FRAGMENTS

Choreography and dance by Les SlovaKs Dance Collective: Milan Herich, Anton Lachky, Milan Tomasik, Peter Jasko, Martin Kilvady
Music: Simon Thierrée
Set design: Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, Joris De Bolle
Lighting design and technical director: Joris De Bolle
Costume design: Mat Voorter, Pepa Martinez
Technician: Jan Meuwissen
Production: PHILEAS PRODUCTIONS (Belgium)
Promotion: SEVENTYSEVEN - Bram Smeyers
Partners: DCJ – Danscentrum Jette (België), Pulsar–Ensemble Lei. Steven Decraene
Coproduction: Kaaitheater (Belgium), Teatre Mercat de les Flors (Spain), Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden (Germany), NorrlandsOperan AB (Sweden)
With the support: The Flemish Community

Les SlovaKs is a collective made of five independant, energetic dancers coming from Slovakia. All five of them are living and working in Belgium. They constitute a professional dance company focused on teaching and performing.
Fragments is the third work, that came out of the "Les SlovaKs craftsmanshop".
The premise of the piece was to work with an existing music composition.
For one part, their long time collaborator, composer Simon Thierrée wrote an original piece in four movements, performed by a string orchestra of 32 musicians. As a counterpoint Les SlovaKs decided to present yet another side of their background and intertwined Thierrée's composition with the selection of songs from a renowned slovak popular singer Melania Ollaryova.

The five creators choreographed with a close listening to the diverse musical proposition. Working as a team during the rehearsals, they rotated the roles as performers and directors. They crafted each separate musical part into a complete live movie scene, dance piece or a theater act. They referred with each movement to images, scenes and performers that have influenced or toughed them in the, sometimes not so far, past. Without any boundaries of style, they managed to construct different worlds, that pop up into fullness as soon as the scene unfolds. The show is entertaining, full of skilled dancing, very expressive, humorous and touching, sparkled with references that disappear as soon as the spectator tries to grab them.