Performers
Playing, singing and dancing: Magdalena Borová and Daniel Šváb
Written and directed by Jiří Adámek Austerlitz
Musical dramaturgy by Michaela Vyoralová
Design, costumes: Ivana Kanhäuserová
Patrik Červák — conductor
Programme
Darius Milhaud
La Boeuf sur le Toit, op. 58
Jean Françaix
Musique pour faire plaisir
Jaroslav Ježek
Bugatti step
E. F. Burian
Hairy Cactus
Henry Purcell
Trumpet tune from the opera King Arthur
Maurice Ravel
Fanfare for the ballet 'L'éventail de Jeanne'
Leroy Anderson
Typewriter
Kurt Weill/Jiří Suchý
Mackie Messer
Erik Satie
American Girl from ballet Parade
Claude Debussy
Syrinx for flute
Kurt Weill
September song
Benjamin Britten
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
A ballet about a fan which can cut off heads. Pounding on a typewriter. A muddled fanfare. A jazz song on a record player...all part of the revelry from the first days of film, when people learned how to use the telephone and electric light started flashing in the cities!
