Performance cancelled due to injury.

Spaceship Harpsichord voyages through the stratosphere. Cosmic ballerinas, mutated into antennaed robots, communicate through hieroglyphic dance. The fingers of the virtuoso musician time travel from baroque to contemporary across the keyboard. Shattering galactic lights sustain this bizarre universe in a minimalistic non theatricality. Music opens a portal to infinity. A celestial concert for the eyes.

 

Setlist:

Jean-Baptiste Lully / Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Passacaille d'Armide
Martin Smolka: Haiku (2008)
Roberto Sierra: Con Salsa (1987)
Joseph-Nicholas-Pancrace Royer: Allemande (Pièces de clavecin)
Kryštof Mařatka: Melopa (2008)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus XV (Die Kunst der Fuge)
Györg Ligeti: Continuum (1968)

 

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Andrea Miltnerová
British dancer and choreographer of Czech origin, based in Prague. She was born and trained in London and came to Prague to dance with the Ballet of the National Theatre. Her contemporary dance solos Dance of the Magnetic Ballerina (selected by the prestigious European network Aerowaves) and Tranzmutation (European Move-Award quality label) have been presented to critical acclaim at numerous festivals and theatres throughout Europe. 
Her deep interest in the baroque led her to collaborate as a director and choreographer with a number of early music ensembles: Collegium 1704, Musica Florea, Collegium Marianum and Aalto Theater, Essen. As a dancer she regularly worked with French choreographer Françoise Denieau, performing in her opera collaborations throughout France, including Paris (Opéra Comique) and Versailles (Opéra Royale) and in Luxembourg, Switzerland (Opéra Lausanne), Seoul, London (The Barbican), Moscow (Bolshoi) and New York (BAM).

Monika Knoblochová
Harpsichordist of contemporary music and the authentic interpretation of baroque music. She studied harpsichord in Dresden, Cologne, Munich and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is the recipient of many prizes: laureate of the Prague Spring International Harpsichord Competition, the 16th Grosser Förderpreiswettbewerb Munich, the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Prize, the Bohuslav Martinů Society Prize and the Czech Davidoff Prix. She regularly performs as a soloist and chamber player at home and abroad. She records for Czech Radio and has recorded a wide spectrum of CDs for Supraphon, Cube Bohemia, Nibiru and Radioservis. Since 2008 she has presented her own concert series, the Café Crème Music Salon, consisting of original, inventive performances combining early and modern music, the spoken word, dance and theatre. She also teaches.

Jan Komárek
Briefly studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, then served as an apprentice at the DRAK Puppet Theatre in Hradec Králové and frequently changed employment. He emmigrated to France where he partially earned his living as a puppeteer and clown. He then moved to Toronto where he founded SOUND IMAGE THEATRE to create image based, poetic performances with live music. He received several prestigious Dora Mayor Awards for Best Play, Best Set and Lighting Design and Best Music. He also worked as a lighting designer for other professional theatre companies. He returned to Prague in 2001 and creates his own authorial projects (Kabaret Velázquez, The Hiroshima Magician and others), his most recent is Cinéma préparé.