{"id":5632,"date":"2026-06-14T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talentdrama.cz\/?page_id=5632"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:33:44","slug":"rozhovory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talentdrama.cz\/en\/rozhovory\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interview: Dialogical Acting is a specific form of active imagination<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interview with Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Vladim\u00edr Chrz, Ph.D. from the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, psychologist, researcher, and educator.<\/p>\n

I met Vladim\u00edr at the Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy at DAMU. We attended Ivan Vysko\u010dil\u2019s Dialogical Acting classes together\u2014he as a psychologist, me as a theatre maker and educator. Later, we happened to keep crossing paths again during meditation sessions in Kol\u00edn or at lectures with Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hal\u00edk in the crypt of the Church of St. Salvator. It felt as if life kept guiding us along similar routes.\n\nAt one point, we even considered creating therapeutic groups focused on authorial creativity. We are both deeply interested in how creativity and artistic making can heal the human soul\u2014its existential depth, the phenomenon of play and creation itself. What is it about play and creative action that is so essential and foundational that it awakens and transforms a person into a living, joyful, and creative being?\n\nPerhaps a human being simply experiences themselves as a creative and acting subject, with an infinite potential\u2014no longer a passive puppet of systems or a plaything of fate, but an active co-creator of the unfolding of the world.\n\nThis is why, in this June issue, we bring you an extended interview with psychologist, academic, educator, and a deeply curious and kind human being Vladim\u00edr Chrz, on the themes of images, dialogical acting, meditation, imagination, psychosomatics, and creation. <\/p>\n

Thank you for the interview, Erika Merjav\u00e1<\/p>\n

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Between Us \/ Interview: I\u2019m Returning to Where I Began<\/strong><\/p>\n

this time with twenty-year-old B\u00e1ra Hoz\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/p>\n

I have known B\u00e1ra since she was twelve years old. Although she spent four years with us, she was always more drawn to large stages, dramatic acting, and singing. That is why I was all the more surprised when she wrote to me last summer to say that she was about to begin studying Authorial Creativity and Performance at KATaP. <\/p>\n

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Between Us: Life as a Puzzle<\/strong><\/p>\n

This time we speak with twenty-year-old Janko Pol\u00e1\u010dek, who spent several years as an actor in our ensemble Vos\u00ed hn\u00edzdo. He is now in his first year at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.<\/p>\n

I perceive Janek as a person with a rich inner world\u2014a philosopher, creator, and poet, in whom creation, philosophy, psychology, science, and experimentation intersect. He is drawn to transcendence, allows things to mature, and says that existing in a state of not-knowing can be liberating for a human being. <\/p>\n

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Mezi n\u00e1mi \/ Rozhovor: Laskavost a respekt si m\u016f\u017eeme dop\u0159\u00e1t v\u0161ichni. Tam nen\u00ed omluva. Ani jak\u00e1koliv okolnost. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This time with Isabella Petzold, who attended our programme for seven years. She is now studying Film, Theatre and Media Studies in Frankfurt am Main, with Political Science as a minor.<\/p>\n

Iza comes from a Czech-German family. She is cheerful, empathetic, and curious. She has a strong inner strength and energy. She loves Frankfurt, theatre, and people. She enjoys visiting her grandparents in Moravia, and she is also interested in politics and the wider world.\n\nIn this interview, I was interested not only in the impact of TALENT on her personality and life, but also in political topics\u2014as a political science student\u2014her view of contemporary Germany, and where she sees a stable point for a person in today\u2019s complex world. <\/p>\n

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Interview: In creative work, one must also know how to step back so that a performance can emerge<\/strong><\/p>\n

R\u00ed\u0161a is a young person with a remarkable talent for improvisation, who has been attending Talent for two years. When I first saw him improvise, I watched him in amazement. His playing was free of all ornament, ambition, pretence, and performative display. Just pure play and existence\u2014freedom and humour. A raw, full presence in the space of play. Grounded and focused.<\/p>\n

Thank you for the interview, Erika Merjav\u00e1<\/p>\n

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Between Us \/ Interview: A Thread Is Formed That Continues with Us<\/strong><\/p>\n

