MEDIATHEK

Concept and realisation: Ondřej Lipovský

The production is part of the New Network dramaturgy for 2011

Just Earth, Heaven, Me and the Horizon – Solo for old man, tree and dog, based on Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red.

Ondřej Lipovský – Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Graphic Design II studio, under Vladimír Kokolia. In 2005/2006 he took a calligraphy course at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. He also studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, at the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Non-Verbal and Comic Theatre under Ctibor Turba. As a music student he had an internship in the State Circus School in Chalons sur Marne (France), and also worked with the Japanese musical academy in Toyama.

He is the author of the production Trojjazz – Gorillas – What Does A Little Fish Eat? – Sasanka – The Last Leek – SPAD TAM, a dance with theatrical content for seven dancers based on Gabriel García Márquez's short story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings." He has also worked on projects with various choreographers in Prague: artist Ján Mančuška's Backwards Play, Tomeo Verges' French Chicken, as part of the KoresponDance Europe festival, Petra Hauerová and TOW: Theory, Alena Dittrichová: Wrinkled, Nora Sopková: Annie, Pierre Nadaud: Figures in a Landscape. He has also taken part in the production Grim, Grim, a joint project between the Archa Theatre in Prague and Japanese butoh dancer Min Tanaka. He was one of the founding members of the improvisation group Krepsko, where he worked from its foundation until 2005. Recently he has been most involved in the creation of interactive performances for children, together with Lenka Tretiagová, and he is the pedagogue of the experimental project Dance For Schools.

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