Radka Fišarová

I teach students to step out of their comfort zone

Radka Fišarová (b. 1977)

Chanson and musical singer, actress and teacher

-graduate of singing and musical acting at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory

-from the age of five she sang in the Bambini di Praga choir, later she devoted herself to folk and country music with her group Auris

-while still studying at the conservatory she was cast in the musical Hair, and at the age of twenty she portrayed Eva Perón in the musical Evita

-she performs on theatre and musical stages throughout the country, including the National Theatre

-she also performs as a chanson singer, an interpreter of poems set to music, musical melodies and her own song writing

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:53 Create with joy, but focus on technique
05:04 Studying medicine and being an artist? Both are possible
06:49 Snowflake is a topic the students chose themselves
08:40 You can't build on criticism
10:24 Hard work is the alpha and omega

How to recognise talent, how to support and develop it? How to guide students meaningfully? When does a pupil become an artist?
Questions concerning passion, obsession, motivation, inspiration and feedback are answered by prominent figures of the Czech art scene who, in their role as mentors in MenART, help talented students and their teachers find their own path.
Thus the MenART Impulse project was born – a ten-minute story with the ambition to move forward all those who are interested in art, work with art or study it. Desire is contagious!

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