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Charon

akjetam — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:35:59 +0000

Dance-visual performance entitled CHARON is inspired by the mythological creature Charon – the ferrymen of souls, and the Joseph Campbell thesis about mythology being a power able to create moral systems. The Charon´s character was selected to personify human qualities in their self-reflection. It shows a contrast in the characters reflecting the attitudes to the ancient story. The theme that had already resonated in Ancient Greece highlights the fact how much is the value of money deep rooted into the human conscience. We may find the inspiration in several mythos, paintings by famous artists, ancient songs and texts. The cornerstone of the creative process is the very recitation of sound-quaint ancient texts and their transformation into the movement, performance and musical composition. The stories of our myths of the current being transcend the borders of worlds and shift the movement and the music into a more intense relationship. A series of video arts will be created during the creative process.

creative team / authors:
Radoslav Piovarči – concept, choreography, direction, performer
Paulína Šmatláková – co-author, performer
Michal Paľko – music, performer
Lukáš Matejka – video art, video documentation
Alexandra Rychtarčíková – dramaturgy, texts
Martin Kotúček – costumes
Jan Čief – lighting design

BIO

TRAKT:

TRAKT is a citizen’s association and an organized formation focused on activities related to art and culture. The tradition of big organizations is replaced by young spirit, innovation and activity of its members. Trakt believes in the intersection of contemporary art, dance, theatre via interactive forms, installations, digital events, vj projections and environments into the public space. Radoslav Piovarči is a long-time member of Trakt realizing various dance, theatrical and multi-genre projects in Slovakia in cooperation with Trakt citizen´s association.

RADOSLAV PIOVARČI:

Dancer, performer, choreographer. He is active on the international scene of contemporary dance and physical theatre since 2009. Since then, he has collaborated with creators, theatres and ensembles like Lenka Vágnerová & company, Staatstheatre Kassel, Štúdio tanca (Dance studio, translator´s note), Total Brutal company, Verte dance, Veronika Riz, Viirus theatre, Artyci dance company, En Knap Group (co-production of Nature Theatre of Oklahoma) and others. Besides working as a performer on the international scene, he is dedicating his time to author multi-genre production. Since 2009, he has created or co-created plays like: MUNNIE, TAJ DYCH, SET UP, PRA(C)H, MIMO, SONETY 2016, 100 SUOMI FINLAND, ROZPRÁVKY…, DOBRÝ DEŇ PANE, POMÔŽEM? and others. He took part in more than 50 projects under different forms of participation, as an interpreter, creator or production manager.

PAULÍNA ŠMATLÁKOVÁ

She is actively working on international contemporary dance scene. She has graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London where she studied Contemporary Dance. During her time in the Great Britain, she became a member of an interdisciplinary group of physical theatre as a choreographer and performer, where she participated in the creation of the artwork entitled Lingering Games that was introduced at the festival in Taipei. Paulína was a member of a dance ensemble called Blackbox Dance Company in Denmark from 2017 to 2020. She has worked with choreographers like Ben Wright, Jason Mabana, Marie Brolin-Tani and Tina Tarpgaard and has also partaken in tours in Denmark and abroad (Sweden, Greenland, Tanzania, South Korea, Rwanda). With the choreographer Tendai Makurumbandi, she was a part of a project in Norway which resulted into a dance film in September 2020. Since October 2020, Paulína works as a freelance artist in Bratislava, where she also teaches contemporary dance.

6. – 19. 2. 2021, The Pôtoň Theatre, Bátovce
1. – 7.3. 2021, Záhrada Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica
15. – 28.3. 2021, Salaš Zbojská, Pohronská Polhora
5. – 13.4. 2021, The Pôtoň Theatre, Bátovce
13. 4. 2021, 19:00 – online premiere
5. 6. 2021, 21:00, Skautský dom, Banská Štiavnica
21. 6. 2021, 19:00, Štúdio 12, Bratislava
3. 7. 2021, 20:00, Festival V novom svetle, Považská Bystrica
7. 8. 2021, Festival Atmosféra, Hontianske Nemce
25. 8. 2021, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava
28. 8. 2021, Kultúra pre dolinu, Katolícky dom, Liptovský Mikuláš
1. 9. 2021, Divadlo Pôtoň, Bátovce
11. 11. 2021, Záhrada Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica

YOU CAN BUY THE TICKETS AT: https://tootoot.fm/sk/events/606c9a79965fb811a438c70f

Keep an eye on fresh information about the Charon project on the special Facebook page. The project was supported from public resources by the Slovak Arts Council. Thank you.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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Interpellation

akjetam — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:36:45 +0000

A full-length dance performance / conceptual movement form for four dancers where choreography overlaps with fine art.

