KROBOVÁ Sylvie and REIDINGER Jiří (CZ)

Sylvie KROBOVÁ and Jiří Bilbo REIDINGER (CZ)

SYLVIE KROBOVÁ

Sylvia Krobová was born in Prague in 1968. In 1990 she graduated in opera singing at the State Conservatory in Prague She has been in theatre for almost twenty years in Divadlo na Tahu (Pull-along Theatre) Bilbo compagnie and at Ladislav Smoljak€™s Studio Láda . She has guested at Theatre Na Zábradlí. She has sung in the Kuhnův Choir and also with the group Drakar, Agon. Since 2000, she has been teaching singing at Dobříš Art School and in 2003-05 she established and ran a private school Artistic Education Otakárek. She writes her own lyrics and setting them to her own music, which she plays on her own or accompanied by other musicians.

In November 2006 she released her first official CD Stín (Shadow) on Black Point Music, in 2008 the CD Svět podivínů (World of Oddballs), in 2011, Chvilka co se chytí (The Moment to be Caught) + and in 2010 a collection of poetry under the same name

A short documentary on Sylvia Krobová: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1183619616-kultura-cz/208562228000042/obsah/108842-portret-sylvie-krobova/

JIŘÍ BILBO REIDINGER

Jiří Bilbo Reidinger was born in 1961 in Šumava, in Loučovice. After his studies (Lidová konzervatoř, the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague courses with C. Turba etc.) his first professional work was as Bilbo the Clown in the 1983 season with Circus Praga in the former USSR. Since then, he has been working freelance, for instance, in the Ctibor Turba company, Alfred & spol., Alfred ve dvoře, with whom he toured throughout Europe, Japan, etc. He has also guested at the National Theatre, Theatre Na Zábradlí, Theatre v Dlouhé etc. as an actor and choreographer, he has worked with a number of directors (such as J.A. Pitínský, H. Burešová, M. Krobot, etc.). Since 1992 he has taught acrobatics and its shift into comedy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.