"Hayali", meaning "imaginary" in Turkish, is the moving poetry of a separation story between a man and a woman. Based on the dynamics of balance, the performance creates a world between remembering-forgetting, denying-accepting, loving-hating and standing-falling. Without words, the body disguises as the narrator and brings together dance and theatre in an unusual space and time, varying rhythms in order to offer a poetical voyage.

Lausanne and İstanbul… At the dawn of a new journey, both with their own luggage, two hopeful young artists, thirsty for adventures. Two roads crossing finally in Brussels in 2013 in Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Lassaad.
Mélissa Guex & Emre Yıldızlar study physical theater and deal with acrobatics, singing, movement analysis and body conscience, surrounded by musicians, actors, dancers and other artists. Throughout different styles, they have the opportunity to handle their clay, like artisans, with tools of mime, tragedy chorus, a touch of melodrama and clown humor. This meeting gave birth to an artistic connection and the founding of COMPAGNIE DU PAON and their first creation "Hayali".

Film studio:
22.5. // 20:00h

"Walls" is a performance residency project, being developed in Medika during May, resulting with a premiere at the 21. FAKI festival. As in the previous years, the residency is one of the corner stones of the festival, following this year's motif – the body as an instrument of physical theater.

PUZZLE PIE(S)CES is a young artists' group, originating from different Sebian cities; living and working in Belgrade and Vienna. They are determined to continuously improve their collective knowledge, skills and competences in the areas of performance, contemporary movement, physical theater, while collaboratively accumulating years of experience in diverse performance projects.
The group is focused on communicating strong agendas, utilizing different techniques of physical theater, contemporary movement, light experiments and props, whilst criticizing the society, the self and the other – only to divert our attention to everything neglected in the omnipresent rush of the contemporary age.

DZIU:
22.5. // 21:00h
23.5. // 20:00h

"La(s) caída(s)" develops a travel from the dancing body towards the gesture, anchored as a signifier of sense revealing a story repeated. The main subject is the surviving body of a mistreated woman, that gets up again and again; representative of many other women - victims of violence recovering in a society where bodies reveal life only when dead. Reflecting on the recent constant femicides in Chile and Latin America – the performance represents the survivor(s) testifying the horror. Bodies not words. That's the case of Nabila Rifo, a woman in Chile who survived uncountable blows in her cranium and whose eyeballs were extirpated. Women as Nabila are hidden behind the mask of "La(s) caída(s)".

HIJA DE ROSA Theatre Company was founded by actress, playwriter and director Carolina Sagredo in 2014. Its work develops in to the visualization of facts, stories and characters that are invisible in a specific time and space. Research, reflection and creation made up from the particular to the universal; its scenic proposals narrate problematics in which all of us are involved, as members of a society. In this way it's possible to reflect about how we relate to each other individually, collectively and institutionally. The poetic language inside of the esthetic diversity of its work has in common that is in the body where the conflicts it is materialize. The work contains fragmentation and variation of the same, repeated, structure, generating disturbing strangeness of reality.
"La(s) caída(s)" is performed by Andrea Lagos Neumann – dancer, actress, director and producer for independent theatre projects in Chile.
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Film studio:
23.5. // 21:00h
24.5. // 21:00h

"Wonderful World" is a body based performance that confronts the theme of violence. Choreography, performance, and live music are woven into an epic and spectacular scene of a massacre, in between slapstick and realism, where terror appear in a violent and uncontrollable manner. In this apocalyptic ambiance, moments of silence rise time to time, giving space for the audience to step back of the scene and eventually then, articulate what they just experienced and form a critical point of view on acts of terror. In this "Wonderful World", let’s hope that the frightened bird will see beyond the storm and appreciate those skies of blue and clouds of white. Let’s hope that the devastated love will take a few leaps backwards to put its sunken heart back in place.

