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21.10. 2016 / 18:00

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Dance performance without the story, focused on the power of physicality. Two dancers offer their bodies and their own presence to investigate the purity of expression and presence on stage.

Body does not interpret the outspoken story or idea. Body, itself, is strong and sufficient medium. Purity of movement is often more eloquent than words, and we focused on it during the creative process. Specially human body was the main “character” for us, in discovering unusual kinetic skills and virtuosity. We were looking for a form of cooperation with the music, where music and dance do not try to explain each other, but where they flow parallel to each other, and together, they form a single image.

Theme and choreography: Milan Kozánek

Co-creators and performers: Radoslav Piovarči, Petr Ochvat

Dramaturgy: Jano Zaťko

Music: Andrej Jurkovič

Lighting design: Ján Čief

Milan Kozánek graduated from the Department of Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts. Since graduation he worked as a dance teacher, choreographer and expert advisor. He regularly worked as a teacher in institutions such as the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), Tanz Quartier Wien, Konservatorium Wien University / AT, Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds / UK, TIP – School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance in Freiburg / D, University of Calgary / Canada. In 1996, he and Zuna Vesan Kozánková founded The dance company Artyci. They created 12 dance works that are presented in Slovakia and abroad as well (Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, Thailand, China …). Recently, they elaborate cooperation  with theater creators and performers operating mainly in the Polish city of Wroclaw (Studio Matejka, Song of the Goat Theatre and others). In addition to working with professional dancers and actors,  Milan  taught people to dance, even without prior kinetic experience, for many years, particularly in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Radoslav Piovarči is a performer, choreographer and teacher of the young generation of artists. On the professional stage of contemporary dance and theater he is active for six years. During this period, he had the opportunity to work with multiple personalities, theaters and ensembles such as: Lenka Vágnerová & Company, Elledanse, Staatstheatre Kassel, Dance Studio, Total Brutal company, Verte dance, Viirus theatre, etc. Viirus. In addition to the dance he is dedicated to the choreography and pedagogy. Since 2010, as a choreographer and director, he created productions as Munnie,  TAJ DYCH, SET UP, PRA(C)H. Actively involved in visual installations and site specific projects in cooperation with creators from different fields of art.

Petr Ochvat (CZ/A) works as a performer and dance teacher in Vienna. Since 2006, he has worked with groups D.ID dance-identity Cie. Cimrfraj, M.A.P Vienna, 2nd Nature, Wienerwerk, Two in One. He deals with his own prodution (“Breakdance Dance” 2012). In 2015 he founded the group “Maggie Palms”, together with Anna Prokopová and Costas Kekis.  Their debut “Corpse of a dance piece” was screened at the festival ImageTanz. For more than ten years, he has focused on the theme “Floorwork” and its different concepts such as.: Feldenkrais Method, Axis Syllabus and Breakdance,  which he learns with the  Viennese crews United Minds and Undadogzz. Finding links between contemporary dance and breakdance is the subject of his artistic and pedagogical research.

I would like to thank those without whom this performance could not be implemented: Záhrada – Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Rado Piovarči, Petr Ochvat, Jano Zaťko, the Krnáč family, Lucia Krnáčová, centrum Pangea Meetingpoint, Zuna and Jasmína Kozánková, Kristína Chmelíková, Filip Beniač, Iveta Rašková, Filip Beniačko, Lukáš Matejko, Filip Kmeť, Lucia Devečková.

The performance was created with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, with the support of the city Pangea Meetingpoint / CZ & Garden – Centre of independent culture.

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