The premiéres of documentary films and prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz´s lectures - Admission free

The dramaturgy of the festival presents the creative method of the guest artists not only through master class workshops, but also through the premiéres of documentary films by Slovak directors about their search and the origins of the individual projects. The events of each festival day are thematically interwoven – from the morning workshop through the film projection to the evening performance. The films are commented upon by prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz´s „brief action lectures“ (he is one of the leading personalities of today´s reflexion about theatre and culture in Europe).

All the lectures and films will touch upon the connections with the focus of the festival: An expression crossing over the genre boundaries. This is also the title of a key lecture by prof. Kolankiewicz, which will be delivered on May 30 from 5 to 6.30 p.m. at the Švandovo theatre´s café.

Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz. Culturologist, theatre anthropologist, critic, author; in the years 1973 – 1982, he co-operated with Jerzy Grotowski and his theatre Laboratorium in Wroclaw and was the editor and chief editor of his numerous texts. He is the director of the Institute for Polish Culture at Warsaw University and the head of its theatrical and spectacle department; he also lectures at the department of theatre science at the Theatrical Academy in Warsaw. He is a member of the committee for science at the Polish Academy of Science, vice-chairman of the Polish Culturological Society, and since 1992, member of a professional board at the International School of Theatre Anthropology ISTA, a travelling university of theatrical professionals residing at Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark. He is a member of a programme council for the advisory board  at Grotowski´s Centre in Wroclaw.

In 1999, he published a book Forefather's Eve: The Dead Feast's Theatre, where – in connection with the Polish cultural heritage – he analyzes different forms of the cult of the dead as a bridge with the invisible world of our ancestors; the theme of a theatre as an initiatng extension of the given penetrated also his previous books: Samba with Gods. An Anthropological Tale, 1995 and Saint Artaud, 1988. The critics agree that today´s thought about the theatre cannot do without the anthropological context offered by Kolankiewicz´s books.

„Kolankiewicz´s Anthropology of the Theatre examines the behaviour of man in everyday´s stage situations; what he looks for is the universal at a pre-expressional level. Kolankiewicz focuses on research of all kinds of spectacles or performances, whose basic function is the symbolical managing – acting and experiencing – of metasocial comments. Those are important events, since they gather the people, redefine the tradition and reflect upon social relations and communication with the possibility to renew them.  This wide area includes theatre, proto-theatrical festivities, paratheatrical events, ceremonies, carnivals, sport matches etc. The common sign of the participant´s behaviour is performativity.“
Jan Hyvnar, Divadelní revue, Czech Republic



Expedition for joik
May 28, 5 p.m. café at Švandovo theatre, 26´
Admission free
Followed by prof. Kolankiewicz´s lecture

Three artists went north, to Lapland, in order to be inspired by a phenomenon of joik – a way of singing which cannot be just learned, which must be experienced. This reality becomes unusual, since they are accompanied also by their children and start to see the world through their eyes. A film about Lapland, where singing and landscape cannot exist without each other.

Theme Robo Blaško Director of photography and directed by Daniela Rusnoková Edited by Zuzana Urbanová Sound Daniela Rusnoková  Sound mix Martin Merc Music Mariana Sadovska, Anna Lindlblom, Peter Kahlenborn and Lapland joikers Translation Miroslava Rusnoková Producers Robo Blaško and Ivana Zajacová


This is …
May 29, 5 p.m. café at Švandovo theatre, 17´
Admission free
Followed by prof. Kolankiewicz´s lecture

Without any comments or verbal hints, the film as a mosaic of documentary and at the same time „directed“ situations illustrates how the atmosphere of Tuscany exactly fitted the members of Farm in the Cave during their stay in Italy at a workshop by Francis Pardeilhan. Similarly to the phrase „This is…“ denoting anything or anybody, inanimate or animate, this documentary mosaic also stresses those phenomena which – during that stay – bordered on both public and private simultaneously.

Directed by Robo Šveda Director of photography Tomáš Stanek Edited by Róbert Karovič Sound Tomáš Kobza Sound mix Martim Merc Producer Ivana Zajacová  

Prof. Kolankiewicz´s lecture, entitled
AN EXPRESSION CROSSING OVER THE GENRE BOUNDARIES.
May 30, 5 p.m. café at Švandovo theatre
Admission free

SEARCH IN THE MOVEMENT – BEGINNING, TO BE CONTINUED…
May 31, 5 p.m. café at Švandovo theatre, 13´
Admission free
Followed by prof. Kolankiewicz´s lecture

Charlotta Öfverholm´s different faces during her professional stay at Preslova 9: as a choreographer, dancer, teacher and a fascinating female personality. Communication through the body between Charlotta and Farm in the Cave´s members.

Directed by Braňo Pažitka, Peter Pikna Technical assistant Robo Blaško Director of photography Braňo Pažitka Sound and edited by Peter Pikna Producer Ivana Zajacová

 

 

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