Camille (Laboratory in the Shadow)
Work in progress – Performance/movement installation
Her professional training includes academies such as the J. L. Bellu at Banská Bystrica in Slovakia, the SEAD Salzburg experimental dance academy in Austria, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium.
She has worked with the Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta, with the French company Kubilai Khan, and in November 2012 she joined the renowned company Última Vez in Brussels. In November 2015 she founded the performing arts company Colectivo Priekopník Veverička resulting in several performances (#whateveristrendingnow, PRACH/POLVO, La Plancha) and collaborations around the world such as the co-creation with Slovak artistic collective MimoOs (DoDna, Millennial Magic Mirror) also with Honey and dust Company (EU.GENUS), with Divadlo Štúdio Tanca (Čin, Punk Pajama Party, SEN), with Divadlo K(Nefotografie, Neistota, Jaskyňa) and with Odivo (Vnorená/Immersed).
The performance Čin won the Dosky 2019 award in the category extraordinary performance in dance theater, and the performance Vnorená received 3 nominations for the Dosky 2022.
Also has shared her movement practice workshops Mindcross and Multipartnering-Infinite Synapses together with Zebastián in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Hungary, Mexico, Nicaragua, New York, Panama, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Russia, Austria and Greece.
In the year 2020 co-founded the RED Movement Network online training platform.
::camille. Camille Claudel lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when female artists did not have the conditions for education and presentation of their work. For a long time she lived in the shadow of the fame of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Her love for art, for creativity and for Rodin, the loss of her unborn child and the difficult way of asserting herself in the artistic circles of the time led her to a mental breakdown. She destroyed approximately 90 of her statues and was chased by the parsons. For more than half of her life, this talented artist was locked up in a mental institution, where she eventually died in solitude.
::fragments of a woman, fragments of a body, fragments of a work. During the residency called “Laboratory in the Shadow” Lívia is working with the materialization of the work and its destruction at the same time. The quote from Louise Bourgeois: “I do, I undo, I redo,” very accurately describes this cyclical nature of creation. It is a process of creation, destruction and remaking, bringing closer to Claudel’s own experience with art. It is a process that captures the essence of the laboratory method of creation.
Concept, performer: Lívia MM Balážová
Dramaturgical collaboration: Sebastián Méndez Marín
Dramaturgical collaboration: Monika Kováčová
Set design: Juraj Poliak
Music composer: Matej Sloboda
30 July | 19:30 | Center of Mediterranean Architecture
Livia Balazova – Camille (Laboratory in the Shadow)
