About author/director

HANA STREJČKOVÁ is author, dramaturge and director, performer, choreographer, puppet player and teacher/ coach.

Hana Strejčková graduated from the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and was furthermore awarded the scenography diploma in the Laboratoire d´Etudes du Mouvement. In 2002 she graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, completing the study program dramaturgy and director at the Department of Dramatic Play. She´d been living for a significant time in Russia, France and Great Britain. Since 2010, she has also been teaching and leading workshops both in the Czech Republic and abroad. In her creations, she mainly focuses on the theatre of movement and on dance theatre, authorial theatre of objects, on performances and on working with specific groups such as seniors and children from children´s home institutions.
 

Awards

2019 The Star Rovers

2017 Choreography for seniors/ Dance Competition 12edition Dance on the chair.

2016 1st price at the festival Young Theatre Hradec Králové - Treperendy/ choreographycal coop.+coaching in directing

2014 Audience Award + Light Design Award Czech Dance Platform - Animal Carnival / dramaturgy

2000 Festival Award Encounter Brno - Hamlet / dramaturgy

1996 1st price at the literary contest J. Škvoreckého, text Useless Paradise (Printed in TVAR 1996/20)

1995 1st price ARS POETICA festival, Prague - Three Sisters / director

1994 1st price ARS POETICA festival, Prague -Revizor by Gogol/ director

Main Residencies & Artistic Support

2019 Hnízdo na nitkách, Cirqueon

2019 Půlnoc v pohraničí, Rumburk & Varnsdorf

2018 Poutníci po hvězdách, CZ & Germany

2017 Hotel na rohu

2016 Nová síť residency in the Theatre Varnsdorf

2016 Visegrad Standard Grant for the project Among US in V4 - home, childhood, migration

2015 summer Residency in the Ponec - dance venue, Prague

2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Crying Out Loud)

1998 Avignon, Rencontre des jeunes artistes

1996 Avignon, Rencontre des jeunes artistes

1995 Barcelona, Fiesta Eslava en Espana