about the production
Site-specific project will take place in the setting of the former barracks at Martinský vrch. Since its inception, the physical theatre Debris Company has long and regularly been dedicated to art in public, to performance outside of classic theatre venues, to immersive and site-specific projects where the spectator can see an actor/ performer in a setting that is not primarily intended for theatre. Crescendo is a music-movement essay about the disappearance of the body in clusters of different entities as a model and current metaphor for the contemporary world in which we as a society are idly stuck. The word crescendo is thus perceived as gradual increase, layering, rising, expanding towards a climax. In the growing noise of void, a person vanishes as in a mythical fairy tale. Everything repeats itself, such is the historical state of affairs. In a multiplied abstract feeling that cannot be concretised in a story.
creators
concept, direction, music, light-design: Jozef Vlk
choreography: Stanislava Vlk Vlčeková
costume design: Andrea Pojezdálová
assistants: Monika Višňovská et. al
performed by: Stanislava Vlk Vlčeková, Andrea Pojezdálová
The production was co-produced with Pôtoň Theatre, Bátovce.
director
Jozef Vlk
Author, stage director, musician, composer, light designer, and producer. In 1990 he founded the physical theatre theatre Hubris Company which was transformed into Debris Company in 1995. With a break from 1999 to 2004, the Debris Company has been on stage for more than 30 years. After the foundation of the Hubris Company, Mr Vlk received a number of music-theatre scholarships (Graz, Amsterdam, Stuttgart). With the Debris Company he created over 25 productions that featured at international festivals and showcases (Festival Hybaj Ho!, Prague; Divadelní Flora Olomouc, Czech Republic; International Theatre Festival of Kerala, India; Festival Magie der Sprache, Wien, Austria; International de Danca de Recife, Brazil; Tanzschrittweise Graz, Austria; Off Europe, Leipzig, Germany; Theatre Festival Minsk, Belarus; 4front@ Murska Sobota, Slovenia; Singapore Fringe Festival; L1 Fest MU Színház Budapest, Hungary, Istanbul Fringe Turkey, etc.) As stage director and composer he worked with some of the leading names and theatres on a range of local and international music, stage and film projects. As a musician he tends to work within acoustic and electronic new music, sound installation and mapping. He is convenor of stage and multigenre events and festivals. In 2013 Radio Devín premièred Mr Vlk’s adaptation of the James Joyce novel Ulysses, for which he also composed the music. The play was nominated for the 2014 PRIX EUROPE in the category Radio Fiction in Berlin. In 2014 he made another radio play, Wryneck’s journey to the moon based on the title by Gustáv Reuss, pioneer of Slovak sci-fi. Other radio work: Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway (2023) and Julius Barc-Ivan: The End (2023), Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities (2025). As stage director and composer Mr Vlk was often nominated and received a number of awards e.g. DOSKY, Tatra Bank Prize for Arts, OST-RA-VAR, SLNKO V SIETI.
Debris Company is dedicated to movement – dance theatre, action art and performance. Within Slovak context it is a unique group focused on non-verbal theatre with an overlap into contemporary dance, performance, visual art and site-specific projects. Jozef Vlk is the leader, director and composer for most productions works closely with the choreographer Stanislava Vlčeková. They are constantly able to surprise, discover new connections. All this is now completed with the professional commitment of the now numerous creative team. Their projects are often based on a powerful original or adaptation. It can be classified as a multimedia, avant-garde movement that brings a singular touch to Slovak theatre.