ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The initial motivation to start working on the interdisciplinary project SPACE SPACES SPECIES is the desire to explore the subject of space in contemporary dance practices. In what ways do the specific characteristics (and regulations) of a specific space(s) condition the movement of the body? How does the body react, act and behave in different types of environment?
The issue of space in the context of dance is not only an issue of a particular research process and the mode of creating a specific dance vocabulary. The issue of space in this context also becomes a political issue.
To what degree is dance a theatrical art and what are the factors that affect dance poetics owing to the existence of materials in a specific natural or urban environment? In what ways does dance as a theatrical art
due to a spatial transposition, i.e. due to setting it in a different, non-theatrical space? Those other or different spaces become the so-called temporary autonomous zones in which information becomes the key tool that breaks with formal models and numerous attempts of durability that the structured system imposes, while smothering individual creativity.
Concept: Nastasja Stefanic
Performance: Koraljka Begovic and Nastasja Stefanic
Video: Matija Kralj
Sound: Nastasja Stefanic
Dramaturgy: Nikolina Rafaj
Costumes: Dalibor Sakic
DESCRIPTION FROM THE PERFORMANCE BOOKLET:
„Space, spaces, species“ as a performative search for a temporary autonomous haven in which dance could be accommodated has testified to the various ways in which space can appear. Disappear. Or, in a dynamic exchange of appearances and disappearances, to produce a new space that is neither here nor there anymore. Selected autonomous zones are spaces trapped eternally in-between; separated from their primary function, they no longer call for retention. Their emphatic fragmentation, intense decay, and the dominance of unexpected perspectives stratified their alternative laws – the exemption of stability, the exemption of support, the exemption of strongholds. The specified exemptions are that which further travels with us from these spaces. The dislocation of space conditioned the possibility of movement within their porous boundaries, but also questioned the very boundaries to which we otherwise agree to be accustomed – by performing spaces, they reciprocated by opening new spaces that at least momentarily impair hierarchical verticality. Partially dynamic, partially multifaceted, they offer simultaneity of different types of space in a single one. In multiplication, they invite us to observe them from all angles, with our presence, as well as without it, while recognizing that it is impossible to fully grasp, see or inhabit them. Perhaps only revisit.
