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Performance and Artist Talk with Andrej Kalinka

Thurs. January 30th 2025

PERFORMATIVE SONGS I.

“THE SHAPES OF THE THINGS”

In his creative work as a librettist, composer or director, Andrej Kalinka works with people. By shaping their movement, speech, singing, acting or playing musical instruments, he works with time, rhythm, movement, relationships.

During his residency in Artport, he didn’t work with actors, dancers, musicians, performers, but only with material around him in the studio. After many experiences with music, movement, and words, he is exploring and searching for the basics. The basics of time, movement, relationships and contexts, thinking, imagination, stories.

What role does our sight, hearing, experience, education, information, emotions have? When do movement and relationships arise, how does time change the meaning of what we see, what we hear, what we imagine, and what we create? Andrej roughly shapes raw material, often impersonal, emotionally alien (plastic bags, paper towels) into rough shapes that resemble people or unspecified situations and connects all of this with music. As an observer, he thinks and occasionally joins in with the music, searching for the most basic impulses (cells) that will evoke our own stories. Stories we can’t resist. Stories that live and grow within us. Stories that we want and need to create and share. Our unmistakable, authentic stories. You can watch and listen, or just listen, or plug your ears and just watch. You can think, imagine, and create your own stories.

Andrej’s residency at Artport is supported by the Czech Center, Tel Aviv

Andrej Kalinka (b. 1978) is a librettist, music composer, performer and director. He began in 1993 as a musician in underground and jazz bands. Gradually, he went on to study classical music (conducting and composition). Since 1996 he has begun to collaborate with various theater and musical companies/groups, first as a composer, later as a librettist, performer and director. He had an opportunity to go through a wide range of theater, music, dance genres – drama, puppet theater, contemporary dance, folk dance (theater) music, opera, cooperation with galleries, musical bodies, art schools as a pedagogue etc. He has collaborated with more than 30 companies and has contributed to more than 70 works. He also works as a teacher of interdisciplinarity in the studio of physical theater at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno (Czech Republic). Since 2006, he has begun to search and create his own artistic language, and in 2011 founded artistic group HONEY AND DUST. As a librettist, music composer, performer and director he connects theatre, dance, music, words and visual arts and creates an authentic language and working method, which can be described as complementary art. His work has been presented in various countries (Thailand, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Germany etc.), where he has won several awards (New Drama Festival, DOSKY – the main Slovak theater prize, PIF festival, HARMONY WORLD PUPPET CARNIVAL and other).

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Performance and Artist Talk with Andrej Kalinka

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Years 2024-2025

Artists in residence: Andrej Kalinka, Daniel Kiczales, Martin Kana, Haviv Kaptzon, Alexandra Zuckerman, Talia Keinan, Noa Schwartz, אורי וויינשטיין

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