(Inter)space / Flash

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(Inter)space

I am here. Is she here too? What is the space between us like? What is the space inside us like? The space is connected by bodies and by sound. How does it feel to be one? One. Conscious of breathing. Sensing. Moving together. Still, there is an interspace between our two bodies in the kinespheric space.  How can we influence one another? With the body, with thought, energy, conscious movement in space. What is the relation? Relation between bodies, between sound and silence, between silence and the space we are in. The presence of the body allows freedom. The body in its full presence and subtleness.
˝The presence is quiet and subtle, and sometimes it is little more than a hint half guessed, a gift half understood.¨ (T.S. Eliot.)
We are here, in space. Moving.

Created and choreographed by: Maja Lamovšek, Dominika Strozewska
Music by: Maja Lamovšek
Special thanks to: Rose Breuss (IDA Institute of Dance Arts)

Maja Lamovšek (1994) started her contemporary dance training at Plesna Izba Maribor in 1997. While training there she participated in the project F.A.R.M.A. (2010) and created duets Found (2011) and Either Or (2011). Later she started to train also at the Dance Centre Maribor, where she performed in Screw It, Comrades (2012), The Cage (2013), and The Paradox of Movement (2012). She is taking workshops and seminars abroad (workshops at SEAD Academy in Salzburg) and collaborating with renowned choreographers (Eduardo Torroja, Anton Lachky, Eulalia Ayguade Fahro). Maja was also artist in residence at the Maribor-based festival Nagib for two years in a row. In 2014 she began her studies at the IDA – Institute for Dance Arts as well as started working in a Linz-based theatre, resuming her choreographic work with the projects A Musical Duet (2015) and Interspace (2016), which was presented at the 2016 Body/Sound/Space Festival in Linz. Maja is regularly attending workshops of contact improvisation, Body Mind Centering, and yoga, she is creating music and teaching workshops.

Dominika Strozewska (Poland) started her dance education at the age of six, dancing in the company Remix in her hometown. From 2010 to 2014 she was dancing and teaching in Caro Dance Company in Poland. There she was working on contemporary and jazz techniques and performed in, among others, We are, Carmen, Zapach kobiety. In 2014 she started her studies of contemporary dance and dance pedagogy at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linze, Austria.

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Flash

dance performance (work in progress)

Flash is a manifestation of oversaturation and emptiness, blindness and invisibility, carelessness and carefulness, euphoria and apathy, oblivion and sleeplessness. It is a gap between the body and the mind. Extreme states, confusion and wondering whether reality truly is only what we believe in.

April Veselko is a young dancer and author. She started her dance training at Plesna Izba Maribor and has just finished her studies in Bologna, Italy, while regularly taking classes and workshops in dance festivals at home and abroad (Summer and Winter dance schools, ImpulsTanz Vienna, IDW Budapest, El Danseu Festival...). As performer April has collaborated with different choreographers, such as Gregor Luštek, Eduardo Torroja, Mattia Gandini, Barbara Kanc, Katarina B. Kavčič, and Jure Masten. Flash is her third evening-length solo produced by Federacija Institute.

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Discussion after the performances moderated by: Anja Bornšek