Skateboards
Drawing on Pál Frenák’s childhood memories, the choreography of Skateboards is centered on teenagers’ fashionable sports equipment which appears in an unusual metaphor. The show is set in the socially unfavorable environment of the 1960s’ state institutes. It presents the world of children locked away from the outside world yet still capable of showing puckish, although somehow too serious, joie de vivre. It is not as if this life did not have its cruel and dark aspects, but everything is expressed through the voice of untainted, childish naivety.
The motion of the performers on Skateboards reflects the life of children who are locked up in state institutes. Behind the fence, their violent reality requires them to repress their emotions and keeps them in a suspended, perplexed state of existence. The children engage in a dialog neither with replies nor even words. Frenák projects their state of existence and childish observations through his own unique sign system.
While seeking a much needed balance in life, the protagonists experience a string of real and imagined moments. The energetic movements, the imaginative scenery and the light and sound effects combine to make the play exceptionally dynamic.
