Schauspielhaus Bochum is Theatre of the Year!

NEWS

In a prestigious poll of forty-five critics of Theater heute, the most influential and widely read professional magazine dedicated to German-language theatre, the theatre from Bochum has won. In May they presented their monodrama Noise. The Sound of the Crowd at the Flora Theatre festival starring the breath-taking Gina Haller!

25th Flora is over…

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The international Flora Theatre festival culminated this weekend with a dance double bill comprising of a solo by Slovak dancer Eva Urbanová The Essence and the open-air version of the local dance production of the year Treatment of Remembering by the POCKetArt group. The 25^th edition of the festival had a motto New World 2.022 and was organized in the May dates again after three years.
We would like to thank all participants, as well as audiences, guests and supporters who help make Flora what it really is – a meeting place.

It Won’t Be Like This Forever

PHOTO REPORT
“At a certain point during the rehearsal process, I asked Daniel to just jump all the movement material that we collected and copied from the internet. And this is how this dance originated,” shared choreograph Moritz Ostruschnjak at the discussion after the Tanzanweisungen (It won’t be like this forever) and uncovered their own creative method.
Canadian dancer Daniel Conant was captured performing the Bavarian folk dance Schuhplattler or ballet grand jeté by Lukáš Horký and Ondřej Hruška.

”I do not believe in borders,” says Jenna Jalonen.

INTERVIEW + PHOTO REPORT

The duo Jenna Jalonen and Beatrix Simkó have finally showed their dance performance Long time no see! this year (after several postponements) within the Flora Theatre Festival programme. The production focuses on differences and similarities between two cultures and nationalities. Finnish and Hungarian dancers confront their national identities, approach them with irony and detached view which helps them understand it better. Jenna Jalonen described to us the creative process of the show in an interview as well as the importance of nationality in the current world.

(Zpravodaj 25DF No. 4, in Czech only)

Dictator ceremonially opened Flora!

PHOTO REPORT

Long awaited and looked for “Great Dictator”, a hairdresser and a tour guide rolled into one Stefko Hanushevsky from Schauspiel Köln with his bus occupied Moravské divadlo yesterday. With his stirring performance, he enchanted hearts of the festival audience. During the ceremonial opening a delegation of guests took over the stage to congratulate Flora to her 25th anniversary and remember its origin as a local showcase of multi-ensemble moravian theatres.

Zpravodaj magazine issued daily!

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Dear festival visitor, read! Everyday festival events are being captured by the relentless editorial staff of the 25DF Zpravodaj magazine. Interviews with the creative teams, audience opinions, as well as interesting features from the backstage (!) are available in printed form at various festival venues as well as online form at our website 25DF in Czech.

25th Flora is here!

PHOTO REPORT

The premiere of THE CLEANING RULES production, coproduced by Divadlo na cucky, A studio Rubín and Kolonie z.s., opened the 25th annual of the Flora Theatre Festival. Photographs by Ondřeje Hrušky encover the atmosphere of expectations before the show as well as euphoria after the applause.

Festival Trailer is out!

NEWS

Right before the Russian attack on Ukraine, the cameraman Paul Schwarz and our dramaturge Dominika Široká and other former colleagues of hers from Schauspiel Köln were shooting this year’s festival spot. Its main protagonists is Stefko Hanushevsky – the hero of the opening production from Cologne directed by Rafael Sanchez Stefko Hanushevsky tells the Great Dictator.