Traces In Memory draw from personal experience of the authors: their brothers had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The primary source material comes from clinical symptoms and manifestations of the chronic mental condition. The associative run emerges on the break of light and darkness, silence and sound that reflects traces in memory and body.
The critic Miklos Forgács considers Traces In Memory to be one of the top three productions of the 2016/2017 season.
Theme, concept, implementation: Mária Danadová, Monika Kováčová
Music: Ján Fiala
Artistic support: Juraj Poliak
Movement supervisor: Martina Hajdyla Lacová
Puppet production: Pavol Rosenberger
Costume design: Viktória Jehlárová
Cast: Mária Danadová, Monika Kováčová and Samuel Juráš
The authors:
Odivo is an independent group that develops innovative original and puppet projects. It collaborates with artistically close authors from a range of disciplines. The group devises its own theatre language based on combining and crossing different genres and forms, and on the interaction of stage components: elaborate visual and artistic component, original puppet work, exploitation of elements of physical theatre, live music, non-traditional grasp of literary forms, and performance. Odivo productions featured at festivals in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Croatia, and earned a number of international awards. www.odivo.sk
Monika Kováčová studied stage direction at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and direction of alternative and puppet theatre at the Academy of Arts in Prague. She spent her sabbatical at the Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo in Ljubljana, and is laureate of a number of awards at festivals in Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. As the first Slovak director, she staged productions for toddlers and babies which received the 2015 Prize for Creative Contribution at the Slovak puppet theatre Hašterica. Ms Kováčová previously worked as dramaturge at the Theatre on the Crossroads in Banská Bystrica. She currently collaborates with the Mana agency, Theatre from Alleyway, and public broadcasters Radio Devín and Radio Regina.
Mária Danadová studied puppetry and acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is currently doctoral student at the former, as well as actor, performer, choreographer in theatres and theatre groups Odivo, Honey and Dust, Theatre Pôtoň, Sláva Daubnerová, Ephemeral Theatre, Garden – Centre for Independent Culture, Puppet Theatre on the Crossroads, etc.. She is also editor, dramaturge and director at the Slovak Radio and Television, and lecturer in acting at The Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory. Ms Danadová is laureate of numerous awards, such as those from international festivals in Croatia and Bulgaria, and of two premium awards by the Slovak Literary Fund.
Date & time: 20 April 2018 at 20:15
Place: A4 - space for contemporary culture, Bratislava
The performance is part of the 13th edítion of the contemporary dance and physical theatre festival NU DANCE FEST 2018.
Photo: Ján Chmelík
Date: 20.04.2018
Time: 20:15
Place: A4 – space for contemporary culture
City: Bratislava
