IHOPEIWILL
Medium: intermedia performance
Premiere: April 10, 2024
Duration: around 45 mins
How do we imagine a common future not only for ourselves, but for our grandchildren? What do we hope and want to create for them? Can our hopes materialize?
IHOPEIWILL explores our shared future amidst ongoing political tensions and escalating climate challenges. It conveys a sense of expectation and hope despite the prevailing global atmosphere of fear and great uncertainty.
IHOPEIWILL is an event that connects physical performance, sound design, and visual installation. Each of these media works independently one next to the other and simultaneously in synergy, which together create an organic whole.
The inspiration for the piece came from conversations with people in which we were interested in the optics of personal family environment and relationships across generations. What do we envision for the future, not only for ourselves but for the generations after us? What kind of world do we wish for them and what can we do to fulfill those wishes?
IHOPEIWILL thus becomes an artistic reflection of the current trajectory of society and our responsibility towards future generations.
Team
created by: threeiscompany in collaboration with Jaro Viňarský
set design: threeiscompany
performance: Soňa Ferienčíková
sound: Never Sol, Alexandra Timpau, Lukáš Kubičina
visual content creator: Maria Júdová Tichá
light design and technical support: Ints Plavnieks, David Cartwright
videography for installation: Richard Chomo
produced by: BOD.Y ngo (Ferienčíková, Frištiková, Packová)
executive production, PR: Romana Packová
creative producer: Dirk Förster
Dates
Premieres:
April 10, 2024 NuDanceFest, Bratislava, SK
April 22, 2024 PONEC – divadlo pro tanec, Prague, CZ
July 12-13, 2024 Theaterfestival Schwindelfrei, Mannheim, DE
Reprises:
May 2, 2024 CKN Záhrada, Banská Bystrica, SK
June 19 2024 Korespondance Festival Nové Město na Morave, CZ
October 10 2024 Bratislava in Movement Festival, Bratislava, SK
February 4 2025 Moving Station, Pilsen, CZ
February 6 2025 Nebenan/Zblízka Festival HELLERAU, Dresden, DE
March 7 2025 Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava, SK
March 21 2025 Nová Synagoga Žilina, SK
April 10 2025 Ostrava, CZ
April 25 2025 Spring Forward, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, IT/SI
May 19 2025 Divadelní Flora Olomouc, CZ
Video gallery
videos shot by Richar Chomo and edited by Mária Júdová Tichá
Interview respondents
Agi Ferienčíková, Andrea la Rose, Anna Biháryová, David Tišer, Gabriela Šallayová, Hale Doganci, Marek Keveš, Markus Hubr, Ronny Zangenberg, Samuel Černý, Václav Šíma, Yara Abu Aataya
Special thanks
Antónia Tomalová, Christophe Henri Laurent, Gabriela Tomášková, Giseli Polávka Borduchi, Marcela Záchenská, Kubo Horničák, Lukáš Bobalík, Lukáš Kubičina, Mária Kačeriaková, Maťo Urban, Milan Sláma, Norbert Čabala, Peter Tichý
Press kit
Awards
IHOPEIWILL received the Slovak DOSKY Theatre Award for Extraordinary Feat in Dance Theatre and was selected by the Aerowaves Europe platform for 2025
Partners
main financial partner: Slovak Arts Council
financial partners: ZSE foundation, EFFEA
co-producers: KoresponDance, NuDanceFest, Tanec Praha / PONEC – dance venue, Theaterfestival Schwindelfrei, Záhrada CNK
partners: Telocvicna – Dance Residency Center / PlaST – Slovak Contemporary Dance Platform, Cinetica
The IHOPEIWILL residency is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by the European Union.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.
