2014-06-06 - 2014-06-08 Záhrada - Centrum pre nezávislú kultúru, Banská Bystrica

 

6 June 2014
XIRA
dance performance / duet

If your awareness can be visualised as a spectrum from an internal or private consciousness to an external spatially expansive consciousness, where are the possibilities to form relationships to others?
XIRA - a moment in the complex memory register, shared by two people, brought back to reexamine the    corporeality of their first meeting
XIRA - a documentation of an uncommon intimacy
XIRA - the identity of a human being who has not been gendered by society

This work is an intersection and an invitation to look at Sona and Matthew and one another in this moment from multiple perspectives, one of which may include the complete lack of words, meaning, history or emotion. 

 

Choreography: Jaro Viňarský
Dance: Soňa Ferienčíková & Matthew Rogers
Light Design: Tomáš Morávek
Graphic Design: Peter Dlhopolček
Music: Janek Schaefer / Extended Play

Production: Stanica Žilina - Záriečie & SKOK!
Financial Support: Ministery of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Intenda Foundation
With thanks to: Janek Schaefer for his kindness and openness with which he agreed and allowed us to use three parts of his music composition from his sound instalation EXTENDED PLAY [triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict].

Premiere: 28 & 29 November 2013 at Stanica Žilina-Záriečie /Slovakia/

 

7 - 8 June 2014
Matthew Rogers, Soňa Ferienčíková & Jaro Viňarský: Body Memory

"There is plenty of left over materials sitting around me. I shared movement, research methods and training principles developed within recent projects I have worked on. We practiced how we work with our dance materials. We used these materials as a place to start and see where things go.

Hugging, Tracking, Being, Moving, Speaking, Touching, Shaking, Mapping. Dancing. Meditating, Leading. Following. Constructing. Choosing. Detaching. Identifying. Observing.

How do we support our dance materials towards creative transformations?" - Matthew Rogers

 

 

Photo: Ján Chmelík, sedemminut