Concept and performed by: Milan Tomášik
Music: Jakub Mudrák
Credits for pictures: Marek Jančúch/festival Tanečno
The performance and the Summer Academy is organized within Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.
21.06
Dancing Through the Summer, a site-specific performance in nature on the longest day of the year. Performed by choreographer Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO) on 21 June, 17.00. Free entrance.
The performance is organised as part of Summer Dance Academy, workshop program for professional dancers and choreographers organised within Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project.
Dancing Through the Summer is an instant composition dance series conceived by Milan Tomášik and performed at various kinds of outdoor and unconventional spaces. This unique, unrepeatable performance captures rhythm, body architecture, physical and sensory actions, co-created and supported by synthesized music.
Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO) is a choreographer, performer, dancer, and teacher working internationally in the field of dance and performing arts. Milan has performed professionally for twenty years, collaborating with diverse artists across Europe. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed critically-acclaimed works internationally. His choreographic experience includes commissioned works for companies, theatres and schools, trilogy of resounding performances Hunting Season, Silver Blue and Fight Bright (Milan Tomášik & Co) and outstanding solo performances Within, Off-beat, Solo 2016 and Arms That Never Knew Me. He delivered a commission work Treatise for Krakow Dance Theatre in Poland. Milan was an associated artists of Scenario Pubblico in Catania (IT, 2018-2020) and an artistic curator of Out of the Toolbox workshop festival in Ghent, (BE, 2022). Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshop Poetic Body. He was a recipient of the Dance Web Scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival (AT), was awarded the Prize of the City Prievidza (SK) and received an award for the solo performance Off-beat at international festival Cortoindanza in Cagliari, Sardinia (IT). www.milantomasik.com