international harvest of life arts

After six years of its existence and performances on several continents, the international theatre studio Farm in the Cave brings into Prague the works of unique world artists, whose expression borders on theatre and other genre.

Abstract


international harvest of life arts

After six years of its existence and performances on several continents, the international theatre studio Farm in the Cave brings into Prague the works of unique world artists, whose expression borders on theatre and other genre.
The festival is held within the project „Search for Message“, supported by European Union grant Culture 2000.

 The festival is held under the auspices of Mr. Václav Havel, Pavel Bém and Eugenio Barba

"All of the performances were sold out, full of spectators ravenous for contemporary work, and shrouded in legends of anthropological, ethnographical and physical theater… The Czech public has never seen such a noble-minded festival in this field of theater, its high artistic quality illuminated with current trends... With Festival Farma 2007 a new epoch began for Czech movement theater."  Vladimír Hulec, The Theater Newspaper

 

Performing:

Dulsori (ritual drummers, South Korea)
Farma v jeskyni (physical theatre, Czech Republic)
Mariana Sadovska (worldmusic concert/vocal performance, Ukraine, Germany)
Charlotta Öfverholm / Jus De La Vie (dance/physical theatre, Sweden)
Odin Teatret (Scandinavian theatrical laboratory, Denmark)
Javier Cura, Leilani Weis (tango-contact, Argentine, Chile)

Workshops and lectures:

Mariana Sadovska - Polyphonic singing from the Ukraine
Dulsori - „Jang-dan” and “So-ri” - Korean rhythm
Javier Cura - Contact improvisation
Leszek Kolankiewicz - Expression crossing over the genre boundaries

 

Premiere

27th – 31st of May 2007, Švandovo divadlo, Preslova 9 and area of Prague 5

Creative Team

Concept and project organization Farma v jeskyni

For Promoters

Farm in the Cave’s standard space requirements for performances are as follows: a space with good acoustics which can also be completely silent during performances; typically we use a black box or site-specific space with minimal dimensions of 10 x 10 meters, with a height of 6 meters; at least 6 months before the performance our technical team of 2-4 persons must make a preparatory visit.

The maximum number of audience members at individual performances varies, but is usually no more than 450. 
The number of performers per performance varies between 5 and 13, and the technical – production staff is between 4 and 6 people.
The minimum number of performances presented in one place is 2. The company can play 2 performances per day are available on request – the latest start time is 21:00 local time.
 
The length of preparation and adaptation depends on the specific performance and local conditions, with a minimum of 1-2 days necessary prior to the day of the first production.
Financial requirements are available upon request at info@farminthecave.com.
 

The organizers pay for: fees; costs of shipping scenography; personnel transport; local transportation to the performance location; housing; per-diems; costs connected with preparatory technical visit. The organizer agrees to pay for costs of equipment rental if the space to be used does not have the equipment necessary.