Autumn Months at Ponec to See a Lot: from Tango to Experiments with Electricity

Autumn premieres at theatre Ponec will offer a wide diversity of genres – from experimental research to Argentinian tango. From October to December, the theatre will present as many as five premieres, representing also two of the most important Czech contemporary dance companies, DOT504 and NANOHACH, as well as the creation of young choreographers for the Prague Chamber Ballet. The very first premiere in the season is Tenze, a project created by a young choreographer Markéta MAIA Kuttnerová, to be held on October 4. Tenze is an experimental movement-dance piece verging on research and performance. The movement of the performer (Jana Vrána) is remote-controlled through electronic impulses emitted from a machine called TENS. The challenge of the author is to find out whether it is possible to invent a new movement concept, one to be based on different elements but instructions from the brain.
A completely different style, that of Argentinian tango, will be brought on stage with Quilombo - premiere on October 13. The author, dancer and choreographer Patricie Poráková has put together a creative team of the best dancers of Argentinian tango of our days. The peculiar title Quilombo is a word which in Afro-Brazilian culture refers to “a community of refuged slaves deep in the jungle”, thus symbolizing revolution and liberation. In Lunfardo, a dialect of the underground world of tango and the language of its lyrics, Quilombo means “mess”. Created by people who truly live on tango, the piece is to put the dance into spotlight in a most fascinating way.
November will open with a premiere of Bouchačka by the company DOT504 and authorial tandem Jiří Pokorný and Martin Vraný. This chamber-like duet for three people will be presented on November 4. Director and playwright Jiří Pokorný has written a story of an odd, yet always the same love triangle. An important part of the narrator is played by different stage elements: dance, performance, acting and music.
Another premiere date is November 18: within the festival NANOHACH ČESKY Ponec will see a first show of Flashed by, a piece co-produced by the company NANOHACH and Tanec Praha civic association. Choreographed by Lenka Flory and performed by Lea Švejdová, the production deals with the question how stories of female heroines remain inscribed in the minds of ordinary women and how ordinary women are heroines in their everyday life.
Three original choreographies within one night - December 9, that is the programme called Occam's Razor. The theatre's guest ensemble Prague Chamber Ballet opens the door to the generation of emerging Czech and Slovak choreographers, giving them the opportunity to create under the tuition of teachers from PCB and HAMU (Music Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). This year, pieces by three artists will be premiered on Ponec' stage: Nikol Šneiderová and Šimon Kubáň from PCB and Palo Kršiak, a student of choreography at HAMU. A common denominator of all the three pieces is exactitude, clarity of story and revolt.