PTL PREMIERA / PTL PREMIERE
Brina Dokl, Roula Samiotaki
SHIFTS / PREOBRAČANJA (SI, GR)
plesna predstava / a dance performance
Koncept, koreografija in izvedba / Idea, Choreography and Performance: BRINA DOKL, ROULA SAMIOTAKI
Glasba / Music: GIORGOS KANOUPAKIS
Mentorstvo, dramaturgija / Mentorship, Dramaturgy: NATALIJA MANOJLOVIĆ VARGA
Oblikovanje luči / Lighting Design: JANKO OVEN
Kreativna producentka / Creative Producer: KATJA SOMRAK
Produkcija / Production: PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA - PTL PRVENEC 2025
Posebna zahvala / Special thanks: ANAMARIA KLAJNŠČEK, PETRA DOKL, MIRKO DOKL, ANDREJA FIR, NIKA BRDAR
About project:
SHIFTS
Shifting roots of the roles
The dance duet Shifts questions what closeness, contact, relationship means – when does the touch slip into tension and when does an embrace suffocate instead of comforting. Two dancers, two bodies, meeting on the thin line between love and resistance, between extended hands and emptiness, between what remains and what eludes. The sound of electronic music, physical contact and fluid movement guide them through constant transformations – a gesture becomes a question, a touch changes space, a relationship is reoriented with movement. Choreographers and performers Brina Dokl and Roula Samiotaki play with the possibilities of the common through exchange of power and tenderness, perception and impulse. Their work is based on the practice of connectedness, where movement is never taken for granted – it is a response, a listening, a commitment to stay in motion. Always in between. Always between two. Never just one.
We walk the thin line between love and violence.
Some things more familiar than others.
Intimacy in its slow rhythm – growing.
A hug wherein I am loved or a hug wherein I am suffocating.
In between, no real knowledge.
Once I recognize it, it has already shifted. It moves, changes, slides.
Hands reaching but there is nobody.
Only the memory.
Until I find her again.
Shifts depicts two female bodies connecting through deep interest for different modes of modifying social perception.
The dancers use the vibration of electronic music, various physicalities and contact to constantly change in harmony with the movement that is always shifting. Their touch creates images that they in turn challenge, shifting the relationship, space, dance. Hand in hand they persist in movement.
Always between two, never just one..
Offer and take, give and receive, push and hug, love and fight.
Transcending between the one that begins and the one that ends.
The one offers her hands, the other turns them down.
Sometimes they both extend their hands. As thought they are meeting for the first time.
An so it moves on, unspeakably.
From empty hugs to loving arms.
About authors:
Brina Dokl is a Slovenian dancer based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a BA in dance from Stockholm University of the Arts as well as Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Cultural studies. Brina has worked with Urša Rupnik, Zala Pezdir (Babice dance company), Yared Tihalun Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Liz Kinoshita and took workshops from: Beno Novak, Sasha Waltz and guests dance company, Fighting Monkey, Kinetic Orchestra, Shannon Cooney, Shai Faran, Maria Carrasco, Branko Potočan, Milan Tomašik and others. After graduation in 2023 she produced a youth performance and wrote a children’s book It’s different on Mars; founded a Youth dance company Krokar; did a solo with three musicians; was part of DaCi, and took part in some other projects. Brina is mostly interested in partnering and floorwork while discovering movement-body-possibilities. She sees dance as a practice of togetherness, building and sharing a community.
Roula Samiotaki is a dancer and performer, working between Sweden and Greece. Her education included contemporary dance techniques, folk dances, partnering, and a BA in dance performance at Stockholm University of the Arts. As a performer, she has worked with choreographers such as Przemek Kamiński, Yared T Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Mia Habib, Liz Kinoshita, Apostolia Papadamaki, Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala, Konstantinos Tsakirelis. Her artistic work is focused on moving, as a way of coming together, with her own senses and with others, researching topics of identity, the female body, restrictions vs desires, imagination and fiction.
O projektu:
Premikajoče se korenine vlog.
