jakub štourač
- AUTHORIAL THEATRE performances
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Ich wünsche Dir GLÜCK,
tu einen neuen Gang AUF

Physicall theatre and object opera
2021

Anna Luňáková
Jakub Štourač

Glück auf is an opera of objects, staged music poetry and sound puppetry, proceedings of archivation study a 3h performance of 6 reel-to-reel tape recorders, 1 overhead projector, 12km of tapes, 6 mechanical roosters and 1 shredding machine.

The name is derived from the saying "Glück auf!", a traditional greeting of German miners, which expresses the simple hope for the opening of the vein, successful mining and finally - a safe return from the underground back to the surface. "Glück auf!" thus sums up everything that the honest creator hopes for in his endless experiments. It is an opera of objects. Two characters, two operators, two souls depict both the journey into the depths of the earth by two miners, but also the discovery of a hidden, underground garden by two poets, inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost, or the relentless exploration of chemical and physical processes by two alchemists, which is based on the limits of understanding especially oneself in a world that is going through a severe muscle spasm.


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WASTELAND

Solo authorial performance.
Physical theatre.
2019

Audiovisual theatre performance combining the language of movement, visual theatre and live music is a collaborative project by Jakub Štourač and Elia Moretti.

Loosely inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem of the same name, the project places original mythological images in a contemporary context, exploring their transformation and new interpretative possibilities. The basic situation is inspired by the figure of Tiresias - a blind oracle who lived his life as both a man and a woman. An individual existing between the present and the future, between femininity and masculinity, in a situation of loss of the body, loss of the distant for those close to him, in the sterile environment of an analytical laboratory, a hermetically sealed place of disconnected relationships, where one can only dissect one's own sample of humanity and absent soul. An individual with a desire for transformation, for breaking the cycle of his own wasteland. Where vital forces are lacking, spiritual revival, ritual death and rebirth is the only escape from the barren land.


– NOISE concerts

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TO SCREAM
A SCREAM

video-poetry and series of noise concerts

footage will be aded

Series of video-poetry works and noise and poetry live site-specific concerts.

// Behold, my voice - video-poetry 2021
// I don’t Event Epistemology - video-poetry 2021
// the Department of Genuine Concern – noise concert 2020
// authorial reading of Anna Luňáková’s poetry book Jen ztratím jméno + noise installation 2022
// křičetkřik - site-specific concerts in urban environment 2022-24
// křičetkřik variations - Punctum, Riot over River festival Prague, GRAS symposium 2023


- AS PERFORMER

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PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE

Physical theatre and dance theatre.
performer - 2019-2022

Continuo Theatre

At the beginning, when men realised their own existence, they got terrified. They saw their mortality as well as the limits of the infinite universe. After that they started dancing as they might have been frightened or they might have hoped to forget or they might have felt intoxicated with the awareness. And then they imprinted their palms on cave walls to leave at least a trace of their transience. To leave a message: “We were there and we danced.”


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WARDROBE

Physical and visual theatre.
performer - 2018-2020

Felix Baumann

A production of dance, visual and physical theatre, inspired by several historical, mythological and contemporary stories and their characters who lived in extreme situations of isolation caused by war, imprisonment, psychiatric treatment or other interventions of fate.