Dance theatre
A family table is never round
Director and choreography : Marta Poláková
Script and movement assistance: Zuzana V. Očenášová
Music: Michal Novinski and Oskar Rózsa
Set and Costume design : Zuzu Hudek
Light design: Robert Polák
Opening night : 13th December 2009, Bratislava
Soft Edge is about home. In one strenuous day full of reversals six characters meet around a dining table and realize that a family table is never round. And that family can be a safety grid, but it can also be a cage if any member wants to change a ritual or get rid of the sticky family role. When the death comes, time accelerates. Games fall off and all the relationships crash on each other. At the end of the day some characters are changed forever.
See, between inside and outside, between being at home and being outside, between freedom and the need of being with somebody is quiet a sof edge.
Authors created a unique family saga. They work with archetypes; play with stereotypes, question social constants,real relationships and interweawe with impressions…The piece thus becomes more then interesting dance or nonverbal theatre. It is an original intimate statement about female looking at world…I appreciate the visual and music part of the performance very positively. The main stage design object is a table – the whole life is happening around – from the birth to the death. The collection of the lamps made of the old pots is creating a metaphoric female space. Costumes very softly oscillate between the civvies and the metaphore of the whole story. (Oleg Dlouhý, KOD – theatre magazine)
Beside the movements also the scenography is helping the dancers to express. The space is filled and emptied again depending of the situation – when is the dance or the story in main role (Dáša Čiripová, Salto – dance magazine)
Photo by Noro Knap
