Sclavi – The Song of an Emigrant

Farm in the Cave

Company
The references to Grotowski, Barba and Gardzinice are impossible to overlook: Farm in the Cave is dedicated to the exploration and development of the potential of human expression. An essential source of inspiration is their research into forgotten manifestations of culture, an enquiry focusing on minorities and the margins of society.

Performance
Itinerancy, homelessness, exile – a mobile box as the revolving stage of the world: now a caravan, now a bar, now the claustrophobic hiding place of a people-smuggling truck. It is a site of waiting – for people without a home; a microcosm of divergent cultural identities and social extremes, which tells of the present migrations of the people of Europe. An arcades project of ordinary life, this performance unites dance and movement with traditional Ruthenian songs from eastern Slovakia, and live music with acting. Combined in a manner as rousing as it is tragic, the elements produce a stirring total work of art full of physical presence, energy, humour and joie de vivre.

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Director: Viliam Doclomansky
Musical director: Marjana Sadowska
Performers: Cecile da Costa, Roman Horak, David Jánsky, Hana Varadzinova, Matej Matejka, Róbert Niznik, Eliska Vavriková

When: Sunday, October 23th ; 8.00 pm; Russenhalle, Schiffbauergasse 1
Duration: 60 min.