Ultra-Minimal Ballet (UMB)
Vlasta je autorské taneční dokudrama inspirované skutečným životním příběhem ženy, jejíž osud se stal výchozím bodem pro zkoumání lidské paměti, identity a schopnosti nést vlastní minulost. Dokumentární materiály, současný tanec, fyzické divadlo a projekce se zde propojují do mnohovrstevnatého scénického obrazu, v němž se skutečnost nevypráví, ale znovu prožívá.
Inscenace vznikla původně jako site-specific projekt pro syrový prostor Kina 64 U Hradeb v Praze, jehož architektura se stala organickou součástí vyprávění. Vedle této původní verze existuje také adaptace pro klasické divadelní (kukátkové) jeviště.
Tři tanečníci, jeden herec a projekce přináší obrazy z nevšedního života Vlasty. Vlasty, které maminka vyskočila z okna, která byla jako dítě znásilněna, která byla neprávem obviněna, která strávila mládí v koncentračním táboře s Jesenskou, Jabůrkovou a Jirsíkovou, která byla po válce odmítnuta vlastním otcem, která se zamilovala, která se rozváděla, která také skákala z oken, která hltala diazepam, která se stala postrachem pro své sousedy, která všude, všude slyšela Jožina z bažin…
It uses texts of contemporary official documents, real letters and a recording of an interview with the daughter of the title character. Time does not have to pass linearly here, „high“ and „low“ art are mixed. Situations can be viewed from different perspectives and can appear tragicomic.
For Vlasta, even for the observer, it is often not entirely clear whose mother, daughter, husband, son, father, tormentor... or who she is to herself.
Témata jsou velmi současná, vlastně nadčasová, ačkoliv se nám ukazují skrze dobu minulou a to proto, abychom se mohli podívat na věci „odjinud“. Což je cílem a záměrem – nechat diváka podívat se na sebe „odjinud“. Nabídnout vnější pohled a z něho vyplývající toleranci jako řešení svých i cizích bolestí. A proto tu nenalézáme žádné vizuální atributy dané doby. Vše se děje teď…na mnoha místech dnešního světa… ještě… bohužel.
Tvůrčí tým
Scénář, režie a choreografie: Alena Pešková
Music: Michal Vejskal
Scene: Richard Pesek jr.
Costumes: Pavla Michálková
Dramaturgical cooperation: Barbora Truksová
Collaboration on searches: Vlasta Vindušková
Production: Martina Diblíková, David Pešek Dvořák
Obsazení
Vlasta (mladší): Kateřina Iliina
Vlasta (starší): Alena Pešková
On (mladší): Michal Kováč
On (starší): Martin Němec
About the life of Vlasta
I learned about Vlasta's life from Vlasta. This second Vlasta was the daughter of the first Vlasta and my
assistant at the time when I was „head“ of the ballet in Liberec. The other Vlasta once apologized to me that
she was late because her mom died. „And you know what her last words were?...‘Put that yogurt away.
do prdele’… víš ona to měla těžký.“ A tak jsem poslouchala…
Vlasta was born in 1925. She grew up as an only child. When Vlasta was a little girl, her
mom committed suicide by jumping out of the window - probably she couldn't handle her addiction to pralines - note
bene on alcohol - she worked in a Prague praline factory. From then on, Vlasta lived alone with her
by her daddy and she was learning to be a seamstress. One day Vlasta was met in the corridor by a neighbour - the owner of the house.
He liked Vlasta, liked her so much that he raped her in the corridor. Vlasta was fifteen and a half at the time.
The neighbor became afraid. He became afraid that Vlasta would talk about him to someone. He was so scared that he
decided to get rid of Vlasta. He put leaflets with communist texts in her briefcase and called the Gestapo. Gestapo
came, saw and took Vlasta away. Vlasta's father distanced himself from Vlasta's actions. Vlasta's daddy is no longer
he wanted nothing to do with Vlasta. Vlasta was taken to Pankrác. There Vlasta waited for her
for at least 16 years so they can take her somewhere else. Actually, Vlasta was looking forward to it. Things were bad at Pankrác - she was often beaten - so she was looking forward to wherever they would take her, it would be better. Vlasta was really taken away. The train
heading for Dresden, but he didn't stop there... he stopped in Ravensbrück. In the concentration camp.Rivers
Ravensbrück was not much better, but Vlasta was lucky, she could sew and so she could repair
the costumes of SS wives and to match the coats of prisoners, which might have hidden jewels or
money. It happened many times that Vlasta was „borrowed“ by an SS man during his work...
he zipped up the fly and sent her back to work. This is also where Vlasta met the famous 3 x J -
Jesenská, Jabůrková and Jirsíková. Two of them died in Ravensbrück, but Jirsíková survived.
When famine struck, relatives were able to send food parcels to the prisoners. And then it happened that a hidden
in bread, Mácha's May also arrived at the stages. So there was reciting, dancing, theatre...
Ravensbrück was liberated by the Russians, Vlasta remained for a long time. She had to take care of those who
couldn't walk or were dying. When Jirsíková said goodbye to her, she told Vlasta that when her daughter was born,
she can call her and she can make her daughter a ballerina. After Vlasta had taken care of the necessities, she set out
to look for Daddy. She found him in a cottage in Litnia. Papa had remarried and had more children. For
There was no room for Vlasta in the cottage... And so Vlasta wandered the countryside, repairing clothes in cottages
for a piece of bread or an egg... until she arrived in Prague. Here Vlasta applied to the committee for former
a prisoner and fell in love with it. He spent the war in Sachsenhausen for wanting to go to fight in Spain.
They got married and took a place in Liberec. They had a daughter together, then they divorced, but Vlasta found out that
is expecting Vlasta... and so the divorce sit worked. They both had tuberculosis, they both had pain, pain... Vlasta heard
Voices. Vlasta did not want to live and so - like her mother - she often jumped out of the window while her small children
crying and screaming behind locked doors. Little Vlasta didn't want the big
Vlasta called Jirsíková, even though she really wanted to be a ballerina. Vlasta had to take diazepam,
a lot of diazepam... and so when her husband died, or later one of her daughters, she just felt a strange
relief. Vlasta frightened the neighbours. Vlasta dismantled the gas stove because she could hear Jožin from the swamp in it.
Vlasta heard Jožin everywhere. Vlasta died when she was ninety years old. Her last words were: „The
Stick the yogurt up your ass already.“
V.V. + A. P.
64 U Hradeb
https://www.kino64uhradeb.cz/
Unikátní multikulturní prostor v podzemí v centru Prahy.
Prostor jeviště zůstává stále částečně v procesu úprav a tento stav „work in progress“ skvěle
vyhovuje tématu i formě projektu Vlasta.
Premiéra se uskutečnila 12.10. 2025
THE PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED
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