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What if one day we could look back at our life, would there be things we might want to do differently? Would we be able to avoid what we now see as mistakes? If we could ask for advice, would we have any such questions? An audiovisual piece in which back then and now become one.
The performance was selected for Aerowaves Twenty 17, presented at Spring Forward Festival in Aarhus, One Dance Week festival in Plovdiv, SIDance Festival in Soul, V4 Dance Festival in New York and New Orleans, Israel Festival in Jerusalem, Birmingham International Dance Festival, UNIDRAM Festival in Potsdam, Open the doors festival in Katowice, Demoludy in Olsztyn, Tanec Praha in Prague and Light Night Leeds.
About the company
Vera Ondrasikova
Studied choreography at AMU in Prague (Ph.D.). As a dancer she has taken part in projects by Czech and foreign choreographers. She won the Most Outstanding Dancer Award at the Masdanza Festival in the Canary Islands and was nominated in the Das beste deutsche Tanzsolo competition in Leipzig. Her performances have been presented at the Tanec Praha Festival, the Biennale de la danse in Lyon, the Aerowaves Festival in London, Aerodance in Amsterdam, Cynetart in Dresden and Masdanza in the Canary Islands (1st prize for group work). She has worked as a choreographer in residence in Mexico, Germany and France. She created the choreography for Havel’s Antikódy at the New Stage of the National Theatre, which was also performed in Washington, Miami and New York in 2013. Along with British director Mike Bell, she ran a workshop BENEXT in Birmingham and was selected to take part in a residency initiated by the Czech Centre London.
genres
Dance / No Language Barrier
THEATRE / COMPANY
Věra Ondrašíková & Collective
CZECH TITLE
Věra Ondrašíková
AUTHOR
Věra Ondrašíková
CHOREOGRAPHY
Věra Ondrašíková
MUSIC
Filip Míšek
INTERPRETATION
Jaro Ondruš, Josef Kotěšovský
DRAMATURGY
Marta Ljubková
COSTUME DESIGN
Hana Frišonsová
LIGHTING DESIGN
Dan Gregor
LENGTH OF THE PERFORMANCE
40 minutes
NUMBER OF TRAVELLING PERSONS
6
AWARDS
Light Design Award The Audience Award Best Danser for the main protagonist Jaro Ondruš
PRODUCED BY
Lucie Špačková
PREMIERE
3. 12. 2015
