How to make the invisible visible? Workshop.

Date: 16.11. 2024

Time: 10 a.m to 5 p.m, Location: Ponec KRenovka, Husitská 22, Prague 3, Language: English

https://divadloponec.cz/cs/studio-krenovka

Cost: 500 CZK Supported: IDU/ATI

How to make invisible visible?

-Participants will gain insight into:
The Creative Process, Interdisciplinary Learning, Creative Collaboration, Digital Tools & Technology, Networking & Cooperation.
This one-day workshop explores the innovative fusion of science and art by creating artistic projects, focusing on theater and visual presentations.
We use the inspirations in our upcoming performance, "Big and Small Worlds," inspired by biological and other scientific factors. Our goal is to transform complex scientific discoveries into accessible and entertaining content that educates and captivates the wider audience.
We offer hands-on experience in combining scientific ideas with illustrative, theatrical, storytelling, and visual artistry.

To register for the workshop, please contact us via the link below:

https://www.drawinginmotion.com/contact

After the registration you will receive an email for payment instructions.

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The book by Michaela Bartonova

Puppet in digital light

has been published and the launch of the book will take place on September 18. at 17:00 in the KAVKA bookstore, Prague

Michaela Bartoňová takes us on a very personal journey with her fantastic work: Between expressive wooden puppets and digital stage art, not only the development of a curious and strong artist and contemporary will be revealed, but also the productive friction that the digital age brings to the creation of puppets and puppet theatre.

— Tim Sandweg, playwright and artistic director of Schaubude Berlin

Coming soon / Big and small worlds

The Big and Small Worlds show will be about scientists and artists. It will be about the micro world and the macro world. It will be about curiosity. It will be multi-layered to engage multiple senses at the same time. It will be about the search.

Nine days of intensive rehearsal at the Schaubude in Berlin. Experimenting with the segments that make up our performance - drawings, paintings, + objects and dance, music, lights, changing scene....

Když jsme malí, tak se nám zdá svět obrovský / Ale jak jsme větší a větší, tak se zmenšuje / Přesto se učíme vidět rozlehlost na obloze / Sníme o dosažení hvězd, planet. / Toužíme po těch vzdálených světech / A přitom máme jiný ještě překvapivější svět na dosah / Je mimo naši představivost / Je totiž malý, tak maličký, že ho ani neumíme uchopit do ruky, nebo mezi prsty / A někteří říkají, že každý z nás je kosmem / A že život na planetě zemi je dokonale propojený. / Vědci tvrdí, že v dohledatelném vesmíru žádný jiný / Takový / Neexistuje …

Devět dní intenzívního zkoušení v Schaubude v Berlíně. Experimentování se segmenty ze kterých se skládá naše představení - kresby, obrazy, + objekty a tanec, hudba, světlůa, proměnlivá scéna....devět dní ve tmě divadla.

Tour in Germany Autom 2023

Spring: Bottrop, Berlin

Automn: Berlin, Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek, Theater Grashüpfer, Hamburger Puppentheater, Theater Lüneburg, Berlin: Pablo-Neruda-Bibliothek, KungerKiezTheater

Art and science are cool

In recent years, the Tineoa Theater has been creating puppet digital theater as it does, going beyond the cultural experience into the field of collaboration with scientists. Especially with those who deal with fungi and microorganisms. We think science and art are COOL, and so do the teachers and kids we meet.

In March we will have a whole series of performances with follow-up workshops in Bottrop, Germany. In the spring, a series of performances and events in libraries, for example, in Prague or Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic.

Suzanne Simmard, a Canadian scientist and ecologist, and her story is the subject of our performance Wood Wide Web, but it is also the impetus for other creative events, workshops and discussions.

We are trying to spread the knowledge of Suzanne Simard, a persistent and consistent scientist who tries to influence people's actions in relation to forests and nature in general. She wrote the book Finding the Mother Tree, which was also published in Czech in 2022. She herself says that her book is not about how we can save trees. It's a book about how trees can save us.

