Colectivo Priekopník Veverička/Lívia MM Balážová (Slovakia)
Galéria Nedbalka
Price: 10 – 15 €
CAMILLE Fragmenty ženy, fragmenty tela, fragmenty diela
Performer and choreographer Lívia MM Balážová delves into the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel—a woman who created on the edge of genius and madness. Inspired by Claudel’s cyclical creative gesture “I do, I undo, I redo,” Balážová explores the physical language of the female body as a space of tension: between personal and professional, dream and reality, freedom and constraint.
CAMILLE is an intimate immersion into the inner world of a female artist silenced by society—a universal narrative about the (in)visibility of women in art, then and now.
Practical information
Tickets: 15 € full price / 10 € students and seniors
Venue: Galéria Nedbalka
Length: 60 min
Performance:
ABOUT THE PIECE
Fragments of a woman, fragments of a body, fragments of a work.
In 2018, the art group Med a prach created the work eu.genus, which oscillated between a studio, an open rehearsal, an educational concert, an installation and a performance. A wide range of Slovak and foreign performers participated in it. Lívia MM Balážová remained fascinated by the experience of the creative process and the resulting work. She decided to pay closer attention to the life of the French sculptor Camille Claudel, who was one of the sources of inspiration in composing eu.genus.
Fragments of a woman, fragments of a body, fragments of a work. A constant balancing act between the materialization of a work and its destruction. A quote from Louise Bourgeois: “I do, I undo, I redo,” very accurately describes this cyclical nature of creation. It is a process of creation, destruction and remaking, which approximates Claudel’s own experience with art.
In her performance, Lívia MM Balážová works with the messages and imprints left by one woman straddled between reality and dream, work commitment and private tragedies, freedom and imprisonment in an institution. What was it like to be a woman artist in the past? What is it like today? How many times do I have to reshape and reshape myself in order to find satisfaction and fulfilment? And will it ever come? What is the boundary between work and personal? Is there one at all?
Concept and performance: Lívia MM Balážová
Dramaturgical cooperation: Monika Kováčová
Assistant director: Zebastián Méndez Marín
Music: Matej Sloboda
Set design: Juraj Poliak
Technical cooperation: Lukáš Kubičina
Producer: Rafa Ávalos
Main partner of the project and supported by using public fundiing by Slovak Arts Council
Spatial and residencial partners: Divadlo Štúdio tanca, Akadémia umení, Dance Days Chania – IP12 House, Divadlo Pôtoň, Záhrada – centrum nezávislej kultúry
COLECTIVO PRIEKOPNÍK VEVERIČKA
Colectivo Priekopník Veverička was born in 2015 with the Slovak Lívia Balážová MM and the Costa Rican Zebastián Méndez Marín as founding members, and as a result of an inescapable artistic connection that began in Ultima Vez, a mythical company directed by Wim Vandekybus, where they met as interpreters of the remake of What the body does not remember.
We build artistic processes based on games as a creative engine to break stereotypical visions of performers and spectators in the scenic act, pushing the limits of creation, leaving aside academic labels and placing empathy, respect and consensus as conditioning factors for the celebration of the beauty in diversity.
LÍVIA MM BALÁŽOVÁ
Her professional training includes academies such as the Conservatory of J.L. Bella at Banská Bystrica in Slovakia, the SEAD Salzburg experimental dance academy in Austria, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. She has worked with the Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta, with the French company Kubilai Khan, and in November 2012 she joined the renowned company Ultima Vez in Brussels.
In November 2015 she founded the performing arts company Colectivo Priekopník Veverička resulting in several performances (#whateveristrendingnow, PRACH/ POLVO, La Plancha) and collaborations around the world such as the co-creation with Slovak artistic collective MimoOs (DoDna, Millennial Magic Mirror) also with Honey and dust Company (EU.GENUS) and with Divadlo Štúdio Tanca (Čin).
Also has shared her movement practice workshops Mindcross and Multipartnering-Infinite Synapses together with Zebastián in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Chile, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Portugal, New York, Belgium, Germany.
