Bazaar Festival celebrates 10 years. It could be balanced, but it's not quite our style. Therefore, for our tenth anniversary, we invited the younger generation of artists from Central and Eastern Europe to the Czech theater and dance scene, who place emphasis not only on the final work, but above all on the practice. This year's theme is BRAVE PRACTICES. You can experience them for yourself from March 15 to 25 at PONCI - theater for dance, Alfred in the courtyard, X10 Theater, ARŠE+ and other places in Prague. Look for tickets on GoOut or on our website in the "tickets" section.
We will open the festival on March 15 with a multimedia theater lecture entitled Cyber Elf by Polish theater and opera director Magda Szpecht, who immediately after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 decided to hang her current career on a nail and become a cyber elf. In this new practice, in which he fights against misinformation, he uses his theater experience and, through the theater environment, guides us through what he does every day as part of his work. Another significant meeting with creators and their practice will be the dance production Dance Floor 2022 by Ana Dubljević, Kasii Kania and Marje Christians. Their performance is a kind of documentary and at the same time strongly bodily subjective research, the main goal is to transform the stereotypical perception of the body and introduce it into new contexts, into a feminist "pornland". They invite you to their work with the words: "Welcome to the capitalist ruins, dear tourists! Bring your sun protection because we will be sweating it out in the middle of the arena of the former socialist luxury hotel Haludovo Palace on the island of Krk.”
GEO, produced by the independent platform Temporary Collective, is an intimate confession about the relationship to dance, oneself and a specific place - the PONEC theater. Choreographer and dancer Tereza Ondrová has been dancing on this ground for 25 years, and through dance and the use of a geophone, she will guide the audience through the landscape we all inhabit. Another BRAVE PRACTICE will be presented by Aleksandar Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva and Darío Barreto Damas aka STEAM ROOM. You can imagine their DRAGon aka PONY as a fantastic playground where you can celebrate body freedom together. Through numerous references to past and present dance, an impression of never-ending transformation and growing intimacy is created, which is spontaneous, playful and crazy. Admirers of Isadora Duncan, folk dance and fans of MTV will find something to their liking. Hungarian performer Viktor Szeri, whose award-winning dance production Fatigue, will be part of Y Events, an event from the experimental dramaturgical series of the X10 Theater moving on the edges of theater and visual art, presents such a topical theme of burnout and fatigue in his artistic practice. The composed evening is entitled Y: Sweat and Fire. In Alfred in the yard, visit the visual performance of the collective PYL - Reality Surfing, which offers a view of an alternative model of the coexistence of people and inanimate entities. Last but not least, the ARCHY+ space will be dominated by a prominent personality of the youngest generation, Slovak musician, film and theater director Adam Dragun and his friends. The evening consisting of Dragun's lecture performance and his short film PRCAT, in which he gradually manages to get his own grandparents to talk about experiences from his youth, culminates in a festival party and a real celebration of the tenth bazaar birthday!
But that is not all. Look forward to the traditional Saturday Bazaar and examples of upcoming works by young artists. If you want to work on giving and receiving feedback, don't miss the five-day workshop led by Rivcy Rubin and Charles Lauder. Dorota Michalak and Alica Minar will take us on a performative walk as part of work-in-progress, we will meet in the vicinity of Löwit's mill in Libni. The last but very important part of the festival is directly connected with "courageous creators" who want to share with the audience their practices, methods, inspiration, themes, or everything that precedes the final work. In the form of mini-workshops, performative picnics, discussions and presentations, they will be open to sharing their courageous practices.