Realisation: 2023
Concept: Julija Pečnikar
Dance: Alja Branc, Sara Janašković, Julija Pečnikar
Music: Balázs Pattantyús, Bálint Pattantyús
Costume design: Sara Brundula (design and implementation), Neža Dapčevič (draft)
Light design: Borut Bučinel
Graphic design: Bálint Pattantyús
Video and photography: Tin Silvaši Meštrović
Menthorship: Patrik Kelemen
Expert advice: Marten Spangberg, Denes Tornyi
Cover photo: Kino Šiška
Produkction: Zavod NEST
Coproduction: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija, Kino Šiška
Support: Workshop Foundation, Life Long Burning, European Union, Mestna občina Ljubljana, KUD Pozitiv, SIN Cultural Centre Budapest, Iniciativa V Glavnem
Special thanks: HUNDREDTOES Collective, Jasmina Založnik, Andreja Kopač
Financed by: European Union. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the European Union or the European Agency for Education and Culture (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
It significantly challenges conventional perceptions of reality and offers a glimpse into a future where humanity finds solace, excitement, and even despair in the fantasy of the cloud. The cloud represents a virtual storage space, such as iCloud. In the cloud, everything is just information. The performance scrutinizes the logic of virtual space while revealing how its functioning influences the logic of dance structuring.
What would it be like if we uploaded ourselves to a virtual space, like a file? What happens to the body while our thoughts are embedded in the cloud? What would happen if we uploaded our senses and consciousness to an imaginary storage space? Would this turn out to be something completely alien, something that neglects the essence, or could we learn from this experience? In what way can we perform a dance that is merely information, and what principles of movement does it encourage?
The artists view the body and its physical transcript as a medium for transmitting information. They are interested in how the body’s perception of data influences the development of movement potentials. Despite their complete physical dedication, they are merely information and concern themselves with nothing other than information itself—not trivial information that can be calculated, but information about form or existence. They also focus on information transmitted through touch. From one system to another, from one body to another. Inspired by cloud-based functions, they discover a different approach to the body, dance, and choreography. They lose their usual sense of time and space in order to simply dance in the virtual…
Like in a dream, the project portrays the coexistence of the real and the virtual, allowing us insight into a future that is already hidden among us. We embark on a journey through a gently awakening universe, allowing the dance of data and the sound of the digital world to lift the veil from our supposedly useless senses through awakened perception.