Pulsar Prague cz - Michal Záhora - současný tanec

2020

upcoming international project with co-producers: Meeting Brno Festival /cz/ and Komplex Chemnitz /de/

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A dance solo that expresses emotions of a generation that experienced the turn of two eras.

A childhood marked by restrictions first accepted by the society and later loosened. Beating hearts, pulse of one’s own blood that can be heard. A man/woman has matured, one that knows what he/she wants and doesn’t want. His/her steps are not guided by his/her will. The Cold War is not over yet. We live in its shadow. We live in escalated positions in which we strive for a basic human politeness. God help us. Only the active one and the one who isn’t afraid to show the direction to others can win.

40 years since birth, 30 years since the revolution – a reflection of one’s own life on the background of a big social change. The performance is based on life experience and worldview of 20 significant individuals born between 1979-1980 who are successful in the Czech society in the fields such as art, science and politics.

Concept, choreography, direction: Michal Záhora

Theme, research and artistic colaboration: Tereza Krčálová

Creation and dance: Helena Arenbergerová

Music: Tomáš Procházka

Assistance with costumes: Terezie Dvořáková

Consultation: Martin Buchtík (STEM - Institute of Empirical Research for Democracy)   

Technical support: Lukáš Benda

Project realization and production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association

 

The performance is preceded by Martin Buchtík´s sociological happening (STEM). As a part of programme 30 YEARS DANCING TO FREEDOM.

Co-producers: TANEC Praha/PONEC-the dance venue, Monastery in Broumov - Educational and Cultural Centre

Supported by: Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic, City of Prague, Studio Dance Perfect, Studio ALTA, Balada SITE

Participants of the research: Vojtěch Bednář (sociolog, publicista a vysokoškolský učitel), Ondřej Beránek (filmový producent), Kamil Bouška (básník), Vojtěch Dlask (klavírista, skladatel a dramaturg), Daniel Erhardt (klavírista), Lucie Ferliková (malířka), Lucie Kunzová Filimonova (malířka), Jan Farský (politik), Jiří Havelka (režisér a herec), Jiří Honzírek (divadelní režisér), Tomáš Hrůza (multimediální umělec, pedagog a nakladatel), Martin Jemelka (historik a publicista), Adéla Laštovková-Stodolová (choreografka, režisérka), Judita Matyášová (novinářka, spisovatelka a kulturní manažerka), Tomáš Měcháček (herec), Hana Polanská-Turečková (tanečnice a choreografka), Pavel Turek (novinář), Kateřina Tučková (historička umění, spisovatelka, dramatička a publicistka), Petr Vaněk (herec), Ondřej Závodský (právník a státní úředník)

Thanks to: Aleš Freiwald, Monastery in Broumov - Educational and Cultural Centre, Yvona Kreuzmannová and Markéta Perroud – TANEC Praha, producing, PR and technical crew of the Ponec Theatre, Lenka Ottová and Studio Dance Perfect, Dominik Žižka, Romana Maliti Štorková, Karel Král, Dáša Zbořilová, Dragan Dragin, Michaela Raisová, Patrik Hábl, Karolína Šnajdrová, Petra Štěpánová, Štefan Bugi Tóth, Evženie Brabcová, Zuzana Kubíčková, Romana Hozáková.

a world first night: October 21st, 2019, PONEC-the dance venue, Prague

 

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Dance creation of the Way of the Cross to the music of the same name by Petr Koronthály - in the worship service led by Mons.Michael Slavík

Choreography and direction: Michal Záhora

Artistic cooperation: Klára Mašatová

Creation and dancec: Dagmar Chaloupková, Radim Klásek/Pavel Mašek, Nikola Němcová, Michal Záhora

Music: Petr Koronthály

Music preparation: Krása Quartet – Šárka Petříková, Jan Palouček, Daniel Menhart, Marie Dorazilová

Costumes: Tereza Bušková a Mariana Novotná

Lights: Lukáš Benda

Project realisation and production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association, Prague Archbishopric

Co-producer: Prague Archbishopric

Supported by: TANEC PRAHA /PONEC-the dance venue, Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic, Alta Studio, Studio Dance Perfect, Balada SITE

Thanks:  Mons. Michael Slavík, Th.D., Mgr. Vladimír Koronthály, Aleš Hnízdil, Pavel Mašek, Ladislav Knotek, Mgr. Vladimír Kelnar, Karolína Šnajdrová, P. ThLic. Ing. Petr Vacík SJ, Yvona Kreuzmannová and Markéta Perroud (Tanec Praha z.ú.), ZUŠ Šimáčkova Praha 7, Jana Baladová, Vojtěch Brtnický, Jiří Jiráček, Lucia Kašiarová and Studio Alta, Lenka Ottová and Studio Dance Perfect.

