“Cirk La Putyka” is an ensemble dedicated professionally to the genre “the Contemporary Circus”.
We are trying to transcend the lines between acrobatics, modern dance, puppetry, concert and sports. We are striving to create our own specific theatre poetics and find a perspective on the genre as a whole. For Cirk La Putyka, the theme, the story and the message are as important as the professional approach to both individual theatre genres and circus numbers. At the present time, there are two shows we play in repertory (LA PUTYKA and UP´END´DOWN – see bellow) and we prepare several more projects for 2011. One of them, directed by Maksim Komar (Circo Aereo) from Finland is being developed. The producing company, Cirk La Putyka, o.p.s., was established in 2009.
La Putyka
The production of the year 2009. Forceful and funny, powerful and poetic, La Putyka explores Czech pub atmosphere with the glazed look of a sober pint... This vibrant, colourful show fuses acrobatics, dance, theatre, puppets and live music into original contemporary circus that wins awards. Just as the French have their wine, Czechs have their beer. So La Putyka is based on the Czech reality of pub life. “In this sense La Putyka is some sort of new pub circus,“ says artistic director Rostislav Novák, himself an eighth generation performer. “It revels in fantasy, changing reality so that physical laws don’t apply and the audience witnesses unexpected acrobatic, musical and motorised events. The show is with live music of trio Vojtěch Dyk, Jakub Prachař a Jan Maxián (members of group “NightWork”).
UP´END´DOWN
The new project UP´END´DOWN by the Cirk La Putyka is a follow-up of the previous La Putyka show developing its genre but with one big difference: none of our actors, dancers and athletes was involved with the circus disciplines chosen for the new project (teeter board, silks, ropes, straps) before the rehearsals for the show began. The show tells the story of a man living uniquely with his memories. He lives through his flights and falls but is unable to break free from the luggage he carries in himself to live in a relaxed and liberated way. UP´END´DOWN is looking at the journey from birth to death, the journey from the earth to the heaven and back through the prism of our fantasy. A crossroad between two streets, between heaven and earth, between the memories and the present, between smile and tears, taking-off and falling.
