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Zero Point
Zero Point is looking forward to you in 2024
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The first edition of Zero Point festival was realized in 2009. Its effort is to present a new provocative and until now unexplored theatre genres and trends of European theatre in the area of dance, physical theatre and performing arts.

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The Zero Point Festival is also a week of educative workshops and residences encountering young artist with established artists and authorities on the field of performing art.

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Press release about the 16th edition of the Zero Point Festival

The Zero Point Festival is changing its form

After a gap year, the Zero Point Festival is coming up with some big changes. A new concept of the festival, divided into three parts, which will take place gradually from September to November. Its goal is to gradually create a platform that aims to encourage young audiences’ interest in contemporary independent performance art.

The first step will be the realization of the school part of the festival Zero Point in School, which will transform the area of the selected high school into a festival centre. The school will become the venue for many artistic formats and workshops, and the festival will come directly to its audience. Some of them will become part of Club 0 and will be able to observe the contemporary performance scene up close for two months, as well as being present at the planning and execution of the following public part of the festival.

The Zero Point for the Public will take place at the end of November 2024. As has been its tradition in previous years, it will focus on a wide range of projects in the field of contemporary dance, object and visual theatre. The programme, curated by Dominika Špalková and Zdeňka Horváthová, will bring inspirations from abroad and the Czech scene and will present works that speak to both young and wider audiences.

The festival team intends to inspire the cultural environment of Prague to work with young audiences and to create a concept for a school festival that is adaptable to different school settings. This year, the school part of the festival will take place at the PORG Gymnasium in Libeň and the public part will be hosted by the Kampus Hybernská.

“With this new format we would like to take a step towards the young audience. We are aware that there are more projects with this ambition today and they are all very necessary, because theatre without an audience can easily become self-contained. That’s why we decided to actively reach out to young people and involve them in the planning process and the creation of the festival itself. We especially appreciate the courage and trust of the schools who have opened up to this idea and are coming on board with us. I believe that this will be a journey full of inspiration for all parties and that the final format of the festival will be a participatory platform greatly influenced by young people who want to take such a format as their own,” says festival director Lída Vacková.

Zero Point is looking forward to you in 2024

Program

Zero Point is looking forward to you in 2024.
Day 1
22. 11. 2024
Day 2
23. 11. 2024

Ludomir Franczak: Lovci lebek

The performance-installation-lecture is a continuation of the Gutta project, which from 2021 onwards explores Central Europe’s participation in the global colonial system. Poznań, one of Poland’s main cities, becomes the...
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Gig: Bianca Scout

Bianca Scout is an artist who is hard to classify. She is a dancer, performer and musician and allows her wide range of interests and obsessions to flow freely into...
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Anna Datiashvili: Remembering

Remembering is a participatory theatre installation for 6 spectators and 0 actors. What stories do the bricks in the walls of the houses we live in hide? Have you ever...
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Magdaléna Pacáková: Upcycle workshop

Do you have an old piece in your closet you can’t carry anymore? Then bring it to the upcycling workshop! The workshop will be open for four hours and there...
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OSU: The Mending Room

The Mending Room is an intimate multidisciplinary performance that explores the tense political relationship between China and Hong Kong through prismatic magical realism. We believe it is a relevant work...
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Anežka Fišárková: Bubblifesto

Life is Bubblifesto. Stringing beads. Singing. Playing with a doll. So. Close your eyes, you see! (We’re here together) Young man in the world! (He’s getting a bit redundant) I...
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Anna Datiashvili: Remembering

Remembering is a participatory theatre installation for 6 spectators and 0 actors. What stories do the bricks in the walls of the houses we live in hide? Have you ever...
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OSU: The Mending Room

The Mending Room is an intimate multidisciplinary performance that explores the tense political relationship between China and Hong Kong through prismatic magical realism. We believe it is a relevant work...
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Dočasná company: Callin’ Gaia

Temperatures are rising, ecosystems are disappearing, sea levels are rising. We are living on ecological debt. Is there a way back? What have we already irretrievably lost by our actions?...
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Jasna Žmak: this is my truth, tell me yours

“this is my truth, tell me yours” is a solo project by dramaturge Jasna Žmak, in which she explores her relationship to the artistic field and the responsibilities and anxieties...
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Workshops

Process Lab. & Open Source Concept Lab.

Open Source Concept Lab. je sdílený workspace, trenažer uchopování a artikulace myšlenek skrze slova.

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The Zero Point 2022 International Festival and residential performances can be held with the support of these organizations.
In 2022, the festival is supported by a grant from Hl.m. Prague in the amount of CZK 450,000.

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