Let there be the Light "What exists before the birth of light, before the creation of the work itself?"
From January to June 2025 we are creating an original performance with renowned Italian director and choreographer Simone Sandroni.
PREMIERE 3 June, 20:00, Moving Station in Pilsen
The author team: Simone Sandroni, Honza Malík, The Performing Tribe comp.
Co-producers: Festival TANEC PRAHA, Johan z.ú./Moving Station, Pilsen
A new association in the field of contemporary dance theatre under the name 2VA (2WO in English) started its activity in January 2025. The main actors are dance curator and manager Honza Malík and choreographer Kateřina Stupecká. However, the company is also there to realize and set the conditions for the realization of projects under the guidance of artistically related authors.
Projects and works such as Be provoked by Dance!, I'll emerge from the forest...., Insectum K. and Tribes will continue to be under the responsibility of 2VA.
This year we are closing XX years of creative existence of the association, which was the eighth year has been running the work of the group PULSAR. From January 2025 as 2VA / 2WO association.
Pulsar association is a platform that realizes dance performances in the field of contemporary dance created on the basis of a clearly chosen dramaturgy. The intention of Pulsar is to artistically process socially engaged themes, to find new dance expressions for them. In addition to this main activity, Pulsar is engaged in the creation of new artistic and artistic-professional formats, through which it explores new artistic possibilities. These formats allow to develop artistic work in close connection with the audience. It also creates facilities for artists invited to create original work and last season worked with young dance makers, providing them with artistic and production facilities to explore their own expression and broaden their social and philosophical outlook.
Pulsar is currently formed by Honza Malík and Tereza Krčálová. Among the major undertakings that innovatively approach the situation on the dance scene and strengthen the progressive development of the dance field are: conferences and performances 30 years of dance The Next Promises, artistic meetings Catch Reality! 1-6, the interdisciplinary conference The Role of the Artist Today, the miniseries Dance Through the Camera's Eye, the experiment dis pla y, the project for ´Innovation and Art´ Absolutely Unacceptable! part I and II, the project for emerging artists Unestablished, the experimental interdisciplinary event Be provoked by dance!, the on.line road.talk series Choreographer in the Ring 1st-9th round, the framework programme for the 30th anniversary of the Duncan Centre).
Pulsar was founded at the turn of 2016/2017 by Honza Malík and Michal Záhora. Originally, the group functioned as a platform for one choreographer. Already then, works were created that dealt with selected social themes in their spiritual, philosophical and social complexity, and a variety of choreographic practices emerged. These included works such as Pulsar, Concert for HER, Anniversary - one hundred years of Czech statehood, Celebration - a dance pilgrimage through the countryside. In 2019, Michal Záhora began to collaborate artistically with Tereza Krčálová. The performances Generation X and The End´s Turnabout (Europa towards Omega Point) were based on dramaturgically developed research.
Pulsar continuously develops cooperation with foreign countries. In addition to presenting works outside the Czech Republic (besides neighbouring countries, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, USA, UK), it tries to create new concepts of artistic cooperation with foreign artists.
In 2024, we prepare, we create:
project GUTEN TAG MISTER K.! on the occasion of anniversary of Franz Kafka (Armenia, Georgia, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Spain, England, Egypt, Taiwan, May-November 2024)
BE PROVOKED BY DANCE! for Mental Healths Weeks (Czech regions, September-October 2024)
dance cantata TRIBES (fall 2024)
II. livestream serie CHOREOGRAF V RINGvia BRATISLAVA 5th-7th round (April 11th-14th 2024)
The association is supported by:
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, City of Prague, TANEC PRAHA association, Erasmus+ programme.
Honza is a freelance artist since 1999 when he graduated from the Duncan Centre Conservatory. He danced for the State Opera in Prague (1999-2003, choreographies of Petr Tyc and Petra Hauerova), he was a member of Austrian Laroque Dance Company (2004-2005 and 2012-2016).
He was one of the original founders of the NANOHACH dance company (2004-2016) where he worked as a dancer, producer and manager. As an art director, Honza supported and supervised all 32 company projects, he has been taking care of their continuous production in the Czech Republic and abroad. As an interpret, Honza was a co-author of authorial projects by Czech authors such as Michal Zahora, Lea Svejdova, Jan Komarek and he cooperated with foreign choreographers such as Karen Foss, Ioana M. Popovici, Nigel Charnock, Petra Fornayova, Fabrice Ramalingom, Lenka Flory). Honza was nominated fot The Best Interpretation Award 2008 and Dancer of the Year 2010 Award . In 2011 he was awarded for The Best Actor Critics Award (Russia). Honza also has recieved The Personality of the Year Award 2014 (Next Wave Festival, Prague) and The Dance Manager of the Year 2017 (Czech Dance Platform, Prague).
At the end of 2016 he has found Pulsar association, which realised and creates conditions for a artistic work of Michal Zahora.
For many years, Honza has also been involved in other projects than performances in the field of contemporary dance. He cooperated with the production of international choreography competition Jarmila Jerabkova Award/Festival New Europe (2003-2010) and vs.Interpretation, a music improvisation festival that overlaps with other genres as well. Between years 2011-2013, he was an initiator and supporter of creative work by Czech choreographer Maia. In 2013, Honza initiated a creation of a program section dedicated to contemporary dance theatre space4dance under the Prague Pride Festival. He also curates and coordinates for this festival creation of original dance performances: international project Dogtown (2015; choreography by Nadar Rosano, Israel), Black&White (2017; choreography by Jana Vrana, Cz).
Since 2014, Honza organises a series of discussions dedicated to contemporary dance LET´S TALK ABOUT DANCE that are organised once or twice in a year at different public culturally and socially creative spaces in Prague.
As a dance lector he was a lector of an international project Dancing Europe in Olomouc (Cz, 2008 and 2010) and since 2007 has been teaching at the Duncan Centre (dance technique and individual consultations of authorial pieces).
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