Verbarium

An interactive storytelling performance for children aged 5 and up. Storyteller Dominika brings to life extraordinary images full of talking animals and magical characters, nonsensical lessons, and authenticity right in your head! A trip to the world of fantasy, where anything is possible and every new adventure is more amazing and more marvelous and more wondrous and more astonishing. 

Dominika Šindelková is a member of the Storytelling CZ association. The performance is held in collaboration with the Vodňany City Cultural Center. A creative workshop may follow the performance for interested participants.

⚲ Artovna | 60 min.

Travel the threads of Ariadne, through her family tree, around her dance floor and over the sea and into the skies. Join Steph Brittain for her telling of this Classical Greek Myth of Ariadne and life before and after the birth of her Half Brother Minotaur.

⚲ KD Vodňany

In a time when the world is building more walls than bridges, this storytelling performance explores our relationship to strangers and unexpected guests.  Dan brings traditional and original stories from around the world as he explores the question of what to do when a stranger comes to our door.

⚲ Kendeho vila | 250 Kč

Movement workshop | Participants: performers, artists, anyone wishing to have an accessible movement routine to feel better, awake, and ready Learn an easy, whole-body movement sequence based on the science of how and why we learn. In this introductory workshop you will gain an understanding of the science behind BrainDance. You will learn to adapt the main principles of the BrainDance movements seated, standing, or on the floor. This prepares both mind and body for performance, leadership, and everyday life. Come and find out about the power of our most basic movement patterns and how our brains, nervous systems, and bodies can grow and thrive at any age.

Realized in cooperation of Verbarium Association and BudeCirkus Association within the Fun Fatale Project.

⚲ BudeCirkus | ve spolupráci s BudeCirkus z. s.

Two storytellers on one stage. Martin Hak and Tomáš Jireček. They will retell some legends like you’ve never heard before! Both hold the Old Czech Legends in high regard. Therefore, they know that there is far more in each story than has been said so far. The two enjoy discovering that. With humor, seriousness, together, with you. Come. Perhaps we will touch upon the roots.

⚲ Divadlo SUD | ve spolupráci s BudeCirkus z. s. | 200 Kč / 100 Kč

Vyprávění 16+ | Travel the threads of Ariadne, through her family tree, around her dance floor and over the sea and into the skies. Join Steph Brittain for her telling of this Classical Greek Myth of Ariadne and life before and after the birth of her Half Brother Minotaur.

⚲ Divadlo SUD |

Storytelling workshop | This workshop explores how and why a good story can be so suspenseful.  What is the “red thread” of interest that keeps our listeners hooked as a story unfolds?  Inspired by Scheherazade, this workshop uses a series of exercises that take us deeper into our stories by asking one simple yet mysterious question: what makes our listeners want to know what happens next?

⚲ Rabenštejnská věž |

Storytelling workshop | In the workshop you will be invited to explore: What do we mean by traditional stories? What are the stories? How do we choose a story to tell? Why are we telling them? How do we begin to work on a story for performance? How can we use our imaginations, our voices and our bodies? Join Steph Brittain in a mixture of conversation, storytelling activities and play to explore how we can approach the choosing, shaping and construction of stories. No prior experience needed. Just bring curiosity and an open heart.

⚲ Divadlo SUD |

Movement workshop | Participants could be teachers, teaching artists, group leaders, dancers, storytellers. Teaching Artists in all modalities face the challenge of inspiring their participants to become ready learners.  This workshop is based on a movement sequence developed from the science of how and why we learn. It can be used in many teaching and leadership contexts. The movement sequence is called BrainDance, and was created by American dance educator Anne Green Gilbert (M. ED).  There are eight developmental movement patterns that human beings will move through in the first year of life. These movement patterns integrate the brain and body. In this workshop you will learn the science behind the BrainDance approach.  You will learn dance-based group engagement skills, including how to adapt the eight movements to seated, standing, or floor variations. You will learn how these movements are effective in a variety of environments, and with people living with a range of physical and cognitive abilities. Throughout the workshop, Annemarie will share examples of the positive and uplifting impact this approach has had in her own work with diverse populations and community settings. Annemarie invites you to be touched by the artistry of dance; to be a witness to beauty; and to join her in dancing our place in the world. 

“Annemarie is an unusually gifted Teaching Artist, who is as skilled, and has worked as hard to understand the educator’s role as she did to become a professional dancer. She has a long history of success, and a great store of wisdom as a result.” Lindsay Fischer, Artistic Director, Youth Outreach, The National Ballet of Canada.

