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Czech Performing Arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

For the fifth time the Czech Centre London supports the most progressive Czech dance and theatre companies at the world’s largest performing arts festival in Edinburgh. Czech Showcase @ Fringe 2015 is a collection of four critically acclaimed physical theatre and dance projects: Antiwords (Spitfire Company), Dolls (Cirk la Putyka), Correction (VerTeDance), and Boys Who Like to Play with Dolls (Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel). The Czech performances will run throughout August across four Fringe venues.
The Czech
Showcase@Fringe 2015 is supported by
Budweiser Budvar and organised in partnership with Ministry
of Culture of the Czech Republic, CEZ Foundation, PRE and Aurora Nova.
CZECH SHOWCASE 2015: Overcoming the Limit
It has been a long-term mission of the Czech Centre to promote the growing and glowing Czech performing arts scene in the UK. Pieces presented previously at the Fringe have constantly received acclaim in the form of a multitude of festival awards, outstanding reviews and numerous invitations to festivals in the UK and around the world.
The Czech
Showcase 2015’s programme presents a
diverse array of genres from contemporary dance to new circus and physical
theatre. Returning to the Fringe is the audience favourite - and Total Theatre
Award nominee from 2011- Cirk La Putyka. With their spectacular multi-genre
show Dolls the cutting edge company is destined to be a Fringe gem. Another happy
return awaits the Spitfire Company (Herald
Angel Award 2013) and their
original interpretation of Vaclav Havel´s phenomenal play Audience. Following the incredibly successful UK premiere at the BE
Festival in Birmingham, the internationally acknowledged group VerTeDance brings
the award winning dance piece Correction.
And last, but not least, acclaimed dancers Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel
perform their wild and diverse duet Boys
Who Like to Play with Dolls. Together with the boldly interpreted progressive
choreographies, the featured projects share a common theme of overcoming limits
– should they be personal, artistic or social – which is approached with a
surprising
and refreshing degree of wit.
For further information and all press enquiries (including press
tickets) contact:
Veronika
Frydrychova, 07721067272
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Dates and venues:
VERTEDANCE: Correction
ZOO Southside, 8.15pm
Performance Aug 11 – 19
Facing the
audience, seven performers standing in a perfect line are longing for freedom.
Everything is pushing off, tipping and falling; yet every imbalance is
corrected and brought back to equilibrium. With live music by Clarinet Factory.
Audience Award and Mess Award at Be
Festival 2015. Czech Dance Piece of the Year.
www.vertedance.org
LA PUTYKA: Dolls
Underbelly Circus
Hub - The Beauty, 3.25pm
Performance Aug 7 - 11,13 – 17, 19 -23, 25 – 29
UK debut of
the energising and intensely vibrant new show Dolls from Total Theatre Award nominee
Cirk La Putyka. Set to be the Fuerza Bruta of the Festival Fringe 2015 – join
us in the Doll’s House
for a highflying dark circus story of the magic behind the painted faces.
‘Champions
of their idiosyncratic world’ – Total Theatre
www.laputyka.cz
SPITFIRE COMPANY:
Antiwords
Summerhall – Old Lab Venue, 8.25pm
Performance Aug 10 – 16, 18 – 23, 25 - 30
What
happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, the alter ego of Václav
Havel himself, meet on stage? Antiwords utilises two actresses, a case of Czech
beer, eerie masks and absurdist humour
to produce a show that’s been a hit in Berlin, Prague, Milan, Washington, New York,
London, Peking and Oslo.
'Artful.
Brilliant. Irreverent. Simple, yet genius' (DCTheatreScene.com).
www.spitfirecompany.cz
TEREZA ONDROVÁ
& PETER ŠAVEL: Boys Who Like to Play With Dolls
DanceBase, 1pm
Performance Aug 12 – 16, 18 - 22
Two
distinctive, compelling European dancers, Ondrová and Šavel, morph from one
body to another, attacking the conventions, norms and clichés of gender.
Movement and dance become an expression of the contrast between the identity of body and soul, and between genetic givens
and social prejudices.
European Top 20 Priority Companies 2014 selected by
Aerowaves
www.altart.cz
Partners of Czech Dance Showcase
Produced by: Czech Centre London, Cirk La Putyka, VerTeDance,
Alt@Art, Spitfire Company
Cooperation with: Aurora Nova
Partners: Budweiser
Budvar, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, CEZ
Foundation and PRE.
CZECH CENTRE LONDON
The Czech Centre London is a government funded
cultural agency whose mission is to actively promote the Czech Republic by showcasing Czech culture in the UK.
www.czechcentre.org.uk
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