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AN EVENING OF DANCE SOLOS

Premiere:  6.12.2022 - Atrium of ZRC SAZU

Concept, co-creation, performance: Dejan Srhoj
Choreographies: Jan Rozman, DISKOlektiv
Sound composition "Wooden Lathes" and interactive floor design: Boštjan Perovšek
Live music: Bowrain
Dramaturgy: Katarina Pejović
Costume design: Dajana Ljubičić
Light design and technical support: Danilo Pečar
Building of wooden lathes: Slavko Trivković
Production: Dejan Srhoj in Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija
Public relations: Urška Comino
Photos: Sunčan Stone

The project was supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department for culture, Dance On Pass On Dream On.

Partners: ZRC SAZU – Znanstveno Raziskovalni Center Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti, JSKD – Javni Sklad Republike Slovenije za Kulutrne Dejavnosti, DUM – Društvo Umetnikov.

Thanks to: Dragana Alfirević, Jasmina Založnik, Rok Vevar, Nina Avguštin Rošker, Nina Meško, Mateja Bučar, Liana Kalčina ter Doroteja in Dimitra.
Three performances, research processes and co-authorial journeys are revealed behind a name that evokes a performance form almost doomed to the past. Their common denominator and common thread is the choreographer and dancer Dejan Srhoj, who has invited artists to collaborate with him who – each from their own medium, poetics and aesthetics – open up new aspects of their own work through their joint research. 

Choreographer Jan Rozman brings into dialogue with Dejan the generational difference and the engagement with the object that gives birth to the animistic solo-duet; with Boštjan Perovšek, composer and sound-space designer, they build a live composition for the dancer and interactive floor; the explorer and dancer of multiple identities, DISCOllective, leads Dejan on a journey of questioning his ballet past, as Virgil led Dante through the most challenging stages of the Divine Comedy. 

The three journeys are set within an overarching journey: a music-talk-dance jamming between Dejan and the musician and composer Bowrain – Tine Grgurevič. An evening of dance solos is therefore a paradox of sorts, as it is essentially a constant exchange and a fruit of collaboration, both between the creators of this evening and with the audience.  (Katarina Pejović)