Hotel Europa is a documentary theatre company exploring the boundaries between theatre, dance, and performance.
Hotel Europa is a company formed by André Amálio (Portugal) and Tereza Havlíčková (Czech Republic).
They have been developing documentary theatre performances that explore the boundaries between theatre, dance and performance. They use in their work an overlap of autobiographical material, family stories, national histories, testimonies, interviews and historiographical research. They deal with unaddressed issues of the recent past such as Colonialism, Fascism and Communism trying to make a bridge between the past and present. In their performances they are also discussing recent matters such as migration, environmental problems and gentrification.
Hotel Europa’s work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, Czechia, Slovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia and Uruguay.
Team
Artistic Directors
André Amálio and Tereza Havlíčková
andre@hoteleuropateatro.com
tereza@hoteleuropateatro.com
Production Manager
Diana Regal
gestao@hoteleuropateatro.com
Executive Producer
producaoexecutiva@hoteleuropateatro.com
Communication
comunicacao@hoteleuropateatro.com
André Amálio
Artist, actor and director, André has been developing work on documentary theatre, autobiography, memory, post-colonialism and the colonial past. He was a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship holder. André holds a Master’s degree in Arts from Goldsmiths College and a PhD from the University of Roehampton. He has taught at the University of Minho, teaching directing, creation and documentary theatre in the Theatre course at ESAD and at HAMU (Prague Academy of Performing Arts). André has participated in shows directed by Anna Furse, Antónia Terrinha, Giacomo Scalisi, João Brites, Lúcia Sigalho, Luis Castro, Madalena Vitorino, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, among others. Together with Tereza Havlíčková, he founded the Hotel Europa company, where he is the artistic director, creator and director of productions.
Tereza Havlíčková
Began her career as a dancer after completing BA Dance Theatre at the Laban Centre in London and subsequently graduating from Goldsmiths University with an MA in Performance Making. She is particularly interested in the multidisciplinary exploration of movement, text and visual forms, as well as the use of autobiographical material. She has studied and worked with artists such as Graeme Miller, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Twitchin Mischa, Steve Paxton and collaborated with Firenza Guidi, Etta Ermini, Anna Furse, Ajaykumar, Petr Boháč, Miřenka Čechová and Madalena Vitorino. She was part of the Spitfire Company in Prague. In 2015, in Portugal, she founded the Hotel Europa company with André Amálio, where she is the artistic director and responsible for the movement in the productions.