Hi PerformanCZ October 2025

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 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.

Submit your application via the form: HERE
Application deadline: August 3rd

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 (Prague)
19:30 – Mystical Self / Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Venue: Prague City Theatres – Komedie Theatre

Sunday, 12 October (Ústí nad Labem)
09:00 – Hotel pick-up / Departure to Ústí nad Labem
11:00–12:30 – Visit to Public Hall Hraničář
Introduction to the association’s activities, tour of the post-war architecture exhibition, and presentation of projects by multimedia artist and performer Hana Kokšalová
12:30–13:00 – Lunch at Café Hraničář
Meeting with Lenka Havelková – Director of the KULT Festival
14:00–17:20 – Splitting Reality / Kolektiv Nesladím – KULT Festival
Venue: Ústí nad Labem House of Arts
One-on-one performance (rotating every 20 minutes)
Guided tours of the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts at 14:30 and 16:30 (2 groups)
18:00 / 18:30 (ETA) – Oidipus Utopia – KULT Festival
Venue: Drama Studio Ústí nad Labem
Dramaturgical introduction by Michal Hába, Director or Veronika Linka, Dramaturg
21:30 (ETA) – Departure to Prague

Monday, 13 October (Prague)
09:15 – Hotel pick-up
10:00 – Gulliver’s Travels / Spitfire Company in collaboration with Prague City Theatres
Venue: ABC Theatre
12:15–12:45 – Discussion with the creative team
Miřenka Čechová, Performer, Director, Choreographer
Venue: Café at ABC Theatre
16:50 – Visit to the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
19:00 – Czech Hero / Farm in the Cave
Venue: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
20:00 – Discussion with the creative team
Viliam Dočolomanský – Director, Founder of the Ensemble

Tuesday, 14 October (Prague)
10:00 – Hotel pick-up
11:00 – Don Quixote. The Waste Land
Venue: State Opera
13:15–13:45 – Discussion with the creative team
Róbert Štefančík, Dramaturg
13:50–14:45 – Lunch
15:00 – Guided tour of the State Opera

Wednesday, 15 October (Prague)
10:00 – Hotel pick-up
10:30–12:00 – Discussion with students at HAMU
Led by Hana Strejčková
Dramaturgy of Contemporary Theatre: Necessary, Transformed, or Even Unnecessary?
12:15–13:15 – Lunch at Café HAMU
14:30–17:00 – Visit to Cultural Station Galaxie
A unique cultural project uniting five prominent artistic organisations:
Dejvice Theatre, Minor Theatre, DAMU (Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts), 4+4 Days in Motion, and DanceConnected
18:00–18:30 – BLISS / NIVVA, Magda Szpecht
Venue: Studio Hrdinů
20:00 – Wandervogel / Jan Mocek
Venue: Alfréd in the Courtyard
21:15 – Discussion with the creative team
Venue: Alfréd in the Courtyard