Terén celebrates nominations for the 2025 Thálie Awards

The Thálie Awards ceremony will take place on November 1, 2025, and Terén – part of the Center for Experimental Theater – can celebrate several successes this year.

The shortlist of nominees in the Alternative Theater category includes the collective of performers from the production Headbanger: Pasi Mäkelä and Matyáš Dlab, Zdeněk Polák, Janet Prokešová, Zuzana Smutková – the collective D’epog. This is the only shortlist nomination awarded to an entire collective rather than an individual. This fact aptly reflects the very nature of the piece, which is based on the collective experience of the situation – both by the performers and the audience.

"In the beginning, there was a fascination with fan subculture. Where through harshness we arrive at gentleness, through arrogance and violence at purification, and we find the healing potential of evil portrayed, which at this moment (of exposure) ceases to be evil. At its end is tenderness, something subtle and sophisticated," says director Lucie Repašská, describing the genesis of the project. "Headbanger is a form on the borderline between radical musical performance, choreography or dance work, and concert. It is a special celebration of humanity in the sense that it is an anti-virtuoso work that sets itself a single criterion—to appeal to a direct, brutally open energy, where freedom is one of the most important ideas," she adds.

Headbanger has its home stage at the Kino Sibiř cultural center and is usually presented as part of the Incident series, which combines different musical projects from across Europe with a theatrical project inspired by headbanging.

Pasi Mäkelä's performance in his solo project FUGK, in which the author combines Finnish-Japanese folk craftsmanship, domestic butoh, DIY kabuki, and obscure gags, was also included in the broader nomination. Pasi Mäkelä thus became the only artist to receive two Thálie Award nominations this year.

The broader nomination in the alternative theater category also included Lucie Tomsa's performance in the production Lekce s Jane (Lesson with Jane) by Brno's independent Divadlo 3+kk theater, with which Terén closely collaborates – this season, for example, on the emerging project STÁTKY, a series of artistic events that will take place during 2026 at the Brno City Council Club on the occasion of Czech Republic national holidays. Until November 17, 2025, it is still possible to apply for the Open Call: STÁTKY and become part of Terén's program for the coming year.