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V Izvrstnem Redu
Project Type
Performans
Date
2024 November
Loaction
Ljubljana / Slovenia
Team
Idea and co-choreography: Mateja Bučar.
Performers and co-creators of movement and dance: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Nataša Živkovič, Kristina Aleksova, Katja Legin, Tina Valentan, Bojana Robinson, Nina Pertot Weis, Loup Abramovici, Beno Novak, Jana Menger, Jerneja Fekonja, Tini Rozman, and Jernej Bizjak.
Music, sound: Drago Ivanuša and J. S. Bach.
Text: Robert Pfaller, Rok Vevar.
Costume design, lighting: DUM.
Production: DUM.
Co-production: Cukrarna/MGML and CoFestival 2024.
Project co-financed by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.
The choreography is conceived specifically for a space with the kind of volume and length found in the entrance hall of Cukrarna; here, the row or line can be clearly delineated, unfold, develop, bend, stretch and contract, ignite and calm down.
On one side lies the rigor of a pure line; on the other, the complexity, wildness, and cunning of movement languages and articulations that will voluntarily interlace with and follow one another, intertwining constantly, while winding themselves into an inwardly intricate yet outwardly simple purity of a single line. The aim is to capture that paradoxical moment between complete liberation and strict discipline—a moment into which the living, thinking, and dancing being is always fatefully caught. Some of this paradox, the kind that extends into our broader contemporary life, may also be hinted at in the title: In Excellent Order.

