premiere
Concept:
Helle Bach a Tomáš Janypka
Choreography, performance:
Tomáš Janypka
Choreographic collaboration:
Helle Bach
Dramaturgy:
Sára Arnstein
Music:
Tomáš Vtípil
Lighting design:
Martin Hamouz
Scenography:
Siggi Óli Pàlmason
Production:
Wanda Kaprálová - ZDRUHESTRANY & dadadans
Co-production:
PONEC - divadlo pro tanec / Tanec Praha z.ú.
Supported by:
Studio Alta, Nultý Bod 2022, CIRQUEON, REZI.DANCE, Tanec Praha z.ú / Ponec - divadlo pro tanec
The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the cities of Brno and Prague, and the National Recovery Plan.
Thanks to:
Lída Vacková, Jaroslav Kráčmera, Šárka Maršíková, Sodja Lotker, Markéta Perroud
Also deserving of thanks and support are all other creators* who deal with current social movements and try to reflect them, cultivate our perception and point out empty spaces or limits. There are many of you. We name those who we know have embarked on an exploration of contemporary masculinities at a similar time to us: Lea Kukovič and Sodja Lotker, Peter Šavel and Jirka Šimek, Petr Dlouhý, Daniel Alberto Victoria et al., Jan Bárta et al., Michal Heriban et al., Levin Eichert and Luis Villegasa and others.
Premiere:
5.11.2023 Cirqueon LAB, Petrohradská 3, Praha
Duration:
45 min
Age:
12+
The project was implemented with the financial participation of the EU through the National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Every human is a lonely cowboy, imprinted with the landscape that surrounds them: the mountains, the city, the amalgam of ideas, images, ideals, icons and human behaviour. We find ourselves on the threshold of a scattered time when we can stop looking for patterns on the map, in the footsteps of heroism, and in the desert of patterns and memories from the past. We can draw our own individual maps where hierarchy doesn't reign among our stories and where gentleness, uncertainty and doubt are qualities equal to determination, strength and fearlessness. What are the attributes the ideal cowboy of today should hold? What would the ideal cowboy be, incarnated by a man - Tomáš Janypka? Loneliness as a question and an answer alike.
"Once upon a time, there was a man, or a boy, a cowboy."
Site specific in co-production with Tanec Praha z.ú and Ponec - theatre for dance. English friendly.
