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Chiara Bersani (IT): Seeking Unicorns & Martin Kilvády (BE/SK): The Craft of Dry Lands Ice-Skating [Bratislava in Movement 2019]

Bratislava in Movement festival presents a back-to-back performance of Chiara Bersani (IT): Seeking Unicorns & Martin Kilvády (BE/SK): The Craft of Dry Lands Ice-Skating

 

Seeking Unicorns
Creation / action: Chiara Bersani
Sound design: Fra De Isabella
Light design: ValeriaFoti
Stage manager: Paolo Tizianel
Dramaturgical advice: Luca Poncetta, Gaia Clotilde Chernetih
Moving coach: Marta Ciappina
Aristical advice: Marco D’Agostin
Styling: Elisa Orlandini
Producer: EleonoraCavallo
Administrative advise: Chiara Fava
Diffusion and Comunication: GiuliaTraversi, Ph. Roberta Segata
Production: Associazione Culturale Corpoceleste_C.C.00# co-production Santarcangelo Festival, CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa) with the support of Centrale FIES (Dro), Graner (Barcellona), Carrozzerie | N.o.T. (Roma), CapoTrave/Kilowatt (Sansepolcro). ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche azione della Rete Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane Danza D’autore coordinata da L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino.

 

Unicorn origins are barely unknown. Their roots went lost while distracted generation of human being have followed one another. Perhaps, they all come from a misunderstanding, from the wrong interpretation of hand crafts made in India, during the Bronze Age. At that time, they were an ox, portrayed in profile, with one horn only. Historians state that, as on that age iconography was two-dimensional, the second horn was probably hidden by the first one. However, the writing of Ctesia of Cnido, an ancient Greece historian, which narrated about an encounter with this animal during a trip in India, gave birth to a creature with weak origins. What does it happen in collective imaginary when a mythological figure appears without a myth that founds and justifies their existence? A fragile and eradicated symbol comes to existence. A perfect scape goat for whoever want to invest they with different kinds of meanings. So, over the centuries, unicorn has changed shape (“anox with a horn only”;“a mix between a horse and a donkey”;“a horse with goat’s hoof sandalion’s tale”), fathers (from pagan creature to symbol of the pope), meaning (from magic healer to custodian of chastity and purity of girls, to defender of catholic ideology from Turkish invasion), until becoming a contemporary pop icon. Unicorn, a creature without homeland and history, has been used and abused by human being, deprived of the right to speak. Today, I want to redress their grievances. I want to give them a love, a story, a choice.

Declaration of Intents for the Construction of a Unicorn
I, Chiara Bersani, 98 cm tall, I self-proclaim flesh, muscle sand bones of the unicorn. As I don’t know its heart, I’ll try to give it my breath and my eyes. I’ll dress their image up, I’ll make a costume out of they, that will become armour and skin. We will discover our movements, our kisses, our greetings, our yawns, by means of a dialogue between my shape, that acts, and their shape, that clothes. I, Chiara Bersani, 32 years old, I’ll take the responsibly of welcoming its long-standing bewilderment. I declare to give voice to the universal questions that puzzled it:“Why do I exist”“Where do I come from?”“If tomorrow you’ll find me in your garden, what would you do?”, “I’m good or bad?”, “Do I believe in God or am I God?”, “Where’s my love?” and “Who has killed them?”, “Why cannot I choose to die, now that I have reached the most humiliating step of my aging and I became just a horned horse, with rainbows coming out of my ass?”

Political body
Since I started to work as a performer and, later, as a director/author, I have always focused my thoughts on the body, as the custodian of a unique and singular story. After a long journey on biographic and autobiographic imaginaries, I have started to change the way of thinking about the very same concept of body. Body didn’t seem to me anymore like a mere testimony of a lived story, but a political entity, ear marked as such by means of clashes and encounters with society. I have then started to frame the concept of political body. The body performs its social function when it chooses to merge into society by imposing to the others to be seen. The persons who meets it is forced to give it a meaning, to interpret it, to create expectations around it. The body chooses to accomplish its political duty when it welcomes the meanings that are given to itself, it analyses them and it personalised them by transforming into a manifest that is aware of itself. You aren’t the one interpreting me, I’ll show you the way to understand me. I take the responsibility to draw the image that the world will have of myself. This reflection has permeated all Works I created as an author from 2012 until today. Political body has always been a transversal subject of study, observed on different ways and on different bodies. Now, with Gentle Unicorn, it’s time for me to challenge this subject by embodying it myself, alone, on stage.

