The Workshop with Czech dancer, choreographer and performer Marek Zelinka for theater schools students from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic will be focussed on physical theater, laterna magika and basics of black theater. The workshop will last during whole festival and will be a bit time consuming. Please bear in mind you probably wouldn’t have much time to see all performances during festival days. The main point of workshop is to gain some new skills and to make small performance which will be a part of the Closing ceremony at the last day of festival. Whole workshop will be lead in English.
Marek Zelinka studied physiotherapy at Charles University and nonverbal theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. While still a student, he performed in the avant-garde Depressed Children Crave Money group’s adaptation of Last Year at Marienbad. In tandem with Martin Talaga, he staged the production SYNOVIAL (brooding over the contemporary men’s apprehension of their bodies) at La Fabrika in Prague, where he also worked on a dramatization of Marie Doležalová’s book Coffee, Beer, Cigarettes. At the Forman Brothers Theatre, he has co-created the choreography for and has performed in the production Deadtown. Moreover, he has choreographed the productions Periphery (Vinohrady Theatre, Prague) and The Guesthouse for Single Gentlemen (based on Sean O’Casey’s play Bedtime Story; Palace Theatre, Prague). Marek Zelinka has won the TV StarDance competition, and he has appeared in the films The Confessions of the Boxman and Masaryk. At the National Theatre in Prague, he has performed as a member of the mimic chorus in the production of Leoš Janáček’s opera From the House of the Dead (premiered in 2015) and appeared in the play Colonel Švec (premiered in 2018), for which he has also co-created the choreography.