Celodenní seminář programu Strategie AV21 a České mikrobiomové společnosti

MIKROBIOM A PROSTŘEDÍ Co nás obklopuje, to nás formuje

se konal 12. prosince 2022 od 9 00, v Akademie věd AV ČR, Národní 3, Praha 1

Mgr. Michaela Bartoňová vystoupila v odpoledním programu s vizualizací některých procesů v lese pomocí uměleckého zpracování Drawing in Motion. Její přednáška se jmenovala Stromy a mikrobi - pohled malířky: Jak mne uchvátil neviditelný svět a jak se snažím vizualizovat nové vědecké poznatky pro širší publikum, včetně dětí.

Ukázka:

Vizuálně zpracované a zrychlené: Co se odehrává pod povrchem lesa v neviditelném světě hub: Mycelium je propojené jemnými hyfy s kořeny rostlin a vyměňují si minerály, cukry , ale i varovné zprávy…

A reading from Suzanne Simard's book that inspired us to perform

Tineola Theatres: Wood Wide Web.

3:11 a.m. 17:00 Small Hall, Central Library Mariánské nám. 1 Praha 1 link

A few years ago I was surprised and enchanted by Suzanne Simard's talk at TED and her life story. Than I studied a lot of facts from biology, which were the basis for the incredible discoveries of several scientists... And then we created the puppet digital show Wood Wide Web. The premiere was in November 2019.

I chose a live drawing on the iPad, a shadow play, music and narration that reveals the nanoworld with my imagination. It's a complicated path, but it's coming alive with more interest in environmental issues.

It is of increasing interest both to the public and to education in schools.But it's not just about trees, it's also a topic that touches on the communication between fungi and trees, between organisms in general. Those organisms that we can't see and that make decisions, remember, but navigate the world differently than we do...They pass on minerals, sugars, water and also warning messages, they create networks.And yet they have neither a brain nor a nervous system.

We will talk about this and at the same time read from Suzanne Simard's new book - Finding the Mother Tree, which was published by the Kazda publishing house this August.In addition, I will reveal to you how we technically create illusions using Drawing in Motion in Theater on the iPad. Everything is being digitized, why we also approach creative work a little differently, what an artist must be able to do and how digital toys help him.

Digital Art, Animation and Shadow on the Stage !

Excelsia Collage: Virtual collaboration with renowned international video artist and theatre-maker Michaela Bartonova - for Macbeth.

During lockdown in 2021, Excelsia’s Bachelor of Dramatic Art students had the unique opportunity to collaborate with video artist Michaela Bartonova for their modern retelling of Macbeth.

Bartonova, who is based in the Czech Republic, and Director Fiona Gentle had previously worked together in Australia, and Director Gentle invited her to design a series of projected, animated sets for this production. Bartonova is an incredibly talented and versatile artist who has performed and exhibited throughout Europe and Scandinavia. The Czech Republic has a long history of puppetry and Bartonova started out as a puppet-maker and theatre-maker but is also a playwright, author, director, and visual/digital artist, developing the technique of creating digital sets live on stage, via her iPad.

Whole Article HERE

Michaela Bartoňová - Visual artist and director of TineolaTheater :

Řeči o lese ve kterém stromy mluví

Projekt, který má ve svém jádru představení JAK SPOLU STROMY MLUVÍ, ale jde dál. Mluvíme s diváky, odborníky a aktivisty o lesích, o klimatické změně, o tom co dál dělat ve světě, který je nepřehledný a ohrožený./ The Forest Talk project, which has the Wood Wide Web at its core, is moving on. We talk to spectators, experts and activists about forests, about climate change, about what to do next in a world that is increasingly confusing and endangered.

Fotky z akcí:

Výsledek spolupráce s Theatre Pedagogy v divadle Schaubude, Berlin v lednu 2021: Online představení bylo inspirací pro diváky ze škol. V sobotu a v neděli i pro rodiny s dětmi. Jedna ze škol následně poslala výsledky svých výtvarných pokusů ve workshopu o ekosystému v lese a poslala nám je. Vytvořili jsme tedy s nimi následující animovaný film…

Vše v rámci projektu Řeči o lese, ve kterém stromy mluví…podpořený Fondem Budoucnosti.

WOOD WIDE WEB

Invisible life below the surface of the forest. Live painting, shadow play, music and the story of Suzanne.

Suzanne was fascinated by the soil in the forest, and most of all the tree roots touched. After 20 years of study and experimentation, she proved that trees communicate with each other. Mushrooms help them a lot, even sending out reports about changes in the ecosystem to other trees. The whole performance was created as a small investment in education at a time when we are faced with climate change disputes.

