Divadlo Pôtoň: Swing Heil!

Libretto: Michal Ditte, Iveta Ditte Jurčová; directed by: Iveta Ditte Jurčová; artistic concept: Iveta Ditte Jurčová, Katarína Caková; dramaturgy: Marek Godovič; music: Ivan Acher; sound design: Milan Slama, Lukáš Kubičina; light design: Michal Ditte; choreography: Tom Rychetský, Denisa Musilová; creation of objects and puppets: Katarína Caková; creation of mechanical object: Peter Kvitkovský; project management: Monika Škojcová, Michal Ditte, Ľudmila Kvitkovská; starring: Ela Lehotská, Denisa Musilová, Tom Rychetský, Filip Jekkel

The international co-production project of Divadlo Pôtoň and the Horácké divadlo Jihlava focuses attention on the subculture of jazz and swing devotees that stood in opposition to the totalitarian Nazi regime during the Second World War. The authors worked with fragments of two authentic stories from the Second World War. The first is the story of the dancer, choreographer and designer Nina Jirsíková, who was perhaps the only Czech person deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp for her dancing in the ballet production The Tale of a Dance. The second story is that of Anna Goldsteiner, from the small town of Pulkau in Lower Austria, who was beheaded for allowing local youths – devotees of jazz and swing – to meet in her apartment. Swing Heil! is a fusion of drama, dance, object and physical theater.

This performance is in Slovak.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation.