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I left early to catch at least one or two performances at Four Days in Motion. Even though the venue was Šárecké údolí (outside of Prague) and we got lost twice finding it, I still think that putting on a theater festival in such a remote place is a good idea.
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As hunters go hunting in the autumn, those more human types set off on the trail of Performance. It’s good to carry a video camera or camera with you so that you have something to put in the catalogue. If it ever happens that you show up without one, the experience is as intense as the time I was in England on a scholarship, when, while lying in a sleeping bag in the street, somewhere in the middle of London, I saw a fox. Even though I come from the country, I’ve never seen a fox anywhere else. Just as unexpectedly, I saw performances in Ralsko [Ed.— A military zone the Soviet army occupied from 1968 to 1990. The army totally destroyed the landscape and the cultural roots of the region.], a place with its own history, which to me is completely bound up in the present.
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Martin a David (student Zdeňka Berana) Koutečtí spolu s Jiřím Miláčkem (student Milana Knížáka) naplánovali na jedno ráno, po jednom večírku, pohřbívání Istriola. Tři performeři na šest pozvaných diváků, asi padesátku domorodců, jak tak stáli při cestě, a pár projíždějících aut. Spousta důležitých rekvizit. Špatně zahraná směs rodičovské besídky a scénky u táboráku, čím horší, tím lepší. Při zaříkávání během obřadu přestalo pršet, protože jinak by nemohl vyjít pohřební průvod.
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