Timeout – Burnout
Maja Hriešik, Lukáš Bobalík (Slovakia)
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Friday Sep 24 / 19:30, Vzlet
/ Czech premiere
Both a dance solo and a one-man tennis match address the idea of endurance. The dancer tries to find the proper rhythm, playing in all directions until in the end he is playing mainly against himself, testing the limits of his strength, motivation, and objectives. He is accompanied on his inner journey by two musicians and a light designer. How much is enough, when does the game end, and can we ever find balance?
Timeout Burnout is a highly personal performance by the outstanding and determined young Slovak dancer Lukáš Bobalík, who was broken by the limits of local working conditions and by his own obsession with perfection. After nearly a year of movement study, he and dramaturge Maja Hriešik and visual artist Zuzu Hudek have produced a work that is an installation, sporting event, and dance performance all wrapped in one – a depiction of dance on the edge of the ruins of a burnt-out society.
Lukáš Bobalík is a dancer, movement trainer, guest lecturer, and choreographer. After graduating from the conservatory in Bratislava, he went on the obtain a master’s degree in dance from the city’s Academy of Performing Arts. His portfolio includes numerous collaborative efforts involving a variety of choreographic approaches and reflects his distinctive movement style and artistic searching. In 2021, he helped establish Tanec/Osobnost/Kontext (Dance/Personality/Context), a platform aimed at bringing together dance with questions of sustainability and mental health.
Maja Hriešik is a dramaturge and researcher working as an independent artist in the fields of opera and dance. She is also active as a curator for festivals and international presentations of Slovak dance, organizes workshops for beginning artists, writes about dance, and hosts a show on public space and activism on Slovak public radio. She is the author of a book of essays, O fyzické dramaturgii v současném tanci (On Physical Dramaturgy in Contemporary Dance, 2013) and lectures on dance dramaturgy and the history and aesthetics of dance at the Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
