Hic Sunt Dracones

Premier: 13.6.2020

Audience: 13+

Length:  60 m

Awards

  • 2024 – The Award for directing the performance “Hic Sunt Dracones” at the Novi Sad Theatre Festival.

  • 2024 – The Award for “Mastery in Animation” for the performers of the performance “Hic Sunt Dracones” at the Novi Sad Theatre Festival.

  • 2023 – The Award for „Expressing the Theatre with a Puppet” to the performance „Hic Sunt Dracones” at the Lalka też Człowiek festival.

  • 2023 – The Audiance Award to the performance „Hic Sunt Dracones” at the Lalka też Człowiek festival.

  • 2023 – Award of the Deputy Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region for impressive images in the space to Helena and Pavel Štourač in the production HIC SUNT DRACONES at the Spectaculo Interesse Festival

  • 2022 – Price of Skupova Plzeň festival to Helena and Pavel Štourač for directing and artistic conception of the inscenation HIC SUNT DRACONES

  • 2021 – Special Award of the International Jury to Jakub Štourač for for the excellent interplay of musician with the creators and performers, for his contribution to the works and his presence on stage, Czech Dance Platform

A visual poem with elements of magic imagination, absurdity and grotesqueness.

Where do all our thoughts go when we close our eyes at night? When everything, unimaginable during our waking hours, comes to life and our bodies become nothing more than material. What happens when we walk out of the room in the morning, leaving all these dreams, fears and hidden desires alone?

Allegedly, we do not have just one single self, we have several. In everyday life, these selves purposely mediate and limit each other to cope in a socially acceptable manner with daily situations. What happens if one of these uncensored selves becomes free from the others, if it becomes autonomous? The landscape where all this unfolds is uncharted territory, terra incognita.

Ancient cartographers claimed that fantastic monsters and dragons lived in these unexplored areas of the world. In Hic Sunt Dracones, parts of the human body, objects and material unite to form unimaginable landscapes, beings and stories. However, it is not a journey into far-ung regions or fantastic utopias, but a journey into our own minds and the hidden corners of our souls.

Credits

CONCEPT and DIRECTION: Pavel Štourač

PERFORMED BY: Sara Bocchini, Kateřina Šobáňová, Granada Gallego and Diana Khwaja 

VISUAL CONCEPT and STAGE DESIGN: Helena Štouračová a Pavel Štourač

MUSIC: Jakub Štourač

LIGHT DESIGN: Tomáš Morávek 

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