Jana Menger & Maša Kagao Knez
PLESiŠČE in ROJENA ZUNAJ SVOJE VASI, 1978. / DANCEFLOOR and BORN OUTSIDE HER VILLAGE, 1978.
plesni predstavi / a dance double bill
Jana Menger
PLESiŠČE / DANCEFLOOR
plesna predstava / a dance performance
Koreografija / Choreography: Jana Manger, Maša Kagao Knez
Ples / Dance: Jana Menger
Glasba / Music: Tomaž Gorkič
Produkcija / Produced by: Flota, zavod, Murska Sobota
Koprodukcija / Co-produced by: Flota, Ljubljana in Plesni Teater Ljubljana, Studio XXV
S podporo Ministrstva za kulturo Republike Slovenije / With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Maša Kagao Knez
ROJENA ZUNAJ SVOJE VASI, 1978. / BORN OUTSIDE HER VILLAGE, 1978.
plesna predstava / a dance performance
Avtorica projekta in ples / Authorship and Dance: Maša Kagao Knez
Dramaturgija / Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Rojena zunaj svoje vasi / Born outside her village:
Koreografija in izbor glasbe / Choreography and Choice of Music: Rosana Hribar
1978:
Koreografija / Choreography: Filibert Tologo
Avtorska glasba / Original Music: Damir Mazrek in Andrej Hrvatin, v sodelovanju z glasbeniki projekta / in collaboration with musicians of the project: World Hapiness Orchestra: Kandia Kouyate, Basita Dao, Ibrahima Sory Diabaté, Yakouba Demebele
Produkcija / Produced by: KUD Baobab
Koprodukcija / Co-produced by: Plesni Teater Ljubljana
Projekt je podprlo / Supported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo in Mestna občina Ljuubljana
Posebna zahvala / Special Thanks: Gregor Luštek, Danilo Pečar, Marko Djukić, Andreja Potočnik, Urša Cvahte, Tone Stojko, Lea Menard, Kim Komljanec, Issiaka Sanou, Gregor Deržič
INFO. / REZ.: ptl@mail.ljudmila.org, info@ptl-lj.si, Moje karte
Vstopnice / Tickets: 10/8 (dijaki, študenti, upokojenci / scholars, students, seniors), predhodna rezervacija ali uro pred predstavo v gledališču / prior reservation or an hour before the performance at the theatre
Program Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulture 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
Foto / Photo: Sunčan Stone, Tone Stojko
O predstavah
PLESiŠČE - Ko je bolje začeti brez besed, zgolj iz afekta, da se to mora zgoditi. Ko to zgleda tako, kot če bi preskočil telovadnega konja – brez odrivne deske. Odriv je od znotraj in na začetku se ga ne da natančno določiti, ampak želi samo »preskočiti«. Zasesti plesišče in iskati naprej … Plesalki in koreografinji Jana Menger in Maša Kagao Knez, vsaka s svojo izoblikovano plesno govorico, se na tem polju srečata in nadaljujeta začetki motiv, le da je tokrat Menger izvajalka, Knez pa opazovalka. PlesIšče je predstava, v kateri puhti ven tisto, kar se je nalagalo več kot dvajset let in ko se mora izplesati vse tisto, kar se je v tem času hotelo. Hvalnica telesu kot hvalnica plesu. Kot bučna juha. Vidimo se torej na plesišču. Ponovno in spet.
ROJENA ZUNAJ SVOJE VASI, 1978. - Afriški izraz kagao v prevodu pomeni ženska, rojena zunaj svoje vasi. 1978 označuje leto njenega rojstva.
Maša Kagao Knez, korenine katere izhajajo po materini strani iz Slovenije, po očetovi iz Burkine Faso, je plesalka in koreografinja, ki od rojstva živi v Ljubljani in je v slovenskem plesnem prostoru prisotna že skoraj dve desetletji. Med letoma 2004 in 2006 se je šolala v Parizu na šoli Georgesa Momboya za tradicionalni in sodobni afriški ples. »Kljub temu nisem ne črna, ne sodobna, ne afriška,« pravi Maša in nadaljuje: »Ko pridem v Slovenijo, nisem sodobna plesalka, ko pridem v Afriko, nisem plesalka afriških plesov. Vedno znova sem nekako ‘zunaj’.«
Kot izhodišče za dvodelni solo performans si je postavila izkušnjo zunanjosti in (ne)pripadanja ter principe dvojnosti in identitete. K sodelovanju je povabila koreografinjo Rosano Hribar (iz Slovenije) in koreografa Filiberta Tologoja (iz Burkina Fasa), da sta iz različnih perspektiv razvila gibalni material, ki ga vsebuje eno telo, telo plesalke Maše Kagao Knez.
In če je prvi del gibalne raziskave potekal pod naslovom Rojena zunaj svoje vasi (koreografija Rosana Hribar), je drugi del, narejen s časovnim zamikom dobrega leta, naslovljen z letnico 1978 (koreografija Filibert Tologo). Oba dela kljub svoji dvojni naravi (in ravno zaradi nje) ter dveh različnih uprizoritvenih jezikov sestavljata celoto, ki jo sestavlja človek s svojim dvojnim principom delovanja (dobro, slabo), umeščanja (prostor, čas) in pojmovanja (moško, žensko).
Andreja Kopač
About the performances
DANCEFLOOR - It’s better to start without words, merely from an affect that this has to happen. When it seems it’s as if jumping a vaulting horse without the spring board. The jump off is at the begining and on the inside and it can’t be determined – it only wants to „jump over“. To fill the dancefloor and search beyond... Dancers and choreographers Jana Menger and Maša Kagao Knez, each one of them with her own dance expression, meet on the dancefloor and continue with the initial motif - only this time Jana Menger is the dancer, Maša Kagao Knes is the observer. Dancefloor (PlesIšče) is a performance that lets out all that has accumulated in more than twenty years and needs to be danced out. Praise to the body and to dance. Like pumpkin soup. See you on the dancefloor. Again and again.
BORN OUTSIDE HER VILLAGE, 1978. - the African word kagao means woman born outside her village, 1978 indicates the year of her birth.
Maša Kagao Knez whose roots are Slovenian on her mother’s side and from Burkina Faso on her father’s is a dancer and choreographer, born and raised in Ljubljana. She has been actively involved in the Slovenian dance scene for almost two decades. Between 2004 and 2006 she attended the Georges Momboye school for traditional and modern African dance in Paris. “I am neither black nor African but I am not modern either,” says Maša and continues: “When I’m in Slovenia I’m not a modern dance performer and in Africa I’m not an African dance performer. I’m an outsider wherever I go.”
Her solo performance is based on the experience of being on the outside and not belonging anywhere, as well as on the principles of dual identity. Maša invited two choreographers, Rosana Hribar (from Slovenia) and Filibert Tologo (from Burkina Faso) to use their two different perspectives and develop the physical dance material of a single body, the body of the dancer Maša Kagao Knez.
Whilst the first part of this research of movement was entitled Born Outside Her Village (choreography by Rosana Hribar), the second part, created a good year later is called 1978 (choreography by Filibert Tologo). The two parts form despite their duality (and precisely because of it) and due to their two different performative languages an entity intrinsic to humans and the dual principles of human action (good, bad), position (place, time) and notion (male, female).
Andreja Kopač