Nameless / On All Fours

dance performances

Nameless

What is it, the nameless? Aliens on Earth? Communication? Trying to grasp the nameless through trance and ecstasy? Is that nameless?
Our moving force? The source? Is it our relation, our shared feelings? Or maybe wordless thoughts? Is it nameless just because we’re not articulated enough?
We keep on naming the nameless. Because the nameless... stays nameless... That’s why we dance, this being the only way to know immortality.

Created, choreographed and performed by: Žigan Krajnčan, Gašper Kunšek
Music: Kristijan Krajnčan
Light design: Luka Curk
Mentors: Nataša Tovirac, Nina Meško
Produced by: Dance Studio Intakt, Public Fund for Cultural Activities of RS 2016

Žigan Krajnčan is a dancer, performer and singer. His dance expression is a fusion of different dance techniques, such as popping, hip hop, ballet, release and Cunningham techniques, krump, house, contact dance, moshing/slamdancing, and other movement practices, which he continuously tries to improve and upgrade to find new expressive possibilities. Despite his young age, Žigan has collaborated with many choreographers and other makers, such as Matija Ferlin, Maja Delak, Gregor Luštek, Branko Potočan, Gramatik, Matjaž Pograjc, Miha Hočevar, Ivana Djilas, Matjaž Farič, Jurij Zrnec, Uroš Smolej, Gašper Tič, and Ivan Mijačevič. He has won numerous prizes and awards for his work: he is a three-time winner of the international dance competition OPUS and the winner of the European IDO Competition in the Electric Boogie category. Together with his dance partner Gašper Kunšek, Žigan has developed, choreographed and performed in an interdisciplinary project Hidden Myth, directed by Kristijan Krajnčan. His last project is Matija Ferlin’s performance Staging a Play: The Glass Menagerie.

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On All Fours

On All Fours is a performance about a table and a few chairs. The table and the chairs define how someone relates to him or herself, towards others as well as define one's role in the group. Depending on how they are positioned in space, they create different atmospheres and situations, which in turn affect us and our actions. Together with the dancers and the musicians, they create a space of contemplation, meeting, coexistence, dialogue and conflict – in other words a space of communication.

Choreographer and mentor: Dalanda Diallo
Performed and co-created by: Ališa Kasjak Gutman, Vanja Kolanovič, Katarina Kolar, Nuša Košti, Zarja Lampret Prešeren, Pia Lavuger
Music created by (also mentor): Damir Mazrek
Music created by: Kristijan Korat
Music performed live by: Brin Kološa, Matic Kološa, Nejc Kološa, Kristijan Korat
Set design by: Branko Kološa
Costume design by: Mira Strnad - MiriCota and Plesna izba Maribor
Assistant choreographer: Nina Milin
Executive production: Mojca Kasjak
Produced by: Plesna izba Maribor
Supported by: Municipality of Maribor and Public Fund for Cultural Activities of RS
Thanks to: Nina Hernan and Davorin Furek

Dancer and dance teacher Dalanda Diallo started her training at the department of contemporary dance at the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory. Later she joined the Dance Studio Intakt’s repertoire group, where she had the opportunity to work with and perform for many acclaimed choreographers. As a dancer Dalanda has collaborated with Maša Kagao Knez (Moi Toi Nous, Dia Diasso Diasspora, Momentum – An Avenue of Frozen Moments), Bara Kolenc (White, Cross on the Mountain), Damir Zlatar Frey (The Witch from Zgornja Davča), Matej Kejžar etc. The performance On All Fours is her first evening-length choreography.
Dalanda is active in the field of dance education since 2007. She has been teaching contemporary dance and African dances at Plesna izba Maribor since 2010. She is the cofounder of Baobab Arts and Culture Association and of the African choir Sankofa. She has been awarded many times by the Public Fund for Cultural Activities of the Republic of Slovenia for her work as a pedagogue and mentor.