Seeking Unicorns is the version of the work designed for non-theatrical spaces: empty, full, silent, crowded spaces. Spaces whose light whose history asks to be heard and inhabited. Spaces in which the Unicorn tries to find itself in a new form, in which stripping itself of its best clothes renounces to the fables of the theater to start a journey of eyes and breaths destined to be different for every audience. The search for a site-specific sound environment aims at creating a communication between the spectators and the action scenic sharpening the listening and the senses, training the eye. The unicorn is always in search of the other, it is hunting. Experience new forms of love, find something, or maybe not, and small wonders can happen in the wait that may change completely his research, his “Seeking of … Seeking for …”.

 

 

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The Craft of Dry Lands Ice-Skating
Tanec: Martin Kilvády
Hudba: Nick Cave (God is in the House)

Dnes formujem tanec
Dávam tvar môjmu telu
Ako ruky remeselníka odhalia neforemnú hlinu
Tancujem pre teba
Pohyb ohýba ticho
Jemný závor hudby
Tancujúci blázon nesúci tiaž sveta

Zámerom diela je predstaviť prácu remeselníka, jeho zručnosti a majstrovstvo, esteticko-poetické cítenie, tanečné kroky, ktoré mu počas rokov štúdiovej a javiskovej skúsenosti prirástli k srdcu. Na javisku sa predstaví Martinov tanečný štýl par excellence – bez scény, v jednoduchom priestore, čistý tanec.
Štruktúrou je rozdelené sólo na dve hlavné časti. Prvá, v ktorej sa dve tretiny celkového prejavu sa odohrávajú v tichu. Druhá, ktorá je v závoji balady pre klavír a hlas priamo vyplývajúcim pokračovaním, a nesie sa v nádychu emócií.
Prežitých dvadsať minút má homogénny, pokojný charakter, kde sa telo tanečníka rozoznie vo veľkej škále svalového napätia a uvoľnenia. Rozmanitosť tanečných inšpirácií sa snúbi v jednoliaty celok v tele a duši tanečníka – skladateľa.

 

Martin Kilvády sa narodil v roku 1974 v Banskej Bystrici. Absolvoval odbor pedagogika súčasného tanca na VŠMU. Ako tanečníka ho najviac ovplyvnil Ján Ďurovčík a Libor Vaculík. V rokoch 1992 až 1996 bol členom súboru Torzo a tancoval aj v niekoľkých inscenáciách baletu a opery SND.
V lete roku 1997 sa stal členom súboru ROSAS Anny Teresy de Keersmaeker v Bruseli. Tancoval v množstve predstavení, medzi inými vo Would, v reprízach Mikrocosmosa Achterland. Podieľal sa na tvorbe choreografií Just Before, Drumming, I Said a In Real Time. V tomto období jeho tanečné obzory rozšírilo učenie Davida Zambrana a Chrysy Parkinson.
V rokoch 2001 až 2004 spolupracoval s choreografom Robertom Olivanom na tvorbe choreografií Natural, Strange Daysa De Farra. V sezónach 2002 až 2004 bol členom cirkusu Rital Brocante.
Od roku 2003 je členom súboru Thomasa Hauerta ZOO. Vystupuje v predstaveniach Five, Modify, More Less Said Songs,Walking Oscar, Puzzleda Accords.
Martin je spoluzakladateľom súboru Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, s ktorým vytvorili choreografie Opening Night, Journey Homea Fragments.
Martin sa podieľal na vyše 30 originálnych produkciách a tancoval na všetkých kontinentoch. Venuje sa aj tanečnému výskumu a už 25 rokov pôsobí ako pedagóg.

 

Date & time: 4 October 2019 at 7:00pm
Place: Galéria Nedbalka, Bratislava

Date: 04.10.2019

Time: 19:00

Place: Nedbalka Gallery

City: Bratislava