KioSK is a festival for daring spectator. KioSK is a showcase festival of selected contemporary productions from the Slovak independent theatre and dance scene. KioSK’s program addresses a demanding spectator, and is linked with summer atmosphere, informal meetings, creative workshops, garden parties, film projections, interactive performances, bike ride to urban legends and/or camping. One of the favourites – Gastro-kiosk by Šrámek sisters included.

Non-traditional scenic forms
KioSK 2011 once again takes a „demanding spectator“ to see non-traditional scenic compositions, and apart from text-based theatre and contemporary dance performances, it will present a sonic map of place and town, documentary theatre, performance-installation, site-specific, physical theatre, plays on the verge of improvisation and script, and performance of various genres. Among this year’s novelties belong improvised evenings by artists, who will present their improvisation and performance talents in communication with spectator, music and/or space.

Morning discussion forums
The fourth edition of festival will also host creative and analytic reflection on festival productions. KioSK opens in the morning, with discussion forums dedicated to performances of the previous day. Apart from creators, dancer Jaro Viňarský (SK) and light designers Jan Baneš (CZ) and Patrik Sedlák (SK) will discuss the performaces focusing on two aspects – physicality in theatre and working with light and scene.

inhabiting the space
KioSK performances will be enriched with physical commentary called „inhabiting the space“ including an exclusive interview with creators. Dancers (Zuzana Burianová, Matthew Rogers, Jaro Viňarský) will prolong the actual duration of selected performances, and, improvising, enter the changed, re-created
theatrical or non-theatrical space, left with energy, atmosphere, feeling, memory, things and maybe actors – dancers – performers.
With their body language, they will try to catch a smell of the altered space perspective, inhabit the space and reaffirm the value of specific being-ness on stage, and significance of theatrical act in the play, performance, scenic composition. The physical commentaries will be followed by a short interview with creators. Interviewer Jaro Viňarský.

Special Award
For the first time in the festival, The Light KioSK Award 2011 will be awarded for an outstanding light and scenic performance. The purpose of the award is to attract attention of laymen as well as professionals in the field, initiate public discussion on light design and raise awareness of educational and professional aspect of light design as an important element of theatre work.

Theatre Camp
KioSK is also a summer theatre camp. In the garden by Stanica, you can camp for free, showers and toilets available. Just bring your tent, sleeping bags, mattresses for morning pilates exercises and enjoy the festival at your best!

Note: Looking for daring spectator. Offering adventure of collective quest for „an/other“ theatre. Offering our perspective. Can’t wait for yours.

Program:

July 27, Wednesday

6pm, S1
Put the light on!
A story of light. Short improvised performance at the end of fine art-theatre summer children symposium.

8pm, Mariánske square
inhabiting public space
Dance improvisation in the streets by workshop participants From the Body’s Point of View.

9pm, Bookbinding workshop by Lida Mlichová
Light Guerilla
Light designers Jan Beneš and his friends are going to liven up the dark corners of bookbinding workshop with light. Installation will last until July 30.
Jan Beneš works as light designer with many Czech and foreign dance and non-verbal groups. He is one of the founders of Light Design Institute in the Czech republic.

July 28, Thursday

5pm, S1 | theme event
Urban Legends 3: The Mythology of post-industrial space
City legends – not only in Žilina, not only in ethnologist’s perspective. Presentation enriched with image and audiovisual projection focuses on the topic of so-called urban legends and myths (contemporary tales), rumours and alike narratives which are typical for contemporary globalized society. Prague ethnologist and folklorist Peter Janeček will focus on the stories collected in Žilina and vicinity today – stories typical for culture of local children, adolescents and students, modern legends associated with particular buildings in the town or places and warnings spread not only by word but also the internet.

These stories, which represent an integral part of the local genius loci and symbolic message about the particular space, will be commented on the basis of their analogies and associated stories collected from all over the world, as well as on the basis of possible interpretations from ethnological, sociological and psychological point of view. Contemporary urban legends can be seen as a reflection of wishes, fears, worries and anxieties of contemporary society, as an unconscious reaction to political, economical, social and cultural changes and problems, and last but not least, as a modern equivalent of archaic myths, legends and tales.

