Imagine a world where you can’t progress despite your best efforts to  push forward.Award winning contemporary dance company VerTeDance have  created a beautifully poignant piece about our lack of freedom,  reclusion and our power to make decisions. The cast weaves around their  own shadows whilst a live modern minimalist soundtrack by Clarinet  Factory builds a fluid tension.

Reflexes, slants and curvatures; pushing off, tipping and falling –  every imbalance is corrected and brought back to equilibrium. With  theatrics, choreographic moments and subtle humor, Correction shows that  the attainment of freedom often goes hand in hand with loss. But above  all, it shows that lack of freedom to decide can also result in comfort,  relief, familiarity and devotion – even happiness.

Source: Company's website

More information: www.vertedance.org/

Jiří Havelka is a theater director, actor, co-founder and moderator of Óčko television.  He was born on June 17, 1980 on the Czech-Moravian border, in Jihlava.  He lived with his own father in his five years, so he was brought up in a family with the same women.  With my mom and two sisters.  He claims he is very choleric and he does not like to admit mistakes.  Perhaps it is the belief that it is pushing him forward. 

He studied at the grammar school in Jihlava until his 17 years of age,  where he already participated in the foundation of the HOBIT theater  association.  After graduation he studied at DAMU in Prague, directing department.   During his studies, he began to play and direct on a small stage the  Ypsilon Studio in Spalena Street, where he still works today. 

At the moment he is also a member of the cabaret theater VOSTO5, which  is known for promoting open forms of author's productions.  And, of course, improvisation in which there is no competition. A great success, for example, is their Standard Cabaret. 

As a director he also works at the Dejvicke Theater and at the DISK Theater.  He also directs the author's games (1203 or Unsatisfied, Man, Try it !, Drama in Brief, Nadsamec Jarry, Black Hole, and more).  He co-organized the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and organizes Festival Cute Drama. 

He is co-founder of the Óčko TV station, where he is the creator and moderator of the improvisation skeptic program Barage.  In 2007 he won the Alfred Radok Award as the talent of the year. 

He is a very charismatic, talented man with incredible fantasy.  It is visible and felt that what he does loves every piece of his soul.  He puts a piece of himself in everything, and it is unpaid today. 

Source: FDb.cz

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc) .
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr

The dance company VerTeDance was founded in 2004 by the trio Veronika Knytlová and Tereza Ondrová, dancers and choreographers, and Pavel Kotlík, a light designer. Within more than 12 years of their existence, VerTeDance have created almost twenty projects, having mated with uncountable outstanding personalities of the czech and international dance scene. The company has to its credit a number of important rewards, among them The Dancer of the Year 2010, The Best Light Design Award (2012 and 2014) and The Theatre Journal Award (2012 and 2014).
VerTeDance are the only Czech company to have gained the most prestigious Czech award in the field, The Dance Piece of The Year, as many as three times: for Silent Talk in 2005, for What is the Weight of Your Desire in 2012 and for CORRECTION in 2014.
In 2015 VerTeDance was awarded for show Correction by BE Audience Award 2015 and Mess Festival Award 2015 in BE festival in Birmingham and by prestigious Herald Angel Award 2015 in Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Source: Company's website

More information: www.vertedance.org/