Forest is a cooperating system.

Mother tree, has a very important function in the forest and lives in symbiosis with mushrooms that work as postmen, warehouse workers, or miners. They work together to create balance in the forest. If we understand their social system, which is remarkably reminiscent of the Internet network, we could take care of forests better.

The performance is intended to stimulate discussions with children in families and schools. We found inspiration in Peter Wohlleben's books - and in Suzanne Simard's work.

In the meantime, we will experiment with visualizing the story of one scientist. The story will be accompanied by music and puppets in dialogue with digital art. It's a real crossroad of genres, it seems to be a fantastic story, but it's not. It is actually a realistic visual narrative about the nanoworld. About what we cannot see with our own eyes, because it is so tiny that even normal microscopes cannot detect these facts. It is a surprising revelation of the social life of trees and mushrooms, as scientists have proven today. It just seems like a fairy tale of the digital world.

Storytelling How the trees talk together preceded the new play Wood Wide WEB. I gathered experience in schools and in telling stories to the audience. With some school and pre-school children, we have further strengthened our knowledge in the form of a workshop. The whole story is of great interest to children of all ages, not only because it reveals yet unknown phenomena, but also for talking about nature cooperation that has been going on for millions of years. And she led us to our beautiful world.

Workshop for children from foster families

Workshop inspired by our show To Somewhere Else in Beau Soleil in Villars was full of actions.

We say: Everyone Can Be an Artist.

Blogerka Barbora Langmajerová napsala po premiéře v Ostravě:

“Po oficiálních úvodních slovech, v nichž v češtině i němčině zaznívaly odkazy ke společné česko-německé historii města Ostravy, následovalo představení "Někam jinam" v provedení divadla Tineola, které propojuje živou kresbu s pohybovým a hudebním vystoupením. Když jsem poprvé slyšela o živé kresbě na iPad, představila jsem si otráveného mladého umělce, který je příliš netrpělivý na to, aby se učil základní výtvarné techniky. Tak přesně to rozhodně neplatí pro paní Bartoňovou, která zjevně vnímá svět prostřednictvím obrazů, jejichž proměnlivost fascinuje i lidi, kteří jsou jinak zvyklí sledovat nekonečný proud internetových videí (vím, o čem mluvím). Nejedná se navíc jen o čistě vizuální zážitek s doprovodem živé hudby, ale o ztvárnění historického útěku českých bratří do německého Rixdorfu, který je dnes součástí berlínské čtvrti Neukölln. Nečekejte prvoplánový apel na aktuální hrůzy válečných konfliktů a strach lidí, kteří před nimi utíkají. I když máte štěstí a bydlíte v Ostravě, Praze nebo snad Berlíně, možná vás zaujme téma hledání klidného a bezpečného místa k životu. Výsledkem je představení, které působí neobvykle i pro nejmladší generaci návštěvníků,

http://blog-de-tsch17.webnode.cz/l/k-jaru-patri-slunce-a-de-tsch/

TO SOMEWHERE ELSE

NEW SHOW - live drawing + live music

Theater may awaken consciousness, it has the potential to communicated the uncommunicable and through playful elements gets under the viewers’ skin. It is a common shared memory. We, the Czechs, have also been running away and building our homes somewhere else. And we needed help. That is what our story is about.

Unclear but present fear of foreigners but also xenophobia, islamophobia and anti-semitism are the current challenges that Europe is facing. Artists are also interested in it and it is an up-to-date subject for them, they feel responsibility because their artistic position is formed based on their relationship with others. It is not only an attempt to share but also to expose and shake people up. As well as to pluck up courage to do things that need to be done. We are also left to twist in the wind and go out on a limb…

When working on our play we try to make the starting point our own life experience, situation, or emotions that have left a trace, and pass them on. Michaela Bartoňová, a Czech artist who has lived through socialism, the 1968 occupation and the Velvet revolution. Azadeh Kangarani, a Persian director who went through the Persian revolution, Dagmar Spain, a dancer and actor who emigrated with parents from former Czechoslovakia to Germany and Ralf Lücke, a German actor and mime who comes from former Western Germany and now lives in the united Berlin. And also the young musicians Jan Šikl from Czechia and Roman Zabelov from Belorussia are resonate with the subject.

