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Petra Fornayová

Petra Fornayová has studied at the Law faculty of Commenius University in Bratislava. Since 1988 she works in the field of modern and contemporary dance. She has appeared in dance and movement performances and "site-specific" projects in Slovakia and abroad. She worked with choreographers as Allyson Green, Mary Fulkerson, Bill Young, Zuzana Kozánková, Tina Mantel, Marjolin Sinke, or Marta Renzi. Presently, she works mostly with dance improvisation and contact improvisations. Since 2000 she has been involved with choreographic work as well.

Half-moon Bear

Dance: Petra Fornayová
Music: Peter Machajdík
Dramaturgy and lighting design: Mira Fornayová
Costumes: Jana Hamarová

The Half-moon Bear is a solo performance inspired mostly by a literary work of C.P. Estés Women that ran with wolves. The primary and unifying outline of the performance is the old Japanese story; individual images of the work are created by confrontation and paralleling with own experience. The story is not retold, it is rather transformed into movement language that spontaneously cooperates with the lighting design.

"The bear stood on his four legs and intensely stared at the woman's terrified face. For a glimpse she felt that she can see in his old eyes all the mountains, valleys, villages, and rivers. A vast peace has settled in her and she stopped shivering."
Really?

Supported by: Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts Bratislava, Open Society Fund Bratislava

 

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.

Mega & Loman