Dominika Špalková a kol. – A na noze pevnina (CZ)

2021/09/05
11:00
Štúdio 12

Dominika Špalková et al. – Mainland on the Foot (CZ)

Tickets only at the door.

Children: free entry / Adults: 1 Euro

Tenderly predatory and real story about the joy of movement for children and children in us. Little girl Jazmína prefers to jump and dance. Yet, one day something happens, and she suddenly can't move. She begins to notice what is moving and dancing around her. The adventure of imagination and the joy of a game in which imagination blends with reality can begin. The movement-art associative production explores the world of fantasy that has no limitations and can fulfil all our desire. With the production, we want to tune in together with the audience to children's playfulness, free imagination and joy of life. Suitable for audiences from the age of 4.

Dominika Špalková is the artistic director of the Dragon Theatre / Divadlo Drak and the International Institute of Figural Theatre, where she also maintains the role of an interminable originator of new and inventive ideas for the theatre. She connects the unconnected, opens the unopenable. She was responsible for the establishment of the Theatre Clinic – specialised workplace for ensuring the quality of studies at Academy of Performing Arts and the enhancement the reflection of the latest trends in artistic practice. She also brought in interesting people from a range of areas within theatre. Their collaboration gave birth to a successful productions The Last Trick of Georges Méliès (Posledný trik Georgesa Mélièsa ; 2014, directed by Jiří Havelka), Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart (Labyrint sveta a raj srdca ; 2015, directed by Ondrej Spišák) that earned her the Theatre Newspaper Award, and Fragments of Love Scenes (Fragmenty milostných obrazov; 2017, Spitfire Company). For the first time ever, she showed the world selected works by the painter and author  Daisy Mrázková in her exhibition And what then, elephants? (A čo potom, slony?). She travelled across the world to bring Theatre of European Regions International Festival inspiring international artists, and a touch of international influence to the running of the theatre. Plus bees on the theatre roof!

Jana Bačová Kroftová is a woman of great and difficult deeds. As sculptor, she loves – in addition to reason, imagination and emotions –sweat, physical strength and challenge. That to her it is working with a durable and heavy stone. Her great deeds include the project Every Day / Každý deň, in which she continuously drew for one year a portrait of an noteworthy person born on a given day. The project was a manifestation of her disappointment with the type of people whom the majority society perceives as worthy of respect and esteem. Today, she continues to draw portraits, though not daily, but so far she portrayed nearly 600 members of the Army Against Aggression, Stupidity and Hate as she calls it. As set designer and author of stage projects, she contributed to the staging of 36 productions for all types of Czech and international theatres. As a human she is enchanted by people. She was always enchanted by the crowd, she went to watch and even sniff it. Today, she sniffs especially for the love and creativity of her loved ones.

Jazmína Piktorová  is an actress of the Dragon Theatre / Divadlo Drak, and freelance dancer. Sometimes, however, it is the other way around. Like her authorial work, there is a constant intertwining of several genres, dances, clowns ... Last time, her "multi-genreity" and "universality" was significantly supported by her studies in the Studio of the Physical Theatre at The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. That is why she is currently traveling from the stage of the Prague and Brno National Theatres to Czech and inetrnational streets together with the touring company Le Cabaret Nomade. She received a nomination from the Slovak award DOSKY as the 2016 Discovery of the Season for her performance in the production On Chicken Wings (Na slepačích krídlach), produced by the Bratislava Puppet Theatre. She sings with a multimedia project doll. From the independent culture context, where she performs under the banner of the ZDRUHESTRANY association, which she co-founded, she embarks on dance lessons for the youngest and most independent audiences, so that she can return to the smallest ones - the puppets of the dependent Dragon Theatre.

Written and directed by: Dominika Špalková et al.

Set design and visual art actions: Jana Bačová Kroftová

Costumes design: Tereza Dvořáčková

Music: DVA

Cast: Jazmína Piktorová

Running time: 40 min (performance) + 20 min (workshop)