Skupina Honoris ukončila ke dni 4. 3. 2011 svou činnost.
Rider knight tournament HONORIS
Allow me to offer you a show of the HONORIS group, which performs knight tournaments on horseback from the era of king Jan of Luxembourg, the dawn of 14th century.
In the tournament, which is meant to decide the right for
a princesses hand in marriage, we will show you many knight skills,
including fencing duels, horseback archery, practise knocking off
of wooden blocks or skewering "heads" and finally exciting
fights on horseback, knocking off the riders from their horses.
Practising for a Saracen attack is also a part of the show,
including spitting and juggling with fire.
Another part of the tournament is a complementary arrangement for
the audience to try archery, horseback riding (adults and children)
or taking photographs with the armoured knights and their horses.
Within the arena there can be an optional buffet for the viewers.
The arena can be open or partially covered to be seen only by
paying audience.
The capacity of the auditorium is up to 400 seats. The show can be
performed either on grass, soil or any other horse-foot suitable
surface. Find more in the technical description.
Technical description
The tournament is a self-standing theatre act with a storyline.
The whole play is directed so that not only adult audience, but
also the children could comprehend and stay entertained. The
tournament usually includes 6 riders and horses, one princess
and her suite, six esquires in the arena and a herald, who is also
the narrator for the whole story.
There are many props bound to the show, historically consistent
armours and weaponry of the actors (when something ought to be
leather or metal, it is no more and no less than that). We perform
the duels in wadded undercoats, which used to be a natural part
of the gothic knight's armour.
There are many swordsmen among us, therefore hand weaponry (one-,
one and a half- handed or two handed swords, war axes and hammers)
duels are as authentic as possible.
The technical base of the tournament consists of barriers to build
the arena, an auditorium for cca. 400 viewers, a fortress tower
sized 8 x 2,5 x 7 m (used also as an entrance gate with
a draw-bridge), a large, historically looking tent for the horse
stable (therefore the client does not need to provide any housing
for the animals), curtains to define the show area, sound system
and sufficient light system for night shows.
What we require from the customer (ground provider):
- a piece of suitable surface land sized 40 x 60 m
- an electrical power supply 380 V / 16 A
- a drinking water source for the horses
- an access to the toilettes for our staff.
Pravda nesmí záviset na tom, komu bude sloužit!
-- Vladimír Iljič Lenin
