KALAND
Veronika Klausz
I am proposing KALAND for the kids and youth of Kontaktland.
The beautiful venue and the nature surrounding Kontaktland are calling us to explore and move.
I am bringing all the tools we need to discover, shake up the space around us, become brave, support each other, jump, and then catch each other. We will play existing KALAND games, and we might even create new ways of playing together.
But what is KALAND?
KALAND (which means “adventure” in Hungarian) is a broad concept. Along with my colleague, Vágner Orsi, we have developed many tools to help reach the KALAND state or attitude. This attitude is at the core of the whole idea.
Playful transformation happens through KALAND tools, such as:
• Tree and urban climbing games
• “Through and Through” (crossing obstacles, rivers, mud, rocks)
• Stick techniques (jumping, wandering with one or two sticks)
• Using seasonal elements (sliding on ice, wet surfaces, floodplains, tides, soft leaf litter)
• Contact Parkour (a fusion of contact improvisation and parkour)
• Music and KALAND
• Inventing new games in new environments
• Solo experiments evolving into group activities
• Dancing in unique spaces (trees, random stages, mood-based choreography)
About Veronika
I’m Veronika Klausz, a dancer and teacher. Conventionally, I teach movement classes for the stage in a theater-specialized high school. However, a significant part of my work revolves around KALAND.
At this stage of my life and career, my focus is on participatory, experimental work that centers on play, open spaces, public spaces, nature, community, perception shifts, and rest.
DRAWING BODIES
Dorka Tímár
Moving and leaving traces, creating from found movements is the theme of the games and experiments I offer to children at the Kontaktand festival. Around the Three Treasures Valley, we will look for inspirations in nature or in our own bodies, to build and play with them to create images and moving sculptures. We paint on large paper surfaces, on each other, with our hands, feet and head, we draw movements and dance our drawings. There will also be opportunities for more in-depth, individual creation and collective experimentation. We will probably be very smudgy by the end.
About Dorka
I’m Dorka Timár, mother, dancer, ceramist, teacher. It’s no secret that I have loved these games for a long time or would like to play them myself. I found many of them while doing my own dances, and many of the ideas were inspired by my previous teachers or modern artists or the Segni Mossi method.
What stories are moving here?
Krisztina Bogó
Do they walk around the pavilion, hide in the reeds of the small lake or unfold in an encounter on the dance floor? Let’s find out together, draw them and move them too! We will create in the form of mini comics and stop-motion animation, which will be inspired by the nature surrounding the festival and the dance movements of Kontaktland. We will draw movements, our own characters and create photo-based animations from elements found in nature, and even from ourselves. There will be the opportunity to create in groups and individually.
About Krisztina
I am Krisztina Bogó, an illustrator and art teacher, but I like to create in different genres and techniques, to move my drawings as animation or to step into space with installation works or performances. I have been dancing Contact Improvisation for 13 years, for me the research of the combination of movement and drawing is a playful discovery, pushing boundaries and possibilities. I like to use playful approaches and experiment in both my own creative work and teaching.