PLESNI TIRI

Mednarodni projekt Rail2Dance (Plesni tiri), ki vključuje Nemčijo, Slovenijo, Švedsko in Finsko kot osrednjo temo za svoje zanimanje jemlje javni prostor in kode obnašanja, ki ga ti prostori določajo. Plesalke in plesalci projekta s pomočjo plesnih gibov, kolektivnih koreografij, plesnih slik in igre spreminjajo ter razdirajo kodificirana pravila obnašanja, določena za nek prostor. Ustvarjalke in ustvarjalce projekta zanimajo prostori prehajanja in gibanja kot so železniške postaje, mestni trgi in ulice ter javni promet. S plesnimi intervencijami v javni prostor ne reflektirajo zgolj vsakdanjih praks v javnih prostorih, temveč pod vprašaj postavljajo tudi pomen skupnosti, ki v sodobnem svetu vse bolj izginja. Plesni korak osvetli samoumevnost vsakdana in vnaprej postavljenih pravil, ki za vsak prostor zahteva določeno gibanje in obnašanje, ter osvetli naše odtujeno okolje, v katerem še prevelikokrat hodimo zgolj drug mimo drugega. S kolektivnimi pop-up plesnimi koreografijami, ki iznenada vzniknejo na javnih krajih, se lahko vsaj za trenutek povežemo v potencialno drugačnem svetu, kjer lahko razgradimo socialne kode obnašanja in sestavimo nova pravila. S tem ko se ples iz plesnih dvoran razširi v javni prostor, pa se poruši tudi zid, ki ga marsikdaj lahko ustvarja vase zaprto umetniško ustvarjanje. Gibi, ki zgolj transformirajo prostore in telesa v njih, so zmožni premostiti tudi družbene razlike, čeravno je to zgolj trenutek skupnega držanja za roke, petje na železniški postaji ali ležanja na glavnem trgu. Na ta način pa projekt išče in vzgaja novo občinstvo sodobnega plesa, ki bi v prihodnje morda zašlo tudi v gledališke dvorane.

Ideje, ki se bodo s pomočjo mentorjev in mentoric razvijale v Ljubljani, se bodo kasneje razvejale in nadgradile v individualne in na prostor vezane koreografske projekte vseh sodelujočih. Projekt se bo zaključil maja 2023, ko bo skupina plesalk in plesalcev odplesala pot iz Tamper (Finska), mimo Vaase (Finska), Umee (Švedska) in Malmöa (Švedstka), preko Chemnitza (Nemčija), pot pa bo zaključila v Sloveniji, najprej v Mariboru in nato v Ljubljani.

RAIL2DANCE

The international project Rail2Dance, which includes theatre partners from Germany, Slovenia, Sweden and Finland, takes public space and the codes of behavior that define these spaces as its central theme. With the help of dance movements, collective choreographies, dance pictures and games, the dancers of the project change and transform the codified rules of behavior determined for a certain space.The creators of the project are interested in places of passage and movement, such as railway stations, city squares and streets, and public transport. With dance interventions in public space, they not only reflect everyday practices in public spaces, but also question the meaning of community, which is increasingly disappearing in the modern world. The dance step sheds light on the taken-for-grantedness of everyday life and pre-set rules, which require specific movement and behavior for each space, and sheds light on our alienated environment, in which we still too often just walk past each other. With collective pop-up dance choreographies that suddenly emerge in public places, we can connect, at least for a moment, in a potentially different world, where we can dismantle social codes of behavior and create new rules. By spreading dance from theater to public space, the wall that can often be created by closed-in artistic creation is also broken down. Movements that merely transform spaces and the bodies in them are capable of bridging social differences, even if it's just a moment of holding hands together, singing at the train station or lying down in the main square. In this way, the project seeks and educates a new audience for contemporary dance, which in the future might also enter theater halls.

The ideas, which will be developed in Ljubljana with the help of mentors, will later branch out and be upgraded into individual and space-bound choreographic projects of all participants. The project will end in May 2023, when a group of dancers will dance their way from Tampere (Finland), and will pass Vaasa (Finland), Umea and Malmö (Sweden), go via Chemnitz (Germany), and will end the journey in Slovenia, first in Maribor and then in Ljubljana.

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