Festival TANEC PRAHA 2013 to Present the Headliners of the 25th Edition
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The jubilee 25th edition of International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre TANEC PRAHA 2013 will be held from 27. 5. to 4. 7. 2013 in Prague and other ten towns around the Czech Republic. For the sixth time in a row the festival will begin with a prologue in the form of TANEC PRAHA FOR CHILDREN 2013, a festival program for children and families, to be held from 27. 5. – 1. 6. 2013. The festival team is now in the middle of intense work on the jubilee edition, just announcing its headliners: the British choreographer and dancer Akram Khan and the Flemish company Peeping Tom. Peeping Tom will perform at the Music Theatre in Karlín on June 26th and 27th at 8 pm. Their original piece 32 rue Vandenbrandenwill take you out to the world where boundaries between dream and reality are blurred. In the middle of summer we find ourselves in a mountain landscape covered in snow, depicted in a spectacular visual style verging on a film screen. One of the sources of inspiration for the piece is Shohei Imamura's movie The Ballad of Narayama. A hard-to-believe physical performance is directed in a poetic way by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, both of them for many years colleagues of the illustrious Flemish choreographer Alain Platel. The French daily Libération commented on the piece: “Everything is so real, so correct and magnificently interpreted.” Another Highlight of the Season will take place on July 3rd and 4th at 8 pm at the Prague State Opera: the British choreographer and dancer Akram Khan will come and perform his project DESHKhan's roots are in Bangladesh: in the local language Desh means “homeland”. Yvona Kreuzmannová, director of the festival TANEC PRAHA, reveals more: “Desh is a fascinating and complex work where visual arts meet movement, and scenic design interacts with new technologies in a totally unexpected manner. A strong and most topical message resonates in the audience, even more so as it contrasts with the fragile individuality of Khan on his own on stage, facing the full halls of 1,000-seat auditoriums.” At once intimate and epic, DESH explores fragility in the face of natural forces, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the rhythms of labour, in dream and story, and in transformation and survival. Akram Khan is an acclaimed choreographer working at the Sadler's Wells Theatre and, among other things, an author of the choreography of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London in 2012. DESH – received the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, 2012. Akram Khan is the recipient of the ISPA Distinguished ArtistAward, New York 2011.
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One of the highlights of this year's Tanec Praha festival is Coup Fatal, a show that uniquely combines European baroque arias and African music. This project put together countertenor Serge Kakudji, conductor and guitar player Rodriguez Vangama, composer Fabrizio Cassol and choreographer Alain Platel. Fourteen musicians from the Congo play traditional instruments and electric guitars, sing, dance and above all they generate incredible energy. The premiere of the project took place on June 10, 2014 in Vienna's Burgtheater within the Wiener Festwochen festival. Immediately after the premiere, we talked with the three creators of this new work about their inspiration and life in the Congo.
The opening of the 26th Tanec Praha Festival belonged, quite provokingly, to the performance titled Conversation Piece by choreographer Lucy Guerin. She created this piece for her company. Lucy Guerin Inc in collaboration with the Belvoir Company.
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