The dance of two bodies, the body of the dancer and the body of an instrument, and the sound that is produced during this dance are the base of this performance. To dance and, at the same time, create music for that dance, to play dancing or dance playing, these are some of the topics that the performer and author Nastasja Stefanic is exploring in her work. The deconstruction and the abandonment of the standard viola hold and the usual manner of playing this instrument, the examination of the possibilities of her own dancing body but also the body of the instrument - all this results in a specific relationship between the subject and the object whose interdependence is visible even in the moments of separation. What are the ways in which we can treat an instrument, that is, an object, with which the subject is already very familiar? The moment the instrument meets a living body it becomes alive itself and it remains alive with the help of the sound that is produced in this process and that fills the space between the two. By playing with a hybrid form of a solo-duet, the author opens up to the viewer, she questions her own self, her musical and dancing self. This is a solo as a reminiscence of a duet, a union with another body, a contact with an inanimate object but also an act of liberation through the exhaustion of her own physical body.

In the end, Me, Viola and I is an autobiographic research and a subtle flirtation with the relations of movement and sound, of living and nonliving in the form of a performance which is something between a dance piece and an experimental concert.

Author and performer: Nastasja Stefanic

Costumes: Dalibor Sakic

Light Design: Marino Frankola

Production / Artistic consultant: Koraljka Begovic

Graphic design: Paula Santic

Photography: Neven Petrovic

Video: Neven Petrovic, Matija Kralj