Michal Heriban

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.

A dance-acrobatic performance based on Richard Bach's book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." The audience follows a character who has found joy and passion for flying. And it is precisely this passion that allows her to throw herself into everything and push boundaries. He tries new techniques and discovers what his body is capable of, broadening his horizons and pushing his limits. Exhausted, he falls asleep standing up, overcomes a broken wing, and even death. He jumps and falls, again and again.