MARJANA KRAJAČ

VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE

 

The new work by choreographer Marjana Krajač is a three-hour performance at the Mestrovic Pavilion / Dom HDLU in Zagreb, which will be premiered on 18^th of October 2014 starting at 14 h, with performances on 19th, 20th, 21st and 22^nd of October also starting at 14 h.

 

This simultaneously complex and fragile consideration of the nature of dance, whose building material is just enough present in order to irrevocably dissapear,

is extensive, yet minimalistic dance session between sound and space.

Performed by dance artists Lana Hosni, Irena Mikec, Katarina Rilović, Irena Tomašić and Mia Zalukar, this long dance work invites you to spend time with it, coming gradually into the layers of its texture.

In her last works, Marjana Krajač embarked on a complex mission of revoking the very substance of a dance medium, exposing its own ontology and deconstructed historicity. In such intervention, that deals with the very nature of dance – Spinoza would call it natura naturata, modes and conditions of substance can seek its cause only in themselves. To dance a dance, means then also that the very dance must go through the experience itself. This suggests that something beyond the experiential horizon of dance can only be a projection of its function but not the dance itself. In such framework of interest, Marjana Krajač and five dance artists are asking relevant questions and opening up the space of joint consideration of metaphysical commitments and added meanings. What inhabits a dance event becomes part of its foundation.

Moving away from short-term effects of watching, this work calls for flexibility of time and experiential notion of a performance. VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE are proposing this work as a community experience and the group experience, in any case, something that we share with others via watching. The Other, which is the mirror of what occurs, becomes important for our understanding of dance as an art of transfer. Transfer through the other and the friction on the other becomes the only area in which dance can construct some type of memory to itself. In this sense, the other is at the same time a witness and a participant.

The work was created in cooperation and residencies at Uferstudios / Tanzfabrik Berlin (Germany), Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy) and the Zagreb Dance Centre.

The work was realized with the support of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Ministry of Culture, Zagreb Dance Centre, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance and the Croatian Association of Artists.

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Tickets

Admission to the premiere on October 18th is by invitation.

For 19, 20, 21 and 22 October tickets can be purchased directly before the performance at the ticket office at the entrance of Mestrovic Pavilion / Dom HDLU. The ticket office opens 1 hour before the performance.

 

HDLU

Trg žrtava fašizma 16, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

tel: 01 / 4611-818 / 4611-819 (weekdays from 10 to 14 hours)

E-mail: hdlu@hdlu.hr

Web: www.hdlu.hr

 

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