The original artistic work of Radoslav Piovarči (TRAKT) will be presented in the period from August 2022 to June 2023. The productions CHARON and JUST ASK HER. will be presented successively on the territory of the Slovak Republic.

CHARON

17 Aug 2022 at the festival Tanečnô in Námestovo

15. 11. 2022 at MOVE Ostrava, Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava.

JUST ASK HER

7 Sep 2022 Prešov, in cooperation with Wave, Regional Museum Prešov

18. 11. 2022 ART GANG, Studio of Dance Theatre, Banská Bystrica

April 2023, Bratislava (planned performance)

July 2023, Košice (planned performance)

The project focuses on the presentation of Radoslav Piovarči’s authorial productions in the district towns, but also in the villages. The productions use the language of contemporary dance, but above all they reflect essential themes such as gender equality, moral attitude to death and active survival. The works were created in complicated years – Charon 2021, JUST ASk HER. 2022, when interest in culture was declining, but there was nevertheless great interest and demand for attendance of the productions.With the support of the Arts Support Fund, as well as its own resources, more than 15 performances have been staged in recent years.

After this experience of presenting works in different spaces where contemporary dance had no place until then, we know how beneficial it was for the public to see other art forms they had not encountered before. With more contemporary art on offer, there is also a greater demand for a cultural experience. With the new production JUST ASK HER, the project would have the opportunity to build on and continue the active work of Radoslav Piovarči (TRAKT) in the regions of Slovakia.Interaction with the public, as well as a form of provocation, are the reasons for stepping out of our comfort zone of technically equipped theatres. The aim of the project is to reprise each work in as many performances as possible, in the regional context of the Slovak Republic.

We cordially invite the audience to all the reprises, which I will inform you about on FACEBOOK and on the web www.trakt.sk

Supported from public funds by the Fund for the Support of the Arts.

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The exhibition featured Lukáš Matejka / TRAKT (tech. collaboration Alžbeta Bobulová), with the work Home X. Home – Time – Humanity – Technology – Space. Using digital video mapping, the author contrasts the dwelling of the past (the ruins of Parič Castle) and the possible home of the future (the universe).

During the theoretical phase of the workshop, the participants improved their technical, technological and software skills while learning about current trends in the art field. During the practical phase, in cooperation with expert lecturers, they used the acquired experience directly in the field of the park. The educational laboratory provided direct experience with the realization of the work and confrontation with the viewer, where the participants gained new creative impulses, experience and knowledge in the field of contemporary visual art. The event included an accompanying activity GEO-Caching, an interactive game based on GPS coordinates designed for parents with children.

FRIDAY 26/8/2022 – FINISSAGE

18:00 Opening of the accompanying exhibition.

19:00 Opening of the exhibition PARK CAMP 9 and guided tour of the park with curator Miroslav Nicza

21:00 MAPPING to Parič Castle: Lukáš Matejka and TRAKT o.z.

22:00 Musical solitaire – Raptor Koch – Koniareň

23:30 End of the event and de-installation of works in the exterior of the park

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The name NOCTURNO comes from the word “nocturne” which means night music or instrumental piece played outdoors, for example as a serenade. The night during NOCTURNO should also be a kind of composition, a beautiful music of visual art. 30 July will be in the spirit of light projections and installations, in the former botanical garden built by the writer Gustáv Kazimír Zechenter-Laskomerský near his house.

During the event, artworks by artists such as Palo Truben, Lukáš Matejka (Martina Vargová collaboration), Tomáš Tulis, Tomáš Eniac Cíger, Ivana Laila Drobná and others will shine. The light installations will be complemented by a rich accompanying programme for children, screening of short films, night chilling with the band Chill on the sun, as well as a movement performance performed by the Dance Studio from Banská Bystrica.

Don’t miss the open-air night gallery and come and experience the magic of art in the golden Kremnica.

We look forward to your visit.

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The project took place on Saturday 16 July 2022 in the public space of Trenčín and its peripheries.

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Trenčín Self-Governing Region and the City of Trenčín. Thank you.

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The site-specific performance, which is a combination of dance, theatre, music and lighting design, brings a symbolic, unique and unrepeatable farewell to the work of Ľ. Fulla. Interactive forms and a vjing projection will take place in both the outdoor and indoor spaces of the GĽF.