A world first night: April 17, 2019, Saint Nicholas Church, Prague

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How to dance away a hundred years without going crazy? A dance kaleidoscope from the history of a man which may – but doesn´t have to – recall the present anniversary of the Czech State. Four different dancers, four different bodies, four characters and a number of familiar moments. History in movement, dance as a record of individual and collective memory. Michal Záhora´s production, born from the desire to celebrate the foundation of Czechoslovakia, its 100th anniversary.

Concept, choreography, directed: Michal Záhora

Creation, performed: Josef Bartoš, Anna Línová, Zuzana Richterová, Michaela Suša

Dramaturgy: Marta Ljubková

Assistance with the choreography: Honza Malík, Jana Vaníčková

Music: Carlo Natoli

Costumes: Zuzana Kubíčková

Stage design: Peter Smetáček, Michal Záhora

Light design: Robert Štěpánek, Lukáš Benda, Michal Záhora

Project realisation and production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association

PR: Karolína Šnajdrová

reviews:

"…The Anniversary cannot be deprived of the certainty with which he succeeded in capturing and incarnating the absurdity inextricably linked with years past…" Zuzana Rafajová, 1.11.2018, www.operaplus.cz

"…Záhora reached for humour, which is not typical of him. He ironically depicted the absurdity of the era (…) A work was created that is definitely worth talking about…" Jana Návratová, 5.11.2018, www.tanecniaktuality.cz

 

Co-producers: TANEC PRAHA /PONEC-the dance venue, Prague; K-club in City of Jičín

Created with a financial contribution: City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City of Jičín

Supported by: Studio ALTA, Studio Dance Perfect, Czech Tourism, Balada SITE

Thanks to:  Yvona Kreuzmannová and Markéta Perroud,  technical a producing team of Ponec Theatre, Lucia Kašiarová and Studio ALTA, Lenka Ottová and Studio Dance Perfect, Lenka Vacková and K-club in City of Jičín, Jan Szucs, Josef Záhora, Jana Baladová, Marie Faruzelová, Jakub Vrbík, Ondřej Kačer, Patrik Balonek, Matěj Sláma, Jirka Jiráček, Vojta Brtnický, Lukáš Bajer (project ČS100), Zdeněk Vejvoda, Renata Johnová, Zuzana Rejchová, Evženie Brabcová, Kateřina Stupecká, Nora Sopková

A world first night: October 28, 2018, PONEC-the dance venue, Prague

 

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dancing journey through the landscape

One show only: Saturday 29. 9. 2018, Gallery Klatovy / Klenová (in Klenová 1, Janovice n. Úhlavou)

 

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"...an unusual experience!" Hana Jakubčíková Sádlíková, 3.10.2018, www.novinky.cz

„It does not happen very often that an open-air project would successfully unite artists and spectators to partake in an exceptional event. Although Slavnost has put its neck on the line by taking the risk of not being accepted, it has changed into a singular experience, which resonates with participants even days after. (…) The dance festival in the countryside, attended by 30 dancers and 250 spectators, definitely lived up to its name...” Kristýna Boháčová, 15.10.2018, www.chrisnet.eu

 

 

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The raven circles low above the abyss, guarding the darkness, and above him the falcon soars anticlockwise with the sun on its back ... In the space between their bodies, vertical astral time flows. Darkness below, brightness above.

Idea, choreography, dance: Michal Záhora

Violoncello: Petr Šporcl

Script, music collage, film, light design, direction: Jan Komárek

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Petr Hejný, György Ligeti, Ondřej Štochl

Costumes: Zuzana Kubíčková

Sound: Eliška Bejčková

Project curator, production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association

Project assistent: Karolína Ondrejková

This solo concert for violoncello is conceived as a duet between sound and image, between the musician and the dancer. Here, in this meeting between accomplished musician Petr Šporcl and gifted choreographer Michal Záhora, music is the fixed point in space, the source of inspiration and a guide to the senses. The project is directed by Jan Komárek, creator of movement and dance based projects.

The music chosen by the director is emotionally highly charged. We enter the space of the imagination through Bach's Prelude in C major, moving to the lyrical Sonata for Violoncello of Gyorgy Ligeti, which leads us into the enigmatic world of the music of two contemporary composers, Ondrej Štochl (Tetralog) and Petr Hejný (Metalsonata).

