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Clara Furey, Peter Jaško: Untied Tales [NuDanceFest 2018]

Untied Tales is a story of two bodies exploring our fear of the immaterial and indistinct. It proposes a single solution: the encounter with the Other.

The performance by the Canadian–Slovak authors team of two develops as a gloomy fairy-tale. The authors sought inspiration in The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Story about War and Survival by Louise Murphy. It tells the story of encounter with the Other that is filled with suffering, wanders and unknown. The psychedelic world is also home to that which cannot be seen by the eye. We are haunted by enduring sense of pressure. It reminds us of our inevitable fate, of which we know that we shall know nothing at all.

The authors say that their piece is simple and multi-layered, like onion. It works with sensory sound and light that unveils only a little. In the world of phantasmagoria, the dancers’ bodies attract each other to pull away. It’s a contemporary anew domination game turned upside down. When members of the audience stop into the auditorium, Clara a Peter lie curled up on the floor resembling a couple of defenceless creatures. We go on to follow them showered by sharp light, creating structured space they wish to use to supress their inner existential void. They are drawn by the ground and a vision of sleep, yet they are trying to get up – except their legs are betraying them. Their anxiety gradates like in a dream where children got lost in the woods. What follows is an allegory that resembles Plato’s cave. Distraught and lost, the performers create for themselves shared sensuality that serves as a refuge. In spite of everything, they manage to move and keep discovering the world of the invisible, the world of dreams and subconscience. It is a world where all senses awake and mix at the same time.

 

Author and a choreography: Clara Furey & Peter Jaško
Dance: Clara Furey, Peter Jaško
Music by: Tomas Furey
Lighting design: Alexandre Pilon-Guay
1st artistic consultant: Catherine Gaudet
Assistant - lights: Olivier Chopinet
Technical manager: Karine Gauthier
Rehearsals support: Samuel Lefeuvre, Jamie Wright
Artistic consultant: Benoît Lachambre, Francis Ducharme
Coproduced by: La Chapelle Scènes contemporaines

 

Authors:

Clara Furey is Canadian artist, performer and choreographer. She studied music at the Conservatoire national supérieur in Paris and dance at the École de danse contemporaine in Montreal. Her works are often deemed to be unorthodox. She works by mixing forms, languages and codes. Her artistic process has been strongly affected by choreographers with who she worked in the early stages of her career: Goerge Stamos, Damien Jalet, Benoît Lachambre. She devises her own method based on materialisation of abstract emotions. Ms Furey also makes works based on the principle of extremely aroused sensory perception. Her work is strictly interdisciplinary. She understands choreography to be an intersection of dance, music and performance. As artistic director, she oversaw the project Cosmic Love. For the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal she made a cycle of ninety solo performances When Even The as part of the exhibition in memory of Leonard Cohen. She is currently associate artist with the Canadian group Par B.L.eux led by Benoît Lachambre, working with the group’s support.

Peter Jaško is Slovak dancer and choreographer. After graduation at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica and at the academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, he joined the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, the class of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. Mr Jaško has collaborated with Slovak and international dance groups and artists, including the State Opera in Banská Bystrica, ASpO, Company Roberto Olivan, David Zambrana, Svalbard Company and others. He is co-founder of Les SlovaKs dance collective. In addition to dancing, he is also lecturer. Mr Jaško has shared his approach to dance widely across the world, having spoken in forty-six countries so far.

 

Date & time: 25 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: Mathieu Verreault

Date: 25.04.2018

Time: 20:15

Place: A4 - space for contemporary culture

City: Bratislava