The author / director of the project is Tomáš Moravanský, working in the field of intermedia, conceptual and dramatic works. He focuses on audiovisual projects, opera direction, gallery installations, music and choreography. The production line of the project is covered by TRAKT.

The introduction of Interpellation deals with human movement as a daily, work or social programmed form – a register of civil movements that do not fall into dance but can be its starting material. These are activities related to the creation and interpretation of a work of art and leisure activities in which the actor automatically enters ecstatic state and in which the process itself is important. The project adopts a choreography understood as a system of power control over the human body in activities that are understood in society as a manifestation of freedom or individualism.

Interpretation: Miriam Budzáková, Simona Štangová, Nikola Majtanová
Work in progress: 3. – 8.1.2020 / Žilina, Stanica
Work in progress: 16. – 18.2.2020 / Brno, Dom Umenia
Work in progress: 22. – 29.2.2020 / Bátovce, Divadlo Pôtoň
Work in progress: 22. – 25.3.2021 / Banská Bystrica, Záhrada CNK
Premiere: 26.3.2021, 19.00 / Banská Bystrica, Záhrada CNK

From the public sources, it supported the Arts Support Fund. We thank you.

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Suomi: Hollo and Martta

akjetam — Thu, 09 May 2019 14:02:45 +0000

Art group „Kamaráti“ (Friends) will represent Slovak dance and musical folklore at the 16th international folklore festival Hollo and Martta. Hollo and Martta is one of the three CIOFF festivals of adult folklore groups in Finland. It takes place in the southern part of the country, in the towns Lahti and Hollola. The festival includes various dance, musical, singing performaces, dance workshops and other activities. The art group Kamarát consists of dancers and musicians with long term experience in the most valuable Slovak folklore groups. The group represents Slovakia in many various folklore events in Slovakia and around the world.

Citizens´ association TRAKT represents the art group Kamaráti organizationally. This project has been supported using public funds provided by the Slovak Arts Council.

Translated: Jana Stupňanová

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Equinoxe

akjetam — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:59:28 +0000

Lukáš Matejka (TRAKT) participated his own projections on the international project Equinox. Equinox is the result of a two-year cycle of creative stays in France, Mexico, Hungary and Slovakia. It is a multidisciplinary international performance experimenting with the boundaries of ourselves, with little-crossed forms such as classical and contemporary dance, opera, contemporary classical music, theater, video art and animation.

Kafka’s “America” and “Lock” novels served as the subject of the project, as were the stories of illegal immigrants leaving today from Mexico to the United States. The atmosphere is based on Karol Beff’s original musical work, which won the title of Best French Composer in 2013. Directed by the French director and artistic director of Euroculture Laurent Festas. The introduction of the Equinox was premiered in the summer under the Marseille – Provence 2013 program.

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H&M Residence Budapest

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

TRAKT (Michaela Bottková) spent the second weekend of November in Budapest, Hungary, where she joined the ongoing dance workshop and a choreographic residency of the Hopes and Memories project. Participants had during these 10 days opportunity to work on a common choreography, and gain knowledge of their different approaches. They also worked at conceptual basis-motion line for the final project Hopes and Memories. Over the weekend, completed by the team of visual artists TRAKT (Trencin) and Mamapapa (Prague), artists had an opportunity to walk through the old streets of Budapest, to see and visit traditional Roma musical family and achieve a lot of sources for inspiration. These will be later used for other beam and screening actions in the public spaces, within the V4 project, which TRAKT currently carried. Together with creative artist from Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic they will project in December 2013 finalize.

