Small Hour

Choreography: Václav Kuneš

"...The duet has an unbelievable tension; the piece is bulging with an inventive choreography, unexpected relationships, many bordering the limits of physical perfection." (Don Nixon, Arts & Theatre Institute Prague)

When something happens that changes one’s life forever, does “an hour” remain just one hour? We return in our memories for those moments in many following days, months and years afterwards. For how many hours in total? And how many hours we spend trying to forget it. In both cases we spent again hours accepting it.

Small Hour was presented at the DansClick showcase in The Hague in December 2007 to 30 theatre programmers in Korzo theatre. Small Hour was selected from over ten works by these programmers to be included in the DansClick tour of the 2008-’09 season. Theatre Institute in the Czech Republic - Sazka Price The best performance of the season, in the category - dance and ballet was awarded to choreography Small Hour by Václav Kuneš. Nataša Novotná was for her role in Small Hour awarded the prestigious Thálie award for outstanding female performance in 2008.

Music: Robert a Ronald Lippok, Matthew Barley (on the Henry Purcell's motifs)
Lights: Loes Schakenbos
Dancers: Nataša Novotná, Václav Kuneš
Premiere 25.5.2007, Korzo Theater, Den Haag, Netherlands
This creation was made in co-production with the Korzo Theatre, 
supported by Fondation BNP Paribas, The City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

photo: Srdjan Stanojevic