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path_through_spaces This PDF contains Máté Czakó’s individual contribution to Tier_15 OPEN.
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“Dear Performance” This PDF contains Máté Czakó’s individual contribution to Tier_14, JOKER.
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Aigars’ dream 1 In this document I describe an idea for a performance or a section of one that I would make with unlimited resources.
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Aigars relevant themes I reflect on relevant themes for myself in this particular period in time and how they remain or change over time.
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Aigars relevant themes I’m reflecting on relevant themes for myself in this particular time and space.
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Dream performance in Skaņaiskalns, Latvia The idea of this dream performance was created during iCoDaCo residency week 3 during the community event in Mazsalaca library together with local community members. Skaņaiskalns is a special place in North of Latvia, that’s a cliff across the river of Salaca. In this place there is a very strong echo, so people go there to hear their voices coming back to them.
Together with local community of Mazsalaca we imagined this durational performance where voice echo would be replaced with the movement.
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Confused Bodies Resting Confused Bodies Resting is an ongoing series of photos exploring confusion and rest in public space. Bodies are tired, bodies are confused and they decide to rest on the side of a road or in a tree. Or maybe it’s just confusing for those who are passing by?
For now photos have been taken in Aarhus, Denmark and Liepāja, Latvia. Special thanks to photographers Elín Ramette and Laura Gorodko, as well as my dear friends Arina, Austris, Elza, Artūrs, Alise, Laura, Krista, Sintija and Romualds.
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Restful dance in early spring I enjoy dancing outdoors. My sound track is songs of the birds. Snow is still melting and the air is fresh. I enjoy this moment of dance. I surrender to the impulses inside and around me no matter how silly they are. I rest by the tree. I’m dancing on the ruins of the winter, which is the beginning of this new spring. Birds are coming home.
Special thanks to Agate Bankava - this video was made while doing a movement practice where we look for the themes through our own and each other's movement.
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Artistic themes for Līga Ūbele These are my individual themes that came up during residency week 3 after different exercises we did collectively and individually.
SURRENDERING
DANCING ON RUINS
POTENTIAL OF REST
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Dancing in the grey zone Dance improvisation in grey zone - a state where you’re always in between and never making a choice.
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WHY DANCE? Notes I offered the group practice of walking in ∞ shape, active meditation inspired by bees. I learned this practice from Norwegian artist Nina Ossavy and found it very useful to think about questions that I can’t find answers to by sitting down. In this practice you find two objects that in some way (that’s maybe only clear for you) connect to the topic you have chosen to mediate to. You put those objects in a comfortable distance to move in an infinity shape between them. You start by walking, but you can let your body change the movement as it goes. In the middle there is a knot, which serves as a safe house, where you can stop at any moment if you feel lost.
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Notes from sauna Experience story about sauna
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What is dance Description on what is dance by A.Bankava
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I want to be perfect A short performance playing with the elements of text and light.
Video: Sabīne Neilande
Light: Inta Balode
Performance, text: Agnese Krivade
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Week 15 Individual Contribution Anna, Jo and Debs perform a 15min sharing with an audience (the Czech collective). This video is the first 5 minutes doing a score that we have been working with in different variations. The score is “push to move” and “gaze” and eventually incorporating a chair.
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Dramaturgy of Discomfort I recently injired my left shoulder. Not too seriously, but it is a constant consideration in my movement practice.
Confined in the vertical frame and bound by space, I explore a movement path that always emerges from a tension to be fully healthy and capable versus the limitation of a slowly recovering joint that needs care and physio.
Let the movement start from this space and take you on a journey.
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Open space, compressed time An open exploration of several prior tier/module ideas.
- construct a frame in an open space
- consider the visible and invisible parts of the camera cone of sight
- set your camera to time-lapse
- explore the movement and dramaturgy of the space keeping in mind the different passage of time between one’s self and the time-lapse recording
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cut / care score This is a score on the topic “cut / care” inspired by another score provided by other iCoDaCo artists.
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Vow for work Vow
I vow that my mood will not hinder my work, but my honesty toward it will shape it. I take my mommentary experiences seriously and treat them as inspiration; and as the theme of the work becomes clearer, I weigh the extent to which I allow them into the rehearsal room.
I vow to approach my collaborators with an open heart. Based on the positive experiences gained during the research period, I assume good intentions regarding their ideas, and therefore I do not judge our disagreements on a scale of right and wrong, but with a sincere curiosity about how and why.
I vow that in the course of my work I will not ignore the fact that the world is vast, Europe is small within it, Hungary smaller still, within it Budapest, and us, who are creating in this moment—even if we primarily articulate our thoughts for our own audience.
I vow to celebrate the privilege of being able to create as an artist. Neither guilt nor dissatisfaction will interfere with my work; if they arise, I will strive to communicate them productively or naturally, to overcome them, or to work together with them.
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Reflections on Group Dynamics The following text presents the developmental trajectory, decision-making mechanisms, and group
dynamics of a horizontally structured performing arts collective over the course of several weeks.
The experiences of each week build upon one another, outlining a continuously evolving, reflective,
and experimental mode of collaboration.
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Collective Tensions and Tools How can Forgó Collective, a group of seven individuals collaboratively create a performance within a horizontal structure? The following overview brings together both expected challenges and previously applied practices, with the aim of collectively addressing these questions and expanding our shared toolkit for collaboration. This piece is subjective and reflects my own perspective, which I shared with the group during the “Joker” Tier.
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Accidental feelings I have a big collection of accidental photos in my phone’s library. This means, that somehow, my phone takes photos non intentionally from time to time. These are feel unique, because they all have a strong character, representing something non describable.
This is the latest one. I was thinking of these from the perspective of dramaturgy and visual effect.
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Where can I dance? Can we dance anywhere?
If there is an enclosed area, why I can go in and dance, without the authorities stopping me?
Do I seem harmless, or they just don’t care?
Are these questions relevant?
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Showel ballet From our collective exploration prompts on week 15, this score was expanding an idea that emerged. Though playful improvisation my colleagues came to some elements of ballet in a dig site. I expended on that through through solo practice
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100 Text written after a practice session during the week