⚲ BudeCirkus |

Storytelling for children | Fairy tales, fables, and stories from five corners of the world, about how not always the wise one is the one who has a long beard and looks serious. About a powerful lord who loved fairy tales and nonsense. About a grumbler who could not find his happiness. About a city where everything was the opposite. Stories full of joyful energy, enthusiasm, and funny surprises. And of course – music, singing together, and fun! 

Katarzyna Jackowska-Enemuo: storytelling, singing, accordion, drum 

Mateusz Szemraj: cimbalom, oud, rubab, saz.

⚲ Horká vana |

The first joint project of Mikrochor and Storytelling CZ, original music by Lukáš Prchal and live storytelling by Justin Svoboda. The northern sun is cold and pale, the sea is raging, the night dark and freezing, in the depths the dwarf anvils ring and giants lurk beyond the edge of the world. The gods are moody and angry. They have their worries and fears, and it is wise to stay out of their way. And among them is Loki. The Lord of Transformation, the Trickster, the Liar, the Master of Deception. The god who will do anything to avoid boredom. The god that his own wife fears. The god that other gods call upon when in trouble. Ragnarok, the end of the world, is closer than yesterday. 

Justin Svoboda, storyteller, actor, and host, lover of stories and promoter of storytelling in the Czech Republic, a tall man with a graying beard.

⚲ Divadlo SUD | ve spolupráci s BudeCirkus z. s. | 200 Kč / 100 Kč

Dance and storytelling | Annemarie a Dan perform short traditional stories that explore beginnings and becomings, with text and dance that create the sense of wonder and revelation. The dancer seeks to embody the emotional and physical landscapes of the story, while the storyteller draws on a knowledge of oral tradition to create both reverie and suspense.  The audience enters and experiences the world of each story via gesture, movement, music, voice, and language.  They’ve since performed our danced stories at the Warsaw Storytelling Festival, Toronto International Storytelling Festival, and in an intimate studio session for the Danca sem Fronteiras, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Our musical collaborators have included Brian Katz, Jaron Freeman-Fox, Elena Spanu, Tuup, and Sylwia Świątkowska.  They always  work with local musicians adept at improvisation, and require one rehearsal before the performance. 

⚲ Horká vana |

Storytelling for adults | When the creator was creating the world, he asked all the elements to help him create a human. And so the Earth gifted the human bones and fragility, Water – softness and resilience, Fire – strength and memory, Wind – desire and the urge to dance, Clouds – tenderness and contemplation, the Sun – joy and courage, and the Moon…? Well, precisely… Listen to the story of a boy born from great desire. About his journey and those he met along the way. And especially about what the Moon gifted him (and all of us). Featuring: Katarzyna Jackowska-Enemuo: storytelling, singing, accordion, drum, ngoni Mateusz Szemraj: cymbals, oud, rubab, saz.

Translation to Czech provided.

⚲ Horká vana |

Concert | World premiere of translations of original songs by Katarzyna Jackowska Enemuo performed by a unique ensemble of musicians. The translations, performed by Jan Piskač, will be accompanied by not only Kasia and Mateusz but also part of the reBREL group and the complete ensemble of the music formation Three Daughters – Three Sisters (and that’s no small feat, Anton Pavlovich?)

⚲ Horká vana |

Songs and stories | The concert Farewell will conclude this year’s festival program. It will be another unique event that will utilize the exceptional gathering of personalities from various corners of the world. The stories of Stephanie Brittain, Dan Yashinsky, and Michala Piskačová will be accompanied by musical interventions from the vocal sextet AÚÚÚNA. AÚÚÚNA is an original vocal ensemble from České Budějovice, composed of six singers who connect two seemingly distinct musical worlds – the freedom, rhythmic variety, and improvisation of jazz with the majestic, mysterious atmosphere of gothic music. The sextet’s repertoire combines medieval chants and polyphony with elements of modern vocal improvisation.

⚲ Horká vana |

Movement workshop | Participants: groupings by experience, some registration information required
Requirements: A non-carpeted space large enough for participants to move freely, ballet barres or one chair per person,

Join Senior Teaching Artist Annemarie Cabri for a joyful dance class.  It is suitable for newcomers to ballet, and for those with experience. This class is a positive example of an inclusive dance class while sharing the artistry of dance with adults. An adapted choreography from the well-loved ballet Romeo & Juliet will be part of class.

⚲ BudeCIrkus | ve spolupráci s BudeCirkus