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PROFILE OF THE COMPANY
Continuo Theatre is an international
independent theatre group led by Pavel Štourač, its director
and artistic coordinator. Since 1995 the company has been
settled in a little village in South Bohemia called Malovice in a former farmstead called The Plum Yard.
Continuo’s productions cannot be easily categorized into
genres. Movement, live music, puppets (from three-inch
puppets to carnival marionettes, masks and larger-than-life
figures), physical acting, circus techniques, dance, along
with striking visual stylization – all of these create the
unmistakable poetics of each individual production. It is
not very important for the creators of Continuo whether their work is
defined as visual or physical theatre just as it is not
important for the actors to know whether they are dancing or
acting. The matters of style or aesthetic are not so
important. The group focuses its research on analyzing
themes, experimental collective work, being surprised,
learning and developing skills and sharing the result of the
work with the audience.
Members of Continuo research an authentic, personal
connection between visual artistic knowledge and physical
acting, rhythm, voice, and musicality. Everyday work
consists of actors’ trainings, workshops in which they get
familiar with acting, dancing and voice techniques, in both,
collective and individual way of learning and researching.
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