WELCOME TO SLAVA !!!

We are young group of eight performers from different countries of Europe. We are trying to find a way how to express ourselves through art work. We believe that art can make this world better place to live and bring better understanding among people divided in to nations, religions and races. You are more then welcome to take a look on our blog! Feel free to comment or ask questions. Thank you for spending your time here!

SLAVA CACOPHONIA W LUBLINIE


Międzynarodowa grupa Slava Cacophonia powstała w 2009 roku w duńskiej szkole Performers House w Silkeborg. Kilku młodych artystów z różnych krajów (Polska, Węgry, Łotwa i Holandia) postanowiło połączyć siły i działać razem w różnych przestrzeniach świata i sztuki. Młodzi twórcy pracowali ze sobą przez pół roku w szkole nad różnymi projektami w zakresie tańca, teatru, muzyki. Po kilku miesiącach narodziła się Slava Cacophonia, czyli grupa ludzi którzy dzielą wspólną pasję życia - twórczość artystyczna. Grupa jest swoistym eksperymentem i próbą scalenia doświadczenia podróży oraz teatru, tańca, cyrku, muzyki.

        Spotkanie, które odbędzie się w Lublinie jest kolejnym etapem procesu tworzenia. Po narodzinach w Skandynawii grupa wędruje z różnych zakątków świata prosto do wschodniej części Polski, by stawić czoła nowemu wyzwaniu. Obecnie członkowie grupy studiują, pracują, tworzą i doświadczają życia w różnych miejscach: Danii, Izraelu, Holandii, Polsce, na Węgrzech. Po kilku miesiącach separacji członkowie Slavy zjadą się do Lublina by spotkać się ze sobą, z Innym, z nową przestrzenią, z nową jakością i postarają się stworzyć nową perspektywę na pracę w przyszłości. W Lublinie do grupy dołączy trzech muzyków. Podstawą pracy grupy jest ruch i improwizacja, która rozumiana jest jako technika umiejętności bycia „tu i teraz” w przestrzeni.
Improwizacja to dla Slavy sposób na życie, to swego rodzaju umiejętność obserwacji rzeczywistości, ze szczególnym podkreśleniem teraźniejszości. Technika, która wymaga rzetelnej pracy i wbrew pozorom mocnego treningu; charakteryzuje się klarownością wyrazu, subtelnością i delikatnością kreowaną w danym momencie, czego podstawą jest niegasnąca pasja poznawania i doświadczania świata. Jest umiejętnością obserwowania i wpisywania się w krajobraz ludzi i przestrzeni w danej chwili. Jest to doświadczenie pierwszej miłości, zakochania się od pierwszego wejrzenia zarówna dla twórców, jak i publiczności. Gdy magia miłości nie zadziała pojawia się rozczarowanie i pustka, co jest również ważnym elementem procesu tworzenia dla członków Slavy. Po kilku dniach treningu i wymiany doświadczeń Slava zaprezentuje rezultat pracy w formie otwartego pokazu.


W Lublinie ze Slavą działać będą:
Ewa Hubar- tancerka, absolwentka szkoły "Improwizacji i teatru fizycznego" w Kopenhadze, studiowała również antropologię na UMK w Toruniu.
Muzyka:
Paweł Korbus- aktor, tancerz, scenograf, założyciel ARTKOR Studio Artystyczne, absolwent wydziału Sztuk Pięknych UMCS w Lublinie.
Joszka Labanczyn- antropolog, muzyk, twórca zespołu Sibiradio, podróżniczka, zajmuje się badaniami w zakresie kultury tradycyjnej
Azjonka Ngancaryc- ukończyła edukację artystyczną na UMK w Toruniu, zajmuje się grafiką, twórca zespołu Sibiradio, zajmuje się eksperymentowaniem w zakresie muzyki i pracy z ciałem.

People of Slava

Magda Kwaśny, born in 1984, Poland


I was born in Lublin in Eastern Poland. From 2003 I practiced different acting and dance techniques at workshops and courses. My passion is open voice singing. I participated in several projects dealing with Polish traditional dance, singing, performing in villages, which influenced me the most as a performer. I'm interested in street theater where accidental people can experience inspiring and unusual moment, where audience and actors can face magical dimension in ordinary corner. I completed six month physical theater course in Performers House in June 2009. Since then I live in Denmark and I'm member of Zamok International Theatre as an actress and training leader.
I'm happy to be in Slava group, because it gives freedom in work and inspiration in life, gathers interesting people from different fields and make them search together and share experience. I believe activity of Slava will bring great worth all around.





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Monika Kiwak, born in 1982, Poland


Through dance and movement I keep on finding my place in life. My drama and theatre knowledge (I’m about to graduate drama at Jagiellonian University in Krakow), master diploma in polish philology and extensive theatre and dance workshops experience with children and teenagers (I was drama teacher in Youth Center in Krakow and led mix dance and theater workshops for youth) make me a versatile and informed artist. After 3 years of training modern and contemporary dance, discovering contact improvisation gave me access to richness of new qualities. They are produced by this exceptional situation, when two dancers with their solos meet, stay open to each other, and influence each other. When it’s not about speaking anymore, but having conversation. While studying in Performers House’s dance department in Denmark I could develop this idea with people with different skill sets and culture backgrounds. Not only dancers but other artists as well.



