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THREE MOONS ARE WATCHING OUR PLANET

Premiere: 18.4.2025 - Španski borci Cultural Center

Choreographers, dancers: Tina Benko, Ema Križič
Music: Ida Hiršenfelder
Light and set design: Toni Soprano
Older sister: Dragana Alfirević
Costume design: Dajana Ljubičić
Graphic design: Danijel Mohorič
Photographer: Nina Pernat

Production: NDA Slovenija, Dragana Alfirević
Coproduction: Center plesa Maribor, Divje ptice IPG
Thanks to DUM projektni prostor, Mestni muzej LjubljanaAristotle believes that happiness lies in our capacity for contemplation – contemplation of what is, what has been, and what is yet to come. Three Moons Are Watching Our Planet is a dance contemplation on coexistence, on attuning to community, and on autonomy within the collective. It speaks of mutual support, perseverance, and investing in something we believe in, as well as in what returns to us. For a brief time, we can lose ourselves and allow our own thoughts, memories, and emotions to carry us away. For a moment, we can lend our gaze to another, protect them with our eyes, challenge them, and touch them through looking.

The artists embark us on their vessel and take us on a journey through a landscape of the visible, the audible, and the sensory, where the experience of watching dance transfers to the viewer’s entire body. Time opens itself in its certainty, and through the dancers’ movement we enter the realm of kairos – a time that exceeds the present moment, that invites surrender and opens our inner images, perceptions, and relationships. The performance Three Moons Are Watching Our Planet is grounded in a dance practice that Tina and Ema have been developing over the past two years. This practice enables an inner, ad hoc dramaturgy that emerges from movement itself and resists the ordering of the external gaze and the homogenization of meanings. For this reason, the performance is always a premiere.

“It is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing; it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something of itself in us,” says Spinoza. Questions about dance as a mode of movement disappear. Questions arise about dance as a mode of knowing and perceiving, about how we are in the world – above all, about a dance that unfolds both human and non-human levels of existence and aligns and addresses them in such a way that it creates an alternative: a new ecology of relations for a new era.