Pitch

Jan Bárta: Pitch

What exactly is it that captures our attention? How long must we concentrate, in order to perceive a specific object or action? In a performance for a single performer and a drum kit, Jan Barta rejects the brief and superficial, challenges the spectator’s concentration and offers a dense, fascinating experience.

Pitch is a minimalist slapstick that refuses to accept ubiquitous overloading and rebels against obsessive attempts to carefully grasp each moment in a never-ending flood of stimuli. KoresponDance presents Pitch in a site-specific format that gives it two distinct shapes. You can view the performance at Prague’s Invalidovna, and/or at the Žďár Estate, where the historical surroundings heighten its sense of urgency. Jan Bárta presents physical theatre in a pure form and can fill even an entirely open space with resonant energy that is almost audible.

Address of KoresponDance Prague

Studo ALTA - Invalidovna
Západní křídlo Invalidovny
Sokolovská 136/24
186 00 Praha 8-Karlín

• Concept, performance: Jan Bárta
• Lighting and sound design, dramaturgical collaboration: Tomáš Morávek
• Dramaturgy: Tereza Vohryzková
• Thanks to: Markéta Jáchymová, Zuzana Kropáčová, Erikk Mckenzie
• Running time: 30 min

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm, and shrewdly relapsing into repose.”Søren Kierkegaard

Jan Bárta

Jan Bárta is a performer, actor, director, mime, lecturer, drama therapist and one of the founding members of CreWcollective. He studied at the Duncan Centre conservatoire for two years and then entered the musical theatre department at Prague Conservatoire. In 2009 he graduated from the Mime Department of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. He focuses on his own creative and performance work and collaborates with a number of established artists, ensembles and theatres (VerTeDance, Forman Brothers Theatres, Ponce - The Dance Venue, Komedie Theatre, etc.) and is regularly invited to Czech and international festivals.

Supported by: The City of Prague and Meet Factory