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Contemporary Dance in Prague – Palissimo Company Returns to Archa Theatre, New Premiere in Ponec Theatre

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Palissimo Company returns to Archa Theatre with The Painted Bird / Bastard. Re-runs of the choreography will take place on February 7th and 8th. Bastard is the first part of a trilogy of projects by the New York based choreographer of Slovak origin Pavel Zuštiak, who pursues the themes of displacement, transformation, and “otherness.” The inspiration for the solo show Bastard was the controversial novel The Painted Bird from 1956 by Jerzy Kosiński.
Bastard talks about the feelings of a person whom the world considers to be an interloper. He is alone. He comes from another culture and he creates his own small world in a new setting. At one moment, ordinary people enter this world.
Palissimo is a New York City based performance company established by its artistic director Pavel Zuštiak. The company pursuits communion/dialogue with the audience through performances, research and teaching. Its work is content-based, emotionally charged and strongly visual. Palissimo treats each aspect of the production—dance, movement, sound, light, set and video design—as equal. It challenges and engages audiences in rich, innovative aesthetic and intellectual experiences.   On February 13th and 14th, Ponec Theatre will present SITz, choreography by Angela Lamprianidou in Czech premiere. SITz declines the paradox of a dynamic world that exists beyond any possibility of occupying the upper quarters of erect stance, still seeking its dance, the paradigm of its unsteadiness. SITz is the fickle, the never-ending dance of the “homo sedens” who typically based his vision of history on a basic contrast between erect actors and a sitting audience, between doing and watching, starring and “witnessing”. For that very reason, the social and cultural protocols of sitting (and their perverted choreographies) are of special concern to women, the comprimarios (and almost forcefully the biological audience) of a rather macho history.
Angela Lamprianidou is a choreographer, performer and a teacher of energetic movement. She studied dance in Essen, Vienna and Barcelona with different teachers. She graduated in Choreography and new techniques of interpretation at Institut of Teatre Barcelona (2008) and in dentistry at the Friedrich Alexander University in Nurnberg. Her piece SITz won the 2009/2010 competition Dansa Dansa + a prop at Mercat de los Flors in Barcelona. She collaborated with Carol Brown, Tomeu Verges, Alexandra Rauh, Mireinda Pennel among others. She has been creating her own pieces since 2003. She was invited to present her works at festivals lke Arena Festival, Outnow Festival and No Ballett. Her life philosophy is: love, generosity and freedom, hoping that all theatres will shift to that!

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