What happens when hip-hop and house dancers from Salzburg run into a singing squad from Žďár nad Sázavou? A dynamic performance that will kick your visit to KoresponDance right off the edge! A dozen singers from the Žďáráček choir will challenge Farah Deen and Olivia Mitterhuemer from the Potpourri collective to a street-dance-influenced improvisation of baroque melodies by Jan Dismas Zelenka. Who with whom? Statuesque singers versus dancers! Harlem Shake staccato, House Dance eccitante? Asking what do baroque and hip-hop culture have in common? They both fuse dance with music and the people with the places where they live.
By buying a ticket you get entry to the whole Friday's Pink Festival:
During the breaks there will be music, refreshments and everything that belongs to the festival. The area of Friday's Pink Festival will be open from 5.15 pm.
Farah Deen (AT) is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Vienna. In 2006, she co-founded the dance association Potpourri, and then later, the internationally renowned street dance festival Flavourama in Salzburg. From 2015 to 2020, she toured as a dancer with the Hungry Sharks company in Europe, the US and Sri Lanka. She has performed in works by Simon Mayer, Silke Grabinger and Amani Ramesy. Farah also represents Austria as one of four Red Bull Dance Opinion Leaders. Highlights of 2019/20 include the co-creation of her house dance piece 4 A.M. and performances at the Salzburger Festspiele in the opera Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno.
Olivia Mitterhuemer (AT), co-founder of the Potpourri dance collective and the Flavourama festival, is a professional dancer focused on hip-hop and house dance. Highlights of the past season were the pre miere of her piece Houseward Bound and her participation at the SOUNDANCE festival in Berlin. In 2020, she was awarded the Annual Grant of Performing Arts by the Country of Salzburg and with First Prize of the Zero Project Art Competi tion. This year, her new production 4 A.M. will premier at the brut Vienna festival.
The Žďaráček Children's Choir (CZ) at the František Drdla Art School has been getting young singers from Žďár nad Sázavou together for almost half a century. Its genre and stylistically varied repertoire is underlined by compositions from Czech and foreign authors of the Baroque and Neoclas sicism period (Zelenka, Vivaldi, Michna, Bach, Martinů). In collaboration with Jean Gaudin and Sébastien Fournier, they presented the singing-movement project Flor de les Flors at the KoresponDance 2016, drawing on Spanish music of the fourteenth century. Žďaráček regularly performs abroad (DE, IT, FR) and at festivals (Světlo za Lidice) and is currently preparing its fourth CD. It is conducted by Dana Foralová and Pavel Schmidt with piano accompaniment by Nonna Piňosová.
The program will take place even in unfavorable weather, in the case of rain, outdoor production will be moved in. Capacity of inner space of the castle is limited, we recommend arriving early enough. Outdoors are unlimited.
Centre for choreographic development SE.S.TA
Constantin Kinský, Taťána Šebestová, Šárka Sklenářová a Toni Laznik, Sbor dobrovolných hasičů Žďár nad Sázavou, Vysoká škola ekonomická, Škola Na Radosti, Potravinová banka Vysočina, Tiskárna Unipress, Duncan Centre, Sportis, Tokoz a.s., LIKO-S, a.s.