Theater Novogo Fronta
"Who is looking here"

"In the evening,
my face appears in the window,
my face of someone,
who's looking inside"

       ( I.Wernisch)

A story of newly arrived young Russian immigrant couple creating their new home. Their dreams, which made them leave, are crashing down under the pressure of never-ending problems and a bitter dance macabre grotesque begins... A tragicomic story seen from an unusual perspective and told in a language at the border of dance and theatre clichés. Teatr Novogo Fronta

The origin of Teatr Novogo Fronta lies in St. Petersburg, Russia, where this theatre company was established in 1993. Their early work resulted from experiments in the field of the relationship between the actor's body - the only material being used by the actor - and the space of the event. The first performance "Vremja Durak" (The Time The Stupid, '94) was presented on their first European tour and its theme was the fear of what the future in Russia might hold. After the tour, Teatr Novogo Fronta settled in Prague, Czech Republic. In a variety of plays and performances, such as "Glazami Volka" (Thru The Eyes Of A Wolf, '95), "Fabrika Liudi" (Human Factory, '96) and Svincovij Tuman (Leaden Fog, '97) "Who Is Looking Here" ´99, "The Primary Symptoms of Name Loss" ´99, "Vagabond Adam Kadmon" 2000, "Petrouchka" 2002, "Dias de Las Noches" 2003, "Phantomysteria" 2004, "Hamlet or Not to Be" 2005, "Dybbuk" 2006, die Trilogie Hermetisches Theaterkabinett ("ZWISCHENMENSCH" 2007, "DOPPELGÄNGER" 2008, "ER" 2010), "O'Kosmakis" 2009 and "The Fugue of Time" 2009.

The company has included other members or guests from the Czech Republic, Japan, Russia, Canada, Italy, Slovakia, Germany, France, Sardinia, Togo, Poland, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Greeek.
Teatr Novogo Fronta's creativity and stage presentation is impressive both in its scale and variety, ranging from street theatre and improvized sets to exacting and directed plays on classical theatre stages. Theatre critics describe their work as "bitter dance grotesque," "divided dance," or compared their movement act to butoh. Since its inception, Teatr Novogo Fronta has performed dozens of performances all over the Czech Republic, in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and England, joined festivals in Scotland, Hungary, Bosnia, Latvia and Denmark and during the last European tours performed in Holland, Belgium, France, Finland, Russia, Italy, Austria and Germany.Performances of the Teatr Novogo Fronta are constructed from images which stand on the frontier between mysticism and abstraction, circus art and modern dance, where the main force is the action, improvization and tension amplified by the ridiculousness of human tragedy. Teatr Novogo Fronta currently performs ten own plays. At present the group is working on the theme of the eternal mythic martyrdom of human being.