Residence duration: 2025-06-30 / 2025-07-13
Performance date: 2025-07-03 at 19:00
The project This Time I'm You is an initiative of a collective united by generational affinity and a desire for authentic creation. The ambition is to continue to collaborate with invited female creators after the successful launch of the co-produced works YOLT or THE URGE. Davis Freeman is an extraordinary figure in the field of contemporary dance and theatre, and his work has appealed to us for its unique poetics and ability to link language with movement. His abilities to explore liminal situations and emergent moments teetering between fiction and reality allow him to create a readable manuscript while satirically reflecting on society. His experience of working with Sister Meg Stuart for many years also brings a strong precision and conceptual focus. We *are* curious to see what form the work will eventually take. It will premiere in the fall/winter of 2025, we look forward to it!
I want the piece to be trashy
I want it to be low tech so you can tour easily
I want to refer to the world as it is during the time of the premiere
I want a different title for the piece
I want the show to have a structure that you can still improvise within
I want everyone to have his her or their moment
I want to create the piece out of our improvisations together
I want the piece based within realism so the audience can't tell if you're lying or telling the truth
I want you to hang out with the audience in the bar before the show begins
I want set original text
I want the piece to involve AI in some way
I want the show to have a sense of humor that can shift and break hearts.
I want the audience to learn something they didn't know before
I want the show to be set in Brussels
I want there to be a moment of unison, except for the one who refuses to join in
I want someone to declare their love to one of the audience members
I want the show to touch on themes of control, power and vulnerability.
I want us to create and sing an original song
Someone is lying here. Maybe you. Maybe we are. Maybe nobody. It'll be a bit like a night at the bar where you randomly meet your own mirror - only it has a different voice, a different story, and asks about things you wanted to forget. It's a little broken, a little funny, a little weird. But it's true. Or is it?
We collect moments like trash after a party: everyone has their time, everyone is hiding something. Someone admits they love. Someone doesn't answer. Something gets sung. Someone won't agree.
The AI might clue us in - or betray us.
This evening may end differently than you expected. But at least you'll learn something. Maybe about yourself. Maybe about power. Maybe about what happens when one of us decides that tonight... to be you.
RESIDANCE 25 is supported by public funding from the Slovak Arts Council.
The artistic collective Tanečno was created alongside the organisation of the festival of the same name, which has brought seven editions of the multi-genre dance and movement festival to the Orava region since 2017. The collaboration of young people dedicated to the art of dance, united by common studies, but especially by artistic and human proximity, has grown into the formation of a creative and performative collective, which is focused on original works, as well as collaboration with invited artists. The collective's work is characterized by multi-genre, inclusivity, innovation and a desire to popularize contemporary dance forms. The diverse experience and focus of the members of the collective contributes to diversity and mutual creative inspiration.
Within the activities of the association, the members capitalize on the experience gained during their artistic studies (SEAD Salzburg, MUK Wien, University of Stavanger, Academy of Performing Arts, JAMU, KJJB...) and are members of several artistic groups (Farma in the Cave, MimoOs, Instituinstitut, Artemporis, dNO...). ), institutions (JAMU, VŠMU, VŠVU) and collaborate with important Slovak and foreign artists (Ronda, Oran, Lachky, Šavel, Dočolomansky, Viňarský, Vlčeková, Herich, Burkievičová, Ferienčíková, Poláková, Bobalík, Matejka, Korec, Pregrad...)
Since the foundation of the association, the collective in collaboration with other choreographers or associations has performed a number of stage works ("YOLT - You Only Live Twice", "Pass In", "Strings", or the composed solo format "Uniqueness") as well as works in public spaces (The Urge, Passing/Station, Streetnutia). We are currently working on an extended version of "Passing/Station", or a hapenning in public space "Dancing to the Ropes".
The Dance Collective consists of:
Miriam Budzáková
Hana Gallinová
Barbora Michaligová
Silvia Sviteková
Matúš Szeghö
Andrej Štepita
Miriam Budzáková
Is a dance and performance artist, currently based in Vienna, working mainly in Slovakia, Italy and Austria. She is a 4-year graduate of SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Austria) and a Bachelor's degree in Dance Theatre and Performance at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. Her work blends seriousness, humour, irony and sentiment. She explores the experience of the body in uncomfortable, intimate, personal, social and public contexts. She is interested in non-traditional forms of audience engagement in performance - through specific performative and spatial arrangements, often seeking and creating performative situations as collective spectatorial experiences. As a performer, she likes to step into roles that challenge her. Particularly those that are based on instructions and directions rather than a pre-determined script or flow. As a dancer, she enjoys those that get her sweaty, tired, and floating in space. Her work, both her own and co-authored, has been presented at venues and festivals such as Nu Dance Fest, Kiosk festival, Buffalo/ MACRO Rome (IT), Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (DE), Dance Prague (CZ). She has also collaborated with the INSTITUT INSTITUT collective, and the ArTemporis association. Since 2017, she has been co-organizing the multi-genre dance festival Dance in the North of Slovakia.
