flory.
IQ+1 -The IQ+1 improv ensemble can be described as "site & moment-specific," since its works are always unique, created at a given moment, in a give place. The group is inspired not only from the venue and its sound qualities, but also from the current make-up of the ensemble, which can change at will.
RUiNU- This three-member band associated with the KlaNGundKRaCH label performs music on the boundary between noise and free improv. Their combination of various kinds of electronics with brass instruments gives the listener the unshakable feeling that the world is full of potential ruins.
DJs Pláteník, Lexa, Hanych & MC Soldán
The ambitious Swiss-Slovak ensemble T-d'U, composed of artists born in the 1980s, is one of the most interesting movement-based ensembles of recent years. ÔKÔ is a provocative and visually stimulating performance about various addictions during various seasons of the year, about the cycles of nature. The accompanying music, which was composed specifically for the stage, forms an inseparable part of the performance.
Following successful presentations in Montreal, Milan, London, and Los Angeles, Mammalian Diving Reflex brings Haircuts by Children to Prague – bearing nothing more than a pair of scissors. The public is invited to participate in this living performance, which will confirm your faith in the future. Mammalian Diving Reflex asks you to put your hair in the hands of young Czech hairdressers – after all, children will soon be handed real "scissors" with which to shape our world and our lives. Each of these young "hairstylists" will one day have the right to vote, to run for president, to drive a streetcar… Haircuts by Children! is a performance about all of our faith in the future.
What happens when an artist misses the ball.
With: Ondřej David, Petra Hauerová, Phase, Stage Code, Howie Lotker, Kolouchův sen, Ondřej Socha, OLDStars, The Chendos and others.
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Funky breaks, new funk
Voita (Breakbeat.cz), Dj Wokurka (The Tchendos) - funky breaks, new funk
Festival bar Happy BARrels (ÚLUV 1st floor)
Organizer:
Čtyři dny, c/o Divadelní ústav, Celetná 17, Praha 1,
tel./fax: +420 224 809 125, tel. +420 224 809 116,
e-mail: fourdays@theatre.cz
http://www.ctyridny.cz
