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.
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The following performance reviews were generated within the project Dance Season 2018/2019 - a Slovak nationwide project of analyzes of contemporary dance performances and discussions, which was supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.
Jaro Viňarský gives up the strictly defined theater scene, and enters the public space, in a search for a different experience for the audience as well as the performer. He offers an interaction, which does not threaten the audience, giving it the opportunity to engage or be touched. This allows him to think freely about his body or the ability/inability to engage spontaneously, performing freely as a child on the playground.
by Barbora Uríková
The principle of alternating static and dynamic images, in which a group of performers engages with the body of performer Jaro Viňarský. His passivity is not neutral, his body is cooperating and handed over to the crowd, the dramaturgy is a result of a common concentration of everybody involved. From simple composition of bodies in space to monumental compositions, whoever can become the instigator of the motion.
by Maja Hriešik
