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Laterna magika

ANTICODES

The latest multimedia play the main role in a visual and dance production based on Václav Havel’s collection of experimental poetry of the same name. See the Laterna Magika of the 21st century at the New Stage of the National Theatre! more

Laterna magika

CASANOVA

The life journey of Giacomo Casanova, who became the symbol of an unflagging and passionate womanizer. A colorful composition of music, film and dance will let you take a glimpse into the destinies of this famous man, whose stormy life created a legend. more

Laterna magika

COCKTAIL 012 - THE BEST OF

The most popular of Laterna magika’s numbers from recent years plus a retro revue. A composed programme includes excerpts from successful pieces that were or still are on Laterna magika’s repertory (the most recently included parts are The Breakneck Ride – the oldest excerpt from Variations created 1963; The Magic Flute, Rendez-vous, Legends of Magic Prague, and other). Besides, the show includes a 30 minutes multimedia piece Code 58.08: a show that goes back to the roots of Laterna magika’s creative technique. more

Cullberg Ballet (SE)

EKMAN´S TRIPTYCH: A STUDY OF ENTERTAINMENT

Alexander Ekman

Legendary company comes to Prague! Choreographer Alexander Ekman is conquering the international dance scene. In 2006 he was said to be “a rising young choreographer to keep an eye on”. In October 2010 he created his first full length evening: Ekman’s Triptych - A Study of Entertainment. Three separate works weave through a multitude of expressions, where dance meets dialogue, wit becomes wistful and the meaningful cohorts with the meaningless. What is entertainment? more

National Theatre Drama

ENDANGERED SPECIES

Petr Zelenka

The latest play by Petr Zelenka, one of the most successful Czech dramatists. A tale of a battle with a multinational pharmaceutical corporation, of recovery of long-lost friendship and many forms of love. The play takes as its theme the relationship of the artist to reality, or, more precisely, media reality. What are the limits of that which one can accept and that which is no longer acceptable? What should be revered more: moral principles or friendship? more

Laterna magika

GRAFFITI

A journey beneath the colorful surface of the modern characteristics and symbols that form a part of the throbbing city’s expansiveness. Let yourselves be captivated by dynamic image animations and by modern choreographies which relate the gripping tales taking place below this surface. more

Laterna magika

LEGENDS OF MAGIC PRAGUE

In a new multimedia project the audience is introduced to legends, for which Prague is famous: the tale of the most famous inhabitants of the Faust House - Faust and the English alchymist Edward Kelley; the legend of Chanina, the daughter of a Jewish merchant, who refuses bridegrooms offered her and, drawn by her love of a mysterious Lord of the River Vltava, steps into the river and returns to the roofs of Prague only in the shape of a green cat; the stories of secret meetings between the Emperor Rudolf II and the mystic and great personality of the Jewish culture in Prague - Rabbi Löwe and his homunculus Golem; and last but not least the legend connected with the construction of the Astronomical Clock of the Old Town. more

420PEOPLE / National Theatre Drama

MAY

based on poem by Karel Hynek Mácha

How well do we know K. H. Mácha's legendary poem May? It seems like all of us Czechs are able to recall its first lines. Is that really all? And if so, is that enough? Are we aware of its content, details, its atmosphere and universal character? The company 420PEOPLE present a new piece that goes far beyond their experience in the field of contemporary dance. Václav Kuneš, the company's choreographer, got together with the actor, and in this case also director, David Prachař and they have created May, a piece in which they both also perform. more

The National Theatre Ballet

MOONSHINE

A triptych made by the British choreographer Christopher Bruce. His name in the final credits is not, however, the only thing the three pieces have in common: they all deal with the issue of a retro perspective on pop-folk-rock music scene. All three choreographies were made to music composed in the 20th century. The night will open with a dance opus Dance at the Crossroads created to music of the Irish-Scottish band The Waterboys. With the second piece called Moonshine Bob Dylan's music will resound on stage. The triptych will close with an explosion of energy and the music of the Rolling Stones: the choreography called Rooster. more

National Theatre Drama

RHINOCEROS

Eugene Ionesco

One of the seminal plays of the 20th century, blending the Theatre of the Absurd, existential drama, classical farce and burlesque, tells the story of people from a small town, perhaps in southern France, suddenly finding themselves in the clutches of Evil, which assumes the rather ridiculous semblance of a rhinoceros. One by one, all these good people turn into rhinoceroses and accept their fate with a dreadful passivity. Yet one among them defies. He is not able to accept that which all the others have, even though he is timid, weak and of nowise distinct character. He is anything but a hero, yet he resists the mass metamorphosis. more

Pop Balet

TANECBOOK

Dance performance about virtual reality, unreal relationships and problems in contemporary internet society. more

Prague chamber ballet

THE CONDITION OF DISAPPEARANCE

Ji-Eun Lee, Hana Polanská Turečková

Premiere choreography by corean Ji-Eun Lee interpreted by Prague chamber Ballet. Accompanied by the rerun of Mono No aware by Hana Polanská Turečková. Piece "The Condition of Disappearance" explores the cruelty of apathy in modern times. | Regardless of my volition, my human dignity is killed by others. | My true identity may or may not be revealed by the surroundings. | Its appearance or disappearance is dependent of the others, not me. more

International Ballet School

THE TALE OF MOWGLI

The final performance of the Prague International Ballet school year 2012-2013. Choreography by Marek Svobodník. more

National Theatre Drama

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER NORA LEFT HER HUSBAND

Elfriede Jelinek

The Nobel Prize winner writes provocatively and her relentless criticism even surpasses that of Ibsen. (Two of the plays Jelinek links up to are contained in the title.) Above all, she conjectures the story of Nora. As the author has herself said, she considers Nora an extremely negative character. Although Nora extricated herself from her marriage, she continues, like a squirrel, hopping around seeking to please men, without understanding any of the principles of the civilisation dictated by males. (Those who exploit more effectively, compete more effectively, is how her algorithm could read.) Jelinek sends Nora to the 1930s, the years of economic crisis with war on the horizon. As Václav Bělohradský would put it, it is an apposite metaphor of the time of the deified growth of Growth. more

Laterna magika

WONDERFUL CIRCUS

A permanent resident of Laterna magika´s repertory, a piece that has, since its first night in 1977, bred generations of dancers. Despite its age, it hasn´t ceased to lure spectators by its poetic character and subtle humour. It is, among other things, a story about the unchievable character of the perfect, about the eternal desire, and, last but not least, it is a probe into human soul... more