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New Ritual II.
16.30, pathway of coronation procession in the streets of Old Town

dance and music procession in the streets of Old Town

Old and new music, restored historical objects, new marking of old coronation ritual clues, a dictate of a visual art form and at the same time its ephemerality, a play with convention that the costume sets, human body bearing imprints of every individual's history, movements of everyday life ...

What divides people coming to a specific site into actors and spectators?
Is a specific site a better place for communication than a theatre building?
Does man really want to break off the common ways of perception? If so, does he/she want to do it by the means of art?
Does a unique situation need a unique place?
Can an event, ritual, ceremony create a new public place?
What are the parallels of past and present rituals in?

The three performances are a climax of a two-week workshop of Hungarian and Slovak artists where has the theme of coronation parade in Bratislava been processed. The project works with a dimension of time that strives to relate the past with the present on a specific site. The final art form is characterized by action, improvisation, and crossing of art genres - dance, music, and visual arts.

Idea and conception: Miroslava Kovářová, Eszter Gál (Hungary)
Music collaboration: Adrián Rajter
Visual conception and collaboration: Iveta Haasová
Dance: Monika Čertézni, Petra Fornayová, Anna Sedlačková, Daniel Raček, Milan Tomášik, Tomáš Danielis (Slovakia), Akos Hargitai, Michaela Pein, Réka Szabó, Gyula Berger, Eszter Gál (Hungary)
Music: Stanislav Šurin and musical ensembles: Situation Band, Bratislava Trombone Quartet, Vocal Group Sklo (Slovakia), Attila Dóra (Hungary)

 

Predstavenia / Performances

11 May 16,30Old Town New Ritual II.
  20,00 Aréna Theatre Akram Khan (Great Britain)
    Fix, Loose in Flight, Rush
12 May 16,30Old Town Nový rituál II.
20,00 Aréna Theatre Haring / Obermaier (Austria)
D.A.V.E.
13 May 16,30Old Town New Ritual II.
14 May 20,00Aréna Theatre Granhřj Dans (Denmark)
Headbreak
15 May 17,00Aréna Theatre Laroque Dance Company (Austria)
... and the damage done
Tomáš Danielis
Dnes som ťa skoro stretol
Marta Poláková
Večierok (premiéra)
16 May 17,00Stoka Theatre Petra Fornayová
Polmesačný medveď
Katarína Mojžišová, Milan Tomášik
Zluftu
20,00 Aréna Theatre Štúdio tanca - Banská Bystrica
Hra s časom
Tak dávno som Ti nenapísala
17 May 15,30Zichy´s Palace theoretical lecture Deborah Jowitt (USA)
"Contemporary dance in USA"
20,00 Aréna Theatre TS Artyci
One Yin for every Yang
Peter Groll & Friends
In a minor key
18 May 19,00The Union of women of Slovakia Felix Ruckert (Germany)
Ring
19 May 19,00The Union of women of Slovakia Felix Ruckert (Germany)
Ring

Performances, 11 - 19 May 2001

  • during 10 days 8 domestic and 6 foreign companies of contemporary dance will be presented in Theatres Aréna a Stoka
  • the aim of dramaturgy is to present the most recent creative achievements of selected representatives of contemporary dance from Europe and to show related results by the top domestic creators, to offer by that a simultaneous review of results in this field to domestic public and critics
  • foreign participants in the festival: Cie Felix Ruckert (Germany), Chris Haring (Austria), Cie Eszter Gál (Hungary), Cie Akram Khan (Great Britain), Granhoj Dans (Danmark), Kristýna Lhotáková (Czech republic)
  • Slovak representatives: Katarína Mojžišová, Lucia Holinová, Tomáš Danielis, Petra Fornayová, Peter Groll, A dato, TS Artyci, Štúdio tanca - Banská Bystrica

All the performances will be followed by public discussions between audience and artists.

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