2024-05-19 01:14:56
Variety and breaking taboos are the themes of this yr’s thirty sixth annual Tanec Praha competition, which is able to current well-known names from around the globe in addition to a extra diverse program for households with youngsters. The present will happen on a number of phases within the metropolis between June 2 and 27. Competition initiatives and performances may even go to 22 cities and cities.
This system can be opened by Lia Rodrigues from Brazil, who will carry out within the Czech Republic for the primary time. The household present Vivat Messi with freestyle soccer world champion Daniel Pražák and dancer Taro Troup could have its premiere on the competition. The Rock Me Child efficiency within the fashion of a punk-rock live performance by a Norwegian band is meant for the youngest youngsters.
“We now have already taken a breather after the covid years. Final yr this system was wealthy, however this yr I really feel that it has been put collectively to an unbelievable selection. There are extra continents, subjects, there are controversial subjects. I believe that overcoming prejudices, which we try to providing folks dance is a giant a part of this yr’s program,” says competition director and founder Yvona Kreuzmannová.
Director and founding father of the competition Yvona Kreuzmannová. | Picture: Jan Handrejch / Právo / Profimedia.cz
For the efficiency of the star of the opening evening, Lia Rodrigues, Brazilian dancer, choreographer and inventive director of the dance troupe she based in Rio de Janeiro in 1990, the dramaturgical staff had been striving for nearly 5 years. “Lastly, we managed to match the deadline. Her Encantado is stuffed with power and colours. On the New Stage, it would definitely stand out with its closeness and physicality, and the authenticity of the efficiency, which is totally totally different for Brazilian dancers,” guarantees Kreuzmannová.
Tanec Praha will current artwork from totally different continents. Within the composed night entitled Příběhy Afriky, which takes place on the Ponec Theater on June 15, Mozambican native Mai-Júli Machado Nhapulo or Amala Dianor, a Senegalese dwelling in France, will dance solo performances.
The Eurasian continent can be represented by Portuguese dancers within the performances of Carcass, which is able to happen on June 18 within the Archa+ area, and Fantasie minor. This was impressed by avenue artwork dance artwork and can be held on June 18 within the open air at náměstí Republiky in Prague.
Akram Khan will current a youngsters’s adaptation of his present known as Chotto Desh. | Picture: Dance Prague
For the third yr, the competition will give attention to the modern Ukrainian scene in this system part Unity in Movement. Guests to Ponce will see it once more on June 21.
The Norwegian present Rock Me Child is meant for the smallest youngsters, principally from start, in keeping with the organizers. This can be a efficiency by 4 extravagant rockers from the queer neighborhood. In accordance with Director Kreuzmann, the organizers have researched the noise degree of the efficiency to make it secure even for the smallest spectators.
The well-known British dancer of Bangladeshi origin Akram Khan, who carried out Desh on the Prague competition ten years in the past, will current a youngsters’s adaptation of his efficiency known as Chotto Desh on the Archa+ area this yr. The subject of distinction can be opened, for instance, by Icelander Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir with the manufacturing When The Bleeding Stops about girls after menopause.
This yr, the competition manages roughly 17 million crowns, much like final yr, compares Yvona Kreuzmannová. He will get cash from overseas sources. The Ministry of Tradition additionally contributes considerably, sending roughly seven million crowns final yr and this yr. Because of this, the organizers can even set up performances exterior of Prague. Particularly, productions will go to Brno, Broumov, České Budějovice, Chocna, Jihlava, Ostrava, Pardubice or Pilsen. For instance, Jazmína Piktorová and Sabina Bočková will go to the areas with the efficiency of Mikrosvěta, which gained the award of the Czech Dance Platform 2023.
The competition will finish on Thursday, June 27, within the Ponec theater with a efficiency by Erika Zueneli, a outstanding choreographer of Italian origin working in Belgium. In her piece known as Landfall, ten younger female and male dancers open up questions on our world and the long run with dynamic, rhythmic and spontaneous motion.