Delicate – Anna Biczók. Photo by Dániel Dömölka.
Appellative leitmotif
The organizing association Flora Theater Festival invites to award-winning drama and dance productions, performances, stand-up, opera, discussions, concerts and a number of other accompanying activities that connect the motto Freedom. Flora has a long-standing reputation as a thematically profiled show, whose yearly dramaturgy is characterized by a clearly articulated leitmotif. This year’s one resonates with all the productions of the main program, which accentuate it in many ways. “Freedom is a basic human need, an implicit condition for a dignified existence and authentic creation. However, many people cannot live as they wish, freely create and fulfill their desires. We believe that the artistic reflection of the burning phenomena of today, to which the theater naturally reacts, will appeal to the festival audience and also invite them to an active discussion with those we have invited to Olomouc this year.” the performance itself also attracts a lot of festival discussions and informal meetings with artists, the director of Divadelní Flora Petr Nerušil.
After the painter Adéla Janská from Olomouc, whose female portraits last year communicated with the motto Otherness, the festival of presentation parties addressed another representative of the local art scene – Jiří Sedlák. “With regard to the annual theme of Divadelní Flory, Jiří was for me the ideal adept to collaborate on the current visuals. Its expressive, even abstract position corresponds suggestively with the motto Freedom. Just like last year, the intersection of two media is also taking place this time – a painter enters digital graphic design with his analog means of expression. In the austere template with factual data, Jiří spontaneously imprinted an urgent imperative,” comments graphic artist Radim Měsíc on the idea of the 27DF visual, whose colorful statement enlivened the exteriors of the university town.
Premiers and foreign stars
The festival will be kicked off by two world premieres of Olomouc provenance – a composed dance evening Freedom in Motion Moravian Theater Ballet Ensemble (choreography WHITE flag day Italian women Robert Ferrara and Inventing Freedom Štěpán Pechar), which will host the recently opened Central on Thursday, May 9, and drama Tragedies Theaters for cucks and Slovak director Šimon Spišák One day later. Right after them, the MDO stage will belong to an international ensemble Schauspielhaus Bochumwhose production New life directed Christopher Rüping 27. Theater Flora will be inaugurated.
During twelve days full of theatrical and musical experiences, outstanding directors and inspiring directors will present themselves at Flora together with top protagonists from eleven countries. The show will offer thirty theater productions in the main program, inviting a total of seven dozen events.
The biggest stars of the festival will also include a Polish choreographer Maciej Kuźmińskian Austrian dance group Hungry SharksFrench performer Agathe TarillonHungarian choreographer Anna BiczokMoldovan author and director Nicoleta Esinenc with Chisinau teatru-spălătorie, Polish playwright Ewe Benbenek, Iranian theater and film director Sahar Rezaei, the aforementioned Bochum troupe or Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Complete information about the festival can be found on DF social networks and at www.divadelniflora.cz.
Source: Theater Flora
