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Architecture on Stage

This selection of projects reflect the contemporary mindset of hybridization and experimentalism, of concepts such as flexibility and transformation, as well as a transdisciplinary approach. Architecture on Stage aims at showing the relational trend of scenic spaces in a wider context of references, which extends from the universe of staging, from the ritual and symbolic, in which the physical and the material properties of space are explored as fully autonomous phenomena in their own intrinsic plastic qualities. Scenography is addressed as an experimentation on processes and the vocabulary familiar to architecture, particularly where the modelling of spaces derives from principles such as scale, composition and construction features, or where the use of geometric, modular devices are concerned. The human, experiential facet of the spaces also determines this selection of scenographic projects. This trait is translated into the close relationship between the scenic objects. The scenic devices are catalyzed by the interpreters’ presence, designed specifically for them and bearing in mind their gestures and movements on stage. The habitability of scenographic spaces reveals itself through the contact with its interpreters, thus turning these spaces into recognisable objects, into communicating signs. Transformation and flexibility are also vital for the current selection, as they are connected to the research on space metamorphosis and manipulation over scenic devices in order to shape/build different representations of the world or hypothetical experiential situations. This relates both to the idiosyncrasies of the different plays or choreographic scripts and to the transposition of aesthetic and conceptual principles of architecture to the universe of scenographic creation, thus emphasising the transdisciplinary trend of the project.

video "A Sesta": Olga Roriz, director and coreographer object "Reversed Landscapes": courtesy of Ordem dos Arquitectos

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Andrea Králová

* 17.12.1970, Plzeň
Specialization: set designer, costume designer, painter , fashion designer, puppet designer, scenographer
Education: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, PhD in the scenography of alternative and puppet theatre; history of art, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University (Prague)
Collaboration with theatres: Ústí nad Labem: Činoherní studio; Prague: National Theatre, Na Zábradlí, Komedie, Minor; Plzeň: Divadlo J. K. Tyla; Cheb: Západočeské divadlo; Brno: National Theatre; Ostrava: National Theatre
Teaching activities: Academy of Performing Arts, Department of Scenography for Alternative and Puppet Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jiří Pokorný, Zdeněk Bartoš, Viktorie Čermáková, David Drábek, David Czesany
Additional information: She graduated from art history at FF UK and KALD DAMU (1998). Since 1996 she has continuously co-operated with the National Theatre Prague, the J. K. Tyl Theatre Plzeň, National Theatre in Ostrava, the Drama studio Usti n/L., the Theatre Hadivadlo Brno, the Dejvické Theatre and the Drama Club Prague. She also devotes her time to fine arts (painting, graphic art, carving, ceramics) and film. She is a freelance lecturer at DAMU - she holds a scenography seminar. She held ten individual exhibitions, too.