7pm, S1 | hörspiel
Marek Piaček and col.: Ludi Apollinares / Ludi Solnae
Hörspiel Ludi Apollinares (lat. Appolonian games) about bombing the Apollo rafinery in Bratislava is an original sonic memory of the town.

Artistic Ludi Solnae project (lat. Žilina games), made by Marek Piaček in collaboration with Dušan Dobiaš, Daniel Kozlík and Juraj Darida, explores urban legends of Žilina and vicinity. Their creative methods draw from classical popular radion genres such as hörspiel, radio-feature, soundart, scenic reading, in which documentary approach and artistic interpretation are mixed together by means of narrators, actors, sound collages, noises and music.

Marek Piaček is music composer, flute player, improviser and pedagogue. He composes chamber music, electro-acoustic compositions, music for film and theatre. He’s one of the co-founders of Požoň sentimentál chamber orchestra, he collaborated with Musica falsa et ficta, Mio-Mio, Voice Over Noise, don@u.com, Frutti di mare, Tuleň, Gourounaki Project, Veni ensemble and others.

Concept and interpretation: Marek Piaček, Dušan Dobiaš,, Daniel Kozlík, Juraj Darida, Šramek sister

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9pm, underground passage | performance / installation
Tomáš Danielis: Smetiar
Solo performance which is on the edge of performance and installation. Slovak dancer Tomas Danielis is interested in concept of performance which includes dance, movement and simple action also with objects. He is questioning whether is closer to the visual art or body - personality and its action are creating rather performative perception. Main motivation to create this solo was playing with the different possibilities of point of view, as well as playing with potential and limits of eye and camera. Smetiar is experiment whether physical action of the artist and interaction with objects creates representation thus kind of dramaturgical build up or creates succession of pictures free to perceive for each spectator without me as creator interfering on any level.

Tomáš Danielis, born in Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), Works as a dancer, choreopragpher and teacher mostly in Austria. He has been cooperating with various significant choreographers and companies like Willi Dorner, Pilottanzt, cie. F. Ruckert, cie. ABC-F. Faust, cie. CeDeCe, cie. 13 R. Mei, cie. S. Waltz and guests a and as solist for Ballet Graz and Croatian National Theatre I. pl. Zajca.
Conception, performed by: Tomas Danielis

10pm | site specific
Debris Company: private prisons
Site-specific project of physical theatre Debris Company in the surroundings of Stanica Žilina-Záriečie.
Debris theatre company evolved from the original group of performers Hubris. It has been active (apart from the 1999-2004 break) for fifteen years. The major means of expression of the group focused on classical themes has mostly been the non-verbal approach to them (Kafka: The Trial, J.L.Borgés: The Gospel of St Mark, Joyce: Ulysses, Jarry: Ubu the King, S.Beckett, Murphy, Dych and other). Later, creators turned to authorial methods of work. More than nineteen performances have been produced so far by the theatre company.

+ | Afterparty

July 29, Friday

10am, bar
Morning discussion forum

1pm, platform
Cycle hunt for urban legends
Bike trip with Šoko along a track of increased occurrence of urban legends. Commented tour of places, which no one has stopped by for long. Tourism upside down or seeing the overlooked. The probabality of the site becoming legendary is critical. Have you heard of the Tesco mythology? Any idea where the best chips fried on hand-cream are served? Have you heard of the subway known for the highest number of female students having been murdered? The ride will be periodically interrupted by pointing at the sites. Unlimited number of stops guaranteed due to fact that one may be looking beyond any limits as long as he or she wants. And there may be a surprise as well. Or refreshment?
For those without bikes – we can lend you some. Capacity limited. Setting off from Stanica Žilina-Záriečie.
Application, bike reservations, info - ivana@stanica.sk

4pm, S1 | film projection
Zuzana Burianová, Peter Pikna: Denníky (The Diaries)
Dance film about intimate environment, which we either want to share or not. The film about manuscripts, writing, imprints, traces and everything else which represents various forms of diaries.
„Walls and murals are like notebook sheets. People use them for writing, for their own sake. And if you think you’re the only one doing it, you’ll find out they do it as well. What else can be considered a diary? And what is its message?“

Yuri Korec, Peter Bebjak: voiceS
A dance film about the phenomenon of the multiple personality disorder by Yuri Korec in Cooperation with cieLaroque/helene weinzierl and dna production Bratislava. The story of a woman who is confronted with her distinct identities is based on an authentic history of one family.

