Rauch Podrzavnik, Andreja: Tuesday

Rauch Podrzavnik, Andreja: Tuesday

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Title Tuesday
Type Dance, Dance performance, Contemporary dance
Date 10 October 2010
Venue Stara elektrarna
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Zavod Federacija Ljubljana
Co-production City of Women
URL Torek
Registration number CoW-2010-PLES-579

Synopsis

Tuesday is somewhere in between; it’s not Monday which is cranky, nor Wednesday that is in the middle, or Thursday which anticipates the weekend. In my view, Tuesday has the most difficult role of all weekdays, a sort of ungrateful one. Nonetheless, things can also happen on Tuesday – just an irrelevant day, which on the other hand, is a new day and potentially (perhaps?) a new start and a new life.
Thus Tuesday is a conglomerate of poetic dimensions of quotidian situations and questions shared by all. They are revealed through the character of Suzana performed by Suzana Koncut.

 

The performance is located within a model of a typical place we live in. Although the fact of being reduced and partially abstracted, makes it somehow clearer and more fascinating, and maybe taken less for granted than the life-size version in which we live or which we would like to live in. Part of performance is also Suzana’s nine-year old son Jan. His presence and spontaneity make the spectator feel the link between mother and son through manoeuvring between comprehension and ignorance, through common interests and no-way-out conflict situations, and ultimately though imagination and ‘reality’. By crossing these lines, Jan begins to perform in Suzana’s performing – impulsively and inevitably. (Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik)

 

Co-author: Suzana Koncut; creation process consultancy: Vlado Škafar; 

 

Organisation: City of Women; In collaboration with: Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana.

 

Source: City of Women

Sodelujejo

Photography Peter Rauch
Design of visual communications Peter Rauch
Choreography Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Directed by Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Stage design Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Martin Podrzavnik, Žiga Kariž (svetovanje)
Light design Andrej Hajdinjak
Sound art Christopher Benstead
Performance Jan Verdellis, Suzana Koncut

Artist, artistic group

Production

Zavod Federacija Ljubljana

Co-production