S/He Is Nancy Joe

S/He Is Nancy Joe

TitleS/He Is Nancy Joe
CountryCzech
Production CompanyTantehorse – physical mime theatre
Date2014-05-03~2014-05-04
Time15:00
Age restrictionRated PG-11
Running time55min
VenueSmall Hall of Busan Citizen's Hall
GenreDance drama
Ticket15,000won
Websitewww.tantehorse.cz

�� Artist Talk : May 4th(Sun), After the 2nd Performance 


I was born as a girl but I know that it’s a mistake.

The Best of Contemporary Dance 2012 by The Washington Post. The Herald Angel Award 2013 Fringe festival Edinburgh.

Transgender, body alienation and the alienated body using visual strategies of comics and graffiti,

A docu-drama between genders, unique style of street-ballet, utilizing hip-hop, pop and ,rock with classical ballet.

Mirenka Cechova holder of Best of Prague Fringe 2012, Helen Hayes Award (USA). "Her body is an element of surpassing wonder"(Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post)


<Press Review>


S/He Is Nancy Joe merges Čechová's street ballet with an "interactive" comic background that serves as a secondary narrator in a unique way. The third layer comprises music and commentary. All together, this mix plus the perfect play of the light creates an atmosphere that can send shivers down your spine at times—and just like a cold shower in the morning, this performance wakes people up and opens their eyes."


Jakub Novák, aktualne.centrum.cz, 7/20 2012


"Miřenka Čechová controls her lithe body flawlessly and can uncover the depths of chaos and desperation through motion and abrupt shifts in tension. Rarely, a humorous point lightens the serious subject matter. The hour-long performance is charged with a kind of energy that allows no respite for the viewer."


Radmila Hrdinová, Právo, 7/19, 2012


"S/He" is poignant but also terrific fun. But most impressive of all is simply Cechova’s body, which she turns into a battleground of self-identity and societal censure."


Sarah Kaufmann, The Washington Post, 10. 11. 2012


"Unlike older models of artistic activism which attack their audience as an enemy, Nancy Joe looks inward and shows you himself; not an object to be judged, but a person who is trying to survive the war being waged in his own body; a character that at once evokes personal recognition and empathy."


Bethany Adams, Prague Film and Theatre Centre


Tantehorse – physical mime theatre


Tantehorse was founded in 2006 by Miřenka Čechová and Radim Vizváry. Initially, the group focused on continuing the strong Czech tradition of modern pantomime, building on the work of their teacher Boris Hybner and the influences of Ladislav Fialka and Marcel Marceau. The ensemble soon abandoned the world of fragile silence, however, and went their own way incorporating slapstick, comedy and black humor, with works tending towards surrealism and decadence. The encounter with the Japanese dance art, Butoh, was crucial for the group and strongly influenced its poetics. Their impressive style which takes the spectator through minimalism, surrealism and decadence reveals the richness of physical theatre which Tantehorse has elevated to a strongly aesthetic and emotionally intense art form.  Tantehorse is now touring regularly outside the Czech Republic and have received many fine distinctions for their work. Their home, however, is still in Prague, where they create and present new performances which are viewed as absolutely unique, provocative, and seeking the essence of theater.


<Actor/Actress>

Miřenka Čechová


<Staff>

Script, Directed by : Miřenka Čechová, Concept : Meghan Raham, Miřenka Čechová, Comics : Miloš Mazal, Music : Matouš Hekela, Stage and Costumes : Meghan Raham, Animated by : Tomsa Legiersky, Light Design : Martin Špetlík, Producers : Judita Hoffmanová, David Prokopič

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