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Abstract

Like other theatres we are affected by the pandemic. As an international ensemble working with foreign performers, we were hit twice as much: the inability to organise performances itself and additionally the inability of our performers to come.
Usually, we deliver high-energy multilayered performances with a powerful impact on our live audience. The online stream cannot substitute the live experience of our work. Still, we want to keep in touch with you right now.

 

2022

Intervention /recording, 2012/
A site-specific project for the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival. The location of the former casino at Pařížska Street #25 and the current socio-political situation inspired Farm in the Cave in their concept, creating actions which subtly (and not so subtly) played with the surrounding reality.

 

2021

Dance through the Eye of a Camera /stream Ponec online, 2021/
The company’s artistic director, Viliam Dočolomanský, is the guest of a debate show about dance that isn’t taking place live but is taking place nonetheless. He will introduce a teaser for the movie Ephemera and reveal more about the origins of Farm in the Cave’s latest project.
Watch here

Refuge /recording, 2018, interview with the director 2021/
Recording of a performance inspired by interviews with a community of young people who while on the run found themselves in limit situations.
The broadcast will be introduced by the cultural journalist Veronika Štefanová in a live interview with the director Viliam Dočolomanský, who will also respond to questions from the audience. 
Watch here.

Intervention /recording, 2012/
A site-specific project for the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival. The location of the former casino at Pařížska Street #25 and the current socio-political situation inspired Farm in the Cave in their concept, creating actions which subtly (and not so subtly) played with the surrounding reality.

Night in the City Concert /recording, 2020/
Music is an equally highly appreciated part of Farm in the Cave´s performances. Allow yourself the possibility of enjoying the music from Refuge, Whistleblowers and Forever Together shows at home.

Journey to the Station /documentary movie, 2003/
The international theater project Journey to the Station brought the building of the small railway station together with 62 participants from different countries. Farm in the Cave and Norwegian theater group Stela Polaris presented a theater event which symbolically christened the existence of the new cultural center Stanica /Žilina, Slovakia/

Waiting Room /recording, 2017, interview with the director 2021/
Recording of a performance inspired by the memory of a space - the railway station Žilina - Záriečie. From here Jews from the Slovak State were deported during the second world war.
The show took place directly in the waiting room of the railway station Praha Bubny, which is connected with the deportations of Jews from Prague.
The broadcast will be introduced by the interview of the director Viliam Dočolomanský and Pavlel Štingl (director of the Memorial of Silence).

Disconnected  /recording, 2016/
Recording of a performance about hikikomori - young people suffering from inability to leave their own room and living in isolation and solitude for a long time.
Texts of the performance here

The Theatre /recording, 2011/
Recording of a performance about searching for human freedom within a social system. The show is based on researches on Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations in the Northern Brazil territories.

Sclavi /The song of an Emigrant /recording, 2008/
Recording of award-winning performance. The scenic composition is based on field research the Farm in the Cave did in villages of eastern Slovakia, on old Ruthenian and Ukrainian songs, on letters of Slovak emigrants, and on the story of Karel Čapek ’s Hordubal.

Dark Love Sonnets /recording, 2002/
Recording of a performance inspired by life of a poet Federico García Lorca - Farm in the Cave´s first project.

Asking the Arché of Architecture to Dance - We celebrate the Day of Architecture! /recording, 2017/
Let´s mark the International Day of Architecture with our project Asking the Arché of Architecture to Dance, where our dance performance was inspired by the architecture of the Slovak National Gallery.

Whistleblowers /recording, 2015/
Recording of a performance based on a true case uncovering the criminal practises of a multinational concern.

Ephemera / film, 2020/
The project Ephemera was originally created as a live performance that would fulfil the imposed anti-epidemic measures. From the circulating cabins of the paternoster lift, spectators were to watch parallel events happening across six floors of the Lucerna Palace. Since we were not allowed to realize the project live, we decided to make the 45-minute performance as a film.

 

2020

Disconnected  /recording, 2016/
Recording of a performance about hikikomori - young people suffering from inability to leave their own room and living in isolation and solitude for a long time.
Texts of the performance here

This is /movie, 2007/
Movie shot in Chiusi, Italy, in the frame of the European project Search for Message, dir. R. Šveda.

Night in the City Concert /live stream of a concert, 2020/
Music is an equally highly appreciated part of Farm in the Cave´s performances. Allow yourself the possibility of enjoying the music from Refuge, Whistleblowers and Forever Together shows at home.

Gen Viliam Dočolomanský /documentary, 2008/
Artistic Director of the company Viliam Dočolomanský in GEN.sk (Gallery of the Nation´s Elite), a documentary series of Slovak television in 2008. A short biographic portrait through the eyes of the director R. Šveda.

Your choice - Dark Love Sonnets /recording of a performance of your choice, 2002/
Recording of a performance inspired by life of a poet Federico García Lorca - Farm in the Cave´s first project.

Sclavi /The song of an Emigrant /recording, 2008/
Recording of award-winning performance. The scenic composition is based on field research the Farm in the Cave did in villages of eastern Slovakia, on old Ruthenian and Ukrainian songs, on letters of Slovak emigrants, and on the story of Karel Čapek ’s Hordubal.

Journey to the Station /documentary movie, 2003/
The international theater project Journey to the Station brought the building of the small railway station together with 62 participants from different countries. Farm in the Cave and Norwegian theater group Stela Polaris presented a theater event which symbolically christened the existence of the new cultural center Stanica /Žilina, Slovakia/

Farm in the Cave meets 4x4 live /4+4 days in motion stream, 2020/
The performers Eliška Vavříková and Helena Myslivečková from Together Forever! are guests on a live stream in the frame of 4x4 Live / 4+4 Days in Motion 2020 Festival/.
Watch  here 

Waiting Room /recording, 2011/
Recording of a performance inspired by the memory of a space - the railway station Žilina - Záriečie. From here Jews from the Slovak State were deported during the second world war.

Ephemera / film, 2020/
The project Ephemera was originally created as a live performance that would fulfil the imposed anti-epidemic measures. From the circulating cabins of the paternoster lift, spectators were to watch parallel events happening across six floors of the Lucerna Palace. Since we were not allowed to realize the project live, we decided to make the 45-minute performance as a film.

 

For Promoters

Farm in the Cave’s standard space requirements for performances are as follows: a space with good acoustics which can also be completely silent during performances; typically we use a black box or site-specific space with minimal dimensions of 10 x 10 meters, with a height of 6 meters; at least 6 months before the performance our technical team of 2-4 persons must make a preparatory visit.

The maximum number of audience members at individual performances varies, but is usually no more than 450. 
The number of performers per performance varies between 5 and 13, and the technical – production staff is between 4 and 6 people.
The minimum number of performances presented in one place is 2. The company can play 2 performances per day are available on request – the latest start time is 21:00 local time.
 
The length of preparation and adaptation depends on the specific performance and local conditions, with a minimum of 1-2 days necessary prior to the day of the first production.
Financial requirements are available upon request at info@farminthecave.com.
 

The organizers pay for: fees; costs of shipping scenography; personnel transport; local transportation to the performance location; housing; per-diems; costs connected with preparatory technical visit. The organizer agrees to pay for costs of equipment rental if the space to be used does not have the equipment necessary.