Hana Gallinová
Is a graduate of the Dance Conservatory in Brno and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As a part of her Master's degree she completed a mobility at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where she performed in an immersive theatre project directed by Julia Kelly and Edward Rice. During her studies she performed in several projects under the direction of established choreographers, including the multimedia performance The Decline of the West choreographed by Stanislava Vlčeková. She is a co-organiser of the international dance and movement festival Tanečno and part of the creative collective Tanečno. Currently she collaborates as a performer with the Brno-based group ORBITA z.s., with whom she has performed in the productions Coram, Field, Conducted and Scales. She is also a teacher of contemporary, modern and jazz dance at the Dance Conservatory in Brno and at the Physical Theatre Studio of the Theatre Faculty of JAMU. She regularly attends international internships in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Italy, Hungary. She is also a certified Pilates lecturer.
Silvia Sviteková
Is currently a PhD student at the Ateliér priestorových komunikácií + video at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. She graduated in Dance Theatre and Performance (B.A.) and Dance Art (M.A.) at the Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts. She is a dancer, performer and co-organizer of the festival Tanečno.
She is currently working on the theme of the performativity of the body in contemporary art. In her earlier works, she has explored themes such as the use of pop music in dance performance, working with the object as an equal partner, and striving to understand and, most importantly, grasp experience (both collective and individual). She is fascinated by situations that are oscillating, ambivalent, ambiguous or even kitsch.
Silvia has created several solo and group performances and has participated in many artistic projects. Her solo work Memory of Concrete was awarded the Gala Art Moves 2018 and presented at festivals at home and abroad. She is part of YOLT - You Only Live, which won the Theatre Boards 2023 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance Theatre.
Matúš Szeghö
Is a dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava with a Bachelor's degree in Dance Theatre and Performance. During his Master's degree in Modern Dance, he spent one semester at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in Vienna in Contemporary Dance and Ballet as part of the Erasmus+ programme. After graduation he spent a year at the prestigious dance school SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.
He is currently a successful performer in independent dance and physical theatre productions. He co-organizes the international multi-genre dance and movement festival Tanečno, in which he is also part of the author collective (performances "YOLT - You Only Live Twice", "The Urge", "Connecting/stations", "Na Hlásku"...). He also collaborates, for example, with the international group Farma v jeskyni in Prague in the performances "Commander" and "Czech Hero", CreDance "LEPETIT - Little Prince" and others. Since September 2023, he has co-founded MOMENTUM Dance Team, where he currently works as a teacher and choreographer. Among other things, he has choreographed the musicals "Príbeh z lesa" at the Radošino Naive Theatre, "Raději zešílet v divočine" at Studio Marta Brno and "Pozsony Dance Club" at the DPOH Bratislava.
Andrej Štepita
Performer, teacher and creator working mainly in the field of contemporary dance and physical theatre. His artistic work draws on a never-ending stream of energy that has been shaped by multiple dance styles and aesthetic forms throughout his artistic development. An abiding passion for the spontaneity and explosiveness of movement as an artistic expression inspires him to explore a variety of techniques linking civil, expressive and virtuosic forms. He is interested in the overlap of art into other disciplines and sciences, as well as light insights into challenging subjects. In recent years he has focused on partner work and “site-specific” performances, which were also the subjects of his undergraduate and graduate thesis. Art in a non-theatrical space currently frames his artistic direction. As a performer, he is interested in authenticity and direct communication with the audience.
While studying dance performance and didactics of modern dance at the Academy of Performing Arts of the Academy of Performing Arts of the Czech Republic, his direction took on a professional character. While exploring various forms of popular and independent art during his studies, he founded the collective mimoOs together with other students, which shaped his work in the field of contemporary dance for many years.
After completing his Master's degree at the Academy of Performing Arts, he continued his studies at the prestigious SEAD school in Salzburg, where he learned from renowned dance artists. In his final project he interpreted M. Herich's "solo for mr. Folk". Studying abroad helped him to define his field of interest and find new impulses for physical, mental and artistic development.
He collaborates with the international physical theatre company in Prague - Farm in the Cave (Commander, Czech Hero, Refuge). He also collaborates with the Viennese association Artemporis (strings) and is the author of the site-specific project “passing/station” and its expanded He is the founder of the multi-genre festival of dance and movement - Tanečno, which he organizes for the ninth year in his hometown, Námestov.
As a teacher he conducts workshops in Slovakia and abroad.
Davis Freeman
Is an American artist working in theatre, dance and performance. He is known as the founder of the Brussels-based arts organisation Random Scream. Freeman specializes in experimental theatre and his work often focuses on social issues and audience interaction. His projects tend to be innovative and provocative, often combining different media and art forms. Freeman has collaborated with many other artists and arts organisations around the world, such as Meg Stuart, Gavin Quinn and others.