Coffee Ballet
Humorous Dance Concert on Bach
Vodičkova 699/28, Praha 1, 110 00
Artists
Monika Polak-Luścińska – stage design, costumes
Grzegorz Marczak – light design
Programme
Dance Performance in Three Scenes:
Diversion in front of the Café – At the Café – Battle over Coffee
Johan Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Selection of arias and recitatives from
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Caffee Kantate / Coffee Cantata), BWV 211
Selection of dances from orchestral suites BWV 1066, 1067, 1068 and 1069
We recommend the performance for children from 6 years.
Performance without intermission. Expected end of the performance at 20:10.
Annotation
Have you ever seen a coffee pot dance with a sugar bowl or coffee beans? If not, you are welcome to come and see this playful performance in which a coffee set will come alive.
Polish dance ensemble Cracovia Danza will appear in beautiful costumes in the style of Meissen china, accompanied by Collegium Marianum with its graceful artistic director Jana Semerádová.
On the program are Bach’s orchestral suites and arias from the famous Coffee Cantata sung by Patricia Janečková (soprano) and Jaromír Nosek (bass). But we shall also hear dances that used to be played at royal and aristocratic balls and dances typical of the carnival season and plebeian merriment. The choreography is based on authentic Baroque dance notations with the use of period dumb show.
Venue
Vodičkova 699/28, Praha 1, 110 00
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With kind support of Polish Institute
Artists
Collegium Marianum
music ensemble
Since it was founded in 1997, the Prague ensemble Collegium Marianum has focused on presenting the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially by composers who were born or active in central Europe. One of the few professional ensembles specializing in this field in the Czech Republic, Collegium Marianum not only gives musical performances, but regularly also stages scenic projects.
The ensemble works under the artistic leadership of the traverso player Jana Semerádová who also regularly appears as a soloist with some of the eminent European orchestras. Her active research together with her study of Baroque gesture, declamation and dance, has enabled Semerádová to broaden the profile of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and present multi-genre projects featuring Baroque dance and theater. Her unique, thematic programming has resulted in a number of modern-day premieres of historical music presented each year. The ensemble has collaborated with renowned European conductors, soloists, directors, and choreographers such as Andrew Parrott, Hana Blažíková, Damien Guillon, Peter Kooij, Sergio Azzolini, François Fernandez, Simona Houda-Šaturová, Benjamin Lazar, Jean-Denis Monory, and Gudrun Skamletz.
Collegium Marianum has received critical acclaim both at home and abroad. The ensemble has appeared extensively on the Czech Radio and TV as well as on the radio abroad. It regularly performs at music festivals and on prestigious stages both in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe, including Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Bachfest Leipzig, Potsdam Festspiele, Mitte Europa, Festival de Sablé, Bolzano Festival, Palau Música Barcelona, Pražské jaro, or Concentus Moraviae. In 2008 the ensemble started a successful collaboration with the Supraphon label. Within the “Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague” series it has launched eight recordings.
