Palissimo Company: The Painted Bird - Bastard
Jaro Viňarský wins 2013 New York Dance & performance Bessie Award for performance in Bastard!
"Outstanding Performance: Jaro Vinarsky in Pavel Palissimo’s Bastard at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. A coiled bolt of energy capable of captivating stillness and explosive physicality, he made every moment harrowing, sharp and urgent."
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Bastard talks about the feelings of a person whom the world considers to be an interloper. He is alone. He comes from another culture and he creates his own small world in a new setting. At one moment, ordinary people enter this world.
"Vinarsky is piercing ... Frederickson's bracing score... 'Bastard' is searing.""
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Violent Tale, Tenderly Told: 'Bastard' earns its emotional extremity - with tenderness and quiet.”
FINANCIAL TIMES
"A vivid, often anguished imagination shines through in [Zustiak's] work.""
THE NEW YORKER
" 'Bastard' has both magic and mystery...""
DANCE VIEW TIMES
"Bastard is primarily a solo for Viňarský, a choreographer-dancer born in Slovakia and active throughout Eastern Europe. Lord, what a performer he is! Wiry, muscular, not very tall, he’s as alert as an animal, precise in his intentions and soft on his feet, with expert dramatic timing."
Deborah Jowitt, Artsjournal.com