Yuri Korec & Co.

At the end of summer, the Bratislava in Movement – international festival of contemporary dance, in collaboration with choreographer Yuri Korec, is preparing an exceptional multimedia site-specific dance performance. This unique event will take place on the facade of the historical Slovak National Theatre building and in front of it, including the Ganymede fountain. You can be a part of this performance! We are seeking men and women from various national minorities living in Bratislava, aged 18 to 35, with previous dance experience. If you have the desire and courage to perform alongside professional dancers in four public performances, we want you! Application form

Inspired by sci-fi poetics, in which the human body often finds itself in unusual, even inhospitable conditions and faces surprising challenges, choreographer Juraj Korec and the creative team create a specific playground for five dancing bodies. Space-time coordinates do not apply in it, there is no horizon, so seemingly there is neither past nor progress. Movement is possible, but only back. Where can you go if you can only backtrack? The international co-production dance project Príbeh brings reflection on the way to tell stories with the body using a radical strategy that deprives the viewer of the possibility of knowing the identity of bodies and thus deciphering the motivations of actions.

Choreographer Juraj Korec in collaboration with female performers and art theorist Michaela Hučko Pašteková in the long-term project Expose the body explores the exposure of the living body in a gallery environment through the lens of various (non)choreographic procedures. It brings attention back to the body, but not as a means, the bearer of a theme or function, but to the body as an object of view.

Juraj Korec in collaboration with performers and art theorist Michaela Hučko Pašteková's long-term project "Exposing the body" explores the exhibition of the living body in gallery environment through the lens of various (non)choreographic procedures. Brings attention back to to the body, but not as a means, the bearer of a theme or function, but to the body as an object of view.

What does it mean to expose the body? To place it in a situation where we begin to pay attention to it. That body can be our own body, but also the bodies of others. And that situation can be a thoughtfully composed scene, but also a banal episode. Does every exhibition of the body have its own curator? Does the site of the body on display automatically become a gallery?

NEW BODIES is a workshop/research and creative session exploring the emotionality and expressivity of the body set in another reality – or otherwise – the agency of the body in contact with technologies. What do you look like when you’re running away from an elephant in VR? How do you look when you’re typing a message about laughing?

Where does the body end and the templates into which we squeeze it every day begin? Is it still possible to distinguish them at all, or have they grown into inseparable scrum over the years, like a broken leg in plaster? In Sapiens Territory, Yuri Korec deals with the violence we commit against ourselves in order to disguise ourselves while we are. But also by force

The year 2020 could be described as a very long train ride through the carpal tunnel. Crowds in coupes, opening windows, or secretly going out into the hallway for a common chat, where we can be caught by an auditor if we don't have a valid ticket.

Today I'm talking to my longtime friend who swims in the waters of contemporary dance. He is a performer, choreographer, he is a graduate of the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, he was a member of the professional dance theater Studio Tanca in Banská Bystrica and he has a hill on his account.