Meet Lenka Vagnerová & Company.
Dance. Passion. Risk.
Movement. Sound. Light.
Emotion. Conflict. Harmony.
What’s here? The amazing Lenka Vagnerová & Company story just below.
Then six short Videos. Last but not least, great Stills and the Company’s CV.
What’s here? The amazing Lenka Vagnerová & Company story just below. Then, six short Videos. Last but not least: great Stills and the Company’s CV.
Creative Risk. Creative Success.
In Lenka Vagnerová’s Own Words
Emotion. Physical action. Passion. Risk. Conflict. Harmony. Intuition.
These critical elements have always been and are part of our original dance and theatrical language.
Existential questions, the urgency of human relationships to other beings and surroundings, and the interplay of reality and fantasy are all characteristic of our works.
Lenka Vagnerová
We emphasize the precision of theatre situations and movement qualities. Every year, our ensemble creates new progressive authors’ productions that carry elements of dance, physical, puppet and dramatic theatre, placing us among the vibrant community of people systematically developing the genre of dance theatre on domestic and world stages.
We support the individuality of performers, use the strength and dynamics of the group, and search out new physical possibilities and movement, always stretching the limits of one’s own body.
And, each year, we bring together outstanding artists: dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists. At the same time, the ensemble offers professional educational background, provides residences and internships, gives space to new theatrical forms and connects outstanding artists and creators.
Lenka Vagnerová.
In Our Words
The instant we saw the first video moments of Lenka Vagnerová’s original “Amazones” trailer, we sensed something special was unfolding before our eyes: here was a choreographer and dancer with compelling inner confidence, creative power, and an uncompromising precision of concept, message and movement.
From Lenka Vagnerová & Company’s “Amazones”
So many of us treasure Prague’s history, culture, architecture, its 1000-years offering advanced educational opportunity in the arts and sciences, and – if we have been lucky – our time spent there.
Lenka Vagnerová is proof that if there is yet another special “best” that Prague offers: creative genius. Vagnerová personifies that creative genius. People all over Europe have come to treasure Vagnerová’s astounding ability to reach into her mind and offer up contemporary dance originals that enchant so very well.
from the Company’s “Gossip”
Vagnerová and her dancers offer the magic to carry the rest of us to unexplored worlds, places we did not know but where we realize we want to be when her mind touches ours. A remarkable unity of thought, sound, light, soul and body, Vagnerová’s works always break through the barrier between performer and audience, magnetically capturing our imagination, stirring us to crave more of what we are seeing, hearing, and feeling.
Of particular note: Lenka Vagnerová is in high demand throughout Europe to create and choreograph for many dance companies along with her own. The Lenka Vagnerová & Company website has all the details.
Creative Risk. Creative Success.
In Lenka Vagnerová’s Own Words
Emotion. Physical action. Passion. Risk. Conflict. Harmony. Intuition.
These critical elements have always been and are part of our original dance and theatrical language.
Existential questions, the urgency of human relationships to other beings and surroundings, and the interplay of reality and fantasy are all characteristic of our works.
Lenka Vagnerová
We emphasize the precision of theatre situations and movement qualities. Every year, our ensemble creates new progressive authors’ productions that carry elements of dance, physical, puppet and dramatic theatre, placing us among the vibrant community of people systematically developing the genre of dance theatre on domestic and world stages.
We support the individuality of performers, use the strength and dynamics of the group, and search out new physical possibilities and movement, always stretching the limits of one’s own body.
And, each year, we bring together outstanding artists: dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists. At the same time, the ensemble offers professional educational background, provides residences and internships, gives space to new theatrical forms and connects outstanding artists and creators.
Lenka Vagnerová.
In Our Words
The instant we saw the first video moments of Lenka Vagnerová’s original “Amazones” trailer, we sensed something special was unfolding before our eyes: here was a choreographer and dancer with compelling inner confidence, creative power, and an uncompromising precision of concept, message and movement.
From Lenka Vagnerová & Company’s “Amazones”
So many of us treasure Prague’s history, culture, architecture, its 1000-years offering advanced educational opportunity in the arts and sciences, and – if we have been lucky – our time spent there.
Lenka Vagnerová is proof that if there is yet another special “best” that Prague offers: creative genius. Vagnerová personifies that creative genius. People all over Europe have come to treasure Vagnerová’s astounding ability to reach into her mind and offer up contemporary dance originals that enchant so very well.
