Spitfire Company: Sniper’s Lake, 2015

Running away, fleeing, a mad dash that never stops. At least once in our lives we all experience the feeling of being a fugitive. We run. 

Five dancers fighting with their own power and one invisible sniper in the audience. An artwork that emerges on the scene via a barrage of colours. If you don’t run, you will die. Memories of people in danger in Sarajevo and the Maidan in Kyiv, and of people in crisis situations in the Middle East. The threat can come from anywhere and at any time. 

Spitfire Company is looking for a new language of the body built on running and its variations. The rhythmic structure recalling the choreography of act two of Swan Lake in a piece by American composer Sivan Eldar.

(credits: Spitfire Company & Ponec – the dance venue)

Duration: 60 minutes

Performed by: 

Cécile Da Costa, Markéta Vacovská, Jiří Bartovanec, Amy Margaret Pender, Katja Schia Henriksen

Credits:

  • Concept  / dramaturgy / stage setting: Petr Boháč
  • Directed by / Choreography: Miřenka Čechová
  • Music: Sivan Eldar
  • Musical interpretation: Clarinet Factory
  • Vocals: Lucie Prokopová a Irina Rurac
  • Costumes: Petra Vlachynská
  • Light design: Martin Špetlík
  • Production manager: Tereza Havlíčková, Ludmila Vacková, Marianne Bilger
  • Production: Bezhlavi o.s., Baerum Kulturhus
  • Co-production: Tanec Praha / PONEC – The Dance Venue
  • Performing: Cécile Da Costa, Markéta Vacovská, Jiří Bartovanec, Amy Margaret Pender, Katja Schia Henriksen
  • Supported by: EEA Grants, Ministry of Culture of the Czech republic, Prague City Hall
  • Partners: DIOD Jihlava, Papírny Plzeň

Premiere: 26th March 2015 in Baerum Kulturhus (NO), 7 and 8th April 2015 in PONEC – the dance venue (CZ)

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