Marjana Krajač

VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE

We are inviting you to the performances titled VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE that will take place on the 12^th of June starting at 17:00 h and on the 14^th of June starting at 18 h, Bačva Gallery, House of HDLU in Zagreb, in the frame of Danceweek Festival and in the frame of philosophy symposium Poiesis organised by Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.

New work for five dancers by a choreographer Marjana Krajač invites you on a journey of movement, time and space, entering gradually in to the layers of dance’s rich texture. Intensive, meditative and purifying experience of waching is forming specific elasticity of time and meaning.

In her last works, Marjana Krajač embarked on a complex mission of revoking the very substance of a dance medium, exposing its own ontology and deconstructed historicity. This monumental durational work articulates the arrival of a historic modernism in to the dance medium, and how was dance, as we understand it today, shaped by that and in what way.

In such framework of artistic focus, Marjana Krajač and five dancers are asking relevant questions of metaphysical commitments and added meanings of the performative body.

Performance is accompanied by a booklet containing a text of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, titled “Moment of Dance”.

The experience is rounded by the minimalist durational piano composition from 1959 of American composer Dennis Johnson titled “November”. A composition was lost and not available over 50 years until the pianist R. Andrew Lee manage to reconstruct it and released in 2013.

Duration: 150 minutes (two and a half hours), no intermission.

Author and choreographer: Marjana Krajač
Performed by: Lana Hosni, Irena Mikec, Katarina Rilović, Irena Tomašić, Mia Zalukar
Publication editor: Igor Marković
Graphic design: Valentina Toth
Technical director: Duško Richtermoc
Sound technician: Miroslav Piškulić
Assistance: Leonardo Krakić
Communications: Anita Klapan
Produced by: Sodaberg koreografski laboratorij

The work was created in cooperation and residencies at Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy), Uferstudios / Tanzfabrik Berlin and the Zagreb Dance Centre. The work was realized with the support of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Ministry of Culture, Zagreb Dance Centre, Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance and Croatian Association of Artists / Meštrović pavilion / Dom HDLU in Zagreb.

More about the programms:

Danceweek Festival: http://www.danceweekfestival.com/en/32dwf/622-varijacije-o-osjetnom

Symposium Poiesis: http://poiesis.mi2.hr/schedule/

Tickets:

50kn regular price

40kn pre-sale price

30kn discounted price (in pre-sales only) for highs school and university students, and seniors

25kn discounted price (in pre-sales only) for memebrs of HIPP and UPUH.

Tickets can be purchased before the performance at the box office of the Mestrovic Pavilion/ House of Croatian Artists Association. Box office opens one hour before the start of the performance.

FROM THE REVIEWS

“VARIATIONS ON SENSITIVE noticeably consistently reflect the dance as something that holds a duration, a time, as one of the essential poetic tools, and kinesthetic sensory connection between the dancer and the viewer an essential element of communication. This work is in its way therefore a continuation of a research initiated by the award-winning piece “Choreographic Fantasy no. 1 “, which is just as radical, intriguing and beautiful. “

Jelena Mihelčić, Plesnascena.hr

“The isolation in time and space in which this dance performance has sinked you in, forces you to perceive all its traces; long-term, short-term, current – performative, with the “heartbeat” of the Dennis Johnson’s composition “November” that wonderfully coalesce with its movement and spatial aspects. It seems to me that it is precisely in these variations – in the reflections of our own senses in time (and considering the dance act) – a success of this performance. “

Mario Kikaš, Kulturpunkt.hr