tanC: DŽAVOT
The movement-sound-light installation called DŽAVOT will bring tranquility and evoke the feeling of the distant džavot of a children’s playground. Nostalgia lingers there, inviting us to savor the present moment and encouraging us to pause, to perceive the uniqueness… linguistics, speech, structure, work, movement, force. The driving force is a thought. The project opens a new spectrum for both the movement, light, and for the word and its intonational abilities, which individual performers will master within an unlimited space that reacts to sound. A linguistic and analytical exploration of the word džavot—and its synonyms švitor, švehel, ševel, vravor, lalot—led to a selection of consonants and their assigned functions. Based on their natural roles in speech, three core functions were identified: friction, afriction, and explosion. In expresing these three functions, movement was also explored as a representation of their nature and potential. The project brings dance into the cultural sphere, creating an installation with a distinctinterpretative language and structure, shaped by Michal Paľko and Radoslav Piovarči
Created by: Radoslav Piovarči, Michal Paľko
Interpretation: Radoslav Piovarči, Lucia Bielik, Michaela Šeligová, Jessica Schmidtová, Michal Paľko
Music and sound design: Michal Paľko
Light design: Radoslav Piovarči
Technical support: Lukáš Kubičina
Graphics: Veronika Šmírová
Production: Lucia Piovarči
Radoslav Piovarči (creator, choreographer, performer) – Dancer, performer, tutor, choreographer, and stage director, Radoslav Piovarči has been part of professional scene of contemporary dance and physical theatre for nearly a decade. Throughout the time he collaborated with a number of leading names, theatres and ensemble, such as Lenka Vagnerová & Company, Artyci Dance Company, Theatre elledanse, Lucia Holinová, Staatstheatre Kassel, Štúdio tanca dance theatre, Total Brutal Company, VerTeDance, Jana Burkiewicz, Virus Theatre. His hitherto collaborative portfolio includes over thirty different dance projects, films and advertisements. As choreographer and director he made, since 2010 the productions of Munnie (Enfin seuls 2010), HOLD YOUR BREATH (Theatre elledanse 2012), SET UP (Theatre elledanse 2013), DUST (Liptov Dance Theatre 2015), and the modular dance project MIMO (Culture centre Dunaj 2017). Currently, he is a member of tanC or. and works as a freelance artist on projects such as Charón, Just Ask Her, Inventors, Ich habe genug. In addition to his performative work, he is a workshop lecturer and the author of various site-specific projects.
tanC o.z. was founded in 2020 The civil association is dedicated to dance and movement performances, site-specific projects, productions, movement collaborations, and choreographies in non-traditional spaces. It engages with various art forms and artists from different disciplines, researching and exploring unique and contemporary movement principles and their potential applications. Lucia Bielik, Michaela Šeligová, Jakub Bielik, Radoslav Piovarči, and Lucia Piovarči work under the banner tanC.