Jaro Viňarský: THE TOUCH OF THE OPEN [Kiosk 2019]

exposition / THE TOUCH OF THE OPEN

In its exposition, THE TOUCH OF THE OPEN plays with the relation between the performer and the audience members / participants as a metaphor for the potential unity of body and mind. It attempts to convey the urgency of reintegration by uniting both sides of the performance into a shared experience.

 „the touch of the open“ is a phrase I use as a roof title to describe a momentum of opening inside, caused by encountering something/someone and by the impact of that encounter being touched by our own potential, which can not be but fulfilled.

The key to participate is to follow your natural response to the mystery of interconnectedness. My personal understanding of interconnectedness is the experience of perceiving the living world as a complex web of relations without any presuppositions.

How I see it, the following principles increase the potential to be open to be touched;

There is no ownership or authorship.
There are no predetermined boundaries regarding intimacy.
Every individual’s path is valid.
We are free to let go of the past and what we know without regret.
Each crisis of identity is welcomed.
The meaning of objects in space, including the body, is fluid.

 

Aknowlegments go to the second version contributing artists: Tomáš Janypka, Tomáš Morávek, Zdenka Brungot Svíteková, Nela Kornetová, Martin Talaga, Kamil Mihalov, Matthew Rogers, Geoffrey Boissy and Yücel Durdu
Concept by: Jaro Viňarský
Created with: Tomáš Janypka, Tomáš Morávek, Simona Gottierová, Katarína Ďuricová, Christian Frederickson
Choreographic quotation: Palissimo / Endangered Pieces (2013)
Created by: Pavel Zuštiak, Jaro Viňarský, Matthew Rogers
Production: SKOK! o.z.
Co-production: REZI.DANCE v lese z.s. (Komařice, CZ), Zō centro culture contemporanee (Catania, IT), Divadlo Pôtoň (Bátovce, SK), Tanec Praha z.ú. / PONEC – divadlo pro tanec (Praha, CZ)

 

Date & time: 25 July 2019 at 5:00pm
Place: Festival Kiosk -2, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie