2021-06-17 - 2021-06-20 Záhrada - Centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica

 

In June 2021 SKOK! celebrated its 10th anniversary at Záhrada - CNK.

 

 

Programme:

17 June 2021
Shantala Pèpe: Alice
dance performance

Parachuted into the heart of a dreamlike plot, a dreaming girl falls from one imaginary space into another, pursuing a strange nursery rhyme in a series of closed-door scenes. Accompanied by a mysterious and large sheet of white cardboard, she is caught up in a game of manipulations with incessant reversals, a maze of light and sound situations entirely live. She gradually takes possession of this enigmatic partner as she gives him life: bearing multiple figures, he merges with the wings of a bird, becomes a moving table, shines like a star, and inevitably closes like a trap. An unlikely partnership that straddles imbalance, phantasmagoria, sound hallucinations and graphic reversals. Very loosely based on Lewis Carroll, this Alice tells us the story of whimsical solitude, punctuated by the absurd, at every moment oscillating between enchantment and fear.

Concept, Choreography, and Performance: Shantala Pèpe
Lighting & Sound Design, Artistic Collaboration: Hugues Girard
Choreographic Assistant: Maria Eugenia Lopez
Costume: Patricia Eggerickx
Set Design Advice: Peter Maschke

Production: Incógnita asbl/Shantala Pèpe
Coproduction: Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement.
Created with the support of: the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - dance department, The Cultural Center Jacques Franck, Le Marni and the Dag Van de Dans.

 

Shantala Pèpe: The Magma Chamber
short film

 

Behind closed doors, seated between a white wall and a white table, a woman with no face embodies a series of threatening sound figures, as many distressing voices that inhabit her. Penetrated by creatures inhabiting tales collective imagination, she becomes the playground and the battlefield of feminine entities fighting over a same territory. Her body, never exposed entirely, is deconstructed, dismantled in a primary and insatiable bestiary, threatening its own sovereignty.

Is she a witch? A spider-woman, a goddess, a she-wolf or a carnivorous plant? And will they triumph over the woman they colonised?

The Magma Chamber is a discourse without words, a cry without voice, that tells us the violences and the ambivalences contained in the archetypes structuring female identity.

Written by: Shantala Pèpe
Directed in Collaboration with: Antonin de Bemels
Choreography & Performance: Shantala Pèpe
Photography & Sound Design: Antonin de Bemels
Lighting Design: Hugues Girard
Lighting Technician: Stéphane Rimasauskas
Costumes: Shantala Pèpe with the help of Patricia Eggerickx
Editing: Antonin de Bemels & Shantala Pèpe
Script Supervisor: Mariyya Evrard
Sound Mixing: Alexis Oscari
Color Grading: Claire Beunckens

Production: Incógnita asbl/Shantala Pèpe
Co-production: Stéla - DesArts//DesCinés . Production manager in France: Anna Alexandre
With the support of: the Bureau d'Accueil des Tournages de La Loire, The City of Saint Etienne, and Athanor asbl
Thanks to: Catherine Simon, Félix Blum, Stéphane Jossart, Cédric Celorio-Lopez, Alexandre Wajnberg, and the Atelier du Théâtre Libre

 

18 June 2021
Shantala Pèpe: Carcan
dance performance

In a metronomic and hypnotic sway, a woman emerges from the shadow, her eyes staring forward. Animated by metric and smooth arm dance, she is emanating cold and mechanical sensuality. As she moves forward, her movements free themselves and turn into erratic outbursts and volutes transforming her from one woman to another, from one role to another. Organicity and breath interfere in the stranglehold of the rhythmic loop and give way to enchantment.

Concept & Dance: Shantala Pèpe
Sound Design: Thomas Turine
Lighting Design: Hugues Girard

Production: Company Shantala Pèpe/Incógnita asbl

 

 

Jaro Viňarský: Last Step Before
a short story about necessity of gravity
physical performance / solo

 

Photo: Katarína Baranyai