5pm, S2 | theatre performance
Company T-d’U / Martin Kukučka – ôKô
Slovak-Swiss project by T-d’U company called ÔKÔ explores the topic of addiction in relation to seasons as an endless cycle of nature, in which something is born, grows and explodes in different colours only to begin slowly to wither and die… in order to be born again or give space for something new to come instead. Where does addiction begin, how it evolves and where it ends?

Performance ôKô promises a manifold theatrical experience also due to a combination of various artistic approaches and forms. Music element is being composed live on stage and creates a suggestive atmosphere taking you into the virtual world. The characters‘ stories, their personalities, thoughts and confrontations are expressed by means of acting, movement, sounds as well as impressive visual, including projection, which adds up to original symbology of the performance.

The T-d’U company was founded in the Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds by two young actors Guillaumarc Froidevaux and Zuzana Kakalíková to provide space for encounters and artists exchange from different fields. The company focuses on interdisciplinary projects based on artistic research of movement and acting expression. T-d’U intensively works with scenography and space transformations. The performance was created in collaboration with the Slovak Elledanse and the Swiss SAT Delement.
Directed by: Martin Kukučka
Performed by: Guillaumarc Froidevaux, Zuzana Kakalíková, Emil Lee Píš

7pm, S1 | contemporary dance
Lucia Kašiarová – ALA III
alternative lobbing art
absence love for art
aggressive live art

A solo sketch treating on the issue of the artist and their being on stage balances on the borderline between real and theatre action. What we get is a changing surreal image – one that results from merge of well planned action and a suden inspiration.
Choreography, performed by: Lucia Kašiarová

+ | dance and music improvisation
Lucia Kašiarová, Peter Machajdík: Duet
Improvisation by dancer Lucia Kašiarová and musician Peter Machajdík. Lucia Kašiarová is a Slovek dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and producer working in Prague, where she founded a civil association ALT@RT – centre for contemporary and alternative art.
Peter Machajdík is a music composer living and working in Germany and Slovakia. In his compositions, he often makes use of sounds of natural elements mixed with classical instruments, human voice and electronic music. He collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and composes music for films and theatre.

+ | inhabiting the space

9pm, S2 | dance improvisation in dialogue with audience
Peter Šavel, Stano Dobák: Much to much or “Once you go US, you can’t go back”
After a successful debut „One for you, two for me“, which shined at last year’s KioSK, two ex-classmates from prestigious school P.A.R.T.S in Brussels are back on stage again. The new project explores several topics associated with the issue of conflict between the commercial and the artistic. Authors created a long list of ideas with common theme: When does “much” turn into “too much”? How does “too much” become “just the right amount”? At which point does pathos turn into a real emotion and vice versa? How can the artificial become the real again?

These floating, strong audio-visual and physical images are being performed during an uninterrupted dialogue with spectator. The world which the two young performers manifest by their physical presence and honesty may seem mad and playful at first sight yet there is certainly more to it than superficiality. Definitely an entertaining and sensitive performance, full of emotions and references to everyday joys and troubles.
Performance was created thanks to support of Passerelle VZW (Kortrijk - Belgium).

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+ | Afterparty

July 30, Saturday

4pm, S2 | documentary theatre
Ján Šimko: The Last Historical Mission of Young Generation
What would happen when you hear at some party that somebody had been beaten up in Prague and that the revolution started? Clear, perestroyka had been in progress for four years already, the regimes in Europe were falling one after another, the Berlin Wall was taken apart by the first tourists and there was something in the air in the Czechoslovakia too. But this is politics and life is something totally different. The stories of students who were able to keep their places on the brink in those tense times.

