: Katedra tance HAMU
The main program of the New Generation Festival—student-composed evenings at the DISK theatre. Both HAMU students and foreign students will present their work. On Saturday evening, students from Ochanomizu University in Japan and the Academy of Performing Arts in Slovakia will be featured. On Sunday evening, students from Ochanomizu University in Japan and the Academy of Performing Arts in Slovakia will be featured.
The New Generation Festival is a festival of dance and non-verbal theater, Czech and foreign students, and a new generation of choreographers, dancers, and performers.
New Generation is a platform for the public presentation of works by students of the Department of Dance and the Department of Nonverbal Theater at HAMU. The partners of this platform are AMU, the Prague City Hall, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and Dance Context.
Saturday, 22 November 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 60 minutes, no intermission
Semi-grown
"Semi" in Japanese, on the other hand, means a cicada.
I want to leave, but I don't want to leave.
What are cicadas thinking about while they emerge and fly out of their shells?
The emergence of a cicada brings to mind the child's growing independence from its parent.
We will try to express the complex and delicate feelings that come with stepping into a new stage in life.
Choreography, interpretation: Yoko Sassa, Rino Marutani (Ochanomizu University Tokyo)
Music: René Aubry, Jun Miyake
Castles, Capes & Curtain Calls
As children, we dreamed boldly, unburdened by reality, certain of who we’d become. Astronauts. Artists. Heroes. But as life unfolded, those dreams often shifted or slipped away entirely. This isn't failure; it's evolution. This piece honors those early visions, not with regret, but with reverence. It mourns them gently, acknowledging their role in shaping us. Yet, it also urges us not to remain shackled to past expectations. Who we thought we’d be matters less than who we choose to be today. True fulfillment doesn’t lie in chasing a version of ourselves frozen in time. It lives in embracing the present, in finding meaning in who we are now. In this, there is resilience. In this, growth. And, above all, self-compassion.
As a first-year student at HAMU, "Castles, Capes & Curtain Calls" represents my exploration of the concept of theme and variations.
Though this piece was created as part of an assignment, it carries deeper personal significance. It’s a reflection on the process of finding one’s voice as an artist, but also as an individual. The work encourages the audience to consider their own journeys, to remember their childhood dreams not with regret, but with gratitude. It’s a reminder that the pursuit of fulfillment doesn’t hinge on chasing an outdated version of ourselves. It’s about honoring the present and embracing the evolution of who we choose to be today.
Choreography: Vladlena Klimek
Interpretation: Tereza Moulisová, Dalma Kitley, Lídia Bassa Arranz, Aina Sánchez Torres
Silent protocols
The stereotyped habits of everyday life appear in everyday practice as an established system of mechanics, automatism, or templates. The ordinary day and everyday actions become more vivid through the dancing body, stimulating our imagination.
Concept, choreography, interpretation: Dominik Dolník (VŠMU)
OKURINA - If I could play the PIANO
Had I imagined how you played the piano, I might have caught you and touched your soul.
The days gone by, and my regrets get growing.
This sorrow stays in, between only you and me.
Gray memories frozen in, now, let be free.
Choreographers: Moe Aita and Yoko Sassa (Ochanomizu University Tokyo)
Dancers: Sarah Ide, Keiko Kawasaki, Ayano Kitajima, Rino Marutani, Risako Murahata, Yumika Sakoda and Shiori Yoshimura
Music: Hania Rani, Dobrawa Czocher, Shinya Kiyozuka
IMPRINT
A Habit is a shirt that no one sews with the same thread. Bodies answer questions that the mind has never heard. We put ourselves in shapes that we did not invent. Each one alone, yet all the same. Every night we paint a picture with different strokes. We invent order so that we do not have to think about chaos... and sometimes it works.
Choreography, concept: Kateřina Zemanová
Light design: Kateřina Zemanová
Costumes: Anna Kotyková
Music: Aaron Capland, Daniil Trifonov
Pedagogical supervision: doc. Mgr. Bohumíra Eliášová, Ph.D.
Sunday, 23 November 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 75 minutes, no intermission
A Waltz for Weeds and Other Individuals
At first glance, a meadow. At second glance, still a meadow — but somehow alive. The people on it don’t move the way people are supposed to — or maybe exactly the way they should.
“A Waltz for Weeds and Other Individuals” is not a reconstruction of insect life. It’s a series of movement variations on the everyday drama unfolding beneath a single blade of grass. Lyrical moments alternate with the grotesque; small things take on surprising weight.
In the end, no one is quite sure who was observing whom. But everyone grows.
Euphoria arrives — probably at the moment when none of it makes sense anymore.
Concept, choreography: Alice Silná
Interpretation: Jolana Vacková, Rozálie Husáková, Vladlena Klimek, Julie Miadikova, Jonáš Snítil, David Horák, Vojtěch Javůrek
Music: Colleen Richardson
Pedagogical supervision: doc. Mgr. Bohumíra Eliášová, Ph.D.
Outbound
The way of life is like ripples on the water. Sometimes are chaotic, sometimes are peaceful and gentle and also rampant. But these processes will always lead the river to the destination. In the direction of the end, the daily commute has become a ritual. Without the interruption of crowds, the feelings of each journey are recorded.
Choreography, interpretation, stage & costume design: Bo-Jia Huang
#39FF14
Keep focus. Neon nature on speed.
Choreography: Amálie Cuplová
Interpretation: Tomáš Havlík, Simona Hybenová, Oliver Zabystrzan
Music: Philip Glass
Pedagogical supervision: doc. Mgr. Bohumíra Eliášová, Ph.D.
Cooperation
What happens if five personalities meet in the space? What if five spines meet in the space? What if ten eyes meet in the space? Can it happen that this mass of bodyparts become one brain? We are discovering pathways in a common breath.
We work with space, time, dynamic and we use anatomical and somatic approach , the knowledge what we gathered in our academic process as a source of inspiration.
At the moment this piece is a working progress, our last year in our school, and we were given with this possibility to create and dance together for the last time.
Creators & performers: Sára Borbála Csaba, Simona Lazurová, Veera Laurila, Katalin Huszár, Benedek Jácinta
To lay a track
In to lay a track, six dancers explore the traces that their movements leave behind (on their own bodies, in space, on each other). Solo, in pairs, as a collective body - how does dance leave its traces? Through changes to their postures, impulses from outside and the ever-changing arrangement of their bodies in space, not only does the physicality of their own bodies change, but the surrounding space is also transformed.
Choreography: Leonie Frühe
Dancers: Daniela Pagitsch, Katharina Kern, Jonah Martensen, Srdjan Ivanović, Brice Berthelot, Leonie Frühe
New Generation Festival 2025
Saturday 22 November & Sunday 23 November from 19:30 (7:30 p.m.)