Yuri Korec & Co. /SK/ | The STORY (13. 3. 20:00)

Inspired by sci-fi aesthetics, choreographer Juraj Korec creates a playing field shaped by the events of a disintegrating world order and quandaries concerning the use of AI. At the edges of this horizon, five enigmatic identities - singularities - leave the familiar behind and surrender to the call of gravitation in a relentless algorithm. Their stories appear as fleeting traces that seem important but are interchangeable with many others: the microstories that inscribe themselves on our bodies daily, that remain and yet are somehow always lost, like the impressions left by bodies in the dust of  lunar eternity. Where can one go, if one can only go backward?.  

An internationally co-produced dance project, The STORY reflects on approaches to embodied storytelling through radical strategies that position the viewer as a voyeur observing corporeal identities. The gazes of the performers and the spectators never meet. In moments of birth and repeated extinction, the motives behind embodied identities’ actions loom. The project is part of Juraj Korec’s broader, long-term interest in the performativity of the body in contemporary dance and visual media and builds on the interdisciplinary research project Exhibit the Body.

BIO 

Yuri Korec & Co. is the artistic platform of choreographer Juraj Korec, who has been creating work since 2017. The platform has produced a number of successful contemporary dance works internationally, including d-BODY-m, a duet about embodied memory, Solo Not Just For One Body, Korec’s doctoral performance lecture and the follow-up Not a Solo, on the topic of human rights. Other works include SAPIENS TERRITORY, a dance performance for seven performers and one DJ, The Story, a sci-fi dance work and the durational performance installation NON-STORY, which emerged from Exhibit the Body, a series of studies. The project is delivered under the umbrella of o. z. Skrzprst, which also produces educational activities and collaborates with a new generation of dancers. 

FULL CREDITS

KONCEPT A CHOREOGRAFIE / CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY | Juraj Korec

CHOREOGRAFIE A PERFORMANCE / CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE | Alexandra Mireková, Eli Hooker / Jakob Jautz, Lukáš Bobalik, Eva Priečková, Silvia Sviteková 

DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY | Maja Hriešik

SCÉNOGRAFIE / SCENOGRAPHY | Jakub Kopec

SVĚTELNÝ DESIGN / LIGHT DESIGN | Katarína Ďuricová

ZVUKOVÝ DESIGN / SOUND DESIGN | Matúš Bolka

GRAFICKÝ DESIGN / GRAPHIC DESIGN | Kristína Šebejová

PRODUKCE A KONCEPCE / PRODUCTION AND CONCEPT | Martin Krištof, Skrzprst

KOPRODUKCE / CO-PRODUCTION | CieLAROQUE / helene weinzierl

UMĚLECKÉ REZIDENCE / ARTIST RESIDENCE | tanz_house Salzburg, Divadlo Štúdio tanca Banská Bystrica, Nová synagóga Žilina

PARTNEŘI / PARTNERS | Nová synagóga Žilina, tanz_house Salzburg, Plast – Platforma pre súčasný tanec, Telocvičňa – Rezidenčné centrum pre tanec, Divadlo Štúdio tanca, cieLAROQUE / helene weinzierl