The performance talks about the Velvet revolution in 1989 which was led by students and actors from a view of its participants. About naivety and ideals and their state after 20 years. About the theatre of revolution and the important role of actors in it. About students and actors in 2009 and about the questionable possibility of another revolution.

The playscript is based on the documentary material - interviews with participants of the revolution who were students at those times and their present day contemporaries. It investigates the stories of people whose natural need for a youth revolt was transformed into a revolution and their protest helped the fall of totalitarian regime by a lucky coincidence.
Directed by: Ján Šimko
Performed by: Martin Meľo, Juraj Igonda, Ľubomír Bukový, Matúš Homola

5pm, bar
Juraj Johanides: Posters (23 min)
Documentary on painting posters on Academy of Fine Arts right after November 17, 1989.

6pm, S1 | physical essence of drama text
Viera Dubačová, Jaro Viňarský: Helver and the Others
Theatre project which is neither a text-based nor dance performance. This form emerged during rehearsals out of an original theatrical expression: its major attribute is a strictly defined space, which determines the actions of actor and dancer. Space with uncompromising rules transposed into physical expression. The body thrown into an extreme physical tension. The totality of acting in cruel circumstances laid down by the environment. Once you feel that a deep release is up the bend, there is no way to help the body avoid it.

The performance is inspired by a play by Ingmar Villquist Helver’s Night, in which creators looked for an essence, feeeling, sensation, strong message and topicality. Words disappeared, sound remained. It changed into a space and silent presence on stage. Helver, the man on the margins, overlooked, useless, other, unacceptable – the man to be rid of.
Concept, directed and performed by: Viera Dubačová, Jaro Viňarský

8pm, S2 | contemporary dance
ME-SA / Debris Company: between a rock and a hard place
Ambivalence. Antagonism. Dilemma. Mass and spirit, jump and fall, light and dark – everything in one spot, in one person, in one room, for which nobody has the key.
If we talk about something that is happening somewhere deep beneath our skin, in our soul, in the right centre of us, in the middle of an ongoing private storm, can we take a piece of glass instead of a scalpel and penetrate with a gentle cut deeper?

Dance composition which stands for a heavy topic, pure, impressive dance and physical exertion. „Two contemporary female dancers are getting closer to each other as well as within themselves through embraces, conflicts, betrayals, games and rotations, in a shared space of dance and the dark, attacked by drops excavating the stone of their bodies and souls. Contemporary dance teaches both the women sisterhood.“ (Nina Vangeli).

Independent dance company resides in Prague. It was founded thanks to previous copperation between choreographer Ji-Eun-Lee and Czecho-Slovak trio of female dancers Hana Kalousková, Martina Lacová and Karolína Párová. Dance composition Between a rock and a hard place was made in cooperation with the Slovak Debris Company.
Concept and choreography: Debris Company / Stanislava Vlčeková, Jozef Vlk;
Performed by: ME-SA / Hana Kalousková, Martina Lacová, Karolína

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9.30pm, garden | theatre performance
Homo Fuge / M. de Ghelderode: Three actors and their drama
The work Last Show or Three actors and drama by avantgarde Belgian prosaic and playwright Michel de Ghelerode (1898 – 1962), lover of horrors, arts, folklore and bizzare things and paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, tells the story of three broke wandering actors. Down by poverty and personal failures, they decide to perform their last piece, which very much resembles their own lives.
Directed by: Anton Šulík
Performed by: Juraj Špalek, Miroslav Malina, Soňa Podymáková, Juraj Luhový, Lucia Žatková

11pm, garden
Light KioSK 2011
Official closing of the festival. The Light KioSK Award 2011 Ceremony for an outstanding light and scenic performance.

July 31, Sunday

10am, bar
Morning discussion forum: Finale
Final feedback on performances from the preious day with exercise and breakfast.

Festival pass: 13,00 / 10,00 € (adults / students)
Single ticket for one performance: 4,00 / 3,00 €
Reservations: rezervacie@stanica.sk, 041 - 56 23 564

The entry for individual performances will be sold at the venue only in case of free spaces.
The entry covers also possilibity of setting a tent in fenced Stanica park equiped with outdoor showers and toilets.