New Blood on Stage is a programme supporting young artists, new artist groups and art school graduates (within 3 years of graduation) working in the field of new theatre. The programme is particularly suitable for those artists and artistic groups who want to continue to work intensively on its own research and development in the future. Open call is announced by NGO Nová síť every year in early autumn.
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AVERZE_ is a new professional theatre platform that brings together theatre artists of different professions with a focus on new drama and borderline theatre forms. Averze_ was created with the aim of providing its members with a platform for continuous original work with an experimental approach and a strong social and political overlap. Programmatically, the platform addresses strong "feminine" themes in the context of reflection on contemporary society. Aversion_ is currently the resident group of the independent art zone - CO.LABS.
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FRAS is a young but slowly emerging group of talented artists. The core group consists of Johana Bártová, Jakub Šulík and Matěji Šumbera. They are graduates of the bachelor's programme KALD DAMU under the guidance of Lukáš Jiřička, Robert Smolík, Tomáš Procházka and Branislav Mazúch. Currently, all members of the ensemble are continuing their studies at KALD DAMU. The group has been forming since 2019.
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Natálie Podešvová is a young performer, dancer and choreographer who works in a diverse collective of people - across dance, theatre, music, photography, film and visual arts - Dočasná Company. In the programme "New Blood on Stage" she applied with her first solo project Sara, in which she tries to formulate the first steps of her original approach to theatre mainly in the language of contemporary dance and physical theatre.
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ALDENTE Theatre was originally established as a "theatre-laboratory" for students of DAMU, JAMU, HAMU and VŠMU, focusing on site-specific and poetic theatre. In 2014, the theatre decided to change its artistic profile and orientation from "site-specific" to "actor-specific" - i.e. theatre with actors with difference, specifically with Down syndrome. In 2019, the theatre started a close cooperation with the Theatre Faculty of JAMU, which received a grant for the development of this type of theatre. The acting ensemble has stabilized as a result, and the actors have undergone some acting development and training that they would not have otherwise received due to their disabilities.
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