Form the Company’s “The Lešany Crib”
Vagnerová and her dancers offer the magic to carry the rest of us to unexplored worlds, places we did not know but where we realize we want to be when her mind touches ours. A remarkable unity of thought, sound, light, soul and body, Vagnerová’s works always break through the barrier between performer and audience, magnetically capturing our imagination, stirring us to crave more of what we are seeing, hearing, and feeling.
Of particular note: Lenka Vagnerová is in high demand throughout Europe to create and choreograph for many dance companies along with her own. The Lenka Vagnerová & Company website has all the details.
Lenka Vagnerová & Company.
Video Sampler
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Trailer for “Amazones”
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Creator’s Narrative
Amazons. A nation of mythical women, warriors whose furious powers and mercilessness have created bizarre stories. Speed, strength, resilience, strike, endurance, target, fire, good night ! Who says that violence is not the answer … ? … and who is stopping me ?
Trailer for “La Loba”
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Creator’s Narrative
La Loba is the performance of Lenka Vagnerová & Company which combines two art genres and two remarkable artists: dancer Andrea Opavská and singer Jana Vébrová. It is based on their unbridled energy, harmony and above all, power and intensity of expression. The key component of the performance is the music of Ivan Acher which springs from the sound of natural matters. Bones, wood, strings and animal skins are the elemental essences for building ritual moods bonded with the voice Jana Vébrová.
La Loba is inspired by the story which is carried on by generations of storytellers in many different locations: A woman wandering through the countryside for years and building creatures out of the bones she carries around, has the ability to turn creatures back to life. She encompasses both life and death. However, none of us could know how difficult and unbearable her destiny is for her. And what if her powers last forever? She’s watching us all the time. We are just a short period of her life. Sometimes she laughts at us. But what if her patience runs out? She masters the conditions of her own existence and maybe she will not want to repeat everything once again.
“Curious at first sight, quite extraordinary. Though, she is hardly noticeable. No one can hear her, though she is not mute. Even though she stands, she turns.”
Trailer for “Gossip”
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Creator’s Narrative
Gossip blather, slander, misinformation or rumours are a cross-cultural phenomenon of humanity. The power and punch sound of the word uttered in the form of slander is often more powerful than the gun. It spreads at great speed, it cannot be resisted, it can easily injure, discredit, turn a life around without any physical contact. Slander is faster than light and often upon us before it arises. We feed it and we deform it, we need it and we condemn it.
Trailer for “Riders”
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Creator’s Narrative
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”
George Bernard Shaw
Riders draws inspiration from birds and the role they have played in our culture and traditions. Birds are silent witnesses to our stories and as such they are exceptional: their world is elsewhere, it is a world of different dimensions. Birds have always played an important role in mythology, faith and our spiritual richness. Who are the true “Riders” of our planet? Is it birds with their capacity to move freely around the world? Or is it us, with our capacity to destroy everything within hours?
We’re here, we are among you. We are fast, we don’t respect the wind. We are strong, yet vulnerable. We love to watch you while you seldom know about us. We can’t change your destinies but you often change ours. We share one world but watch it from different perspectives. Does this mean that we can also share the same values?
Trailer for “The Lešany Crib”
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Creator’s Narrative
The Lešany Crib (LEH-shah-ny) is based on a story of the famous Czech author František Hrubín. It deals with hope and fatality in our lives through a parallel with the biblical theme of Joseph, Mary and their child chased by a Herod’s soldier. The story is full of bizarre situations, love, humor, hope and belief. Five characters will meet in a pub in the middle of nowhere during a snow blizzard.
The moving story with its beautiful language and the poetry full of images may work as a cure against the world obsessed with production and serve as a reminder of the human dimension in each one of us. The Lešany Crib impresses by the power of simplicity and humanity emerging from the poetry of Hrubín. Text full of emotions with its rich and intense ancient story, text relating to the pre-Christian and Christian roots of the European culture at the moment of their retrieval and need for their remembering.
“Josef Padevět and his wife Marie have been walking. Marie does not want to surrender the bundle made of a quilt and covered with a coat that she has been holding in her arms. In it, blood is running through the darkness of the little body that, with every beat of its heart, has been approaching the moment when it realizes itself and becomes enchanted by the immense and amazing life with the horrors of wars, dreams and love…”
Trailer for “Mah Hunt”
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Creator’s Narrative
“I live in a world without animals – I miss their rules.”
