A dance solo that expresses emotions of a generation that experienced the turn of two eras.
a world first night: October 21st, 2019 at 8 p.m., PONEC-teh dance venue, Prague
Creative team: Tereza Krčálová, Michal Záhora, Helena Arenbergerová, Tomáš Procházka, Honza Malík
Upcoming programme called 30 YEARS OF DANCE TOWARDS FREEDOM. The leitmotif of this event is a question Have we/you ever experienced a feeling of freedom restrictions?
In 1989, contemporary dance picked up the threads of its development interrupted by the former regime. Ten years later, we joined in, too. We are one of the first generations of new era of dance art in the Czech Republic – we are the X Generation. We are in the process of preparing a new docu-dance performance, X Generation, that will be premiered in the autumn 2019 project on which we cooperate with TANEC Praha (DANCE Prague) and Ponec Theatre, Korzo Národní and Festival of Freedom (an association called Thank you for that we can), the National Gallery, ALTA Studio and Taneční aktuality (Dance news platform).
We will keep you informed and will invite you to individual events through which we wish to not only commemorate and reflect on the preceding era but also look ahead and think about new possible development.
2. Winter Encounter in Ústí - applications from September 1st 2019
November 23rd + 24th 2019, in Elementary Arts School, Ústí n. O.
Lectors: Dagmar Chaloupková, Honza Malík, Michal Záhora
4. Summer Encounter in Broumov - applications from April 1st 2020
July 6th - 10th 2020, in Cultural and educational centre, Broumov Monastery (www.klasterbroumov.cz)
Lectors: Dagmar Chaloupková, Michal Záhora
Garant: Mgr.et MgA. Andrea Opavská, PhD.
Dance in general is the most complex matter. It includes human body, mind and spirit all at the same time. For that uniqueness to dance is to touch the life itself." M.Záhora
Pulsar association (founded in 2017) is a platform for realization of Michal Záhora’s creative work in the field of contemporary dance. The curator of the project is Honza Malík. Both artists were members of NANOHACH company (2004-2016). Firstly, the project is about creating new performances in all formats of contemporary dance work context. Another aim is to maintain a continual activity in the Czech Republic as well as show the performances abroad. The third aim of the project is to provide education on the professional, semi-professional and amateur level.
The association is supported in 2019 by:
Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic and City of Prague
Europe towards the Omega Point
Dance performance based on voices of people around us and on teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest, palaeontologist and geologist
Are we able to guess Europe’s next development? Even though we have all the competencies: freedom and variety of alternatives, it seems we cannot move more than 1 millimetre further. Nothing happens. Nothing at all. But we have everything under control.
‘My vision of Europe was shadowed by the flight of a bird.’
Realisation team: Tereza Krčálová, Honza Malík, Heda Bayer
Choreography, direction: Michal Záhora
Artistic colaboration: Tereza Krčálová
Consultation: P. ThLic. Ing. Petr Vacík SJ
Music: Miloš Bok, Václav Chalupský
Sound, mix: Václav Chalupský
Lighting design: Lukáš Benda, Michal Záhora
Set design: Lukáš Benda, Honza Malík, Michal Záhora
Costumes: Markéta Sládečková
Creation and dance: Helena Arenbergerová, Katarzyna Kamecka, Radim Klásek, Michal Nagy, Nikola Němcová
Project realizaton and production: Honza Malík & Pulsar association
Reviews:
“Záhora‘s and Pulsar‘s intuition to touch reality in their new project proved to be a prophetic gesture. (…) I perceive this incompleteness as an unfinished Europe, disturbing as it always invites you to a circle dance in which there is no hierarchy. (…) …as a repetitive continuity of tradition which cannot stand today without its humble necessity to be updated. (…) The prophetic intuition is expressed with clarity; however, we often can only understand it when we have a certain distance.” K. Boháčová, 5. 11. 2020, Theatre Newspaper
„…Scenes that develop in front of the audience’s gaze like a film fast-forwarded attract the audience with their plasticity, with their purity, and with the cohesiveness of the interpreters presenting them. Distinctive music creates an atmosphere of ever-changing transformation. The performance does not lure you to analyse it, but rather to perceive it and experience it along with the performers.” L.Kocourková, 24. 9. 2020, Opera plus.cz
