LONESOME COWBOY Every human is a lonely cowboy, imprinted with the landscape that surrounds them: the mountains, the city, an amalgam of ideas, images, ideals, icons and human behaviour. We find ourselves on the threshold of a scattered time when we can stop looking for patterns on the map, in the footsteps of heroism, and in the desert of patterns and memories from the past. We can draw our own individual maps where there is no hierarchy between our stories and where gentleness, uncertainty and doubt represent virtues just as determination, strength and fearlessness. What are the attributes the ideal cowboy of today should and could hold? And what would be the ideal cowboy in the form of Tomáš Janypka? Loneliness as a question and an answer.
Once upon a time, there was a man, or a boy, a cowboy.
TOMÁŠ JANYPKA is a creator, choreographer, performer, dance improviser and facilitator of Somatic Dialogue. His strength lies in his subtlety and openness to genres and approaches, his focus is on intimate events, the perception of the body and its boundaries, the weight of things on the physical and spiritual level, as well as physical and emotional sharing with the audience. Janypka enjoys frequent collaboration with various artists – Martin Hodoň, Sabina Bočková, Jazmína Piktorová, Viktor Černický, Elia Moretti, Roberta Legros, Tomáš Vtípil, Danka Tomečková, Juraj Gábor and others. His works and performances include: New Orchards (2018), song lines (2019), An Elegy to Ordinariness and Eight Cups and the Devil (2021), Completing the Sphere (2021), PQ 2023 opening performance and Lonesome COWBOY (2023). As an independent artist, he is a member of the collective ZDRUHESTRANY. As a performer, he has collaborated with Jan Mock, Viktorie Vášová, Daniel Gulko, Jaro Viňarský, Sonja Pregrad, Temporary Collective, tYhle, mimoOs and others.
