Yuri Korec & Co.: THE STORY

The project Story appears as a rather extensive, Beatnik-style, cybernetic composition evoking a dystopian setting. It presents a visually compelling image, conceptual work with variations, gestures, and interactions between performers, excellent aleatory work with the tempo-rhythm of the performance, and an uncompromising artistic stance on both content and form. The body as a visual object as well as a conceptual intent: a fantastic, minimalist “gig” with a remarkable ability to communicate with the audience.

Jozef Vlk

Inspired by sci-fi poetics, choreographer Juraj Korec creates a playing field on the edge of the event horizon, of a crumbling world order and the dilemma surrounding the use of AI. Within this space, five mysterious identities—singularities—abandon the previously known and, bound by an inexorable algorithm, succumb to the call of gravity. Their stories emerge in hints, seemingly significant yet ephemeral, interchangeable with countless others. The micro-stories inscribed into our bodies each day remain yet are simultaneously lost forever, like imprints of bodies in the dust of lunar eternity. Where can one go if one can only go backward? The international co-production dance project The STORY offers a reflection on the way stories can be told through the body, employing a radical strategy that allows viewers a truly voyeuristic observation of bodily identities. The perspectives of performer and spectator never meet. In the moments of birth and disappearance of bodily identities, the motivations for their actions are revealed. This project is part of Juraj Korec’s broader and long-term exploration of the performativity of the body within contemporary dance and visual media, following the interdisciplinary research project, Expose Yourself to a Body.