Correction

Reflexes, slants and curvatures; pushing off, tipping and falling – every imbalance is corrected and brought back to equilibrium. With theatrics, choreographic moments and subtle humor, Correction shows that the attainment of freedom often goes hand in hand with loss. But above all, it shows that lack of freedom to decide can also result in comfort, relief, familiarity and devotion – even happiness.

About the author

VerTeDance are the only Czech company to have gained the most prestigious Czech award in the field, The Dance Piece of The Year, as many as three times: for Silent Talk in 2005, for What is the Weight of Your Desire in 2012 and for CORRECTION in 2014.

In 2015 VerTeDance was awarded BE Audience Award 2015 and Mess Festival Award 2015 atBE festival in Birmingham and also the prestigious Herald Angel Award 2015 at Edinburgh Fringe Festival – all of these for CORRECTION.

Jiří Havelka

Jiří Havelka is director, author and actor who is living and working mainly in Prague. In 2003 he graduated from the Directing alternative and puppet theatre program in Jan Schmid’s atelier at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). Therefore not surprisingly, he focuses in his theatrical artwork on group improvisation as a method of conceiving unique original performances. His plays often balance between drama and alternative, even physical or art theatre. In the beginning he was engaged chiefly with Studio Ypsilon in Prague, where he conceived a number of thematically connected original pieces, together with generationally similar part of the ensemble. The most publicly acclaimed plays included a retro ride into the childhood “1203 aneb není mi smutno (2002)”, followed by a theatre play about theatre “Drama v kostce” (2005 – nominated for the Theatre newspaper award) and an experimental (in terms of time) “Kam vítr tam plášť” (2008 nominated for the Theatre Newspaper award in the Alternative theatre category), which brought windsurfing on the scene.
In 2008 he received the Alfred Radok award in the Talent Of The Year category.

Clarinet Factory

Imagine a music workshop or laboratory, to which a little clarinet, some classical music education, a little ethno, jazz and supposing also some minimalism is mixed in. You deliver a taste for improvisation, buy the most modern electronics and technology, invite interesting guests and then start doing research, creating, and mainly communicating with the audience.

A particular genre will emerge from the environment which you have thus created, a genre which can have various things in common with the established term crossover, but more appropriately should be expressed as „music without borders”.

Supported by

City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Foundation Život umělce, METROSTAV a.s., Tanec Praha NGO / Ponec – The Dance Venue, Čtyři dnyo.s. and ALT@RT o.s.