 

reviews:

„...Concert for HER performed by the instrumentalist P.Šporcl and the dancer M.Záhora is quite an experience. The entrée is already very impressive. (…) Záhora absolutely masters his body which allows him to create objects and their silhouettes, symbols; his creative dance repertoire is limitless…” Mária Uhrinová, 21/2018, Tvar Magazine

„…an unusual experience!“ Hana Galiová, 27.3. 2018, www.tanecniaktuality.cz

 „90% (…) manifest of decadence!“ Nina Vangeli, 10.4. 2018, www.operaplus.cz

 

Coproducer: Za Trojku

Supported by: City of Prague, Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic, Limpid Works s.r.o., BaladaSITE

Thanks to: Petr Hejný, Ondřej Štochl, Magda Danel, Markéta Kozinová, Lenka Dohnalová, Berrak Yedek, Zuzana Rejchová, Jan Trojan, Tomáš Pálka, Karin Militká, Lucie Konopiská, Jana Baladová, Evženie Brabcová, Jakub Vrbík, Andrea Miltnerová, Ondřej Kačer, Simon Todorov, Václav Hejduk, Jirka Jiráček, Vojta Brtnický, Alfréd ve dvoře Theatre 

A world firts night: March 21, 2018, Atrium in Prague /cz/

CONCERT PROGRAMME 

Johann S. Bach: 3 Suita C dur Prelude (3:19)

György Ligeti: Sonata for Cello solo (7:14)

Ondřej Štochl: Tetralog (15:48)

Petr Hejný: Metal sonata (11:48)

 

 

 

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A human being as the most complicated and complex creation in the universe. We are cosmic runners, our bodies are created from stardust. Our source is still alive and vibrant, a cosmic lighthouse, the place from which we originally sprang – Pulsar.

Idea,  choreography: Michal Záhora

Creation: Jitka Čechová, Michal Heriban, Sára Koluchová, Tereza Krejčová, Nikola Němcová, Roman Zotov-Mikshin

Dance: Jitka Čechová, Tereza Krejčová, Nikola Němcová, Michal Záhora, Roman Zotov-Mikshin

Artistic cooperation: Kateřina Stupecká

Costumes: Zuzana Kubíčková

Music: Carlo Natoli /It/

Light design: Prokop Vondruška, Robert Štěpánek

Photo: Lucie Konopiská, Vojta Brtnický

Project curator, assistent of the choreographer, production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association

 

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„… mostly young dancers were given an exceptional opportunity and they did not waste it. They fulfilled the choreographer’s demands for shape, they were connected when they were on stage, they were artistically well-behaved and understood what the piece wants. They did well both solo and collective work. They danced as if they were half-stupefied. Their looks aimed deep or far into the universe. They actually didn’t dance at all, the dance becomes the power of their lightness, fundamental restlessness of the atoms. The first part of the choreography can be understood as a preparation for an initiation that will be flight to space, into deeper reality than matter. The second part creates an illusion of flying through space. It is convincing and sometimes even intoxicating because dreams of flying, particularly in space, are as old as humanity itself…” Nina Vangeli, 18.4. 2017, Theatre News

"There are works of art which ooze emotion and physicality that is almost palpable. Pulsar by Michal Záhora is different. Metaphysical. It has the character of a meditation,  mesmerizes your mind so that you leave the theatre with a strange feeling of lightness of being." Daniela Machová, 22.3. 2017, www.tanecniaktuality.cz

"White on black has a mysterious symbolism in and of itself. The visual aspect of the scene is processed in costume and light design, supplemented and supported by ambient music created just like in Záhora's past works directly for the choreography. The long creative collaboration of Záhora and Natoli is undoubtedly evaluated in the mutual interconnectedness of music, movement and ideas as a great exchange of the final outcome, whose mission certainly goes beyond the borders of a regular dance production born from the conventions of artistic theatrical production." Zuzana Smugalová, 22.3. 2017, www.operaplus.cz

"The five dancers are on the same wavelength, so their concentration, cooperation and energy create an emotionally powerful impression. No doubt this is also thanks to the excellent synchronization of all the components, whether light design, music or sound." Jana Soprová, 3.4. 2017, www.scena.cz

Coproducers: Tanec Praha association/Ponec-the dance venue, Johan association/Moving Station Theatre, Pilsen

Suported by: City of Prague, Ministry of the Culture of the Czech Republic, Studio ALTA, Duncan Centre Conservatory, BaladaSITE