„…There is more often an effort to touch the neuralgic point of today (…) Dance might impact individuals who are usually resistant to it.” M.Magdová, A2 – 22/2020
„…Záhora is one of the few Czech choreographers who are not afraid to open more difficult philosophical themes with an existential overlap (…). He creates intuitively, because his spirit calls for it, not because he wants to create trends or to satisfy his ego. He does not need to do so, because what he carries with him is a spiritual aspect of a higher and more original function of art.” Z.Smugalová, Taneční aktuality.cz, 30. 9. 2020
Co-production: Tanec Praha z.ú./Ponec-the dance venue; Meeting Brno association; Art Muzeum in Olomouc; …příští vlna/next wave…; Taupunkt e.V. Chemnitz /De/
Supported by: Ministry of the Culture of Czech Republic; City of Prague; Buran Teatr, Brno; Studio Dance Perfect; BaladaSITE
Poděkování: Yvona Kreuzmannová and Markéta Perroud (TANEC Praha), producing, technical and PR team of the Ponec Theatre, Lenka Dombrovská (festival …příští vlna/Next Wave…), team of Meeting Festival in Brno, Blanka Návratová, Petr Kalousek, Lucie Fabišíková, Petr Dvořák and Saša Jeništa (Art Muzeum in Olomouc), Miloš Bok, Heda Bayer, Lenka Ottová and Studio Dance Perfect, OSA, Jana Baladová, Barbora Capová and Štěpán Roubalík, Anna Benháková, Vojta V. Sláma, Vojta Brtnický, Cezary Zemis, Juraj Augustín, Klaudia Klembarová, Soňa Skočovská, Mariana Novotná, Jirka Jiráček, Dominik Žižka, Štefan Bugi Tóth, Michaela Raisová, Jitka Baslová, Lukáš Lepold, Ondřej Kačer, Eva Klosová, Zuzana Smugalová, Marta Ljubková, Hanka Košíková.
a world first night outdoor performance version: July 23rd 2020, Moravské Square, Brno, Meeting Brno Festival
a world first night: September 21st 2020, PONEC-the dance venue, Prague, …příští vlna/next wave…Festival
a German first night -ONLINE-: September 26th 2020, Komplex Teatr, Chemnitz, Germany
GALERIE
Honza is a freelance artist since 1999 when he graduated from the Duncan Centre Conservatory. He danced for the State Opera in Prague (1999-2003, choreographies of Petr Tyc and Petra Hauerova), he was a member of Austrian Laroque Dance Company (2004-2005 and 2012-2016).
He was one of the original founders of the NANOHACH dance company (2004-2016) where he worked as a dancer, producer and manager. As an art director, Honza supported and supervised all 32 company projects, he has been taking care of their continuous production in the Czech Republic and abroad. As an interpret, Honza was a co-author of authorial projects by Czech authors such as Michal Zahora, Lea Svejdova, Jan Komarek and he cooperated with foreign choreographers such as Karen Foss, Ioana M. Popovici, Nigel Charnock, Petra Fornayova, Fabrice Ramalingom, Lenka Flory). Honza was nominated fot The Best Interpretation Award 2008 and Dancer of the Year 2010 Award . In 2011 he was awarded for The Best Actor Critics Award (Russia). Honza also has recieved The Personality of the Year Award 2014 (Next Wave Festival, Prague) and The Dance Manager of the Year 2017 (Czech Dance Platform, Prague).
At the end of 2016 he has found Pulsar association, which realised and creates conditions for a artistic work of Michal Zahora.
For many years, Honza has also been involved in other projects than performances in the field of contemporary dance. He cooperated with the production of international choreography competition Jarmila Jerabkova Award/Festival New Europe (2003-2010) and vs.Interpretation, a music improvisation festival that overlaps with other genres as well. Between years 2011-2013, he was an initiator and supporter of creative work by Czech choreographer Maia. In 2013, Honza initiated a creation of a program section dedicated to contemporary dance theatre space4dance under the Prague Pride Festival. He also curates and coordinates for this festival creation of original dance performances: international project Dogtown (2015; choreography by Nadar Rosano, Israel), Black&White (2017; choreography by Jana Vrana, Cz).
Since 2014, Honza organises a series of discussions dedicated to contemporary dance LET´S TALK ABOUT DANCE that are organised once or twice in a year at different public culturally and socially creative spaces in Prague.
As a dance lector he was a lector of an international project Dancing Europe in Olomouc (Cz, 2008 and 2010) and since 2007 has been teaching at the Duncan Centre (dance technique and individual consultations of authorial pieces).
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