Slava Cacofonia is the continuation of this interdisciplinary, multinational dialogue. Slava gives me a space for researching, exploring, for being in progress.

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Mateusz Flak from Poland. Born in 1977,
I spent some years in Krakow where studied Japanese language, worked as journalist/translator and searched. I found workshops of traditional and experimental singing, I guess it was kind of personal breakthrough experience. Last year I've started to deepen my interest for Polish traditional music, began to practice singing more constantly, took part in performing traditional carols on Polish village.
In Februray 2009 I started physical theatre course under guidance of Magnus Errboe in Performers House (Silkeborg, Denmark), great hojskole. This place, multinational, opened, stimulating, changed my view on group work. Accross our school lines we created "Slava" and later my physical theatre line turned into "Zamok International Theatre". The second group toured in October this year through Western Jutland in Kulturkaravanen "Moerket" (Darkness), reaching smallest villages in this part of country.
I would like to continue my work with voice - treated not only as way of artist expression but also as a tool to express our humanity - and acting, the common passion of creating new worlds, enabling us to get into lively contact with audience, during sometimes very accidental but profound and honest meetings.
The working process in Slava is wonderfully unpredictable and quite fruitful. We are so different and similar at the same time; I think we have lot to give.



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Imre Mark Petkov, born in 1987, Hungary

My career as a performer started with a number high school theatre groups and projects. After having graduated i realized that theatre is the singular purpose of my life and failed to get admission to the state theatre academy... due to lack of experience. This was a turning point in my life. I set out to get experience. I spent one year in Russia as an EVS volunteer, teaching English, organizing theatre workshops and creative free time activities in a private school and local orphanage in the town of Ryazan, and participating in different volunteer-projects throughout the country. Unexpectedly after my volunteer period I've been accepted to university, in the faculty of Esthetics, which I put on pending after a year to get some more practical skills.  I've been preparing to move to France, to work, learn the language and learn carpentry. Things didn't work out as accepted... I ended up in Denmark instead, in Performers House, an international school of performing arts, where I studied traditional and physical theatre for two semesters. And I met the people of Slava. We made Slava. It started as "weekend project" grew into a whole performance, and now as our common brainchild is about to reach adulthood we reunite as an independent theatre (?) company.

Currently I am working in Denmark, as part of the international theatre company, Zamok, with 6 other ex-schoolmates from Performers House, including 3 members of Slava Cacofonia.



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Zanda Priedite - Latvia
Zanda was born and grew up in Latvia where she has received Bachelor’s degree in Culture Management. Since 2004 Zanda is practicing different kinds of stage art (contemporary dance, pantomime, improvisation, contact improvisation, unverbal theatre, voice training and butoh dance). From 2006 she has participated in organization “Laboratory of Stage Art” in Latvia as an actress, dancer, project coordinator in photo projects, performances and open-air projects. In 2008 she moved to Denmark to complete her competence and experience in dance improvisation, choreography and to train in different dance styles in Performers House, Danish folk high school, where she met artistic director Magnus Errboe and joined the Ensemble line, from which grew out “Zamok international theatrewhere she is working in Denmark as actress and production leader and international group theatre “Slava Cacophonia” where she is taking part as an actress and body movement instructor.





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Tomasz Foltyn from Poland, born in 1986.
I am anthropologist of culture who was always strongly connected to art work. I started my adventure in physical theatre Terminus a Quo in my home town, Nowa Sól. It is an experimental theatre, based on physical approach. I spent there seven years of improving myself as a actor and dancer. I was involved in creating, directing and performing. I was involved in many performances both for the indoor theatre and street theatre. The improvisation technique was a big part of my process there, what influenced my future as performer.  My passion was growing there, and then in 2009 I took a break at the university and I went to study dance in Perfomers House, what made me stronger in expressing myself through movement. In autumn 2009 I went to Israel to continue my dance education with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company but I quickly realized that it is not a way I want to do art. I moved to other place called Artness made by Shahar Dor where I continue with improvisation and contact technique. I strongly believe in the huge potential of improvisation theatre because it forced me to be really present, aware and clear about the relation with other people, as a performer, anthropologist and human being. I am finding all these three terms very connected and and it is morphing and changing the shape at the same time. In my opinion improvisation lets passion grow and develop in to something very unique and special, because it exists just one time, one particular second and it can never be repeated. Improvisation is the way of living.

I founded Slava Cacophonia because I felt an urge to create a group of people who share similar ideas and passion for life and performing art. It is the project which is very important for my life as performer and human being as well. I believe that art and life should cross each other in unlimited possibilities and create a path to the essence of understanding other people. It is an endless expression of “love” brought in to art work.