Laterna Magika
Address:
Narodni 4,Praha 1 map
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Multimedia performances - music, dance, film. Thanks to its undisputed art quality, unusual procedures and non-existent language barrier, it has been popular in particular among foreign visitors of Prague for many years.
Laterna Magika counts its history since the year 1958.
The first period, created by the director Alfred Radok and stage-designer Josef Svoboda began at the world exhibition EXPO 58 in Brussels, Belgium. The programm showed in the Czechoslovak pavilion was named Laterna magika and later gave its name to the theatre in Prague, reconstructed at 1959 after the worldwide success on EXPO.The second period was presented on the EXPO 67 in Montreal, Canada and as well as on the EXPO 70 in Osaka, Japan and with these performances travelled the theatre through the world.
In the half of seventieth became Laterna magika the part of the National Theatre in Prague, on the head with the artistic director Josef Svoboda, who was at the beginning of this special medium, which does not use the words, only the combination of film projection and life stage media’s - dance, sound, lights,
