Premiere of a dance performance
Venue and time: Španski borci, Grand Hall 18 April 2025, at 20:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Tickets: 12 eur (regular price) / 8 eur (with discount)
Aristotle believed that happiness lies in our capacity for contemplation. Contemplation of what is, what was and what will be. Three Moons Observe Our Planet is a dance contemplation about coexistence, about tuning into community and about autonomy within the common. About mutual support, about perseverance and investing in something we believe in, but also about what comes back to us. For a short time we can lose ourselves and allow ourselves to be carried away by our own thought, memory, emotion. For a moment we can lend our gaze to someone, protect them with our gaze, challenge them and touch them.
Umetnice nas vkrcajo na svojo ladjo in nas popeljejo na popotovanje po krajini vidnega, slišnega in čutnega, kjer se izkušnja gledanja plesa prenese na celotno gledalčevo telo. Čas se razpre v svoji gotovosti in preko gibanja plesalk vstopamo v področje kairosa, časa, ki presega ta trenutek, ki nas povabi v prepuščanje in odpre naše notranje slike, zaznave, odnose. Predstava Tri lune gledajo v naš planet sloni na plesni praksi, ki jo Tina in Ema razvijata zadnji dve leti. Ta praksa omogoča notranjo, ad hoc dramaturgijo, ki izvira iz gibanja samega in se upira ureditvam zunanjega pogleda ter homogenizaciji pomenov. Zato je ta predstava vedno premierno izvedena.
The artists take us aboard their spaceship and lead us on a journey through the landscape of the visible, audible and sensory, where the experience of watching the dance is transferred to the entire body of the viewer. Time opens up in its certainty and through the movement of the dancers we enter the realm of kairos, time that goes beyond this moment, which invites us to surrender and opens our inner images, perceptions, relationships. The performance Three Moons Observe Our Planet is based on the dance practice that Tina and Ema have been developing for the past two years. This practice enables an internal, ad hoc dramaturgy that originates from the movement itself and resists the arrangements of the external view and the homogenisation of meanings. That is why this performance is always premiered.
“It is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing; it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something of itself in us,” says Spinoza. Questions about dance as a way of movement disappear. Questions arise about dance as a way of behaving and perceiving, about the way we are in the world. Above all, about dance, which opens up both human and non-human levels of existence and parallels and addresses them in such a way as to create an alternative – a new ecology of relationships for a new era.
— Dragana Alfirević
Authors, dancers Tina Benko, Ema Križič
Musician: Ida Hiršenfelder
Light and stage designer: Toni Soprano
Older sister Dragana Alfirević
Costume design Dajana Ljubičić
Graphic design: Danijel Mohorič
Photographer: Nina Pernat
Production: NDA Slovenia, Dragana Alfirević
Co-production: Maribor Dance Centre, Divje ptice IPG
Special thanks: DUM prject space Ljubljana City Museum