People of Slava

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.