Search for message
Festival Farma 2007 is the main event under the umbrella of a year-long project of international co-operation Search for Message. Personalities, whose work borders on several genres, found themselves in a completely different cultural context, thus drawing inspiration for their new projects. The idea was to individually perceive this tradition and to uniquely re-create it into the artist´s natural theatrical language.
Concept of the project
Irena Swiecicki, Alena Baòáková, Viliam Doèolomanský
Main organizer
International Theatre Studio Farm in the Cave
Co-organizers
Truc sphérique /Slovakia/
Centre for the Study of Jerzy Grotowski´s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research /Poland/
Evoé Performing Artists /Germany/
Jus De La Vie /Sweden/
Partners
Odin Teatret /Denmark/
©vandovo theatre /Czech Republic/
October 1 – 6, 2006 From Sweden to the Czech Republic.
Charlotta Öfverholm in Prague. A work exchange between her and the members of Farm in the Cave.
October 6 – 15, 2006. From Germany to Sweden.
Mariana Sadovska examines joik in Lapland.
October 16 – 17, 2006 From Denmark to Prague.
Odin Teatret: Eugenio Barba´s and Julia Varley´s visit at Preslova 9. Under the barter work exchange, they get to see the rehearsal of a performance by Farm in the Cave and Julia presents her work demonstration „Flying Carpet“.
November 4 – 11, 2006. From the Czech Republic to Italy.
The actors from Farm in the Cave participate at a workshop by Francis Pardeilhan, a former Odin Teatret´s actor, in Tuscany, and map the cultural terrain – Etruscan culture, Gregorian masses, ritual songs celebrating fertility and harvest.
December 17 – 21, 2006. From Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Germany to Prague.
A closed meeting of all the creators of the project with the directors of documentary films which are unfinished yet. (Production and organization of the film-making managed by the organization Truc sphérique.) Both inspiration and context are provided by the comments of prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz, who reacts to the materials with new insights and connections.
May 27 – 31, 2007. From Korea, Argentina, Chile, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia, Italy, Denmark to Prague. Festival Farma 2007.
June 1-3, 2007. From Denmark to Prague.
Iben Nagel Rasmussen leads the workshop for Farm in the Cave´s members.
Centre for the Study of Jerzy Grotowski´s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research /Poland/
Grotowski´s Centre is an institution which combines artistic and scholarly research projects, drawing on the principles established by the artistic work of Jerzy Grotowski. The centre was founded in 1990 and resides at the premises of the former theatre Laboratorium in Wroclaw and at a forest base in Brzezinka. It organizes numerous activities, conferences, symposiums, seminars and workshops. It focuses on both enlightenment and preservation of Jerzy Grotowski´s legacy.
Evoé Performing Artists /Germany/
Evoé (performing artists Düsseldorf) was founded by Mariana Sadovska, André Erlen and Bernd Fingas. Evoé´s projects search for the connections between various genres or media in order to widen up the artistic potential. At the same time, the results are not dogmatic – they can even diverge a lot. Thus, Evoé can be constantly re-defined.
©vandovo theatre /Czech Republic/
Is a modern European cultural centre of life arts. Its repertoire consists mainly of the performances by a permanent drama ensemble and other productions; those can be divided into regular programme cycles devoted to different genres and disciplines of life arts. ©vandovo theatre is perceived as a cultural centre also thanks to its ability to provide space for alternative groups and various projects. The theatre attempts to develop international co-operation and create projects with foreign partner theatres and their personalities.
Truc sphérique /Slovakia/
Was created by young volunteers and professionals from the fields of contemporary art and culture as well as social work and art therapy, the aim being the development of creativity in the sense of opening up towards new forms in art. Since 1996 they have been working on different projects including production, presentation and education in the fields of theatre, dance, music and visual arts and the related social activities.
In 2003, Truc sphérique started to transform an old railway station ®ilina–Zárieèie into a cultural centre Stanica, the aim being to build a multi-media platform for cultural and social activities. In 2004, this resource became the centre of „Art for Social Change“ programme – the network of European Cultural Foundation, and gained also its European Enlargement of Mind Annual Award. Stanica became one of the thirty independent European cultural centres.