STAGE PRODUCTION

"Moment - a study of suspended time"

choreography: Magdalena Reiter
created and peformed by: Magdalena Reiter, Mateja Rebolj, Barbara Kukovec, Ivan Peternelj, Ravil Sultanov
sound design: Janez Burger, Boštjan Kačičnik
set design: Vadim Fiškin
costumes: Aleksandra Gregl
lightdesign: Miran Šušteršič
producedby: STARA GARA and Exodos
coproducedby: Transdance, Biennale de danse de Lyon, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana
premiere: 16.09.2004, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana
duration: 45 minutes
The project was supported by Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana - department for culture, Culture 2000 EU programme
touring schedule: Ljubljana Cankarjev Dom 16-18.9.2004, 31.09-2.10.2004, Lyon Biennale de danse de Lyon 23-24.09.2004, Avignon Les Hivernales 15.02.2004, Poznań Malta Festival 04.07.2005, Gdańsk Korporacja Tańca 24.08.2005, Sarajevo Teaterfest 17.09.2005; next: Ljubljana february 2006, Prague Tanec Praha 21.03.2006, Helsinki 22-23.03.2006

Reviews:

An essay with a complete metaphore.

An outstanding performance is distingushied by a considerate structure, excellent performing and complexity which enables plurality of metaphores. In the presence of a precise concept the above mentioned things are not diffused, but despite various possibilities of interpretations they are combined in an efficient circumference within which the stage event unfolds. Magdalena Reiter once again presents herself as a precise and imaginative choreographer who superbly combines movement structures with the content. Beside the usual ” black box ” there is a hudge black sphere, through which the space is constantly redefined. Because of the corners it can not unite with it, also because it is ontologically composed in the structure of events. The ball is never only the Sun or the World, but also (simply) a burden, which is possible to trumphantly submit but only for a short instant. It concernes the second part of the title – the moment of liberation which, if we borrow from Sartre, turns into an unbearable weight of complete freedom when one finds himself alone, utterly responsable for himself and his actions. And there is nothing else, as fantasically shows the last scene of the performance, then to lay your back under the weight of the World and go on. And so on the circumference of the complete metaphore of Moment.

Anja Golob, Večer, 20.09.2004

In front of the spectator range various articulations of the ”moment” which, with the help of considerate sound and light design, shape a universe of excellent moving pictures .A universe where ,as in a post-catastrophic state, various worlds are found, which, despite their diveristy, form links in a uncomprehandable expenditure of a suspended time. The dance, caught in a moment of creation (…) gives an excessive treat, when it transfers the spectator into a movement visualization of time in an unplacable cosmos, which in the performance itself functions on all the levels (movement, perfrormance, concept).

Katja Praznik, Dnevnik, 20.09.2004

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Photo: Žiga Koritnik

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