Traces in the memory

The performance Traces in the memory are inspired by personal experience of performers Maja Danadová and Monika Kováčová – their brothers were diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. 
The primary source material are clinical signs and symptoms of this chronic mental illness.
We created an association run on the edge between light and darkness, silence and sound, reflecting the traces of memory, traces in the body.

Story, concept, realisation: Mária Danadová, Monika Kováčová
Music: Ján Fiala
Scenography cooperation: Juraj Poliak
Choreography cooperation: Martina Hajdyla Lacová
Creation of puppet: Pavol Rosenberger
Costumes: Viktória Jehlárová

Performed by: Mária Danadová, Monika Kováčová and Ján Fiala

Photo: Ján Chmelík

The perfomance was supported by Slovak arts council, Theatre Pôtoň (Bátovce), Theatre from the Passage (Banská Bystrica), Záhrada – centre of independent culture (Banská Bystrica) and Relax and dance studio Alishaba (Banská Bystrica).