BUOY (up the shade)

Move-you, Katarína Matúšová & Lukáš Bobalik

Concept, choreography, dance: Katarína Matúšová, Lukáš Bobalik
Dramaturgy: Erik Peťovský
Movement collaboration: Daniel Raček
Music composition: Lukáš Krajčík
Costume collaboration: Michaela Bednárová / puojd
Lighting design: Jakub Ťapucha
Expert psychological collaboration: Barbora Tokošová
Graphic design, visual: Tamara Števulová
Production: Move-you o.z.

Buoy as a safe place, anchored, immobile and at the same time reacting to the external environment. The buoy as the harmony of two bodies balancing, supporting each other. A place associating immersion into the interior of experience. Or a boundary signaling a risky environment. Sometimes in an attempt to cooperate, sometimes in conflict, the dancers are always trying to rescue themselves in various forms and contexts. They achieve this relentless pursuit through physical possibilities to impossibilities. The sudden sense of rescue leads them to an intensely lived experience.

VOLUNTARY ENTRY FEE

When you purchase a Tanečno PASS, you get admission to all festival performances, in addition to the “BUOY” performance!

THURSDAY 16.08.2025, 20:30

AMPHITHEATER

BIO

Katarína Matúšová & Lukáš Bobalik

LUKÁŠ BOBALIK, dancer, movement mentor and choreographer. Founder of his T-O-K Dance/Personality/Context project, through which he develops and popularizes Slovak contemporary dance. He graduated from the E. Jaczová Dance Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in the field of Dance Art – Modern Dance Teacher, and is currently studying for a doctoral degree. His portfolio includes many collaborations with other art collectives and creators in Slovakia, and he is also the author of his own solo projects Timeout Burnout and Light work.

KATARÍNA MATÚŠOVÁ is a dance artist, teacher, artistic director and founder of the art collective Move-you. She is a co-author of the intensive training program Move You Camp and also the projects Ženy 2020 and BÓJA (up the shade). She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in the field of dance and continued her rich foreign artistic experience and collaborations in the USA, Vienna and Portugal, as well as movement education under the guidance of Jozef Fruček and Linda Kapatane / Fighting Monkey practice and under the guidance of Mattias Čižmárik – Movement/soft acrobatics. She works as a teacher at the Bratislava Conservatory and also at the E. Jaczová Conservatory.