Residency and workshop with Eduard Kudláč (SK)
Where does the body meet meaning? When is a gesture real? How can silence be a statement and chaos a structure?
A performative workshop that explores three key elements of creation in contemporary art along the axis of authenticity ~ content ~ composition.
Within the workshop, we will explore the boundaries between body and text, between individual experience and collective gesture, between what we can say – and what can be experienced.
We will seek physical and emotional presence that is not acting.
We will focus on working with body, breath, and voice not as part of “naturalness,” but as a conscious choice.
We will work with open meanings, metaphors, and ambiguity.
We will explore how content emerges, how it is (not) communicated, and what happens between the creator and the spectator.
We will analyze dramaturgical possibilities in non-narrative structures and experiment with our own compositions – from microgestures to complete situations.
Composition as rhythm of body, image, sound, duration, a laboratory in which we explore:
Who am I when I am in front of another?
Where do I end and where does the image begin?
And what actually happens?
FREE REGISTRATION, LIMITED SPOTS:
https://rezidencie.dogmadivadlo.sk
Eduard Kudláč (SK)
Eduard Kudláč, theatre director, visual artist, curator.
He studied theatre directing at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava.
He developed his focus on searching for new possibilities in theatre through movement, fragmentation, non-verbal expression, and action in his own association phenomenontheatre, which he founded in 2000 as an independent platform for contemporary theatre.
Since 2009, he has been the artistic director of the City Theatre of Žilina, which he has profiled as a theatre with bold dramaturgy focused on contemporary Slovak and international texts and unconventional interpretations of the classics.
The project of international theatre residencies brings a unique format of collective authorial creation led by experienced mentors from V4 countries – Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland – to Trenčín.
In the open and creative space of Družba Drama Studio in Trenčín, four short stage works will be created reflecting the participants’ personal experiences and shared work.
The goal of the residencies is to connect professional artists with the local community, support creativity, and allow audiences to glimpse the process of theatre creation.
The results of each residency will be presented publicly and followed by discussions with the creators.
The project offers a new way to perceive theatre – as a space for collaboration, dialogue, and sharing.
At the same time, it creates a model that can inspire further artistic initiatives in Trenčín and beyond.
Participation in the residencies is limited and free of charge.
This project is carried out with the support of the European Capital of Culture Trenčín 2026 and the City of Trenčín.
