Hi PerformanCZ: Visitors’ Programme – Drama, Interdisciplinary, and Dance Productions

11 – 16 October 2025 | Prague & Ústí nad Labem

Dramaturges, artistic directors, cultural managers, producers, theatre critics, researchers, and other performing arts professionals from abroad are invited to participate in the Hi PerformanCZ: Visitors’ Programme – Drama, Interdisciplinary, and Dance Productions.

The Hi PerformanCZ: Visitors’ Programme has been established as an intensive multi-day platform for international theatre professionals who wish to explore Czech performing arts through performances, lectures, and discussions. The aim of the programme is to provide deeper insight into the current Czech performing arts scene, foster international collaboration, and build professional connections between local and foreign stakeholders.  

The programme also:   

• Facilitates the direct exchange of experience and inspiration between international guests and Czech artists, curators, and institutions 
• Connects Czech theatre with the international context, through both individual projects and institutional cooperation  
• Opens global and local topics through broad dialogue  
• Highlights the diversity of the Czech performing arts scene, across genres – including drama, dance, contemporary circus, and interdisciplinary work
• Supports long-term partnerships that can lead to co-productions, translations, international tours, or artist residencies  

We’re looking for participants who are:

• Engaged, inquisitive, and ready to share feedback
• Interested in building partnerships with Czech artists and institutions
• Open to writing a short reflection after the programme, if possible

Selected participants will be provided with free accommodation, public transport tickets within Prague, entry to performances, and access to accompanying programme. Come and see performances with English subtitles, discussions with artists and production teams, lectures, presentations, and visits to venues in Prague and in Ústí nad Labem.

The programme is organised by PerformCzech and the AICT-IATC Czech Centre, in collaboration with the KULT Festival in Ústí nad Labem and several prominent Czech theatres and ensembles.

Contact: Barbora Formankova
barbora.formankova@idu.cz
Organiser: PerformCzech, AICT-IATC Czech Centre
Partner: KULT Festival, Cultural Station Galaxie

PROGRAMME

Saturday, 11 October
19:30, Prague City Theatres: Komedie Theatre
Mystical Self (Edivaldo Ernesto, Lenka Vágnerová & Com. / Dance, nonverbal)

Sunday, 12 October
A one-day visit to the KULT Theatre Festival in Ústí nad Labem
The KULT Festival is an annual showcase of contemporary theatre, performance, and interdisciplinary art held in Ústí nad Labem, a city in northern Bohemia. Organised by Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP) and the Činoherní studio theatre, the festival brings together emerging artists, students, and professional theatre ensembles from across the Czech Republic and beyond.
Programme TBC

Monday, 13 October

10:00, Prague City Theatres: ABC Theatre
Gulliver’s Travels (adapted/directed by Petr Boháč, in collaboration with Spitfire Company and Prague City Theatres / Puppetry, drama and musical theatre, ENG subtitles)
Planned discussion with the artists

19:00, The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Czech Hero (Farm in the Cave / Dance, nonverbal)
Planned discussion with the artists

Tuesday, 14 October

11:00, The State Opera Prague
Don Quixote. The Waste Land (The National Theatre, M. de Cervantes, T.S. Eliot, SKUTR: Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský, Site Specific, ENG subtitles)
Afternoon programme TBC

Wednesday, 15 October
A guided tour of Cultural Station Galaxie 
Galaxie is a cultural project that brings together five prominent art organizations in one place. Dejvické Theatre, Minor Theatre, 4 + 4 Days in Motion, DanceConnected, and DAMU are breathing new life into the abandoned halls of a former multiplex cinema at the Háje metro terminus (Line C). Through this collaboration, they are creating new opportunities for local communities, audiences of established cultural institutions, and their own continued development. Cultural Station Galaxie will open in September 2025 for one year, welcoming all culture lovers across artistic disciplines.
Programme TBC

20:00, Alfred in the Courtyard
Wandervogel (directed by Jan Mocek, Interdisciplinary, ENG subtitles)
Planned discussion with the artists

Thursday, 16 October
Departure

(Programme is subject to change)

Foto: Adéla Vosičková