Since time immemorial, mime has been a discipline that allows fluid and dynamic transitions from one genric or dramatic territory to another, including a completely individual, newly created iteration. Its universal expressive ability to convey stories and feelings is based in physical expression, more specifically, meaning-making movements, gestures, and mimicry.
Internationally-renowned dancer and choreographer Guillaume Côté premiered Burn Baby, Burn in 2024. The current Canadian tour showcases this innovative masterpiece...
In the 2024/2025 season just passed, in addition to those projects by large ensembles celebrating various anniversaries of their existence, the fields of contemporary and new circus, physical theatre, mask and mime could be characterised as a platform open to the sharing of creative processes.
Cirque du Soleil, Canada's world-famous, most commercially successful circus, has returned to its original work after a long pandemic hiatus. In Montreal, they are currently presenting their newest show called Echo.
It has become almost a tradition that the Losers Cirque Company, in the late spring days, with a bridge to the holidays, settled next to the BRAVO! Theatre in the area of the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague's František district.
The Letní Letná festival has taken root on the plain in Prague for nineteen years of its existence. It is associated with a pleasant and action-like atmosphere that enriches the city while the holidays slowly disappear.
The Cirkopolis Festival was held in Prague for the ninth time. This year's edition offered three domestic titles and five foreign ones, many of which touched very intimately on issues of the body and corporeality.
In the edition celebrating its maturity, the Letní Letná festival was generously dedicated to Czech contemporary circus productions.
The second week of February saw the 8th edition of Prague’s Cirkopolis festival, an international showcase of circus art organised by Cirqueon - centre for contemporary circus and Akropolis Palace.
Shortly before the near end of the emergency state, but still in a time highly affected by the global pandemic, the empty Lucerna cinema (and the virtual world) hosted, I dare say, a unique event – the premiere of Erik Knopp’s documentary Na krev...
