When I was nervous, I would grab a football and kick it. I thought about what I could make a ball out of. I realised that I couldn't change everything around me, but I could change myself. If Messi could do it, so could I.
If you can learn how to handle a ball, you can learn how to handle people. And if you fail? You try again and again ... until you get it right.
When football meets art, it becomes freestyle. This production is about football, Messi and freestyle. And about how important it is to have heroes and follow your dreams.
Freestyle football world champion Daniel Pražák, Austin Njuguna Maina and Martin Kibera
Gakonde unite onstage with DJ and musician badfocus to tell a story about determination, will and the desire to follow your dreams. Directors Petr Boháč and Miřenka Čechová revisit the multi-genre performance style for which they have received awards in the past, including the Washington Post’s “best of” and the Fringe First Award, bestowed by the world’s largest theatre festival. They have performed worldwide from Stockholm to Johannesburg and from New York to Shanghai.
accessible to
public | +8
In German and English Language
Venue
Junges Schauspiel
Duration
55 min.
Theatre
Spitfire Company
www.spitfirecompany.cz
Production
A Czech-Kenyan coproduction by Spitfire Company
Featuring: Daniel Pražák, Martin Kibera Gakonde, Austin Njuguna Maina, Taro Troupe, badfocus (Prokop Korb)
Concept: Petr Boháč
Script, choreography, direction: Miřenka Čechová, Petr Boháč
Dramaturgical collaboration: Iva Moberg
Lighting: Filip Horn
Music: badfocus (Prokop Korb)
Sound design: Martin Hůla
Animation & comics: Tom Zahrádka
Scenery: Petr Boháč
Costumes: Petra Vlachynská
Indoor photography: Jakub Hrab
Outdoor photography: Vojtěch Brtnický
Production: Bezhlaví z.s.
Coproducers: Tanec Praha, Divadlo Hybernia
Special thanks: Lucaso Škoda
Kindly supported by: the City of Prague, the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture, Next Generation EU—with funding from the EU Czech recovery plan, Kloden Teater, Cirqueon z.s, Rezi.Dance Komařice, the World Freestyle Football Association, KITFest