Thanks to: Sára Koluchová, Romana Lisnerová, Roman Černík, Petra Štěpánová, Petr Beránek, Yvona Kreuzmannová, Markéta Perroud, Alena Brožová, Kateřina Kavalírová, technical and producing team of Ponec Theatre, Lucia Kašiarová, Kateřina Stupecká, Jana Baladová, Jakub Vrbík, Jirka Jiráček, Evženie Brabcová, Hana Součková, David Břinčil, Štefan Bugi Tóth, Karin Militká, Vít Štaif, Vojta Brtnický, Lenka Jíšová, Petr Vacík, Dagmar Chaloupková, Andrea Lamešová, Braňo Bašista, Marek Menšík, Michal Vaniš, Jan Komárek

A world first night: March 19, 2017, PONEC-the dance venue

 

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At the beginning, there were real people – workshop participants – and their letters to their acquaintances. In the letters, they shared what burdened their hearts or expressed important things they didn’t have a chance to tell their dearest. Individual voices of the writers are intertwined, layered, mingled. This polyphony of authentic confessions that are processed by the verbatim method into one text invite the dancer to enter the dialogue. The dancer acknowledges weakness and by expressing it creates a momentum in which he balances between rejection and reconciliation. He tries to understand what gives us direction in our lives, he discovers internal space of a man…

nomination for Opera Plus Award 2016: the Best Choreography and the Best Interpretation

 

Idea, choreography, dance: Michal Záhora

Artistic colaboration: Tereza Krčálová

Music: Carlo Natoli /It/

Music and sound editing: Philippe Leforestier /Fr-Cz/

Voice: Honza Malík (Czech version) or Howie Lotker /Ca-Cz/ (English version)

Light design: Robert Štěpánek

Production and assistent: Honza Malík & Pulsar association

Project volunteer: Adéla Kaderová

International manager of the realization: Lenka Flory /It-Cz/

 

reviews: 

100% !  Lucie Kocourková, 18.9. 2015, www.operaplus.cz

„...a very intimate solo interpreted and performed with great precision. (…) As far as the rhythm and information distribution in ever changing fiction are concerned, DEVOID is a great dramaturgical experiment. In the performance, not only the narrative structure and acting actions are bridged but also intensity of emotions.“ Martin Macháček, October 2015, Dance Zone Magazine 

„…DEVOID will certainly surprise - in a good way. It is human, comprehensible and it touches the viewers.“ Daniela Machová, 13.10. 2015, www.tanecniaktuality.cz

 

Co-producer: Tanec Praha/PONEC-the dance venue 

Supported by: NANOHACH association, Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic, Duncan Centre Conservatory, Balada SITE

The project was realized in the frame of Be SpectACTive! - CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro (It), Bakelit Multi Art Center Budapest (Hu), B-51 Ljubljana (Sl), Domino Zagreb (Hr), LIFT London (Uk), Tanec Praha (Cz), Teatrul National Radu Stanca Sibiu (Ro), York Theatre Royal (Uk).

With the support of Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Zpecial thanks to all workshop participants, in Sibiu: Cristina Gogârlă, Lucian Bădulescu, Emanuel Antonescu, Bogdan Tălmaciu, George Ciucă, Ștefania Denisa Lupu, Sergiu Argeșanu, Daiana Mădăras, Ștefania Marola, Denisa Caian Pintiuță, Geraldina Basarab, Rodica Mărgărit, Renate Nica, Gabriela Neagu, Dana Lăzărescu, Dana Taloș; in Sansepolcro: Gilda Foni, Barbara Carracini, Samuel Webster, Silvia Bastianelli, Andreina Santaterra, Chicco Beni, Nicoletta Chiasserini, Silvia Palmi, Rosalia Karlino, Anna Martinelli, Roberta Bini, Stefania Tacconi, Martina Corsini, Francesca Rosini

Thanks to: Hana Součková, Francesco Montagner, Duta Dan Mircea, Vicentiu Rahau, Costin Chesnoiu,  Michele Rossi Flenghi, Nicola Mancini, Luca del Pia, Luca Ricci, Lenka Flory, Prokop Souček, David Mencl, Adéla Kaderová, Yvona Kreuzmannová, Markéta Perroud, Jitka Hradilková, Ponec-the dance venue/Tanec Praha association, Zuzana Sýkorová, Mirek Klimeš and Duncan Centre Conservatoire, Vojtěch Brtnický, Jana Baladová, Petra Kubíčková, Michaela Raisová, Lukáš Houdek, Petr Krpal, Jirka Jiráček.

A world first night: 19.7. 2015, Kilowatt Festival, Sansepolcro /It/

A Czech premiere: 16.9. 2015, PONEC-the dance venue, Prague

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