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| Company | Prague Chamber Ballet | ||||||||
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| Performance | Guess how many stars are there (6/14) Black Mirror (6/16) |
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| Choreographer | Hana Polanská Turečková | ||||||||
| Choreographer | Hana Polanská Turečková graduated at Dance Conservatory in Prague, History of Art at the Catholic Theology Faculty in Prague and choreography at Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She was awarded by premium for individuality at the 1st International Choreography Competition in Czech Republic. The choreography Guess how many stars are there gained the viewers prize at the festival in Klášterec nad Ohří (Czech Republic) At the festival Sarajevo Winter 2013 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) she gained a Silver Snowflake prize for the best contemporary dance performance |
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| Company | The Prague Chamber Ballet is the largest Czech independent professional dance company. Beginnings reach into 1964 when Luboš Ogoun,Pavel Šmok and Vladimír Vašut founding Studio Ballet Prague. To the original idea of Ballet Prague choreographer Pavel Šmok continues in 1975 under a name Prague Chamber Ballet. Dancers have rich experience from stone theatres and also alternative dances scenes in Czech Republic or abroad. Since the season of 2013/2014 the residential choreographer Hana Polanská Turečková together with longtime soloist and pedagogue Kateřina Dedková - Franková continues in the tradition of innovative and progressive company with Czech and international repertoire with a clear respect to the preservation of original works by Pavel Šmok. |
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| Performance | “Guess how many stars are there” is about falling into one’s soul and searching around its content.A choreography loosely inspired by Jack London’s novel The Star Rover in which the central character,tied in a jacket, sedates his body so as to stimulate his soul. This enables him to wander through boundless space made of other people’s lives and to get to know the soul of mankind. It is a story of freedom and spiritual power and their capacity of overcoming all wretchedness of body and flying up to the stars. “Black Mirror” choreographed in 2014 within the Year of Czech Music presents the existential abstract ballet as a metaphor of never experienced secret of life and world. The choreography is inspired by the painting of Vladimír Houdek "Black mirror". The cooperation of Hana Polanská Turečková and Vladimír Houdek could be described as "stage or film collage of dance and paintwork seeking a definition of a relationship between the body language and the visual portrayal” and is strongly inspired by modernism. “The main interests of the creative couple are the present possibilities of abstraction, which is always a process,relationship, abstraction of something and will never reach the desired serenity and relationship-free environment.” Idea of both of the artists is supported also by the existential quartet of Czech componist Vladimír Sommer. |
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| Music | GUESS HOW MANY STARS ARE THERE Music: Arvo Pärt, Štěpán Polanský BLACK MIRROR Music: Vladimír Sommer (String Quartet in D Minor) |
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