Event date
07 / 08 / 2026 - Friday 20:00
Event venue
Event type
BERG: Inuit Legend
"Always the Same Story" by the BERG Orchestra transforms an old Inuit legend into a lively encounter of music and dance, where "recycled" instruments give birth to a new world of sounds and movements in the unusual space of a brewery.
This concert is part of the Closing Festival Weekend, which includes three following concerts:
-
-
-
- Collegium 1704 & Luks, 7.8. 15:00, Castle Baroque Theatre Český Krumlov
- BERG: Inuit Legend, 7.8. 20:00, Port 1560 - Kotelna Český Krumlov
- Labyrinth of Love: Puccini & Verdi, 8.8. 20:30, Brewery garden Český Krumlov
-
-
Artists
BERG Orchestra
Program
Jana Vöröšová: Stále stejný příběh (Still the same story)
Jana Vöröšová
Jana Vöröšová studied composition at the Prague Conservatory and at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She completed a one-year internship at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and a three-month creative residency in Paris. She is the winner of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s composition competition (2018) and has also won the NuBERG competition organized by the BERG Orchestra twice. Her compositions are performed at festivals in Czechia (Prague Spring, Contempuls, Forfest, etc.) and abroad (including Présences and Wien Modern). She collaborates with domestic and foreign orchestras and ensembles (BERG Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Konvergence, Klangforum Wien, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble etc.). She teaches at the Duncan Centre Conservatory and the Roztoč association. She is a co-founder of the Tušení association, which organizes cultural and educational activities, concerts, performances, exhibitions, and seminars. She has been collaborating with the BERG Orchestra since 2003, and Stále stejný příběh (Always the Same Story) is their eighth joint project.
Mirka Eliášová
Mirka Eliášová studied choreography at the Dance Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she focused on improvisation as part of her doctoral studies and where she has been teaching since 2007. She mainly focuses on contemporary dance. She has created a number of independent dance projects, including No konečně! (Finally!), Moment, Cítíte se skvěle? (Are You Feeling Great?) (Prix de Intelekt for the best performance of the Czech Dance Platform, 2000), Il Divino Boemo (in collaboration with director Ladislav Štros), Dech puls okamžik (Breath Pulse Moment), Kapka v moři (A Drop in the Sea), Zrcadlení (Reflection), Until I Find It, Grooves, Šepoty (Whispers), Kam letí nebe (Where the Sky Flies), Svět z papíru (World of Paper), Kontinuum (Continuum), and others. In 2001, she received an award at the student film festival in Písek for the dance film Barevný život (Colorful Life, directed by Ctibor Turba). She made other short dance films Ukradený sen (Stolen Dream), Zrcadlení (Reflection), and Spiral. She presented her performances at Czech and international dance festivals. She worked as a choreography assistant for Petr Zuska and Jan Kodet, and as a dancer she worked with Petr Tyc, Victoria Marks, Lizzy Le Quesne, and others. With director Jiří Nekvasil, she participated in productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Smetana’s The Secret at the National Theater in Prague.
Berg Orchestra
The BERG Orchestra focuses on contemporary music and supports Czech composers, especially those of the younger generation. It combines music with film, dance, theater, and visual arts, often inviting its listeners to unconventional venues. It has premiered more than two hundred new works, making its work absolutely essential to the development of the Czech music scene. Since its inception, the BERG Orchestra has built a reputation as a top-class ensemble that boldly and creatively tackles the most demanding projects in the field of contemporary music. In 2021, it won the prestigious Prix Italia award for the Czech Republic for the first time in half a century.
Eliášová a Jakl
Eli a kol. is an organic group of artists collaborating with the creative duo Eliášová (choreography) and Jakl (sound). Its founder, Mirka Eliášová, is a Czech choreographer, dance teacher, and performer. She studied choreography at the Dance Department of the Academy of Performing Arts (MgA., Ph.D.), where she now works as a teacher. She also teaches children and amateur dancers of all ages at the Klapkova Elementary Art School in Prague and in educational and popularization workshops. She creates interactive and experimental performances for adult and child audiences. She has long focused on the use of improvisation in contemporary dance and immediate composition.
PONEC Theater
PONEC – Theater for Dance is a unique space for creativity, inspiration, encounters, dialogue, and new impulses. Located on the border between lower Žižkov and Karlín, it has been involved in the creation and development of new progressive dance works for twenty-two years, primarily as a co-producer. It also appeals to children and young audiences and devotes considerable attention to the creation of interactive performances for schools and families. It provides a space for domestic artists while expanding opportunities for international cooperation. The PONEC Theatre is the home stage of the TANEC PRAHA and Česká taneční platforma (Czech Dance Platform) festivals. PONEC is operated by Tanec Praha on the basis of a lease agreement with the Prague 3 municipal district.
Portál – Visitor Centre, Port 1560
Portál - The Visitor Centre is the gateway to the Port 1560 area. Where beer was once cooled in three bulky tanks and then shipped to various pubs near and far, today the design is dominated by an anchorless metal staircase, concrete, corten, glass and a beautiful open-roofed roof.