Plesni duet Shifts preizprašuje, kaj pomenijo bližina, stik, odnos – kdaj dotik zdrsne v napetost in kdaj objem zaduši, namesto tolaži. Dve plesalki, dve telesi, ki se srečujeta na tanki meji med ljubeznijo in uporom, med ponujenimi rokami in praznino, med tem, kar ostaja, in tistim, kar se izmika. Zvok elektronske glasbe, fizični kontakt in fluidno gibanje ju vodijo skozi nenehne transformacije – gesta postane vprašanje, dotik spremeni prostor, odnos se z gibanjem preusmeri. Koreografinji in izvajalki Brina Dokl in Roula Samiotaki se skozi izmenjavo moči in nežnosti, zaznave in impulza igrata z možnostmi skupnega. Delo temelji na praksi povezanosti, kjer gib ni nikoli samoumeven – je odziv, poslušanje, zaveza ostati v gibanju. Vedno vmes. Vedno med dvema. Nikoli le ena.
Hodiva po tanki meji med ljubeznijo in nasiljem.
Nekatere stvari so bolj, druge manj znane.
Intimnost v svojem počasnem ritmu – raste.
Objem, v katerem sem ljubljena, ali objem, v katerem se dušim.
Vmes, brez prave vednosti.
Ko prepoznam, kaj je, je že nekaj drugega. Se premakne, spremeni, zdrsne.
Roke segajo, pa ni nikogar.
Le spomin.
Dokler je ne najdem znova
V Shifts se dve ženski telesi povezujeta skozi globoko zanimanje za načine preoblikovanja družbene zaznave. Z vibracijo elektronske glasbe, različnimi fizičnostmi in kontaktom se plesalki neprestano spreminjata v skladu z gibanjem, ki se nenehno preoblikuje. Z dotikom ustvarjata podobe, ki jih izzivata, premikata odnos, prostor, ples. Z roko v roki vztrajata v gibanju…
Vedno med dvema, nikoli samo z eno.
Ponuditi in vzeti, dati in sprejeti, potisniti in objeti, ljubiti in boriti se.
Prehajati med tisto, ki začne, in tisto, ki konča.
Ena ponudi roke, druga jih zavrne.
Včasih pa obe ponudita roke. Kot da bi se srečali prvič.
In gre naprej, neizrekljivo.
Od praznih objemov do ljubečih rok.
O avtoricah:
Brina Dokl je slovenska plesalka, ki živi in ustvarja v Berlinu. Diplomirala je iz plesa na Univerzi za umetnost v Stockholmu in iz kulturnih študij na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Sodelovala je z umetnicami in umetniki, kot so Urša Rupnik, Zala Pezdir (Babice dance company), Yared Tihalun Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Liz Kinoshita, ter se izobraževala pri Benu Novaku, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Fighting Monkey, Kinetic Orchestra, Shannon Cooney, Shai Faran, Marii Carrasco, Branku Potočanu, Milanu Tomašiku in drugih. Po diplomi leta 2023 je ustvarila mladinsko predstavo, napisala otroško knjigo Na Marsu je drugače, ustanovila mladinsko plesno skupino Krokar, ustvarila solo z glasbeniki, sodelovala na DaCi in v drugih projektih. V njeni praksi jo zanima predvsem partnerstvo, floorwork in raziskovanje telesnih možnosti – ples razume kot prakso skupnosti, povezovanja in soustvarjanja.
Roula Samiotaki je plesalka in performerka, ki deluje med Švedsko in Grčijo. Njeno izobraževanje zajema sodobne plesne tehnike, ljudske plese, partnerstvo in diplomo iz plesne interpretacije na Univerzi za umetnost v Stockholmu. Kot izvajalka je sodelovala s koreografi, kot so Przemek Kamiński, Yared T. Cederlund, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Mia Habib, Liz Kinoshita, Apostolia Papadamaki, Anna Mesquita, Leandro Zappala in Konstantinos Tsakirelis. Umetniško se posveča gibanju kot načinu povezovanja – s sabo in z drugimi – ter raziskuje teme identitete, ženskega telesa, napetosti med omejitvami in željami, domišljije in fikcije.
INFO. / REZ.: 040 345 477, plesniteaterljubljana@gmail.com,mojekarte
Vstopnice / Tickets: 7 /5€ (dijaki, študenti, upokojenci / scholars, students, seniors) predhodna rezervacija ali uro pred predstavo v našem gledališču / booking in advance or an hour before the performance at our theatre
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