Archa Adrift! - November 2002
Program of Performances and Concerts in Post-Flood Exile
Ponec Theatre:
Friday, November 1, 8 p.m.
Vizita Theatre
Begging in a Circle
Jaroslav Dušek as Lou and Martin Zbrožek as Dění, in a circular spotlight by Viktor Zborník.
Saturday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Vizita Theatre
To Catch one's Breath
Catching (Jaroslav Dušek) one's Breath (Martin Zbrožek) in the beam of a flashlight (Viktor Zborník).
Wednesday, November 6, 8 p.m.
Tabula Rasa Theatre
Tender buttons
A raw musical gala spectacle about things both seen and unseen
The main character of the performance is the sightless singer and pianist Kateryna Kolcová, whose personal statements are confronted with the poetry of the Gertrude Stein, the mother of the American artistic avant-garde. The performance arises out of the texts of both authors, like circus acts. B-grade, kitsch and tawdry erotica are mixed in with a tragic desire for love. With: Kateryna Kolcová, Petra Cikánová, Jakub Žáček, Jaroslav Kořán and Agnes Kutas. Stage design: David Cajthaml. Dramaturgy: Nina Rutová. Conception and directed by: Jana Svobodová.
"It is a theatre of radical imagination, a poetic cabaret with a chanson singer, a melancholic and a ballet-dancer, the dada ragged by lesbian-feministic toughness. The audience is pulled on a rope of boldness. The borders between the words and images are fusing, shapes of the meanings are pouring out like the colours on the palette of a fauvist painter, sounds are turning into melodies, dance and gestures into tension and stiffness." (Jiří Peňás, Týden, May 6, 2002)
Thursday, November 7, 8 p.m.
Tabula Rasa Theatre
Tender buttons
State Opera Prague:
Monday, November 11, 8 p.m.
Min Tanaka - solo performance
Benefit performance by the Japanese dancer and godfather of Archa Theatre
Min Tanaka is a prominent world-wide stage star. He has choreographed large scale works for the Parisian Opéra Comique, Brooklyn Music Academy, Amsterdam Muziektheater and other theatres and festivals. He has collaborated with well-known artists such as Karel Appel (Can we Dance a Landscape, Noe, Magic Flute) or Richard Serra (Blessing of Spring), and with musicians such as John Cale, Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Milford Graves, Fred Frith or Iva Bittová.. He created a performance for the the oratorio Carmina Burana, from Ofeo, together with the conductor Seijim Ozawou. Tanaka and his group, Mai-juku, danced in the Stravinsky opera Oedipus Rex, where Jessy Norman sang to the music of the Saito Kinen orchestra under the baton of Ozawou.
Ponec Theatre:
New Music Marathon 2002
Thursday, November 14, 7 p.m.
Opera Aperta (SK): Komorous and Beyond
Ensemble OMN (PL): Pawel Szymański - Chamber Music
Veni Ensemble (SK): Bratislava
Friday, November 15, 7 p.m.
Agon Orchestra & Petr Kofroň (CZ): Čeští mlaďoši/Czech Youngsters
Sigune von Osten & Musica Temporale (D): Marek Kopelent - Agnus Dei
Tuning Metronomes (CZ): Salvatore Sciarrino - Vanitas
Saturday, November 16, 7 p.m.
Tuning Metronomes & Epoque Quartet (CZ): John Zorn - Angelus Novus
Ensemble HAMU & JAMU Percussion Group (CZ): Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Požoň Sentimentál & Egon Bondy (SK): Marek Piaček - Urban Songs
Galerie Rudolfinum:
New Music Marathon 2002
Sunday, November 17, 6 p.m.
Irvine Arditti (UK): Luigi Nono - La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, for solo violin and 8 channels pre-recorded tape
State Opera Prague:
Tuesday, November 26, 8 p.m.
Questioning Heaven in Despair
A sino-baroque performance
Directed by: J. A. Pitínský. The sucessful original Archa.
Theatre performance - now on the stage of a classic opera house. A theatrical and musical piece in which contemporary culture meets with the mysterious and fascinating worlds of Chinese Opera and Baroque Theatre. The performance weaves together elements of the Peking Opera - such as Chinese singing, acrobatics, martial arts - with baroque music and the principles of baroque theatre. The main roles are played by Peking Opera singer Feng-Jün Song and Martin Matoušek (guest soloist at the State Opera Prague).
Come rediscover this performance in new surroundings!!!
Ponec Theatre:
Saturday, November 30, 8 p.m.
Vizita Theatre
The Undefatigable Weakling
The weakling (Jaroslav Dušek) on his actual birthday (Martin Zbrožek). Candles - Viktor Zborník.
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