FESTIVAL TANEC PRAHA 2025
TEXT, DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY:
Simone Sandroni
CONCEPT, ARTISTIC COLLABORATION:
Honza Malík
CREATION & PERFORMANCE:
The Performing Tribe comp.
LIGHT DESIGN:
František Fabián, Matouš Ondra, Robert Štěpánek
SOUND DESIGN:
Václav Moule
COSTUMES:
Mariana Novotná
PRODUCTION:
Veronika Vavroňová, Honza Malík & 2VA z.s.
COPRODUCERS:
TANEC PRAHA Festival, Johan z.ú. / Moving Station Plzeň
SUPPORT:
State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, Italian Cultural Institute in Prague, Municipal District Plzeň 3, City of Plzeň
MEDIA PARTNER:
Divadelní.net
The first version of the performance with a Slovak cast was produced by and for the Nu Dance Fest in Bratislava in April 2024.
PREMIERE:
June 3, 2025, 7:00 PM, Moving Station, Plzeň
DURATION:
50 min
What exists before light is born, before creation takes form?
What gives rise to the first glimmer that cuts through the unknown? Where do echoes, images and murmurs emerge from—shaping a world not yet seen?
What lies before the first spark? And what if the search for a source revealed not an end, but the beginning of many journeys—each discovery opening new paths?
And I keep wondering—where does wonder itself begin? Where do the unseen worlds take root?
SIMONE SANDRONI is an Italian choreographer and director. In 1987, he became a founding member of the Brussels-based company Ultima Vez, with which he collaborated until 1992. In 1993, he founded his own company Ernesto in Brussels. In 1996, together with Lenka Flory, he established the international dance group Déjà Donné in Prague, which regularly performs across Europe, North America, and Asia.
In addition to his own productions, Sandroni has created numerous works for festivals, independent artists, and schools in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia (e.g., Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich, National Theatre Prague, Tanztheater Bielefeld, Festival de Beweeging Antwerp, Theater Varia Brussels, Sosta Palmizi Italy, Duncan Centre Conservatory Prague, VŠMU Bratislava, Four Chambers Dance Projects Toronto, Luzerntanz at Luzernertheater, En-Knap Group Ljubljana).
From 2015 to 2022, he was the principal choreographer and artistic director of the Bielefeld Theatre Dance Company in Germany. He also served as resident choreographer at the Bavarian State Opera from 2008 to 2016, and at the Luzernertheater in Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.