This time with Hana Sr\u0161\u0148ov\u00e1, our 24-year-old actress from the Vos\u00ed hn\u00edzdo ensemble, and the editor and graphic designer of the quarterly magazine Dialog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hanka represents our younger generation\u2014one that thinks deeply about things. She writes, plays the guitar and violin, composes songs, paints, creates, and teaches. She is an actress, a first-year art teacher at a grammar school, and a curious young person.\n\nShe loves education, creativity, young people, Dialogical Acting, and ginger tea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Interview: To bear is to bear one\u2019s own fate<\/strong><\/p>\n

this time with our alumnus Tobi\u00e1\u0161 Fr\u00fddl, a third-year production student at FAMU, son of the priest of the Hus\u2019s congregation in Vr\u0161ovice, and a production member of the Vr\u0161ovice Theatre MANA<\/p>\n

Tobi\u00e1\u0161 is a publicly active young person. He is not indifferent to current social issues and seeks to engage with them publicly.\n\nAlongside his studies in production at FAMU, he works in production at the Vr\u0161ovice MANA Theatre.\n\nIn the near future, he is about to leave to shoot a documentary in Georgia on the topic of queer people dating in a homophobic environment. <\/p>\n

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Interview: They say to each other, \u201cWhat kind of weirdos are we,\u201d but at the same time, they find it fascinating<\/strong><\/p>\n

this time with director, educator, screenwriter, and dramaturge Ji\u0159\u00ed Ondra, with whom we have been collaborating at TALENT drama studio in youth groups since 2012<\/p>\n

I perceive Jirka as an open-minded person and a creative artist who loves wild ideas, dives into uncharted territory, and seeks meaningful challenges. He is not guided by success, but by meaning. Anything closed, lifeless, and without development he leaves behind. He also loves working with young people, perhaps because they are still full of a desire for truth and personal, creative exploration.<\/p>\n

Asked by Erika Merjav\u00e1<\/p>\n

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Interview: Childhood is a sensitive period\u2014vulnerable, difficult, and, in a way, unfair.<\/strong><\/p>\n

this time with our alumna, Lada Markov\u00e1, a psychology student at Masaryk University<\/p>\n

When I do interviews with our former students and pupils, I am always fascinated by where they have ended up\u2014what they are studying, and where their searching, determination, persistence, and depth have taken them.\n\nLada is studying psychology for a semester in Istanbul as part of Erasmus. We connected via video conference and talked mainly about children, studies, sadness, but also the hopes of the younger generation.\n\nWhen I talk to her, I feel that her golden star is located deep in her heart.<\/p>\n

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Rozhovor: Chci objevovat d\u00e1l, do jak\u00e9 m\u00edry mohu b\u00fdt svobodn\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tentokr\u00e1t s na\u0161\u00ed absolventkou, studentkou \u010dinohern\u00edho herectv\u00ed na DAMU B\u011btkou Dole\u010dkovou<\/p>\n

B\u011btka is in her second year of studying dramatic acting at DAMU. She attended TALENT for 14 years. She started as a four-year-old child and went through our entire development, from a traditional drama club to authorial creation.\n\nI admired her determination, resilience, laughter, positive energy, humility, and inner purity. <\/p>\n

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Rozhovor: \u010clov\u011bk je stvo\u0159en\u00ed tvo\u0159iv\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tentokr\u00e1t s na\u0161\u00edm 17let\u00fdm studentem, hercem a spolupracovn\u00edkem Mat\u011bjem Trnkou<\/p>\n

Mat\u011bj u n\u00e1s za\u010d\u00ednal jako d\u00edt\u011b, nyn\u00ed je hercem na\u0161\u00ed skupiny ml\u00e1de\u017ee Spekt\u00e1kl, hraje, tvo\u0159\u00ed a p\u0159ed rokem se stal \u010dlenem spolku TALENT drama studio. Zab\u00fdv\u00e1 se tvorbou nov\u00fdch webov\u00fdch str\u00e1nek Talentu, zkoncipoval projekt herecko-divadeln\u00edch d\u00edlen pro d\u011bti a ml\u00e1de\u017e Drama Happening, star\u00e1 se o propagaci a m\u00e1 spoustu n\u00e1pad\u016f. <\/p>\n

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January 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

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