Del festivala Klovnbuf / As part of Klovnbuf festival
Stefan King, Alex Lempert
COSMO-COSMETICS
Eksperimentalna žonglersko-zvočna predstava / Experimental juggling–sound performance
About project:
Cosmo-Cosmetics is a new project by juggler Stefan Sing and sound designer Alex Lempert.
At its core the performance is a journey of images—poetic, absurd and humorous—that invites the audience into a universe where matter invents its own stories. A wordless narrative is created from everyday objects: tables, tools and malleable clay. These objects gradually stop being what they are supposed to be. A table transforms into a landscape, a tool becomes a figure, and the clay constantly shifts—at one moment fragile, at another monumental. The familiar becomes strange and prompts the viewer to find new ways of seeing. Juggling hides beneath the surface of the action and is revealed not as virtuosity but as the secret inner life of objects. They slide, collide and seek balance as if they had their own desires. If we abandon established ideas about juggling, we begin to recognise it everywhere.
Cosmo-Cosmetics is a performance that cannot be repeated the same way twice. It exists in a state of continual change, adapts to the space and continually evolves in response to the dynamic interplay between the juggler and the musician.
O projektu:
Cosmo-Cosmetics je nov projekt žonglerja Stefana Singa in oblikovalca zvoka Alexa Lemperta.
V svojem jedru je predstava popotovanje podob, poetičnih, absurdnih in humornih, ki občinstvo povabijo v vesolje, kjer snov sama izumlja svoje zgodbe. Brezbesedna pripoved nastaja iz vsakdanjih predmetov: mize, orodja in voljne gline. Ti objekti postopoma prenehajo biti to, kar naj bi bili. Miza se preobrazi v pokrajino, orodje postane figura, glina pa se neprestano spreminja – enkrat krhka, drugič monumentalna. Znano postane nenavadno in gledalca spodbuja k novim načinom opazovanja. Žongliranje se skriva pod površjem dogajanja in se ne razkriva kot virtuoznost, temveč kot skrivno notranje življenje predmetov. Ti drsijo, se zaletavajo, lovijo ravnotežje, kot da bi imeli lastne želje. Če opustimo ustaljene predstave o žongliranju, ga lahko začnemo prepoznavati povsod.
Cosmo-Cosmetics je predstava, ki je ni mogoče dvakrat ponoviti na enak način. Obstaja v stanju nenehne spremenljivosti, prilagaja se prostoru in se vedno znova razvija v odzivu na dinamično igro med žonglerjem in glasbenikom.
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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