CIRKUS TROCHU JINAK - ERLEND-CIZINEC
A brilliant combination of versatile acrobatics and live music.
The full-length solo of acrobat Jindřich Kopidol directed by Jan Jirák with live music offers unusual acrobatic elements with original balancing objects made of pure wood, metal and hardened plastic.
A circus sketch of a portrait of the stranger inside each of us.
The production is the journey of a circus artist - a versatile artist, in which the proximity of risk makes him feel good despite the fact that he is afraid of it. He authentically gives insight into his inner world, in which he constantly refutes wobbliness and unyieldingness, where he searches for balance. However, he can reverse the perspective of his view, ascend and dominate the air, but also surrender to the weight of the earth. The whole is a sequence of visually impressive images, almost a kind of melodramatic-lyrical reflection of the life phases of a person who has lost himself and everyone around him. Solitude can create a world in one's head completely separate from the outside world. His essential partners are the three present musicians, multi-instrumentalists Kryštof Krása, Tomáš Jirák and singer Klaudia Korbely.
A supremely authentic dive into the heart of man.
"Erlend, an artistic movement meditative stop over the relationship of inner freedom and loneliness fits into the mosaic of contemporary productions, in which more and more often technical sophistication no longer becomes a goal and result, but a process and a tool, the perspectives of genres are changing."
Excerpt from the review, Lucie Kocourková, Opera+
An intimate circus solo with stunning effect .
The versatile performer and artist Jindřich Kopidol has been active in the world of new circus and street art for many years and takes the virtuosity of his balance disciplines such as tightrope walking, balance ladder and rola bola to the next level by intensively studying various techniques of physical theatre, dance and ways of working with expressive mask. He has been working with Cirkus Trochu Jinak, zs since 2016, where he also works as a qualified rigger.
Jan Jirák is a performer, acrobat, choreographer and director. He studied at the Academy of Modern Circus in Denmark and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is the co-founder of Feel the Universe Circus Company. He founded the Prague Handstand School project dealing with the development and education of professionals and the general public in the field of hand balancing, flexibility, dance acrobatics and movement flow. He is a teacher at the Department of Nonverbal Theater at Prague's HAMU.
The slightly different Ostravský Cirkus is a creative, artistic company that has been profiled in the field of new circus and street theater since 2006. It creates professional productions, street performances, educational and cultural programs for the general public.
Performer: Jindřich Kopidol
Director: Jan Jirák
Music: Kryštof Krása, Tomáš Jirák, Klaudia Korbely
Dramaturgy: Hana Strejčková
Lighting design: Vojtěch Brtnický
Scenography: Petr Síla, Pavla Nazarská
Costumes: Pavla Nazarská
Construction of circus objects: Kopidol/Jirák/Pokorný
Producer and production: Circus a little differently
Photo: František Ortmann
Thursday 5/30 from 6:30 p.m. ** marquee ** entrance fee CZK 390 ** advance ticket sales from 4/15
Acknowledgments for financial support: Statutory City of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Special thanks: Jatka 78, KD Mlejn, UmCirkum, Plato Ostrava, Community Center Žižkostel, PragueHandstand, HAMU
The premiere took place on January 20, 2024 at 7:30 p.m., Slaughterhouse 78 Prague.