Vita Osojnik: VSE KAR SE JE ŽE ZGODILO / MEALS I ALREADY COOKED

Vita Osojnik

VSE KAR SE JE ŽE ZGODILO / MEALS I ALREADY COOKED

plesna predstava / a dance performance

Koncept, koreografija, izvedba, scena / Concept, Choreography, Performance, Set Design: Vita Osojnik

Avtorska glasba / Original Music: Matevž Kolenc

Oblikovanje luči / Light Design: Urška Vohar

Kostum / Costume: Tina Pavlin

Kreativna produkcija / Creative Producer: Katja Somrak

Tehnična pomoč / Technical Assistance: Janko Oven, Kristina Kokalj, Aljaž Zaletel

Produkcija / Produced by: Plesni Teater Ljubljana

Posebna zahvala / Special Thanks to: Prešernovo gledališče Kranj

Night after night I wandered around and recognized myself within the idea of universal decay, which, however, already carries within itself the seed of a new world order. (After Elena Ferrante – The Story of the Lost Child)

The solo Meals I Already Cooked is a first part of trilogy.

Noč za nočjo sem tavala okrog in se prepoznavala v ideji o vsesplošnem razkroju, ki pa v sebi že nosi seme nove ureditve sveta. (Elena Ferrante – O izgubljeni deklici)

Avtorski solo Vse kar se je že zgodilo je prvi del trilogije.

Excerpt from a review:

A performance that at first glance gives an already seen sense of repetition and unauthentic reflection of modern society turns out to be something completely different; therefore emotionally full, personal, strongly intimate (but without unnecessary pathetic) story, that we just rarely spot in dance as well as in theatre performances. 

Živa Kadunc, Koridor-ku.si

Izsek iz kritike:

Predstava, ki torej sprva daje občutek, da bo le repetitivna in nepristen »razmislek o sodobni družbi«, se izkaže za nekaj popolnoma drugega, ergo za čustveno nabito, osebno, blizu intime (vendar brez odvečne patetike) pripovedovano močno zgodbo, kakršno ne le v plesnih, temveč tudi v dramskih uprizoritvah le redko doživimo.

Živa Kadunc, Koridor-ku.si

F: Nada Žgank

About the author:

Vita Osojnik is a freelance artist, specialized as a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, and street artist. She graduated from Gimnazija Kranj secondary school and later majored in ballet at the The Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory. She completed her studies in contemporary dance and choreography at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). During her employment as a dance teacher at the Performing Arts Grammar School Ljubljana, she obtained her pedagogical and andragogic studies and passed the professional examination for teachers.

She works as a dance pedagogue and mentor within the Alma Mater Europaea – Academy of Dance, Qulenium dance society in Kranj and Šugla street theatre. She occasionally teaches in the Practicum programme (SVŠGUGL), Bitnamuun programme and at the Maribor Dance Centre, Summer Dance School in Ljubljana and Toscana Dance Hub in Florence. She is also a visiting professor at SEAD, where she teaches in the regular programme and within the MoveMentors workshops which serve as dance workshops as well as a preparation for auditions. In October 2015, she was invited as a choreographer and pedagogue to the Tisch School of Arts (Broadway, New York) for a residency and work with group of postgraduate students. She is the author of several dance performances (Other People’s Children, I Can Easily Carry My Own Weight, Part of Me Is Made of Glass, Cynical Killers of Their Own Mother, Penetrating Into Her Is for Him, Random acts of kindness, Hombre masa, Manada, Temporarely detained bodies, etc.) and co-creator of performances (Dream of a Dance Night, Manada, Today for the Last Time, Realigments etc.). In September 2019 she was invited by Dantzaz to St. Sebastian to create choreographic piece Hombre masa which is still performed. In June 2021 Hombre masa was premiered in Ljubljana together with a new choreographic piece Temporarily Detained Bodies at the Ukrep festival.

Currently Vita focuses on developing educational programme for dancers, mentoring young artists as well as constituting the artistic board in Dance Theatre Ljubljana. Meals I Already Cooked is artist’s first work in solo trilogy 2022/2023. In the meantime she is a part of international project Dancing in Your Shoes – Performing Gender (City of Women) as a travelling artist (Italy, Netherlands) as well as a local choreographer together with dramaturg Brina Klampfer.

O avtorici:

Vita Osojnik je samozaposlena v kulturi, opravlja specializiran poklic plesalke, koreografinje, plesne pedagoginje in ulične umetnice. Maturirala je na Gimnaziji Kranj, svojo drugo maturo pa pridobila tudi na Srednji glasbeni in baletni šoli – smer Balet. Zaključila je študij sodobnega plesa in koreografije na Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). V okviru redne zaposlitve na Umetniški gimnaziji v Ljubljani pa je kasneje zaključila še pedagoško-andragoško izobraževanje in strokovni izpit za učitelje.

Pedagoško in mentorsko delo opravlja v okviru plesne akademije Alma Mater Europaea-Akademija za ples, plesnega društva Qulenium v Kranju, v okviru Šugle, v okviru Praktikuma (SVŠGUGL), občasno poučuje v okviru programa Bitnamuun, v Centru plesa v Mariboru, na Poletni plesni šoli v Ljubljani, na Toscana Dance Hub v Firencah, ... Redno poučuje v programih v organizaciji Zavoda 0.1 Gib – lab in Gibosfera. Zadnji dve leti vodi delavnice v okviru Poletne plesne šole v organizaciji Javnega sklada za kulturne dejavnosti. Veliko let je bila v vlogi gostujoče profesorice na SEADu, kjer je učila na rednem programu in v okviru delavnic MoveMentors, ki služijo kot plesne delavnice in hkrati priprave na avdicije. Oktobra 2015 je bila kot koreografinja in pedagoginja povabljena s strani dekana Tisch School of Arts (Broadway, New York) na rezidenco in delo z njihovo skupino študentov na podiplomskem študiju. Je avtorica številnih plesnih predstav (Nosila sem tuje otroke, Zlahkanosim svojo lastno težo, Del mene je narejen iz stekla, Cinični morilci lastne matere, Prodiranje vanjo je zanj, Random acts of kindness, Hombre masa, Horda, Začasno zadržana telesa...) in soustvarjalka predstav (Sen plesne noči, Manada, Danes zadnjikrat, Začasno poravnana telesa,...). Septembra 2019 je na povabilo Dantzaz v St. Sebastianu ustvarila koregrafsko delo Hombre masa, ponovitve dela še trajajo. Junija 2021 je v okviru festivala Ukrep to koreografsko delo doživelo slovensko premiero skupaj z novim koreografskim delom Začasno zadržana telesa. Trenutno je v vlogi pedagoške vodje in organizatorke plesnih klasov in delavnic v okviru Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana. Prav tako je umetnica mentor mlajšim ustvarjalcem pri prvencih in drugih koreografskih podvigih ter članica umetniškega sveta Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana. Vse kar se je že zgodilo / Meals I Already Cooked je avtoričino prvo delo v solo trilogiji 2022/2023. Vita sodeluje tudi v mednarodnem projektu organizacije Mesto žensk Dancing in Your Shoes – Performing Gender, kjer deluje kot potujoča umetnica (Italija, Nizozemska) kakor tudi lokalna koreografinja, ki skupaj z režiserko Brino Klampfer prevzema produkcijo celovečerne predstave.

Program Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in Mestna občina Ljubljana, Oddelek za kulturo / The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture