LIGHTBEARER

Puppet multimedia performance.

The harder I search for light in the darkness, the clearer I feel that the darkness is me. The search for the light that has disappeared or momentarily vanished from our sight is an archetypal, multiculturally comprehensible image. But where does the light end and the darkness begin? Where does fear end and fascination begin? Where there is shadow, there must be light.

Direction: Mária Danadová, Monika Kováčová, Ivan Martinka
Libretto, puppets and set design: Ivan Martinka
Artistic collaboration: Ivana Macková
Music: Mariana Bódyová, Lukáš Kubičina
Light design: Milan Slama
Graphic design: Viktória Jehlárová
Production: Monika Kováčová
Performers: Mária Danadová, Ivan Martinka, Mariana Bódyová and Lukáš Kubičina

Collaboration on the project: Andrej Novák (electrical technology), Ondrej Uhrin (IT specialist), Miroslav Petrík (RC model supervisor), Peter Rehák (puppet realization cooperation), Marek Motloch (locksmith work), Ľuboš Horňák (carpentry work), Peter Paulus (video technical cooperation), Katarína Caková (photographic and art consultant)

The performance uses the Lithuanian folk song Let us both go together (Aisva mudu abudu) and the aria of Hope (Speranza) from the opera L'Orfeo of Claudio Monteverdi. 

Support and partners: Záhrada - centre of independent culture, Divadlo z Pasáže, Industra Brno and Ticho a spol.
The production was created during the artist-in-residence of Pôtoň Theatre - Centre for Art and Creativity.