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DARK HORSE

photo: Bengt Wanselius, Norrdans 2012

DARK HORSE - THEATRE

There are moments in life when we can find the strength about which we did not know or which we knowingly supressed. Sometimes, it may be necessary to listen to inner voices and follow the visions which govern and determine our lives, no matter how absurd it might seem.

 

„Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can see through the shields of mundane human hearing“ (Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Ph.D.)

Dark Horse was created for Swedish company NORRDANS in 2012 under the leadership of artistic director Mira Helenius Martinsson.

 

Choreography: Lenka Vagnerová
Music: Ivan Acher

Performed by: Fanny Barrouquère
Costumes: Jasminda Asplund Blanco
Light design: Michal Kříž / Fredrik Zetterberg
Photo: Bengt Wanselius

Premiere: 16.9.2012, Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Härnösand, Sweden

 

DARK HORSE - FILM

Birth, pure, like a blank slate. She is just a sleek wax plate into which others write with a spade. The path is not straight. It has many beginnings and ends and that big famous front door with a shiny handle in front of her ...

Premiere 11.2. 2021

directed by: Tomáš Polák

concept and choreography: Lenka Vagnerová

performed by Fanny Barrouquère

scenario: Lenka Vagnerová, Tomáš Polák

music: Ivan Acher

musicians: Jana Vébrová, Ivan Acher

director of photography: Pavel Klener

2nd camera: Jakub Fencl

1st camera assistent: Jakub Nemčok

edited by: Tomáš Polák

color grading: David Matras

costume: Michal Heriban, Jasminda Asplund Blanco

props design: Michal Heriban

production manager: Alžběta Málková

supervision: David Hinton

produced by: Dance Film Festival Prague: Jana Návratová Petra Kašparová

co-produced by: Lenka Vagnerová & Company

supported by: Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, City of Prague

thanks to: Barbora Rokoszová, Město Hrádek nad Nisou, Sdružení Serpens

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