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H&M Residence Wroclaw

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

Lukas Matejka (TRAKT), Tomas Zizka (Mamapapa) and Agnieszka Ćwieląg attended residency in Wroclaw. Artists were participating and Avant Art Festival, and by night walked to the foot all locations and discovered as much local characteristics as was possible. They later prepared beamvertising projection with the motive of Jan Meyerowitz. Due to the composer was born in Breslau and nobody there known about them, visual team made him alive and screened him as a ghost – walking along the facades of the buildings, especially in the fourth Olbin. This variable projection interested a lot of local bystanders and onlookers. Visual team was supplemented by 3 Polish colleagues, involved by Agnieszka Ćwieląg.

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H&M Residence Prague

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

The second largest meeting of the project Hopes and Memories, with the participation of partners from all five participating countries (South Africa, France, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia) took a place in the third week of September (20 – 25.9) in Prague studios DIVUS SPACE, on the land of ours host partners Mamapapa.

During intense working week, partners reviewed and passed thought a variety of important – strategic part of a common project. Through the economic and conceptual part, they also continued in the dramaturgical placement, where they during three days built a solid groundwork for the following cooperative work.

Artists represented by directors (Laurent Festas / France a Themi Venuras / South Africa) music (Johan Farjot / France) set design and costumes (Tomas Zizka / Czech Republic) and visual artist (Lukas Matejka / Slovakia and Michael Bottková / Slovakia) developed a agreed together on the crucial structure and line for their multidisciplinary project , which they afterward presented to their partners from France (Musiques Interdites).

Participants also visited theatres and independent cultural spaces (MEETFACTORY) to have a chance in detail discovered locations and their possibilities for the final performance in Prague.

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H&M Residence Durban

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

As part of an international project Hopes and Memories, in which TRAKT represents one of the five partner organizations, our visual team will be participate for two years on a common formation of multidisciplinary of artwork that is based on prohibited opera “The Barrier” composed by Jan Meyerowitz in, 1949.

The first common creative step was 10-day residence in the South Africa in Durban. TRAKT via Michaela Bottková participated in the development of international cooperation and also trained students of Drama department at Durban University of Technology – for two days by intensive workshops.

The workshop program was divided into several subject fields as new media, scenic design, video and film, dance and choreography and physical theatre. Under our leadership, together with the multi-talented African students were created a very brave and interesting works which will expand by other common projects in next year.

Our action in Durban University much-admired Institution itself and wrote about our activities HERE.

Visual artists during they stay for several days had an opportunity to discover and share African and European influences. They stopped in and paid a visit to many villages and townships, where they absorbed a local culture and traditions of Zulus. During a number of visits a KwaMashu township, artists were involved in the educational system in local areas, schools and courses of dance. Through the work of our Hungarian choreographer partner, young Durban and Kwamashu dancers got a short daily dance training in physical theater and contemporary dance, which offered them a totally different approach to dancing. And as a repay he learned from them some local dance motion and folklore steps which are usually performed in the rain boots.

In addition team had the opportunity to lead workshops in various “godforsaken” areas, but which are locals using as their classes and studios. Artistic centres such as KwaMashu theatre and BAT Centre in Durban just confirmed to us the obvious fact, about how many talented and capable artists in this country is waiting to be found.

One thing is lucid; our residence in South Africa has revealed to us many secrets of this world, which will be very helpful in the formation of our overall project.

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Musiques interdites

akjetam — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:20:39 +0000

One of the activities related to the international project Hopes and Memories, where is TRAKT collaborator, was Festival of forbidden operas “Musiques Interdites” as one of the main projects of Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013. TRAKT as a partner apart from invitations (to hear the original opera The Barrier, performed by unique 72-members KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra), was also element of this performance through photographic participation.

This large-scale projection was projected on facade of historic building Marseilles Prefecture, over the heads of participants during all concert performance and indicated each passage of opera libretti.

Pictures were created during residence in South Africa where was TRAKT represented by Michaela Bottková in April this year. They will furthermore continue travel through the whole process of artistic creations as an inspirational material and also as a part of final multidisciplinary work.

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