Programme of the Ballet Ensemble

April 2024
Name Date Beginning End Place Free seats
Mr Faun’s Labyrinth Thu  18.4. Beginning 19:00 Place Budova JD Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
May 2024
Name Date Beginning End Place Free seats
Juliet and Romeo Premiéra Thu  2.5. Beginning 19:30 Place DK Metropol ČB Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Juliet and Romeo Fri  3.5. Beginning 18:00 Place DK Metropol ČB Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance

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June 2024
July 2024
Name Date Beginning End Place Free seats
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Fri  26.7. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Sat  27.7. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Sun  28.7. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Tue  30.7. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Wed  31.7. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
August 2024
Name Date Beginning End Place Free seats
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Thu  1.8. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Fri  2.8. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance
Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait Sat  3.8. Beginning 21:30 Place Otáčivé hlediště ČK Free seats 20+ Detail of the performance

Repertoire

3+1

3 dancers + 1 guest = 4 breathtaking choreographie

Premiere 30. 10. 2021

A ballet show of the choreographies of three dancers from the South Bohemian Theatre and one guest. The dancers feel like dancing and creating at the same time, and they will show you that during the 3+1 dance evenings. The special guest is Viktor Konvalinka, a soloist of the National Theatre Ballet Ensemble and a member of the artistic group DEKKADANCERS.
 

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A Clockwork Orange

Tomáš Rychetský

Dance grotesque

Premiere 26. 11. 2021

A vision of the future which becomes our reality. This is what has fascinated Mad Max, Orwell’s 1984, Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or, cyberpunk, Kubrick, Anthony Burgess, and the Ballet Ensemble of the South Bohemian Theatre. For the first time ever, the legendary A Clockwork Orange will be transformed into a dance production at the South Bohemian Theatre. The decadently surreal dance comedy uncovers what happens when the powerful decide to make us their puppets. Shall we let them?

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Cinderella

Cinderella op.87, Ballet in 3 acts by Serge Prokofieff and Nikolai Wolkow

Dance performance for the whole family

Premiere 4. 2. 2023

The ballet Cinderella to the music of Sergei Prokofiev is one of the most famous and widely performed ballet titles. The ballet will be choreographed and directed by Petr Zuska, who has already collaborated with our ensemble in the past (Keys from Nowhere, Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen). Cinderella will enrich our repertoire with a new classic.

 

Performing Rights licensed by Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH, Berlin. 
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Diary of a Wishes

Adam Sojka

A one-act ballet

Premiere 16. 11. 2023

Short stories about decisions that happened, might happen, or will only remain as dreams...

It often happens that we live in the fantasies of our desires and wishes. We write them down in our diaries, whether imaginary or real. In our minds, we sometimes create the idea of a life we would like to live, but which unfortunately we don’t. Maybe out of fear, incompetence, or just because we don’t know how to continue...
 

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Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait

J. Kodet, SKUTR - L. Trpišovský, M. Kukučka

Dance theatre performance

Premiere 5. 8. 2023

26. 7. – 3. 8. 2024

The production team, led by choreographer Jan Kodet, has prepared a dance theatre performance for the Revolving Auditorium, inspired by details from Egon Schiele’s paintings and drawings – long arms, piercing eyes, erotic facial expressions, dynamic gestures – and also by the words of his poems and letters. The audience will witness the return of Egon Schiele’s spirit to the castle gardens in the figure of a man looking at himself in the mirror, as in a photograph taken in his studio in 1915. The X-ray gaze of the genius, who was ahead of his time and who tried to free the human spirit, overcome the limits of morality and merge with nature, penetrates deep under the skin of his models. It is as if he were exploring the boundary between life and death. And we can see a beautiful free man full of love and sexual desire. We can see his muscles, his bones, his silhouette. We can see the pulsating line of life. We can see a young man, a house, a mirror and nature in a impetuous avidity before his untimely death. We can see Egon Schiele and our attempt at his self-portrait.

Let us enter the world behind the mirror in a dance project that combines sound, light, stage and movement.

 

"May, June, July, August, September, October, I want to see something new and I want to explore it, I want to savour the dark water, to see the trees crackling in the wild wind, to gaze in wonder at the rotten fruit of the gardens, to listen to the young birch groves and the quivering leaves, to see the light, the sun, to enjoy the wet green-blue valleys in the evening, to feel the glitter of the golden fish, to watch the white clouds gathering, to talk to the flowers, the grass, to watch the people and their healthy colour, to listen to the noble speech of old churches with little domes, and to run without ceasing across the broad plains to the mountains, I want to kiss the earth and absorb the warm soft scent of the oxeye daisies; then I shall make beautiful coloured paintings.“

Egon Schiele to Anton Peschka, a letter, 1910



Approximate length of the performance 75 minutes.

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Juliet and Romeo

Ondřej Vinklát & Tomáš Rychetský

Ballet

Premiere 2. 5. 2024

An immortal story of great love, but also of hatred. A subject that is truly timeless and relevant in every age. The choreographers Ondřej Vinklát and Tomáš Rychetský have designed a completely new production about the two lovers. It is directed by Dodo Gombár and set to the original music of the contemporary composer Ivan Acher. A dance performance with a modern interpretation that draws from the eclectic lexis of contemporary movement.
 

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Mr Faun’s Labyrinth

Marek Svobodník, Štěpán Pechar

One evening, two choreographies

Premiere 19. 11. 2021

Faun’s afternoon
Dreaming is the state of transformed consciousness in which the images present in our memory and fantasy fleetingly mix with events in the outer reality. The contents of our dreams are our own past, our emotions and concealed desires.

Labyrinth
Spain, 1944. On one side is the real, cruel post-war world. On the other, there is an imaginary world centred around an overgrown, deserted labyrinth that is a mysterious gateway to an underground kingdom. The main character, Ofelia, escapes from her sadistic stepfather and the cruel reality in which she lives to a fantasy world where she meets Faun. Faun assigns Ofelia three tasks to prove that she is the reincarnation of Princess Moana and to allow her to return to her kingdom.

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Tristan and Isolde

Alena Pešková

Dance drama on the motifs of an old Celtic legend

Premiere 7. 4. 2022

Death and Love are illusions that drive the world against time and space and that are in turn betrayed by other illusions, such as friendship, rules, and responsibility.
This dance adaptation of the well-known story of the forbidden and unfulfilled love of Tristan and Isolde allows you to experience all the powerful emotions it abounds with. Emotions that either are cried out loud or softly whispered almost without words. Through the body, gestures or a facial expression...

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Ensemble

Lukáš Slavický

Lukáš Slavický

The whole ensemble