IHOPEIWILL
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
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
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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.




EVERYWHEN 360°
EVERYWHEN 360°
Medium: virtual reality, 360°
Premiere: 2021/07
Duration: 13 mins
A 360° video adaptation of EVERYWHEN – an intermedia performance that deals with the topic of historic recurrence through movement, 3d visuals, and sound spatialization.
An often caring, gentle and well-meaning personal life is contrasted here with the reality of the social individual, who can often be sinister, vengeful and hateful. But how can we be critical to our own worldviews when they are created by those closest to us?
Team
Dance, concept: Soňa Ferienčíková
Visuals, VR, concept: Mária Júdová
Sound, concept: Alexandra Timpau
VFX for dancer: Florian Friedrich
Dates
EVERYWHEN 360° has been shown at numerous VR-dance festivals across Europe.
2023-02 OnLive – Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Torino, IT
2022-11 Church of VR, Rotterdam, NL
2022-07 Letní filmová škola Uherské Hradiště, CZ
2022-04 Moovy Festival, Köln, DE
2021-10 VRE Fest, Rome, IT
2021-09 ZED Festival, Bologna, IT
2021-09 Venice VR Expanded, Modena, IT
2021-09 Vapore d’Estate, Milano, IT
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EVERYWHEN
EVERYWHEN
Medium: intermedia performance
Premiere: 2018/02
Duration: 40 mins
EVERYWHEN is an intermedia performance that deals with the topic of historic recurrence through movement, 3d visuals, and sound spatialization.
An often caring, gentle and well-meaning personal life is contrasted here with the reality of the social individual, who can often be sinister, vengeful and hateful. But how can we be critical to our own worldviews when they are created by those closest to us?
A woman as a loving mother who also promotes murder and slavery; a loving couple involved in the propaganda of a perverse ideology; kids that give a fascist salute as if in play. Something is wrong in these scenes. Images of everyday families, mums, and dads with their children, tiny groups of people, close to each other, face to face with the threat of history repeating itself.
Our memories often surface suddenly, changed, idealized, and sometimes they even erase themselves spontaneously. By leaving out key events and rewriting history a barrier is built between the new generation and older people, and this makes it too easy for history to repeat itself.
Team
dance, concept: Soňa Ferienčíková
visuals, concept: Mária Júdová
sound, concept: Alexandra Timpau
light design: Ints Plavnieks
movement cooperation: Martina Hajdyla Lacová
visual tech support: Andrej Boleslavský, Constantine Nisidis
sound tech support: Sara Pinheiro, Matej Šenkyrík
costume collaboration: Daniela Danielis
production: BOD.Y ngo / Zuzana Frištíková
Dates
EVERYWHEN has been performed nearly 50 times all over Europe and Latin America, i.e. in Rich Mix, London (UK), Festival Vértice, Salón de Danza (MX), International performing arts festival Differenti Sensazioni in Turin (IT), PLArTFORMA festival (LT), Spectaculare festival in Prague (CZ) and many others. In 2018, the performance was nominated for the Slovak theater award DOSKY.
2023-03-08 Trafo, Budapest, HU
2022-06-02 BOD.Y festival, Bratislava, SK
2022-05-27 Idnorvk, Reykjavik, Iceland
2021-10-23 Festival Off Europa 2021, Chemnitz, DE
2021-10-22 Festival Off Europa 2021, Dresden, DE
2021-07-03 Festival V Novom svetle, Považská Bystrica, SK
2021-06-28 A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry, Bratislava, SK
2020-03-13 A4, Bratislava, SK
2019-11-28 Rich Mix, London, UK
2019-11-02 Švestkový dvůr, Malovice, CZ
2019-10-23 Festival Vértice, Salón de Danza, Mexico City, MX
2019-10-19 La Casa de Nadie, Xalapa, MX
2019-10-10 International performing arts festival Differenti Sensazioni, Turin, IT
2019-09-17 PLArTFORMA festival, Klaipeda, LT
2019-09-15 Festival Sám na javisku, Trenčín, SK
2019-08-02 Festival Zvuk for Modra, Modra, SK
2019-06-06 Sensorium festival, Bratislava, SK
2019-04-25 25th Czech Dance Platform, Prague, CZ
2019-03-26 Spectaculare festival, Prague, CZ
2019-03-16 Czech centers, Paris, FR
2019-02-21 Malá inventura, Prague, CZ
2019-02-06 Varnsdorf, CZ
2018-12-17&18 Štúdio 12, Bratislava, SK
2018-11-17 Festival Vlna na živo, Bratislava, SK
2018-10-29 Moving Station, Pilsen, CZ
2018-10-20&21&22 Alfred ve Dvore, CZ
2018-10-14 Moonride Festival, Tabacka, Kosice, SK
2018-09-12&13 Štúdio 12, Bratislava, SK
2018-09-07 Záhrada – Centrum nezávislej kultúry, BB, SK
2018-07-17 Festival Kiosk, Žilina, SK
2018-07-17 Festival Zero Point, Prague, CZ
2018-06-23 Festival Divné veci, Stará Turá, SK
2018-05-23 Cooltour Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
2018-04-25 Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina, SK
2018-04-20&21 Nu Dance Fest, Bratislava, SK
2018-04-12&13 Alfred ve dvore, Prague, CZ
2018-02-12&13 Alfred ve dvore, Prague, CZ
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Partners
co-producer: Motus> Alfred ve dvore
partners: GAFFA O.Z., Institute of intermedia, Lunchmeat studio
residencies: Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Štúdio 12
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council

INBETWEEN
INBETWEEN
Medium: intermedia performance
Premiere: 2021/09
Duration: 45 mins
INBETWEEN is a performance that explores group tensions in a shifting environment.
“We are more connected than ever, we are changing into a mass that is trying to find balance. We pull and push.”
INBETWEEN is a performance that explores group tensions in a shifting environment animated by constant connectivity and instant reactions. The space amid these tensions becomes a collective mass that needs to be constantly remapped.
Team
Concept: Soňa Ferienčíková, Mária Júdová, Alexandra Timpau
Choreography: Soňa Ferienčíková in collaboration with Mária Júdová
Set design: Alexandra Timpau
Performed and co-created by: Lukáš Bobalík, Daniel Raček, Zdenka Brungot Svíteková, Jaro Viňarský / Andrej Štepita
Sound: Milan Slama, Alexandra Timpau, Lukáš Kubičina
Light design: Ints Plavnieks
Production: BOD.Y ngo / Zuzana Frištíková, Romana Packová
Special thanks: Jazmína Piktorová, Markéta Jandová, PLAST- Soňa Kúdeľová, Renata Jurčová, Zoë Schreckenberg
Dates
INBETWEEN is included in the repertoire of PONEC (theater in Prague, CZ), has over 10 international reprises, and several more planned.
2023/06 A4, Bratislava, SK
2023/06 Synagóga, Žilina, SK
2023/03 Študio tanca, Banská Bystrica, SK
2023/02 Švestkový dvůr, Malovice, CZ
2022/10 Moving Station Pilsner, CZ
2022/10 PONEC – dance venue, Prague, CZ
2022/09 PLArTFORMA festival, Klaipeda, Lithuania/LT
2022/04 PONEC – dance venue, Prague, CZ
2021/11 PONEC – dance venue, Prague, CZ
2021/10 A4 Space for Contemporary Culture, Bratislava, SK
2021/09 Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice, SK
2021/08 Telocvična Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava, SK
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Partners
Co-production: ME-SA spolek, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Tanec Praha / PONEC
With financial support: “Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council”, “This project was financially supported by the Bratislava self-governing region” and Ministry Culture of the Czech Republic.
