Crime and Punishment

Jan Komárek

NANOHACH

A physical semi-opera for one dancer

Non-compromisingly intensive, visual dance solo with live music and singing designed as a theatrical poetic collage put into an industrial environment where abstraction and drama meet subtlety and exaggeration. NANOHACH followed their cooperation with the extraordinary artist Jan Komárek who created this genuine theatre-dance project based on Dostojevsky’s masterpiece Crime and Punishment.

“...this exceptional work has raised the bar for the Czech dance scene to rarely seen territory, and helped it to get out of a kind of ivory-towered isolation.” Alex Švamberk / Dance Zone, Summer 2009

Concept, choreography, set design, libreto and direction: Jan Komárek
Music: Michal Nejtek
Choreographic and ligth co-operation: Marta Trpišovská
Creation and interpretation: Honza Malík
Singing: Dominika Divišová, Petra Janková, Lenka Suchánková (živě)
Conductor, Piano, prepared piano, sampler, melodica, percussion: Michal Nejtek (live)
Percussion and prepared guitar: Jan Komárek (live)
Costumes: Mariana Novotná
Technical co-operation: Nathan Poetzscher
Photo: Vojta Brtnický
Length: 80 min
Scal of the stage: medium 10 x 12 m
World premiere: 28. 5. 2009, Studio Alt@-Hall 30 (www.altart.cz)
Supported by: Hlavní město Praha, MK ČR a Alt@rt o.s.
Media partners: NANOHACH o.s.: Taneční Zóna, Nový Prostor a Taneční aktuality.
Contact: NANOHACH o.s. / Honza Malík, +420 732 271 309, www.nanohach.cz

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