Fest of Fools ✷ Prague

Name: Fest of Fools ✷ Prague
Start: 2025-10-24T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-26T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Žižkostel

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Žižkostel | Prague, PR

🔴 Get ready to giggle, question, reflect, and maybe even snort-laugh, 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲! From October 24 to 26, 2025, this three-day festival puts humor center stage as a powerful force in choreography, cultural expression, and social conversation.
✷ 🤡 ✷ Four choreographers are stepping up to show how humor can do more than make us laugh, it can also shake things up, shift perspectives, and open doors to deeper understanding. It can be a sharp tool for critique, connection, and even healing. At its core, Fest of Fools challenges the notion that difficult topics should be approached with seriousness alone. For the organizers, humor is a form of reflection and temporary distancing - a subversive tool that enables individuals and communities to engage with complex topics, uncover contradictions, question power structures, challenge societal norms, initiate social change, and support conflict resolution. Through performances and hands-on labs the festival dives into humor as a serious (but still funny) player in today’s world.
🔴 Following the successful Berlin edition at the English Theatre Berlin | IPAC, as part of the IETM plenary meeting in May, the festival is now coming to Prague taking over Žižkostel and Goethe-Institut. It aims not only to strengthen the regional arts scene but also to contribute to the growing recognition of humor as a legitimate medium of cultural and choreographic practice, as well as an essential form of social dialogue. This event is also a part of the celebration of the 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 & 𝗰𝗼𝗹., an artistic collective founded by choreographer and performer Alica Minar, one of the curators and choreographers of the festival who will perform her solo piece 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗥 on October 24. On the same day you will get a chance to watch 𝗵̶𝗮̶ ̶𝗵̶𝗮̶ ̶𝗵̶𝗮̶ 𝗵𝗶! trying to tell a life-changing joke (by Felix Baumann). On October 25 the program will introduce a performance called 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘄𝗯𝗼𝘆 by Tomáš Janypka and 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, a cleansing journey by Raul Vargas Torres.
✷ In Dancing Goethe feat. Fest of Fools, humor becomes a tool of dance. Across five artist-led masterclasses and collective experiments, participants explore how humor and playfulness can shape choreography, expand movement language, and open new ways of reflecting, doing and reacting. Rooted in the body, this lab uncovers humor’s power as both a creative force of dance and cultural practice.
✷ 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 ✷
Program of performances in Žižkostel:
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 – 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰
🕖 19:00 ✷ Show 1: DEVOURER
🕗 20:00 ✷ Show 2: h̶a̶ ̶h̶a̶ ̶h̶a̶ hi!
🕤 21:00–21:30 ✷ Discussion
🕤 21:30–open end ✷ 5 year celebration of Alica Minar & col.
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 – 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟱
🕖 19:00 ✷ Show 1: Lonesome Cowboy
🕗 20:00 ✷ Show 2: The Trinity
🕤 21:00–21:30 ✷ Discussion
Program of labs in Goethe-Institut:
October 24 ✷ 9:30-11:00 ✷ masterclass with Raul “Nene” Vargas Torres
October 25 ✷ 10:00-14:00 ✷ masterclass with Alica Minar & Felix Baumann
October 26 ✷ 10:00-14:00 ✷ masterclass with Tomáš Janypka + Closing session (all artists)

✷ 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 ✷
We want Fest of Fools to be open to everyone, which is why we offer three price levels of tickets. All of them grant you admission to a specific festival evening, but they also allow you to support the work of artists. In addition to one-day tickets, we also offer an exclusive two-day package so you don't miss a thing. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://goout.net/cs/fest-of-fools-2025/szybcby/
🔴 During the festival (October 24–26), you can also attend 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁 led by the performers, adding another dimension to their festival performances.
🔴 Partners: The Czech-German Future Fund, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, The Prague City Hall, Goethe-Institut Česká republika
🔴 Cover graphic: Anna Solianyk