CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTING:
Jan Jirák
PERFORMER:
Jindřich Kopidol
DRAMATURGY:
Hana Strejčková
LIGHT DESIGN:
Vojtěch Brtnický
MUSIC:
Kryštof Krása, Tomáš Jirák, Klaudia Korbely
COSTUMES:
Pavla Nazarská
SCENOGRAPHY:
Petr Síla, Pavla Nazarská
PRODUCER:
Bocirk company
ABOUT SHOW
Erlend – The Stranger
An enchanting blend of multifaceted acrobatics and live music.
A one-man acrobatic piece by Jindřich Kopidol, under the direction of Jan Jirák, is accompanied by live music and offers unique acrobatic elements with original balancing objects made of pure wood, metal, and hardened plastic.
A circus sketch portrait of the stranger inside each of us.
The journey of a circus artist is that of a versatile performer, charting a path in the proximity of risk and adjacent to fear. He lets the audience glimpse into his inner world, where he constantly defies the unsteady and unyielding in a never-ending seek for balance. Yet he can change the perspective of his gaze, rising in control of the air and surrendering to earth’s gravity. The whole is a chain of impressive imagery, a melodramatic-lyrical reflection on the life phases of a man who has lost himself and everyone around him. Solitude may create a world in one’s head completely disconnected from the one outside. The artist’s inseparable partners are three musicians: multi-instrumentalists Kryštof Krása, Tomáš Jirák, and singer Klaudia Korbely.
A deep and authentic plunge into the heart of man.
„Erlend, an artistically moving meditation on the relationship between inner freedom and loneliness that fits into the mosaic of contemporary productions, in which technical refinement is increasingly no longer a measure and a result, but a process and a tool, changing the perspectives of genres.“ Excerpt from review, Lucie Kocourková, Opera+.
An intimate circus solo with stunning effects.
ABOUT AUTHOR
Jindřich Kopidol
The multi-talented performer and artist Jindřich Kopidol has long worked in the world of new circus and street art and takes the virtuosity of his balancing disciplines such as tightrope walking, balancing ladder, and rola bola to the next level by intensively studying various techniques of physical theatre, dance, and ways of working with expressive art. He has cooperated with Cirkus Trochu Jinak, z.s. since 2016, where he acts as a qualified rigger.
Jan Jirák
Jan Jirák is a performer, acrobat, choreographer, and director. He studied at AFUK – Akademiet For Utaemmet Kreativitet (Academy of Modern Circus in Denmark) and at AMU – Akademie múzických umění (Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. He is a co-founder of Feel the Universe Circus Company. He founded the Prague Handstand School, a project dedicated to the development and education of professionals and the public in hand balancing, flexibility, dance acrobatics, and movement flow. He is a lecturer at the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at HAMU (Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague.