Čo keby?
CONCEPT, DIRECTION:
Michaela Šeligová
CHOREOGRAPHY, DRAMATURGY:
Michaela Šeligová, tanC o.z.
PERFORMERS:
Michaela Šeligová, Lucia Bielik, Radoslav Piovarči
LIGHTING DESIGN:
Ján Čief
MUSIC, MUSIC DESIGN:
Jakub Bielik
SET DESIGN:
Michaela Šeligová, tanC o.z.
PRODUCTION, PRODUCER:
tanC o.z.
Čo keby?
What if… is an original dance performance for three performers that delves into the realm of hypotheses – a world of possibilities, alternative paths and unrealised possibilities. At its core lies the movement between choice and fate: how far can the body go when, in a single moment, decision, chance and impulse converge?
The gentle flow of the music creates an environment in which the three performers become a triangle of energy. At times they exist as three separate beings; at others they merge into a single whole. The body comes into conflict with its own tendencies – to hesitate, to react quickly, to change direction, to move away or draw closer. The audience follows lines of movement that emerge from the smallest impulses and gradually unfold into larger patterns: from synchrony to fragmentation, from subtlety to confrontation. The performance uses no set or props – the space remains clean, open and transparent. It is precisely this clarity that allows the performers’ bodies, their mutual responses and the tension between them to stand out. What if… creates a transparent map of relationships, in which each step can become the beginning of a new reality.
The performance is also an image of the human inner world, constantly balancing between what is and what could be. It is a physical meditation on the possibility of change and the power of the moment in which we decide – or allow others to decide for us.
Michaela Šeligová was born on 1 September 1992 in Banská Bystrica. She is a graduate of the J. L. Bella Conservatory and of the Faculty of Music and Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she specialised in the didactics of modern dance. She teaches at the J. L. Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica and leads its student ensemble. She is a member and co-founder of tanC o.z.
Beyond tanC, she has been involved in a number of dance projects, including productions at the Slovak National Theatre (Dobrodružstvo pri obžinkoch, Carmen a la Gypsy Devils, Čert a Káča), the Andrej Bagar Theatre (Povolanie pápež), and in Prague (Peter a Lucia). She has also been a long-standing performer at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch.
“…my freedom begins in my body – I need to move, to touch and to feel; this is where my creativity originates…”
