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NEW GENERATION: Brož/Lopakhtina/Musilová/Panenková/Parisi/Saida
Note to the audience: a strobe light is used in the performance
reminiscence of…
Choreography and dance interpretation: Akari Saida
Music: Christoffer Franzen
Memories of that person - the voice, the smell, sensations that I keep in my heart
Akari Saida has belonged to Kasai Dancing Company since 2005. She has been studying at Japan Women’s College of Physical Education from 2021.
NOVÁ GENERACE: Brož/Lopakhtina/Musilová/Panenková/Parisi/Saida
Maraton
Choreography: Kateryna Lopakhtina
Dance Interpretation: Maksym Nimak, Adam Klepáč, Tereza Výborná, Alexandra Lur’je, Emma Mrázková
Music: Isorine
Three, two, one, go. Deep inhale into the lungs. One, two, three. Slowly exhale. One, two, three. You've got 42,195 miles of hard road ahead. Use all available methods to reach your destination as quickly as possible.
Do you feel the strength leaving you? Take a short break. Breathe in, like you'd be filling your lungs with new life. One, two, three. Exhale. One, two, three.
Kateryna Lopakhtina is a choreographer and dancer. After the war started in her homeland, Ukraine, she moved to Prague. Currently she’s studying choreography at the HAMU Dance Department.
In her work she likes to deal with experimental forms and focuses on detail.
after a state of standstills
Choreography: Vojtěch Brož
Dance Interpretation: Irene Parisi, Lujza Spáčilová
Costumes: Josef Kovář, Kevin Smolka
Music: Iannis Xenakis
I leave my body
Deconstruct a line
Drown into the space
As if everything was made out of clay
Does your head spin after a state of standstills
Vojtěch Brož is a first year student of choreography at HAMU. He started creating small choreographic pieces while studying at the Elementary Art School in Vodňany. For his first choreography “Dotek Maleviče” he won the Dance Award at the National Showcase of Contemporary Dance in Jablonec nad Nisou in 2020.
Sisdentical
Choreography: Žaneta Musilová
Dance Interpretation: Alexandra Mádrová, Veronika Bukovská
Music: David Lang, René Aubry
The fusion, fertilization of two gametes (sex cells) into a zygote. The subsequent development into an embryo and a fetus to form a new organism. These cells are multiplied to the number of fifteen, called the morula stage and further they organize themselves into the basis of organs and development of the fetus.
In this complex process, unexpected changes can occur - an individual organism doubles.
The division of the common base, the splitting of the embryo in two.
"We grew up together and without a name. They just called us twins."
Sisterhood as a need for the other. Sisterhood as natural rivalry and competition. Sisterhood
as a paradox between the wanted and the unwanted, each with its pros and cons.
Žaneta Musilová is a choreographer and performer of the dance group SPOLK. She graduated from the Duncan Centre Conservatory and is currently studying choreography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She also collaborates on artistic projects with Cirk La Putyka or with Adéla Stodolová in the performance Landscape 0. She is also a lecturer at the Dana Pala Creativity dance school.
cacciaVITE
Choreography: Irene Parisi
Dance Interpretation: Amálie Špachtová, Lujza Spáčilová, Aurélia Rapušáková
Harp: Minja Stojanovic
The circle is not only a geometric shape, but also a system of various organs that form a single large system. So why not say that man, as a geometric form, is a circle? We have different organs that allow us to form our body for survival, as well as different archetypes that make up our psyche and different details that make up our physical appearance. All these parts create the configuration of our person.
Our lives are surrounded by circles; we believe they are protections, but what if all this becomes a restriction? The human being needs to close the shapes; in fact, he considers the circle a "magical protector," which creates cohesion between body and soul. We create a circle, a safe space, that actually doesn’t protect us but destroys us.
Irene Parisi is a student at the National Dance Academy in Rome in the choreographic department and currently is in an Erasmus exchange program here at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
During her studies she took part in several choreographic projects as a dancer. As a choreographer, she has already achieved several successes, such as being a finalist at the national arts award in Rome with the study "e-motion" (2021), emerging choreographer at the Resid'AND festival of the National Dance Academy in Rome, and the national premiere of the choreography "e-motion" at the Sfera Danza Festival at the Teatro ai Colli in Padua.
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Skeleton Woman
Director: Johana Panenková (HAMU)
Spoken language: English
Camerawork: Alžběta Kristína Viskupová (UTB)
Choreography: Johana Panenková (HAMU) and the collective
Interprets: Johana Panenková, Barbora Matějková, Lara Hereu
Costumes provided by Studio 3
Light design: Klára Pavlíčková
Sound design: Amélie Girodová (HAMU)
Assistant for sign language: Tereza Hromádková (HAMU)
“He was ten years older than me. always picked me up in his car.
I didn't have a driving license, you know.
Everytime we were in that car, he wanted to touch me, to make love... since we're alone.
I didn't want that. But I didn't know any better.”
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In this multimedia dance performance inspired by an Inuit legend of Skeleton Woman (as told by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves), Amka (Johana Panenková) and Uki (Barbora Matějková) take you through the process of bringing their Skeleton out of the sea to return life to the rotten flesh in order to become a whole person again. In searching for a way to cope with sexual trauma and learning to trust each other they are accompanied by the voice and vision of HER, who knows all women's stories. SHE (Lara Hereu) is not present on the stage. Or is she? Maybe you just need to feel her presence through a different lens.
Using spoken word, international sign language, video and dance the author tries to demonstrate different communication tools that can be used in relation to understanding of and coping with sexual trauma – both inside one’s mind and when viewed from the outside.
Johana Panenková is currently an undergraduate student of Dance pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Coming from a background not only in dance, but also combined art studies and fashion design, she loves to collaborate with artists from different art fields. As a creator, performer or staff member in local Czech festivals (NextWave, Zlomvaz, Noc Divadel, Povaleč, Prague Quadrennial) and internationally (b12).
The event is organized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Municipality of the Capital City of Prague. Other partners of the event are HAMU, DISK, KD Mlejn and Dance Context.
NEW GENERATION is a platform for presenting student’s work of the Department of Dance and the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at HAMU. The evening will include, among others, two choreographies created in collaboration with
Prague Dance Conservatory and SOŠ, s.r.o