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RIDERS - LENKA VAGNEROVÁ & COMPANY

Actors: Markéta Frösslová/Tereza Voříšková, Andrea Opavská, Patrik Čermák, Josef Bartoš, Radoslav Piovarči Dance Piece Of The Year 2013, Festival Czech Dance Platform
Entrance:
350 Kč Regular (Sitting)
250 Kč Student (Sitting)
60 min. Premiere: 12. 11. 2012

Riders is played in many places in Europe with positive response from Czech professional critics and from prestigious international festivals (eg . Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014, Tanzmesse Düsseldorf 2014 , Festival Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2013, etc.)

We’re here, we are among you. We are fast, we don’t respect the wind. We are strong, yet vulnerable. We love to watch you while you seldom know about us. We can’t change your destinies but you often change ours. We share one world but watch it from different perspectives. Does this mean that we can also share the same values?

“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.” George Bernard Shaw

Riders draws inspiration from birds and the role they have played in our culture and traditions. Birds are silent witnesses to our stories and as such they are exceptional: their world is elsewhere, it is a world of different dimensions. Birds have always played an important role in mythology, faith and our spiritual richness. Who are the true “Riders” of our planet? Is it birds with their capacity to move freely around the world? Or is it us, with our capacity to destroy everything within hours?

Concept and Choreography: Lenka Vagnerová
Light Design: David Alcorta Ruiz, Michal Kříž (cooperation with Tanec Praha within the M4M project)
Sound Design: Eva Hamouzová
Music: Ivan Acher (Jana Vébrová - voices; Kryštof Lecian - violoncello; Ivan Acher - composer, pianos, guitars, voices, sampler, percussions)
Stage Design: Anna Solilová
Costumes: Anna Solilová, Sára Voříšková
Coproducer: Ponec / Dance Prague
Production: Andrea Vagnerová
With the support from: City of Prague, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic

Dedicated to Svatava Klenovská 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
 

  • DANCE PIECE OF THE YEAR 2013 / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2013 / Prague
  • NOMINATION DANCER OR THE YEAR  2013 for Andrea Opavská and -Tomáš Červinka / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2013 / Prague
  • Light Design Award - NOMINATION for Michal Kříž
REVIEWS
  • “accomplished, high-quality choreography” ★★★★★ (Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, BROADWAY BABY“)

    “full of agile imagination and finesse” ★★★★ (Mary Brennan, THE HERALD )

    “This must be seen! It is poetry in dance, for which any attempt at description is too brief.” (Helena Kazárová, Taneční aktuality, 2012)

    “Great choreographer, great team, hit of the season! ”

    (Nina Vangeli, Hospodářské noviny, 16.11.2012)

    “If this season someone were to see just one domestic dance performance it should be Riders, which has to be in the running for best dance event of the year. Vagnerová is a poet with a rich kinetic dictionary and a talent for innovation and surprise.” (Jakub Novák, Aktualne.centrum.cz, 16.11.2012)

    "The performances in Riders are excellent, the choreography is inventively alive..." ★★★(Judith Mackrell, THE GUARDIAN)