Dance Performance
September 16, 2023 at 1 p.m.
The Festival Quartiers Danses invites you to the Museum for a double program by choreographer Martin Talaga as part of Czech Focus of its 21st edition.
Faunus
Greetings Mountains and Forest, from the bottom of my heart! No matter what the Beast destroys, its vision is deceived by lies, deafened by the unbearable. You will be brought back to life, and your wounds will heal. This show talks about nothing. Nothing important. In fact, it is not even a show. It is more like an impression of life’s little bits of happiness: the beauty of lying on the grass and observing the sky and the trees.
Performers: Martin Talaga
Music: Claude Debussy
Lighting: Karlos Šimek
SOMA
SOMA puts into question both the abilities and limits of the human body. Using a mannequin to represent human perfection, this piece challenges our relationship to beauty. Just like plastic mannequins, we are growing colder. Just like robots, we have become more and more automated. SOMA questions our reverence for outward beauty at the expense of our values and inner beauty, and how it pushes us, slowly but surely, to lose what makes us human.
Performers: Marek Menšík, Radim Klásek, Anton Eliáš
Coach/exterior eye/mentor: Martin Talaga
Music (composition): Myko
Lighting: Karlos Šimek
Producer: Adriana Spišáková
Information
Performance presented on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 h
Location: J. Armand Bombardier Theatre at the McCord Stewart Museum
Admission
- General admission: $10
- Museum Member: $8
- Student: $8
About
Martin Talaga
Dancer, choreographer and performing artist in Prague, Martin Talaga specializes in physical theatre and contemporary dance. His interests also lie in experimental and visual arts. As a choreographer, he has already produced several successful shows, including SYNovial (in collaboration with Marek Zelinka), BOI, FAUNUS and SOMA, winning the “Discovery in Dance” and “Dance Piece of the Year” awards at the Czech Dance Platform Festival in 2018.
Festival Quartiers Danses
The 21st edition of Festival Quartiers Danses will welcome over 30 choreographers and dance companies from 8 countries to present their creations, some of which were specifically designed for the FQD. Pieces will centre around fascinating tributes and themes, including social action, body image, identity, virility, the working world, futurism, the burlesque, disability, agism, nature and parapraxis.
Free | In the Urban Forest
September 6, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.
Festival Quartiers Danses: Matthew Quigley
The Festival Quartiers Danses invites you to the Museum’s Urban Forest for a performance by choreographer Matthew Quigley as part of its 21st edition.
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