Project BeSpectACTive!, Ponec Theatre Invites Viewers to Regular Meetings about Its Dramaturgy

Tanec Praha and Ponec Theatre – the dance venue respectively, participate in the experiment of nine European cultural organizations and three research institutes, connected by the project BeSpectACTive!, supported by Creative Europe for the years 2014-2018. The project opens and explores new ways of working with the audience in several different ways such as open trials or discussions about dramaturgy of theaters. It also provides significant opportunities for Czech professional dance artists to participate in international co-productions and gain solid conditions for creative residences abroad. New way of working with the public theaters is called "participatory planning". Ponec now invites the audience who are actively interested in creating its program to meet regularly with the artistic direction of the theater, discuss specific dance works and share their feelings and opinions. Thus they have the chance to participate in the choice from a wide range of works.
The first series of workshops with the audience will be focused on the program of the European Dance Laboratories that are part of the TANEC PRAHA festival. The works included in the European Dance Laboratories are selected from the priority TOP20 young choreographic talents of European dance platform Aerowaves (http://www.aerowaves.org/). Workshops are open to everyone free of charge, to students as well as seniors, complete laymen but also professionals, all who want to know more about the theater backstage and processes in the background.  Schedule of „audience workshops BeSpectACTive!“, first phase from February to May 2015: 1) Wednesday, February 4th
2) Wednesday, February 18th
3) Wednesday, March 4th
4) Wednesday, March 18th
5) Wednesday, April 1st
6) Spring Forward Barcelona 17th - 19th April - live broadcasts of selected works - to be confirmed according to the festival's program in Spain
7) Wednesday, April 29th
8) Wednesday, May 13th
9) Wednesday, May 27th  Workshops will be held from 4:30 pm in Ponec theatre, with length of max. 1.5 hours. Register to participate in the project BeSpectACTive via e-mail at jaroslava.tomanova (at) tanecpraha.eu. The discussion will by lead by the founder of the TANEC PRAHA festival and Ponec theatre Yvona Kreuzmannová. Season 2014/15 will culminate traditionally with TANEC PRAHA festival during which all visitors can look forward to moderated debates with the audience after the performances. Encouragingly, the Czech artists have succeeded in the very first stage of the project. NANOHACH company was able to handle an attractive project led by Michal Záhora, selected by nine European partners for creative video-residence in Italy and Romania (Milano, Sibiu). Viewers in all participating countries will be able to observe the work of Michal Záhora almost day by day. Source: Ponec Theatre