2025-03-14 - 2025-03-16 Divadlo Štúdio tanca, Banská Bystrica
Pedro Prazeres (feat. Jaro Viňarský) and SKOK! invite you to a movement workshop inspired by Vinciane Despret's book, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHOBOTNICE and other anticipatory stories.
O C T O P I A
A weekend full of fictional, interconnected and multi-sensory bodies in motion that can transform into something akin to an octopus in one moment and then revert back to human form. Repeatedly and ever anew we will recreate our inner multi-sensory being - our own fictional octopus. Talk like it, dance like it, dress like it, perceive like it. Repeatedly and ever anew we return to ourselves, a new person. The aim of these repeated fictional transitions between octopus-human forms is to awaken in us the perception of ourselves as non-objects of our own movements.
Pedro Prazeres works in the fields of performance art, choreography, contemporary dance and landscape architecture. He has been dancing since 2005. He explores the possibilities of relationship and dialogue with his own body, between the body and another body, between the body and space, between the body and natural elements. He currently leads the association Landscapes in Motion in the South of France. Since 2022, he is a certified facilitator of the Somatic Dialogue method, which is currently the main axis of his research. Meetings and collaborations with other dancers, choreographers, farmers and gardeners are important for his facilitation, curatorial and artistic work.
Jaro Viňarský
"... in his work he has sanctified the body into a complex expressive element, a communicator of sublime human ideas, precarious and unambiguous philosophical insights, banal human failures, hesitations, delightful banalities, poignant personal suffering and pain, irritating sexuality and enchanting physicality. Viñarsky constantly teeters on the edge of the human body's physicality, the sincerity of personal statement, charming manipulation and polarized emotionality." Theatre Institute
In 2011, he founded the civic association Jump!, whose interest is to bring the dance art and the Slovak public closer together. He conducts several workshops a year for the general public as well as for dance and acting students.