Libretto, stage direction and choreography: Alena Pešková
Music: Antonín Dvořák, String Quartet nr. 9 d minor, op. 34, B75
Set Design: Richard Pešek jr.
Costume Design: Aleš Valášek
Light Design: Alena Pešková
Performing: Zemlinsky Quartet
Dancing: 12 dancers of the Prague Chamber Ballet
Duration: 40 minutes
Premiere: 1st December 2021, 19:30, Municipal Library Prague
“Cross by the Brook” is a dance drama inspired by Karolina Světlá’s novel of the same name, which the choreographer Alena Pešková has set perhaps in the recent past and is “framed” by Dvořák’s beautiful D minor string quartet performed by the Zemlinsky Quartet. It tackles several timeless themes such as: sacrifice, the meaning of life, misunderstanding, guilt and the most important of all… Love.