Snježana Premuš: RELATION AS ARCHITECTURE 4

Wednesday 10/06/2009 at 8 pm MMC Kibla - the last dance-improvisation-discussion event in the cycle of four evenings "Relation as architecture" by the choreographer Snježana Premuš. This time a new challenge was posed to the artists having taken part in the first three evenings (Jurij Konjar, Gregor Kamnikar, Leja Jurišič, Primož Bezjak and Nina Milin) and two new guests - Urška Golob and Samo Pečar. The performance was followed by a discussion with the audience. After the final event, the series is intended to continue in the future, integrating artists of various art directions in the context of improvisation and relations with the audience.

"Relation as architecture" will present renowned Slovenian dancers active at home and in international environment. The focus will be on the interaction of the dynamic and the structural as well as the role of discursive rules with regard to external circumstances and to the basic idea or inspiration. To this end each event will be followed by an improvised discussion between the artists and the audience.

"An improviser in space is also the virtuoso of the moment, in which they recognise internal desires and intentions of the co-improviser as well as external circumstances, which they realise through decisions or movement actions. At the same time they recognise the integration of art and life as well as the balance and articulation of external circumstances, which they must take in consideration during the performance - but not at the expense of their own idea or inspiration."
Snježana Premuš

Primož Bezjak was born in 1977 in Maribor. Studied acting at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. Active in the field of theatre. Particularly noted for his cooperation with Betontanc theatre group.

Urška Golob was born in 1973 in Slovenj Gradec. In 1992 she started studying Fine Arts Education at the Faculty of Education in Maribor. Before graduation she was awarded the Rector's prize for achievements in study and creativity as an exceptional student in 1998. She has presented her works at several solo and group exhibitions. In June 2001 she was granted the status of free-lance cultural worker - graphic designer by the Ministry of Culture. She works as a visual artist and graphic designer.

Gregor Kamnikar is a researcher of physical intelligence. His research is based on contemporary dance. Within this field and outside it, he continues to be an active dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and lecturer. He calls the researches and the use of physical intelligence Plazma (plazma.ops.si). Besides dance techniques, methods, procedures and types of work, his type of activity has been conceived with the help of skills like physical theatre training, contemporary physics, gestalt theory, modern linguistics, philosophy, Rolphing, metamorphic technique. The major part of his work has been related to the creation of the play called Commoveo, a part of which is the performance "Open from to" (http://commoveo031.ops.si), choreographed and performed by Tina Dobaj Eder and Gregor Kamnikar. As a choreographer he is currently working on M (http://m.ops.si) - a documentary on impracticability - his mother's solo. It should be mentioned that in 2007/2008 he started the very widely known project u3p (http://u3p.ops.si) - lectures, performances, talks on new Slovenian contemporary dance, also part of Darinka Novak project. He has also been a clown doctor for Red Nose campaign since 2008.

Jurij Konjar has written quite a few CV's but none of them was to his liking. And this one seems to be no exception.
I have mostly been in movement for a long time, sometimes I sing. My career seems like a combination of circumstances, coincidences and solving wrong decisions. Apart form movement, I am currently into observation, flow and direct communication.http://www.oxoxox.info/JurijKonjarCVslo.htm

Leja Jurišić is a graduate attorney, choreographer and dancer. As a choreographer, she has created the performances "Rehearsing freedom" with Teja Reba and R'z'R. She has been creating the cyclical project "Weak Points" in cooperation with Hanna Sybille Müller since 2006. The first phase of the project resulted in the performance "Hidden/Weakness", and their plans for 2009 include the second step, "Conspiracy".

Samo Pečar is a bass player engaged in a wide range of music activities and having much music experience both at home and abroad. His individual performance Samo Cirkus is composed of conventional genre approaches and forms taken to the zone of experiment and freedom of expression. He plays bass in many bands: Shit Happens, Dandrough, Ground Zero, Dr.Vibrato and the juice connection, Libido, Omet odpada, Funky Dread, Last, Electric Tea, East, SUR, Yam damil, Siti hlapci. Has performed with the band Ansasa Trio at many festivals at home and abroad (Croatia, Italy, Austria, Romania). Has cooperated and created the sound for various theatrical and video project (Tržnica/Market dance performance, No.STALGIJA video animation; lectures at festivals in Belgrade, Hiroshima)…