Ctibor Turba

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Ctibor Turba (born October 16, 1944 in Marienbad ) is a Czech actor , pantomime , playwright , director and educator. Turba combines the behavior of a circus clown with absurd theater and Dadaist humor. Together with his partner Boris Hybner , Ctibor Turba is one of the most important representatives of modern Czech pantomime.

Life

Turba studied 1958–1962 in Brno, where he grew up, at an arts and crafts school. He worked in film studios, especially with the directors Hermína Týrlová and Karel Zeman , who were already well-known at the time , where he got to know working with animation and puppets in cartoons and, among other things, as an animator and artist on Zeman's film Baron Prášil ( Baron Münchhausen ) (1961 / 62) was involved.

In 1966 Turba and Boris Hybner, whom he met in 1965, founded the Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (PAJ) ensemble in Prague , with whom they won first prize at the 1st Mime Festival in Litvínov and a year later in Montreal at the world exhibition Expo 67 performed successfully for several months in a Prague magic lantern program .

From around 1968, while the PAJ ensemble made appearances abroad (until it was banned by the cultural authorities in 1972), Turba partly worked independently and gained experience in other areas: he appeared in the Humberto Circus (1968-1969), played in Denmark 1972–1973 in a street theater company, and in 1974 he appeared in the Alfred Circus with his own Klaunerie program (Project Cirkus Alfred); at the same time he taught in various circus schools in Czechoslovakia and abroad.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Turba began working with several drama and puppet theaters in the field of movement production and worked for television, including as a consultant and choreographer. In 1989 he founded the Studio Kaple pantomime school in Nečtiny . In 1995 he directed Janáček's Příhody lišky bystroušky ( The Cunning Little Vixen ) at the National Theater in Prague . In 1997 Ctibor Turba founded the experimental pantomime theater Alfred ve dvoře (Alfred in the courtyard), which specializes in the representation of body movements . In the first two years there were around eleven performances here, which also made numerous guest appearances abroad; the theater is particularly known for the fact that there is no permanent cast, but rather foreign actors and ensembles appear on the stage. In 2001 Turba handed over the management of the ensemble to the Motus civic association.

Turba taught at the Music and Dance Faculty (HAMU) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, then at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno.

Work (selection)

  • 1963: Film role in Bylo nás deset by Antonín Kachlík
  • 1968: Film role in Údolie vecných karaván
  • 1968: Harakiri , staging by the Ensemble Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (TV movie 1970)
  • 1970: Idioti , production by the Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho ensemble
  • 1970, Udělej mu to zprava (Turba tacet) , world premiere in Reduta , further productions in Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the United States
  • 1971: Film role in Jak čistit lokomotivu (short silent film)
  • 1971: PAR 3441 , in Reduta, Prague; 1977 French version in Paris, with a different line-up
  • 1976: Traja chrobáci (TV movie)
  • 1986, staged by Deklaunizace
  • 1989, production by Archa bláznů
  • 1992: Turba ergo teatro (documentary film)
  • 2001: Giro di vita (TV film, screenplay, direction and role)
  • 2009: Haydn (short documentary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karolina Plicková, Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (excellent thesis at the Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty), online at: is.cuni.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Karolina Plicková, Pantomima spáchala Harakiri , in: divadelni noviny 21/2009, online at: host.divadlo.cz / ... ( Memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Turba Cribor , short entry in the online encyclopedia COJECO, online at: cojeco.cz / ...
  4. ↑ a b Turba, Ctibor , entry in the encyclopedia KDO BYL KDO, online at: libri.cz / ...
  5. ↑ zat: PERFORMANCE. In: Mladá fronta Dnes . Mime Centrum Berlin, June 11, 1997, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Motus - Alfred ve dvoře , online at: alfredvedvore.cz/
  7. ↑ Ctibor Turba, Divadlo Alfred os: Pokračujeme , article in the theater newspaper divadelní noviny (December 27, 2012), online at: divadelni-noviny.cz / ...
  8. ↑ Ctibor Turba , short biography on Filmová databáze, online at: fdb.cz / ...
  9. ↑ Ctibor Turba, Alfredův překážkový běh VIII. Obrazy v paměti (January 9, 2013), in: divadelní noviny , online at: divadelni-noviny.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Turba, Ctibor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actor, mime artist, playwright, director and educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienbad