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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 Vandenbranden will 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 DESH Khan'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 Artist Award, New York 2011.  More: www.tanecpraha.cz

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