AUTHOR, CHOREOGRAPHY, INTERPRETATION:
Florent Golfier
CHOREOGRAPHIC CONSULTATIONS:
Peter Šavel
SCENOGRAPHY:
Marie Gourdain
LIGHT DESIGN:
Zuzana Režná
SOUND DRAMATURGY:
Ian Mikyska
LINGUISTIC CONSULTATIONS:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins
COSTUME REALISATION:
Martina Stieglerová, Magdaléna Vrábová
TECHNICAL COOPERATION:
Hynek Petrželka
SUPPORTED BY:
The project is financially supported by the Prague City Hall, the State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Brno.
CO-PRODUCTION:
The project is a co-production with DW7 – Divadlo na cucky in Olomouc, TANEC PRAHA festival, and Schloss Bröllin e.V.
PARTNERS:
Studio ALTA, Cooltour Cultural Centre in Ostrava, the SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development, the Žďár nad Sázavou Castle, Cirqueon, Plum Yard in Malovice, «le Dancing» in Val-de-Reuil, the psycholinguistic laboratory at the Technical University Dortmund, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, and Johan Centrum – Moving Station in Plzeň
DURATION:
50 min
The performance is part of the evenings devoted to thematic choreographies exploring speech and language: Wrestling with Language and Babel. The resonance of language. During both evenings, it will be possible to see an exhibition documenting the process of their creation in the foyer of the theater. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the authors and visual artist Suzanne Kass. Tickets can be purchased separately or as a package with a 30% discount.
“A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.” John Berger, Confabulations. Wrestling with Language is an attempt to conceive of language as the creature John Berger wrote about. A creature that lives inside of us and inside of which we all live. In this new project, performer and choreographer Florent Golfier takes on the topic of monolingualism, cheerfully wrestling pronunciation, normative language, and the necessity to express oneself
