Beno Novak
KOORD
Plesna predstava - Gibalna inštalacija / Dance performance - Movement installation
Ideja in koreografi ja / Concept, Choreography: BENO NOVAK
Nastopajoči / Performers:
ALJA BRANC BARBOSA
ANAMARIA KLAJNŠČEK
KRISTÝNA PELDOVÁ
LARA MATEA IVANČIČ
NÚRIA CAPELLA FLORENSA
Dramaturgija / Dramaturgy: ALJOŠA LOVRIĆ KRAPEŽ
Avtor glasbe / Composer: AUGUST ADRIAN BRAATZ
Oblikovanje luči / Lighting Design: LEON CURK
Kostumografi ja / Costume Design: TIMOTEJ ROSC
Umetniško svetovanje / Artistic Consulting: DRAGANA ALFIREVIĆ
Produkcija / Produced by: PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA - AVTORSKI OPUS II (ALJA LACKOVIĆ)
About the project:
KOORD emerges from the daily rhythm of shared practices and gestures rooted in manual labour. Through repetition, these movements become threads in a living archive of collective memory: They reawaken embodied traces of past temporalities as we continually move through the present. At its core, the piece is an exploration of coexistence. It asks how we might step out of the relentless acceleration of modern life and reconnect to a perception of the world shaped by cycles, proximity, presence, and seasonal time. What forms of attention become possible when we slow down enough to sense each other differently? KOORD is not a call for sameness. It does not seek unity through shared ideology, identity, or belief. Instead, it proposes a shared action of difference. A fragile and persistent act of moving alongside one another. In a time marked by fracture, division, and renewed borders, the work asks how we might remain together without becoming the same.
O predstavi:
KOORD izhaja iz vsakodnevnega ritma skupnih praks in gest, ukoreninjenih v ročnem delu. Skozi repeticijo ti gibi postajajo niti v živem arhivu kolektivnega spomina: ponovno prebujajo utelešene sledi preteklih časovnosti, medtem ko se nenehno gibljemo skozi sedanjost. V svojem jedru je predstava raziskava sobivanja. Sprašuje se, kako lahko izstopimo iz nepopustljivega tempa sodobnega življenja in se ponovno povežemo z zaznavanjem sveta, ki ga oblikujejo cikli, bližina, prisotnost in letni časi. Kakšne oblike pozornosti postanejo mogoče, ko se dovolj upočasnimo, da drug drugega zaznamo drugače? KOORD ni poziv k enakosti. Ne išče enotnosti skozi skupno ideologijo, identiteto ali prepričanje. Namesto tega predlaga kolektivno akcijo razlike. Krhko, a vztrajno dejanje gibanja drug ob drugem. V času, zaznamovanem z razpokami, delitvami in ponovnim vzpostavljanjem meja, delo odpira vprašanje: kako lahko ostanemo skupaj, ne da bi izgubili svoje različnosti?
F: Nada Žgank
About the research:
KOORD is a choreographic research project that activates traces of collective embodied memory through both Slovenian traditional craft gestures and universal collective practices. The work departs from the idea that the body is not only a medium of expression but an archive. A living site where movement practices, cultural techniques, and shared histories sediment over generations.
Drawing from phenomenology, body memory theory, and contemporary discourse on embodied cognition, the project creates a space where dancers engage with these past movement principles embedded with weight-shift, repetition, rhythm, and whole-body focus. These movements are treated not as ethnographic material to be reproduced but as typological seeds from which new movement languages emerge.
This work is part of a longer research project exploring how embodied communal practices, rooted in cultural and ritual contexts, carry forms of memory within the body. By transforming traditional practices through repetition and attention, the research activates layers of ancestral knowledge, reshaping how we perceive time, space, and the collective.
As the dancers move, the audience is invited to enter this space with them, to feel the weight, rhythm, and presence as a shared, embodied journey. In this environment, each viewer participates in the unfolding movements, co-creating the present moment. In this way, the project offers both a deep dive into inherited cultural memory and a reimagination of shared movement and space today.
O raziskavi:
KOORD je raziskovalni koreografski projekt, ki aktivira sledi kolektivnega utelešenega spomina tako skozi slovenske tradicionalne geste ročnega dela kot tudi skozi univerzalne kolektivne prakse. Delo izhaja iz ideje, da telo ni le medij izražanja, temveč tudi arhiv. Gre za dihajoč prostor, kjer se gibalne prakse, kulturne tehnike in skupne zgodovine sedimentirajo skozi generacije.
Izhajajoč iz fenomenologije, teorije telesnega spomina in sodobnih diskurzov o utelešeni kogniciji, projekt vzpostavlja prostor, v katerem se plesalci srečujejo s temi preteklimi gibalnimi principi, zaznamovanimi s prenosom teže, ponavljanjem, ritmom in celostno telesno pozornostjo. Ti gibi niso obravnavani kot etnografski material za reprodukcijo, temveč kot tipološka izhodišča, iz katerih vznikajo novi gibalni jeziki.
Ta projekt je del širšega raziskovalnega procesa, ki preučuje, kako utelešene kolektivne prakse, zasidrane v kulturnih in ritualnih kontekstih, prenašajo oblike spomina preko teles. S preoblikovanjem tradicionalnih praks skozi ponavljanje in pozornost raziskava aktivira plasti znanja naših prednikov ter preoblikuje našo zaznavo časa, prostora in kolektiva.
Ko se plesalci gibljejo, je občinstvo povabljeno, da vstopi v ta prostor skupaj z njimi ter zazna težo, ritem in prisotnost kot skupno, utelešeno izkušnjo. V tem okolju vsak gledalec sodeluje v razvijajočem se gibanju in soustvarja sedanji trenutek. Na ta način projekt ponuja tako poglobljen vstop v podedovani kulturni spomin kot tudi reimaginacijo skupnega gibanja in prostora danes.
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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