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Performing Memory
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija
October 12th, 2024, 7:00 PM
str. Ion Minulescu 67-93, corp. E, et. 2, Working Art Space and Production WASP.
FREE Entrance
*Performers: Jana Jevtović, Jan Rozman, DISCOllective
The Temporary NDA Collective is a group of six established artists of different generations living in Slovenia and working as dancers and choreographers (DISCOllective, Dragana Alfirević, Dejan Srhoj, Jana Jevtović, Jan Rozman and Beno Novak) who share an interest in exploring movement and composition, and who believe in the fact that every dancer is also an author and not just a tool in the hands of a choreographer. They have gathered around the notion that collective work is necessary, stemming from the closeness and support in the community, as well as from the differences between individuals.
The Temporary Collective is gathered around the topic of dance practice and had been working with Deborah Hay in 2022 and 2023 on sharing her practice and tools. In 2023 it had a premiere of the piece called Inside the Outside, choreographed by Hay, and the group is continuing their research on this topic.
Part of the collective is visiting Bucharest in the frame of artist residency of Life Long Burning project, with the wish to continue the research on the tools for practice and to share their work with the Romanian dance scene and dance audience.
„For us as dancers, the work with Deborah Hay is a gift, a learning experience, an affirmation of dance as a daily practice and a research of forms, formats and the fluidity of perception. In this process, dance is paralleled with learning, individual and collective. Choreography comes as a structure, which supports and challenges the dancers. The possible readings of it are infinite – firm and fluid at the same time.
This open work seeks to affirm that segment of contemporary dance arts that, in line with Deborah Hay’s work, deals with a longer-term and more sustainable notion: dance practice. Dance practice is not the production of forms, but rather the creation of determinants and principles with which an individual dance act or body changes and develops over time, and in this way expands the dimensions of dance time beyond the time limit that usually corresponds to the dance performance.”
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Deborah Hay (b. 1941, Brooklyn) is a pioneering figure in postmodern dance, known for her radical experimentation in movement. Her early career was shaped by her work with the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s, one of the most influential movements in contemporary dance. Hay’s practice centers on dismantling learned movement patterns, encouraging dancers to explore the body’s full potential.
She founded the Deborah Hay Dance Company in 1980 and has since developed numerous solo and group works. Throughout her career, Hay has received prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Her works have been performed worldwide, and she continues to influence generations of dancers with her innovative approach to choreography.
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Jana Jevtović is a choreographer, dancer, and performer whose works include performances, dances, texts, and videos, and are often made through collaborative processes and structures with others. Rather than thematic frameworks, what primarily interests her are the situations and mechanisms which take place in and around the event of performance itself. She has been active around Europe, the U.S., and Canada, and has collaborated with artists such as Mårten Spångberg, Dragana Alfirević, Amanda Piña and Daniel Zimmermann, Céline Larrère, Engin Can, Deborah Hay, Mateja Bučar… Jana graduated from Concordia University (Montreal) in 2006.
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Jan Rozman is a freelance dancer, choreographer, performer and performance maker based between Ljubljana and Berlin. He is interested in and in his artistic practice engaged with notions of extended bodies, material semiotics, gaps, errors & confusions, ecology, imagination, (science) fiction and humor in a search of relevant performative articulations for the post-internet / anthropocene era. Jan studied contemporary dance at Arts Gymnasium in Ljubljana and choreography at SNDO (AhK), Amsterdam and obtained a master’s degree in solo/dance/authorship at HZT (UdK), Berlin. He created several author works; in the last period O (die shOw), (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ screamage, THINGS THING and Thinging, which have been shown in Ljubljana (Gibanica, CoFestival, Platform of Contemporary Dance), Berlin (PAF Berlin, NO LIMITS, Augenblick Mal!) and elsewhere (Théâtre de la Ville, Judson Church Theatre, Antistatic Festival, Tanzhafen, Improspekcije). Since 2014 he collaborated in different roles with Milan Tomasik, Katja Legin, Dejan Srhoj, Image Snatchers, Deborah Hay, Andrea Uerba, Julia Keren Turbahn, Jan Kress and others. www.janrozman.link
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DISCOllective researches playfulness in the role of a dancer, choreographer, performer, clown, teacher, writer, producer, among many; in formats like performance, dance, play, game, event, choreography, (social) experiment, installation, lecture, workshop, class, publication, (clown) act, video, score, among many. Since 2011, members of DISCOllective have been playing the Name Game where they mutually exchange their artistic names, to be used for a diverse range of artistic acts, with other members. DISCOllective received an award from the Slovene Association of Contemporary Dance for innovative dance practice.
photo credits: Sunčan Stone / Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija
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Event organised in the framework of Performing Memory project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN).
The programme does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Part of Creative Crossroads/Life Long Burning project. Co-financed by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
THE TEMPORARY NDA COLLECTIVE visit is supported by EU Creative Europe and Slovene Ministry of Culture.
