THE MERRIMENTS OF THE PAST

Choreography: Milan Tomášik
Assistant of choreographer: Gyula Cserepes
Music: Katarína Máliková
Lights: Ján Čief
Costumes: Marek Gašpar Šafárik
Dancers: Lenka Rajchmanová, Marie Knapová, Jakub Jeňo, Tibor Trulik and Denisa Benčaťová a.g.

Sudden strike past
dig into the future.
knock but I would not want
But yes, I just wanted to.
Two worlds come together,
stand together delicately.
Start from the beginning.

Two worlds, which have been associated in the past and reconstruction of knock contemporary dance, but dominated in both lattie dynamics and zest of dancing. Impuls of performance is inspired by the English Renaissance dances of 17th century Parson´s Farewell. The original choreography Parson’s Farewell is very particularly interesting in terms of a premeditatedly space structure and in performance Merriments of the past has become a central theme of the first part. In the second key part of the original dance in a natural transition into is the position of getting a search of diverse variations on the original version. Elements, that the combine the original and the new version of dance Parson’s Farewell is the spatial dynamics and the zest of dancing. Contemporary world is characterized by the presentation of a unique movement- sound matrix. These are strikes of body parts on the ground in repeated time intervals, where the dancer has their movement and therefore the resonant structures which follows. Another element of performance is part of silence, where dancers moving on the ground crawling in low attitudes, creating a unique sound –movement-matrix. The gradual grade and multiplication dancers creates a complex visual-audile scene, where the first sight is not clear whether is this the sound which influences movements or vice versa. As a whole, the results is a symphony of moving bodies and that exact time and the space on the stage.

Milan Tomášik, dancer, choreographer and dance teacher gratuated from the Conservatory of Jan Levoslav Bella in Banská Bystrica. In 2004 he gratuated from the International Dance Academy P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. In 2001 he received the Dance Web scholarship at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna and toured around Europewith Dutch company MAPA in the same year. Since 2004 he has been working in Slovenia where he successfully auditioned for the En-Knap Dance Company and performed in Woferl under the personal leadership of choreographer Iztok Kovač. He also worked with choreographers Maja Delak and Mala Kline on the dance theater performance Gallery of Dead Women. With choreographer Snježana Premuš he created the performance You (2007), and with director Barbara Novakovič Kolenc the theater performance Winter Fairytale (2007). Milan focuses on his own original works, he created Within, Baga- Basta, 3NITI (2008), Off-Beat (2011), a solo to the baroque music. In his movement and dance research he focuses on the meaning and origin of dance and has had a long- term cooperation with the Ensemble for Renaissance Music and Dance Cortesia.