COLLECTIVE B is an Austrian performative art collective based in Vienna, directed by the emerging artists and cultural managers Alja Ferjan (Slovenia), Elsa Mourlam (France) and Sonia Borkowicz (Poland). The collective is noted for the blending of several artistic disciplines, primarily contemporary dance, but also contemporary music, theater, visual art, cinema and literature.
Sharing a variety of cultural resources, collaborating with a wide range of artists, international cultural and educational institutes, as well as with local communities, Collective B gives rise to atypical and authentic works staged in theaters and festivals worldwide.
Longing for a living well together, each of the Collective B productions ground on a sensible and detailed artistic research that springs forth from a critical thinking on humankind issues. His strong commitment to social reflection, points out the relevance, value and impact of art.
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DZIU:
24.5. // 20:00h

"Peep diary" is a participant observer and relational performance of Dance Theatre that deals with memory, based on the written recollections resulting in a diary form. The performance is in total dark. The audience enters a dark room and lights up the performance through the torch of their cell phone.
"I want to recreate the intimacy and confidence that are experienced through the writing of a diary. Everything is studied to create suggestions and images in order to permit the audience to fell and remember the imaginary diary of their lives. In the world of Peep Diary you could find every kind of story, it is up to the audience which one they want to live or remember." — Elena Copelli

Performer/Choreographer ELENA COPELLI has worked in theatre and dance production; in 2011 she has begun to create her own performances of dance theatre, that have been selected in many festivals (among others: roBOt Festival-Bologna/Italy, HangartFest-Pesaro/Italy, Teatro Libero-Palermo/Italy, STOFF-Stockholm/Sweden, International Solo Contest-Gdansk/Poland). She has held workshops (Dams-University of Turin/Italy, Bide-Barcelona/Spain, Torino Fringe Festival/Italy) and won residencies (Mibac/Teatro Magro-Mantova/Italy,Spam-Lucca/Italy, Ortopolis-Pesaro/Italy) with her projects of research on the use of light, audience participation and site-specific performance. She has worked and studied, among others, with: Jérome Bel, Cristiana Morganti, Teri J. Weikel, Dino Verga, Britta Pudelko (Akram Khan Company, Sasha Waltz and Guest), Nullo Facchini (Cantabile 2).
elenacopelli.it

Film studio:
25.5. // 20:00h

"Hey Kitty" is a solo performance based on the diary of Anne Frank and a poem written by an unknown 12-year-old girl. The actions carried out during the performance are developed twofold: on stage and on-screen as a movie. The story in the film starts at the end and plays backward, while the action on stage proceeds from the beginning to the end. All the scenes of the film and on stage are displayed separately, but together they form an integrated whole that complement each other.

RIMA PIPOYAN - In 2006 graduated from the Yerevan State College of Choreography as a choreographer and a ballet dancer. She received a Bachelor’s (2010) and a Master’s degree (2012) of the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography. Since 2012 she teaches dance and curates the course of “Choreography directing” at her Alma maters. Rima is the winner of the “DanceFormation” Bremen competition (2015). In June 2016 she presented her stage production entitled ”Hours of vision” in the South Caucasus Contemporary Dance & Experimental Art Festival in Tbilisi. Rima is also the winner of the Akademie der Kunste “Junge akademie” competition and one of the six finalists of ”Diana Vishneva Context” as a choreographer.
“The movement and the music should integrate each other and be the whole one. I don’t consider myself as a choreographer of any particular genre, I create what feels right at the moment and what music, rhythm, thought and time dictate. The aesthetics of stage is the thing that I appreciate the most. I never stop creating and searching for new forms of dance expression.” — Rima Pipoyan
rimapipoyan.com

DZIU:
25.5. // 21:00h
26.5. // 17:00h

The performance project "Lift and Carry" is elaborating on different crisis related to time, signs, mythology, senses, and meaning. Moments of crisis are transformed into a universe of paradoxical pictures, sculptural tableaux vivant and dance intermezzi, which represent new possibilities that beckon to new places of meaning.
The project is conceptualized as a series of openings, each of them between one minute and an undefined quantity of minutes long. Each opening facilitates one question about the notion of time, duration, about the idea of beginning and end, birth and death.

NEVERENDINGCOMPANY – a group project by Till Wyler von Ballmoos and Cássio Diniz Santiago. The company is primarily interested in the choreography of unstable events and the staging of narratives charting paradoxical situations. In addition to his teaching activities as a director and performer, Cássio Diniz Santiago devotes time to the examination of production processes and emotional value systems in various cultural contexts. As a theatre director, Till Wyler von Ballmoos stages theatre productions at the interface of music and language, focusing his dramaturgical attention on the relationship between audience members and performative spaces and community work based projects.
NeverEndingCompany works on a regular basis with different collaborators on their projects, and currently is collaborating with Nikolaus Witty,a dramaturg and performer to create the "Lift and Carry" performance.
www.tillwylervonballmoos.com

Film studio:
26.5. // 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00h