Concept: Radoslav Piovarči, Andrea Kapráliková / Interpreters: Giorgia Belotti, Lucia Bielik, Paulína Šmatláková, Michaela Šeligová, Radoslav Piovarči / Music: Andrej Jurkovič / Lighting design: Ján Čief / Costumes: Gabriela Čechová / Projection: Lukáš Matejka in collaboration with Viktor Vilkovský, Martina Matejková and Robert Roth (audio)

19 February 2022 / 18:00 Ľudovít Fulla Gallery / Admission: 3 €, students, seniors, disabled: 2 €

The programme is supported from public funds by the Art Support Fund and is produced in collaboration with the Koloman Sokol Society.

Photos. Video: Peter ERZVO Zvonár.

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Our festival will bring an adaptation of a subject of MEMORY into the public space of the city of Banská Bystrica with the help of contemporary artists in December 2021. Many artists work with the subject of memory, often to record something for future generations. Others prefer to disrupt the memory in unexpected ways to change the methods by which we look at the past. How does the art influence our collective memory? And how can it inform our experience about significant events of our time?

We want to do art that tells stories. Stories about personal and cultural memory. Art is open to interpretation. Memory of the past is not a clear story. It is a combination of opinions from different points of view.

WHEN: 15. – 18. 12. 2021

WHERE: public space of Banská Bystrica

More information at: www.svetlo-tien.sk

Festival was funded by the Slovak Arts Council from public resources. Thank you.

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performers: Giorgia Belotti, Lucia Bielik, Paulína Šmatláková

costumes: Gabriela Čechová

music: Nina Pixel

project initiator: Radoslav Piovarči

duration: cca 50 min

place of the premiere: Synagóga Brezno (Štúrova 888, 977 01 Brezno)

date of the premiere: 11. 2. 2022

time of the premiere: 19:00

discussion + after party: 20:30 Bombura klub (Nám. gen. M. R. Štefánika,12/16, 977 01 Brezno)

Dance performance JUSK ASK HER. deals with questions about gender related issues. Three women are portraying what it means to be limited, silenced and categorized. What are the solutions to treat each other equally? When will we realize the importance of this topic? Performing scene is one of the places for opening all possible questions about unfairness in society.

Funded from public resources by the Slovak Arts Council. Thank you.

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Focusing on the changes we are going through as humanity, but also about the deep essences we have in common as humanity, this interdisciplinary project aims to to pass on the call of the Earth for change and for a more conscious approach to it as well as to ourselves. Project is an ode to nature, the call for empathy, and a change in our behavior. 

Earth premiere:

22.04.2022 Palác Akropolis, Prague

23.04.2022 Sharpe festival, Bratislava 

We celebrated International Earth Day with this unique interdisciplinary performance, which also featured special guests- including violinist and singer Nina Rosa, percussionist Miloš Vacík and musician Bára Zmeková.

The project was supported by the Slovak arts council.

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It processes the phenomenon of the virtually perceived world – the real one, by using interactive storytelling, comprehending the ideology of the place through the language of contemporary art, semiotics and social paradigms. The project uncovers motives of a perceiving individual subject – as a mythical entity in a collective situation, and dramatically re/constructs possible and expectable situations on which it uncovers local social-historical relations of the place as well as current and speculative conditions of the existence of the non/place, modern rituals and infra/structures, in which the subject finds itself at the given moment.

Simply said, it is a paraphrase of a computer game, an open world story, where the spectator becomes the player in the real world, the structure and universal significance of which he/she process through a filter of current artistic and cultural considerations offering it to new experiences, movement, discovery of new senses, reflections and connectivity of networks around us. The project is focused on an expert or an amateur spectator, children, students or teachers. The aim is to create and introduce an interdisciplinary play, as a universally transferable and complete installation lasting several hours that highlights the interaction between the spectator and the environment (passive as well as active).

The premiere of the project:

07/05/2021 | Friday | 12:00 – 21:00 | Trenčín | surroundings of the Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery, Palackého 27

+ online stream at www.trakt.sk/re-index

More information will be added.

The project was funded by Slovak Arts Council from public resources. The project was supported by a grant for cultural events in the city of Trenčín. Thank you.

Translation: Karin Mikossiová

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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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