4*8+Y≠?

AUTHORS, PERFORMERS Florent Golfier-Brechmann, Marie Gourdain, Lukáš Karásek, Zuzana Režná, Lukáš Palán
PERFORMERS Hana Polanská, Marek Menšík
LIGHT DESIGN Zuzana Režná
MUSIC Lukáš Palán
MASKS Magdaléna Vrábová
COSTUMES Magdaléna Vrábová a tYhle
TECHNICAL COOPERATION Štěpán Hejzlar, Matouš Ondra, Mikuláš Bartoň
PRODUCED BY tYhle, Ludmila Šindlerová
CO-PRODUCED BY 4+4 dny v pohybu

Several strange creatures have taken up residence in the dilapidated, abandoned premises of the House of Applied Arts on Prague’s Národní třída. Although their bodies look human, their heads are
modified into geometric shapes, and their movements don’t resemble those of humans. Each of these beings has a so-called symbiont - an inner animal or plant - whose very presence influences the life of these beings.

In collaboration with the 4+4 Days in Motion festival, tYhle presents the Prague premiere of a site-specific production with the working title 4*8+Y≠?, created specifically for the festival and the iconic
House of Applied Arts space. The project brought together all the members of the collective - Golfier, Gourdain, Karásek, and Režna - for the first time in a long time.

tYhle / a physical theater group
A collective of Generation Y artists working in contemporary movement and visual art. tYhle is a Czech-French collective of artists working mainly in the Czech Republic and a platform for
expression through performance art, dance, physical theatre, and visual art. The collective was founded in 2015 in Brno by actors and dancers Lukáš Karásek and Florent Golfier, who met while
studying at JAMU. They were joined by lighting designer Zuzana Režná and scenographer/choreographer Marie Gourdain. tYhle, therefore, comprises four artists who share a similar view of contemporary art: They are convinced that it is necessary to experiment and break boundaries. The name “tYhle” is inspired by Generation Y. “For us, the letter Y and its graphic form express the intersection of different lines, directions, and inspirations; this intersection is the space in which we meet and create.”