Mário Radačovský, Igor Holováč, Lightfoot León: Bolero and more ...

Music:	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gioacchino Rossini, Arvo Pärt, Maurice Ravel, Ludwig van Beethoven
Choreography:	Mário Radačovský, Igor Holováč, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León
Set and Costume Design:	Ľudmila Várossová, Anik Bissonnette, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Mário Radačovský, Igor Holováč, Eva Rácová
Light Design:	Tom Bevoort
Maîtres de ballet:	Nora Gallovičová, Igor Holováč

Performers:	Klaudia Bittererová, Romina Kołodziej, Silvia Najdená, Andrej Szabo
	Peter Dedinský, Oliver Jahelka
	Klaudia Bittererová, Romina Kołodziej, Katarína Košíková, Viktória Árvová, Veronika Hollá, Katarína Kaanová, Barbora Kubátová, Viola Mariner, Sarah Millner, Silvia Najdená, Natália Némethová, Reona Sato, Ana-Sanziana Beschia, Bethan Smith, Charlie Peters, Alexandra Walton, Michaela Beladičová, Katarína Singhofferová
	Peter Dedinský, Nirefs Markakis, Andrej Szabo, František Šulek, Matúš Pomikal, Oliver Adams, Martin Anderson, Ruan Crighton, Arthur Abram, Adrian Ducin, Daniel Slabý, Juraj Žilinčár, Andrej Cagáň
	Adrian Ducin, Peter Dedinský, Andrej Szabo, Filip Kvačák
	Romina Kołodziej, Katarína Košíková, Viktória Šimončíková, Silvia Najdená
	Andrej Szabo, Filip Kvačák
	Romina Kołodziej, Veronika Hollá, Katarína Kaanová
	Filip Kvačák
	Katarína Košíková, Natália Némethová
	Andrej Cagáň, Peter Dedinský, Oliver Jahelka, Andrej Szabo
	Klaudia Bittererová, Veronika Hollá, Barbora Kubátová, Viola Mariner
	Adriana Nalezinková, Kvetoslava Štefeková, Viktória Árvová, Silvia Najdená
	Daniel Slabý, Juraj Žilinčár, Andrej Cagáň, Peter Dedinský, Nirefs Markakis, Andrej Szabo, František Šulek, Matúš Pomikal, Oliver Adams, Martin Anderson, Ruan Crighton, Arthur Abram, Dominik Slavkovský
	Katarína Košíková, Viktória Šimončíková, Barbora Kubátová, Natália Némethová, Reona Sato
	Adrian Ducin, Juraj Žilinčár, Andrej Szabo, Ruan Crighton

A Change…

Choreography and direction: Mário Radačovský

Music: Gioacchino Rossini, Johann Sebastian Bach

Costumes: Eva Rácová

 

A dance miniature choreographed by Mário Radačovský mirrors the importance of relationships all of us need in our lives. Every day we experience the versatility and ambiguity of situations, in which we get to know others and learn to love and respect them as they are…Life means change and there are a few individuals predestined to make it happen, because they are willing to take risks and express their opinions regardless the possible outrage of the majority

 

When To Die Means To Live

Choreography and direction: Igor Holováč

Music: Arvo Pärt

Costumes: Eva Rácová

A short story inspired by the music of the contemporary Estonian author Arvo Pärt – his piece “Fratres” balances on the verge of the real and the unreal, the common and the fairy tale-like. The image of love is depicted as a subjective expression of the creator – the choreographer.

 

Love in its purest form, love, for which we are willing to give up everything, love for which we are willing to die…brought to life in an expression of movement and technically challenging dance duet …

 

An Encounter with a Swan

Choreography and direction: Mário Radačovský

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski

Costumes: Anik Bissonnette

 

The choreographer was inspired by Tchaikovsky´s famous ballet The Swan Lake, the moment, when Prince meets the swan and is enchanted by her beauty. This classic tale is transformed into a contemporary story - a man meets a woman, his heart is touched by her beauty, her smell, her body…

 

The first feeling, the first encounter with something new and unexpected enchants, inspires, interests him… The curiosity evolves into attraction, a need for contact, a need to touch, into searching for and finding the other – and oneself….

 

Bolero

Choreography and direction: Mário Radačovský

Music: Maurice Ravel
Set and costumes: Ľudmila Várossová

Ravel´s Bolero has inspired numerous choreographers mainly thanks to its dramatic power and captivating energy. When creating this choreography, Mário Radačovský employed a simple concept – a chess game. White and black, a man and a woman, a winner and a loser are the basic contrasts the choreographer uses to develop the game on stage, gradually drawing in the audience, hoping that finally the audience and the dance shall win…

 

Susto

Choreography: Paul Lightfoot/Sol León

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven

Set and Costumes: Paul Lightfoot/Sol León

Lights: Tom Bevoort

 

The choreography Susto was created in 1994 for the oldest ensemble of the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT III). It reflects both the characteristics of its two creators – the British humour of Paul Lightfoot and the Spanish temperament of Sol León and the influence of their long time performing and creative work in the Dutch ensemble NDT.

 

The main topic of this dance miniature is Time. Time, which flows constantly and which cannot be stopped, Time, as something valuable and precious. In this sense, the choreography can be seen as a specific artistic statement, one that can only be made by dancers. Their perception of time is specific due to the shortness of time, in which they can fulfil their dancing careers. The active time of a performer is often limited to only two decades. Within this short timespan, dancers have to accomplish a lot and they can almost feel the symbolic ticking of the clock behind their backs. But this topic is close to all people as time passes for everyone and in this case. Beethoven´s frenetic music to which the authors set their choreography reminds us of this fact in a slightly ironic manner.

 

Susto means fright in Spanish – it is only natural that all of us are frightened of the passage of time, but in this case, the viewers need not fear anything. The authors reflect upon time and themselves with gentle humour and their fresh choreography will carry the audience away from their everyday worries.

 

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