Disturbance

Care for some Bach with a raven? Don’t take away my dignity! Ourselves? The liberating loss of self-control…who’s taking our place? Us? One gold chair and plenty of room for a lady or a twiggy doll. Encounter your stereotypes, pull yourself out of context, fill the empty space… That’s why it doesn’t exist.

Disturbance (Narušení) is a two-woman show inspired by elements of absurd drama. The performance combines contemporary circus with physical theatre and features aerial acrobatics on a suspended gold chair.

PREMIERE: March 20, 2021, NOD Prague

Project team:
Director and artistic supervisor: Ondřej Holba
Performers: Pavla Rožníčková, Veronika Smolková
Movement supervisor: Cécile da Costa
Acrobatics supervisor: Stéphanie N’Duhirahe
Light design: Jiří (Pírko) Šmirk
Costume design: Daniela Klimešová
Music motif: Roman Zabelov
The chair: design: Ondřej Holba, consultation: Eliška Brtnická, construction: Prokop Vondruška
Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický
Video: Nina Ščamborová
Production managers: Jana Ada Kubíčková, Pavla Rožníčková
Project partners: CIRQUEON – A Center for Contemporary Circus, KD Mlejn, Prague City Hall, Czech Culture Fund, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Audience: adult, children 8+

About the company

Founded in Prague in 2011 as a duo, Cirkus TeTy combines contemporary circus with elements of physical theatre, while building on a foundation in aerial acrobatics.

Drawing on intimate themes, this all-female group collaborates with choreographers and directors from the fields of contemporary circus, physical theatre and dance, and explores alternative forms of aerial-acrobatic material. After a decade of existence, the company has been joined for specific performances by other women from the fields of acrobatics and dance. TeTy has participated in contemporary circus and alternative festivals in the Czech Republic and has also performed abroad in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, etc.