Performances

Microorganisms and the cosmos. Tiny and huge. Both hard to grasp. Our hero is a bacterium. It's amazing how something so small can have such a crucial impact on our existence. With the help of images and actions on stage, we can reveal the hidden beauty and complexity of bacterial life. Through artistic means and in cooperation with scientists, we touch on unknown knowledge from recent times, also revealed thanks to light microscopes and technologies in general. We also use digital art processing, drawing in motion on the iPad and AI.

For children from 9 years, teenagers and adults.

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Artistic theatrical presentation of symbiotic relationships of trees and fungi in nature.

A dreamy look into the nano world below the forest floor.

Little Suzanne’s discovery of the invisible world of tree roots and fungi comes alive through visual theatre, with live painting, shadow play and music.

The forest is a cooperative system. Not only can plants share sugar and water with each other; they actually recognize their relatives, and support them selectively and directly.

Mother trees are central to this system. They live in symbiosis with the mushrooms, who act as their postmen, warehouse workers, and miners. They work together to maintain balance in forest. If we understand their social system—remarkably reminiscent of our internet—we can take better care of our forests.

This performance is intended to stimulate discussions between children and their families and schools. We found inspiration in a book by Peter Wohlleben—and in Suzanne Simard’s work.

A drawn interactive performance on iPad with visual riddles for the youngest children from 3 years of age up. An original live drawing about everything that is born from an egg – butterflies, moths, turtles and snakes, mammals and fish and even fantasy animals.

Children love to watch live drawing and the inspiration serves as an impulse for them to create. And that is also our goal.

Touch iPad becomes a toy for the youngest ones and serves as an excellent educational tool that the children enjoy.

Suitable for families as well as for schools and pre-schools. Duration – 40 minutes.

The performance has been loosely inspired by historical situation of 1737, a harsh journey of exiles from Moravia and Bohemia to Berlin – Rixdorf. We chose a form that feels natural to us – a visual emotional message with live music and two actors/dancers in front of a large screen with live drawing projected on to it in real time.

The performance was part of an opening of Czech-German Cultural Spring 2017 in Regions.

Michaela Bartoňová makes magic happen on her iPad and consequently also on a large shining screen accompanied in unison with the sharp graphic movements of a shadow of Ralf Lücke, an actor and mime. He plays with projections on his body and holds a conversation with the picture. The technical abilities of iPad make universe, cave, city and creatures appear easily on the stage, then suddenly erased, deformed, and become a bizarre beauty. Nothing stays as it is.

Fascinated by visual riddles you remain glued to the story. It is just as in a dream but at the same time the relationship between men and animals is addressed.

For more information see the official Drawing in Motion website.

Interactive lecture with live painting and discussion Actions during the project in the year: 2020 and 2021: 1.8., 15.8. a 30.8. 2020 Sklárna Tasice - Třikrát se pořádal workshop Řeči o lesek v rámci výstavy Michaela Bartoňové s živou malbou a za účasti lektorky PhDr. Moniky Cahové, molekulární bioložky, PhD. 13.8. a 1.9. ALTA Praha Představení s diskuzí. 11.a 12.9. Jsme se zúčastnily festivalu Festival for Future v divadle Grashupfer v Berlíně, DE

12. • 17.1. 2021 Schaubude Berlin on line Představení s diskuzí, DE 3.2. Greenpeace Praha Online diskuze Řeči o lese a Les jako Ekosystém, Praha
      17.5. - 20.5. Hrádek, Spolek Slezský Hrádeček - Tři akce - škola a školka. 26.5. Jihočeská Galerie - pro pedagogy, Č. Budějovice 22.6..-25.6. Norimberg Salz und Pfeffer Představení a diskuze. 26.7. Příměstský tábor Jihočeská Galerie, Č. Budějovice 28.7. Pirátský tábor pro děti a rodiče, Ratmírov 2.8. Příměstský tábor Jihočeská Galerie, Č. Budějovice
13. 8. Zahradní kolonie Hainholz. Rodiče s dětmi, Hannover DE 15.8. Fahrradladen Viktoriapark, Berlin DE