Duo Farsa, Marco Pillo - A Night in Ankara
created: 13. 12. 2018 10:07 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The instrumental composition A Night in Ankara is the authors' composition by Frantisek Godla and Dusan Onody, the members of the guitar players under the label Duo Farsa. The motivation behind the composition is their stay in Turkey. Duo Farsa plays their own, highly emotional compositions of more genres, mainly influenced by the Spanish rhythms of flamenco. The performance is specific by participation of Marco Pillo (a musician, singer and composer), who plays the cajon. The video was recorded on 31st of March, 2014 in the Jonas Zaborsky Theater's Small Scene as a part of the presentation of the book of poems by Dusan Onody: For You, Only You.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern flamenco trio author's craft Duo Farsa Marco Pillo general audience internal
Stanislav Cina - The Wood-curver
created: 11. 12. 2018 11:58 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Stanislav Cina's short talk about carving in a pastoral center in the village of Čičava. The Roma Pastoral Center covers the formation and missionary service in the Roma communities, especially in the Vranov district. Through the Civic Association Hot Team, they implemented a project of a protected workshop in 2012, employing handicapped Roma from Vranov nad Topľou. Within the sheltered workshops, they have been devoting themselves to the works of wood-curving under the direction of Milan Krajniak. Their main inspiration was taken from the religious themes.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic wood carving Slovak Stanislav Cina - The Wood-curver general audience internal
Gizela Bikarova - Memories
created: 11. 12. 2018 10:37 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview with G. Bikarova was recorded in July 2014. G. Bikarova was born in the year 1930 in the Helcmanovce village, district of Gelnica. She spoke about her memories from the Second World War and after it finished. She speaks in the dialect typical for the Lower Spis Region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Gizela Bikárová general audience internal
Šarlota Bottová - The Portrait of the Painter
created: 11. 12. 2018 10:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Šarlota Bottová (1989-) is an artist from Rimavská Baňa in Hnúšťa. She graduated from the Secondary Technical School in Rimavska Sobota, in the cosmetics department. In the field of fine arts, her main focus is drawing the portraits. Šarlota Bottová exhibited her works in Prague (2016) in the gallery Phundrado vudar (Open Doors), at the exhibition of amateur Roma artists AraArt, in Košice (2017) in the Važecká Exchanger, in Hnúšta (2017) at the Library of Prof. Štefan Pasiar and in Rimavská Baňa. The drawing depicts the portrait of the British actor, musician and writer James Hugh Calum Laurie.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic in persona drawing Slovak Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
Adela Orgovánová - Reminiscence
created: 09. 12. 2018 16:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Adela Orgovánová (1936-) was born in Presov, a town she lived in all her lifetime. At 8 years old she survived the bombing of Presov by the Soviet Army. The bombardment happened on 20th of December, 1944 and took more than 70 minutes. There's no exact number of victims known, officially 140 persons were buried in Presov. She speaks about life in Presov during the WWII and after the war - speaks about her family, childhood, her youth and work, as well as about her efforts, poverty, friendships and values.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak general audience internal
Marco Pillo - Enamorado soy
created: 09. 12. 2018 16:27 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Marco Pillo studied at Conservatory in Prague, his main subject was cimbalom. Later he also learnt playing the classical guitar. When studying in Barcelona he was introduced to the local Romani style flamenco, what greatly influenced his later performance. The digital cultural object is the video recording of him interpreting the song Enamorado soy (I am in love) composed by Canut Reyes (originally Francois Reyes) in 1989 for his first solo album Bolero, issued in the same year. The songs of the album were meant as a tribute to the composer Maurice Ravel.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern flamenco solo Spanish Marco Pillo general audience internal
Marco Pillo - Bulería
created: 09. 12. 2018 16:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Marco Pillo studied at Conservatory in Prague, his main subject was cimbalom. Later he also learnt playing the classical guitar. When studying in Barcelona he was introduced to the local Romani style flamenco, what greatly influenced his later performance. The digital cultural object is the video recording of him interpreting the Buleria composition. “Bulería” is the most characteristic flamenco style of Jerez de la Frontera (the hometown of flamenco, Andalusia, Spain). It is generally composed of three or four eight-syllable verses. This is one of the most complex dancing and guitar styles: bustling, happy and cheerful. Bulerías constitute an usuall dance to finish all flamencos parties.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern flamenco solo Spanish Marco Pillo general audience internal
The mysterious world and the Fuzzies
created: 07. 12. 2018 21:13 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The premiere of the children´s performance "The mysterious world and the Fuzzies" was played by Romathan theatre. The fairy-tale inscenation offers to the audience the look into the imaginative world of the forest kingdom, reigned by the queen "Bachtaľori". In a fairy tale a young spectator reveals the secrets of a good and love on a background of an evil and intrigues being enacted both in a Mysterious world, as well as in a world of humans. The genre: a fairy-tale with a songs;The language of performance: Slovak primary, Romani secondary; The scenery: classical stage properties, the play is not interactive, but performative. Cast: Karel Adam, Oto Bunda, Milan Godla, Marián Balog, and others.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
Romathan Newly Dressed
created: 06. 12. 2018 22:57 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The 65th premiere of Romathan Theatre was marked as in "a new dress". Musical and dance performance was linked with a traditional Romani psalms and dances, which are the carriers of a deep idea of Romani inner feelings and felowship and which bring the audience to the world of Roma (music, dance, singing). The orchestral background of the performance has its own separate outputs, which shows the interconnection and the multiculturalism of the nations in Europe.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
Romathan - The Magic Bell
created: 06. 12. 2018 22:46 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Photos from the original Roma stageing for children and teenagers. The drama points to the importance of family and good family relationships. Choreography was done by Eva Adamová, music by Karel Adam, directed by Marián Balog. It was the 69th premiere, which took place in theater on 18.3.2016.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic photography Romathan general audience internal