In this duet, two people decided to experience hunting. What will it look like? That depends on the set of rules…
The piece introduces a passionate game of two people who are trying to find their lost emotions and meaning to their lives. Ravine, permanent struggle but also mutual respect are all interwoven with harmony, where the hunter can easily become prey.
Lenka Vagnerová & Company
Image Gallery and Mini CV
Lenka Vagnerová & Company - A Mini CV
In Brief
The contemporary dance theatre ensemble Lenka Vagnerová & Company was founded in 2012 by Czech choreographer and director Lenka Vagnerová.
In six short years, the Company has toured internationally and has won numerous awards in the Czech Republic and beyond, including the Herald Angel Award / The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Best Dance Performance / The Singapore Fringe Festival, The City of Pilsen Award / Skupova Pilsen International Festival, Dance Performance of the Year, Audience Award, Dancer of the Year / Czech Dance Platform Festival, Total Theatre Award Nomination / Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and several Thalia Awards.
Specific Production Awards
AMAZONES:
- THALIA AWARD NOMINATION 2017 for Fanny Barrouquére
- OPERA PLUS AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINATION 2017:
- – THE BEST DANCER: Fanny Barrouquére
- – THE BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Lenka Vagnerová
- THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR NOMINATION / I-THEATRE 2017
THE LEŠANY CRIB:
- THALIA AWARD NOMINATION 2016 for Fanny Barrouquére
- OPERA PLUS AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINATIONS 2017:
- THE BEST DANCER: Fanny Barrouquére, Andrea Opavská
- THE BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Lenka Vagnerova
- THE THEATRE NEWSP
- APER AWARD NOMINATION 2016/2017
GOSSIP:
- THALIA AWARD NOMINATION 2015 for Andrea Opavská
- THALIA AWARD NOMINATION 2015 for Ivo Sedláček
- TALENT OF THE YEAR NOMINATION 2015 for Ivo Sedláček / WORLD AND THEATRE
- OPERA PLUS AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINATION 2016:
- THE BEST DANCER: Fanny Barrouquére, Andrea Opavská, Ivo Sedláček
- THE BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Lenka Vagnerová
LA LOBA:
- THE BEST DANCE PERFORMANCE AWARD /SINGAPORE FRINGE FESTIVAL 2016/ The Straits Times Life’s list
- PILSEN CITY PRIZE / SKUPOVA PILSEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2016
- HERALD ANGEL AWARD / THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL 2014
- TOTAL THEATRE AWARD NOMINATION / THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL 2014
- DANCER OF THE YEAR AWARD / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2014 /Andrea Opavská
RIDERS:
- DANCE PIECE OF THE YEAR / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2013
- DANCER OF THE YEAR NOMINATION for Andrea Opavská, Tomáš Červinka / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2013
- LIGHT DESIGN AWARD NOMINATION / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2013
MAH HUNT:
- AUDIENCE AWARD / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2011
- THALIA AWARD NOMINATION 2011 for Lenka Vagnerova
- DANCER OF THE YEAR NOMINATION 2011 / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2011
- LIGHT DESIGN AWARD 2ND PLACE / / FESTIVAL CZECH DANCE PLATFORM 2011
Tours
- Hannover Commedia Futura, Germany 2018
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017
- The Riley Theatre, Leeds 2017
- M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2016
- Tanz Dance Tranzit, Lofft, Leipzig 2016
- Hannover Commedia Futura 2015
- Tanzeit – Zeitanz Chur, Switzerland 2015
- Vantaa Gala, Finland 2014
- Bakelit Multi Art Center Budapest, Hungary 2014
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014
- Tanzmesse Düseldorf, Germany 2014
- Festival Vides Deja, Riga, Latvia 2014
- Festival Focus Czech & Slovak, Slovakia 2014
- Hannover Commedia Futura, Germany 2014
- LOT Theater Braunschweig, Germany 2014
- APAP New York 2013
- Aerowaves – Lacaldera Barcelona, Spain 2013
- Fringe Festival Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Germany 2013
- Bratislava in Motion Festival, Slovakia 2013
- Flottmann Hallen, Herne, Germany 2013
- Norrdans, Härnösand & Sundsvall, Sweden 2013
- Fringe Festival Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Germany 2012
- The Jerusalem Arts Festival, Israel 2012
- Il Giardino delle Esperidi Festival, Italy 2012
- Bratislava in Motion Festival, Slovakia 2012
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011
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