CHOREOGRAPHY:
Adrienn Hód
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY:
Martina Hajdyla, Soňa Ferienčíková
MUSIC:
Ábris Gryllus
DRAMATURGY:
Ármin Szabó-Székely
MOVEMENT COOPERATION:
Márcio Kerber Canabarro
VISUAL COOPERATION:
Mária Júdová
COSTUMES:
Lucia Škandíková
LIGHT DESIGN:
Tomáš Morávek
TECHNICAL SUPPORT:
Daniel Kozlík
PR:
Alice Krajčírová
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Yara Abu Aataya
STAGE MANAGER:
Romana Packová
PRODUCTION:
Lucia Šimášková / BOD.Y ngo, Jiří Hajdyla / ME-SA, György Ujvári-Pintér / HODWORKS
CO-PRODUCTION:
ME-SA /CZ/ , BOD.Y ngo /SK/ , HODWORKS /HU/
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS:
Tanec Praha z.ú. / PONEC - dance venue, Slovak Contemporary Dance Platform, Bratislava in Movement Association, OFF Foundation
SUPPORTED BY:
Slovak Arts Council, International Visegrad Fund, City Council Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund of Culture Czech Rep.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Csaba Molnár, Adam Czirák, Dano Raček, Petr Soukup, Mia Majeríková, Maker Keveš, Márk D. Molnár, Soňa Kúdeľová, Viera Farbiaková, Petr Goro Horký, Jenda Niesit, Mariana Novotná, Michal Šimečka, Agi Ferienčíková, Tatiana Lacová, Karol Laco, Lenka Sedláčková, Aneta Jiroušková, Adéla Jiroušková.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council
AGE:
15+
DURATION:
70 min
PREMIERE:
10.3. 2022, PONEC - the dance venue
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Soft Spot is an experimental physical performance born out of cooperation between dancers Martina Hajdyla, Soňa Ferienčíková and choreographer Adrienn Hód. Through improvisation and a research of the physical body, they explored the relationship between body, personality and meaning. What do we perceive when we look at the human body? What does the face, the gesture, the posture, the movement tell us? How do we communicate through the body with others? Soft Spot plays with the blurring of human qualities, asks what defines us as humans, and looks for a hidden, sensitive “soft spot” in ourselves.
Soft Spot is a theatrical liturgy. It invites the audience deeper into the space. It erases distinction between the stage and the auditorium. Lights and music are ripping the specktators off the mundane and plunging them into the timeless - they dissolve contours of present reality.
The focal point of Soft Spot is an immersive camouflage: a mask transforming what is human into a different kind of being; an elaborately assembled costume concealing yet also revealing in a disquieting way; and especially, a register of unpredictable body movements of plentiful qualities - movements which refuse to unveil or identify either of the two dancers. Movements carrying the touch of the other side.
The performance contains nudity, intense light and smoke.
"The experimental show Soft Spot (…) is a highly abstract piece, which denies the myth of the dance aesthetics and slightly immerses in the questions about the human body, personality traits and qualities, and the meaning of facial expressions and gestures."
Clara Zanga, Taneční aktuality, 25. 3. 2023
Soft Spot is created by a women trio. Adrienn Hód is a Budapest-based choreographer leading the acclaimed contemporary dance company HODWORKS since 2007. There she deconstructs body, movement, space and music to rebuild them in surprising ways. Soňa Ferienčíková is Slovak performer, choreographer and founder of BOD.Y ngo, she was nominated for prestigious Slovak award DOSKY 2018. Martina Hajdyla is Slovak dancer and choreographer based in Prague, founding member of company ME-SA (2008), nominated for prestigious Czech Thálie Award 2016.
