Interactive installation opening
A Hundred-Year Axis presents moments in time that proved relevant for the development of (contemporary) dance within the context of Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the period of 1918 – 2018. Visitors are invited to interfere with the emerging axis. Objective and subjective lines start to intertwine and layer up.
Our memory creates its rules. Trivial impulses may be equivalent to the momentous historic events: love for dance, ease of an idea that emerged whilst sipping wine and set in motion a new era, response to socio-political impulse, private challenges, encounters and clashes, delight in movement. Identification of one’s own memories leaves our trace imprinted in history.
The authors:
Monika Čertezni graduated at the Dance Conservatory in Bratislava. She was member of the SND corps de ballet to go on to join the groups A dato, Hubris/Debris, AS project, Stoka, Associaiton for Contemporary Opera, and Gourounaki. She is currently member of the artistic group Late Harvest. She collaborated with Jodi Kaplan, Pauline DeGrot, Libor Vaculík, Bruno Genty, Martha Renzi, Eszter Gaal, Fritz Voogel, Katharina Holla, Marta Poláková, Petra Fornayová to name a few. Mr Čertezni works in the Theatre Research Centre at the Theatre Institute.
Stanislav Krajči lives and works in Bratislava. He is Master’s student at the Academy of Fine Arts in studio IN led by Ilona Nemeth. He is also enrolled in curatorial studies and is co-founder of Kalab – “private living room of live themes”, where he is responsible for displaying works by students from the Academy of Fine Arts. Mr Krajči was mediator in the Kunsthalle in Bratislava. In his work he is drawn by paradoxes between new technologies and inventions, and their effect on mind of an individual and lives of communities.
Josef Bartoš graduated at the Prague-based conservatory Duncan Centre and the Academy of Performing Arts. He had a sabbatical at the José Limón Institute in New York and featured at festivals in The Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, and Japan. He is member of the group Lenka Vágnerová & Company. Mr Bartoš collaborates as performing artist with Czech and international choreographers.
Date & time: 20 April 2018 at 21:15
Place: A4 - space for contemporary culture, Bratislava
Free entry.
The opening is a part of the off-programme of the 13th edition of contemporary dance and physical theatre festival Nu Dance Fest 2018.
Photo: Petra Fornayová
Date: 20.04.2018
Time: 21:15
Place: A4 – space for contemporary culture
City: Bratislava
