Echoes of Birds

A theatrical dance piece drawing on the words and ideas of Josef Topol.

Theatre as a healing ritual for souls tested by life. A dance-theatre homage to past times and their masters - Josef Topol, Vlastimil Harapesz, Jan Kačer, Maria Tomášová and Jan Třískа. This is the world premiere of a project that merges movement and language - dance and literary text. The poetry of motion meets the poetry of words, the factuality of text with the narrative of dance. A mosaic of forms and stories emerges, a multi-genre dialogue between contemporary and past artists.

The foundation is the literary work of Josef Topol, which also gives the project its name - taken from the production "Voices of Birds" at the Vinohrady Theatre, which director Jan Kačer staged after the Velvet Revolution, bringing back to the stage an author previously banned. Questions about the meaning of life and the significance of art and the artist for society form the cornerstone of this production - values the creators consider essential in today's uncertain times.