2016

High Harmonic Imaging

Video for Max-Born-Institut for MEDEA project. Animated part done on iPad by Michaela Bartonova.
The film is about filming events that occur in the micro-world – what happen when strong laser field soak out one electron?

2016 Lübeck, Germany

14.7. - 17.7. My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe) 3 yrs.+

16.7. Drawing in Motion adults and teennagers

BERLIN, DRESDEN, FEZ:

24.10.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
25.10.15 11:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
25.10.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
27.10.15 10:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
27.10.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
28.10.15 10:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
28.10.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
29.10.15 10:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer

30.10.15 20:00 Drawing in Motion adults and teens Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer

31.10.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
01.11.15 11:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
01.11.15 16:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer

17. Tschechisch-Deutschen Kulturtage 2015

02.11.15 19:00 Drawing in Motion adults and kids 8 yrs.+ Dresden
03.11.15 17:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe) 3 yrs.+ Dresden

04.11.15 10:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
05.11.15 10:00 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   3 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer
06.11.15 20:00 Drawing in Motion adults and kids 8 yrs.+   Berlin Figurentheater Grashüpfer

21.11.15 15:15 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   2,5 yrs.+   Berlin Puppentheaterfest im FEZ
21.11.15 17:45 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   2,5 yrs.+   Berlin Puppentheaterfest im FEZ
22.11.15 12:20 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   2,5 yrs.+   Berlin Puppentheaterfest im FEZ
22.11.15 15:35 My Little Eye Pet (Ei-Pad, Affe und Giraffe)   2,5 yrs.+   Berlin Puppentheaterfest im FEZ

2015 Prague Fringe Review – Drawing in Motion

Hypnotic dream like live art piece: total Fringe theatre Brilliance. Drawing in motion is a sensory delight that holds a powerful effect over its audience and will sit in the memory long after the experience. From children of 3 to 83 we are absorbed by the mesmerising beauty and simplicity of Michaela’s drawings as they grow and take shape in front of our eyes, connecting to the deeper part of our subconscious and appealing to the almost aboriginal and essential parts of ourselves. The two performers work seamlessly together, one never compromising the other, to blend what appears on the screen with the mime and puppetry on the stage; performed by the excellent Ralf lucke. This idea of drawing in motion not only comes from the fact that we see Michaela’s skilful hand visibly creating these images live on her ipad but also because they are created in rhythm and time to the music and through Ralf’s playful interaction with the images on screen the piece could almost be described as a dance piece, with a swipe across the ipad changing the scene moving us through the story like a flip book. It’s almost short of a miracle that in the age of distraction with the flash and bang types gadgets and gizmos that we’ve become accustomed to, something so humble and non-verbal could transfix an audience to the point of absolute silence. As it was we sat spellbound by the slow and steady rhythm of the fantastic score and these gradual emerging shapes that reveal themselves to be: tigers, elephants or something stranger. To dismiss it as childlike would be unfair as it contains the potency to limit the chatter in the brain and unlock a greater human need: the need to reflect and focus on one thing occasionally and through this the show is able to carry through its important message of man’s influence over disappearing wildlife without preaching or scolding, which rightfully should be praised. The show is beautiful.

Matthew Burt

DRAWING IN MOTION will be during the opening of the 12. International Exhibition BEWEGUNG in Schloss Farrach, Austria 6.5. - 12.5. 2015

Tour in Germany - September - November 2014 - Slideshow:

Puppets in Digital Light

September 03, 2014

Tour 2014 in Germany

September 03, 2014/ Michaela Bartonova

Drawing in Motion:

13.9. 2014 14.00

International Figuren Festival Wolfsburg, Phaeno Wissenschaftstheater,

Willy-Brandt-Platz 1, 38440 Wolfsburg

21.9. 11.00

Pole Poppenspäler International Festival HUSUM, Rathaus

7.11. and 14.11. 20.00

Theater in Treptower Park, BERLIN, Germany, Puschkinallee 16 a,

12435 Berlin - Treptow

22.11. 20.30

Wiesbadener Puppenspiel Festivals, WIESBADEN

My Little Eye Pet:

1.11 - 13.11. daily 10.00 , Saturday 16.00 Sunday 11.00 and 16.00

Theater in Treptower Park, BERLIN, Germany, Puschkinallee 16 a,