Valentan, Tina: When the Moon Is Increasing [view #1]

Valentan, Tina: When the Moon Is Increasing [view #1]

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Title When the Moon Is Increasing [view #1]
Type Performance, Dance, Dance performance, Contemporary dance
Date 17 October 2008
Venue Plesni teater Ljubljana – PTL
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production City of Women
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 35' 44"
URL Tina Valentan
Registration number CoW-2008-PLES-572
Number of works in a group 2

Synopsis

In content and motif the performance of this young and promising choreographer draws on different imaginative powers – human, animalistic, and mythological. Since culturally determined laws and principles operate on the unconscious level, they paradoxically emerge as a predetermined inevitability, autonomously created by human beings. Through movement, mime, and a minimalist use of props, the author attempts to free herself from the omnipresent prescribed patterns which programme and paralyze us. She searches for different, “natural laws” and questions whether ‘to be’ is not just as fabricated as ‘to become’. The performance thus examines the semantic boundary between “preprogrammed” meat and “autonomous” body, deciding for itself and from itself.

Source: City of Women

Sodelujejo

Choreography Tina Valentan
Dance Tina Valentan
Dramaturgy Aleksandra Blagojević
Production Jasmina Založnik
Light design Urška Vohar

Artist, artistic group

Group of artworks

Valentan Tina, When the Moon Is Increasing [view #1], Ljubljana, 17 October 2008, 35' 44"

Production