Bara Kolenc, Teja Reba, Loup Abramovici: TODAY IS TOMORROW’S YESTERDAY

Photo: Radovan Jaušovec

Evening of two duets, thematically related in their contemplation on time, desire, ideal, love, loss and death.

METAMORPHOSES 2°: Paradise Lost

This place/paradise is marked by inherent impossibility, but it nevertheless exists as an entity of desires, as the original human phantasm, stretching out into two directions – it is individual’s founding act, the neuralgic junction of performances propelling personality constructs, and it also stands for individual’s projection into the future, an ideal that this individual strives for. It is because of this place/paradise that life is never what it chooses to be, but at the same time allows it to be exactly what it is. As such, this place is inherently utopian by nature.

Performers: Teja Reba, Loup Abramovici
Direction and choreography: Loup Abramovici, Bara Kolenc, Teja Reba
Concept: Bara Kolenc
Sound design: Mitja Cerkvenik
Lighting and set design: Urška Vohar
Costume design: Urška Recer
Graphic design: Atej Tutta
Stage technician: Borut Cajnko
Photography: Nada Žgank
Video: Borut Bučinel
Public relations: Saša Kejžar
Executive production: Bara Kolenc
Production: KUD Samosvoj
Co-production: Bunker Ljubljana, KUD Pozitiv, DIC, Maska
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

LOVE IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?

The performance portrays the night of the crisis, perhaps carrying both intimate as well as global connotation. A man and a woman perform fragments that seem to emanate from their lives, their loves and their potential deaths. The performers draw on minimalistic choreographed gestures and narrative moments from various film scenes that touch upon chliches to explore the ideas of need, desire, pleasure and gender identity. The play on these roles highlights the tension between the subject and the imaginary on one hand and the object and the real on the other.

Performers: Teja Reba, Loup Abramovici
Direction and choreography: Loup Abramovici, Bara Kolenc, Teja Reba
Concept: Teja Reba
Sound design: Mitja Cerkvenik
Lighting and set design: Urška Vohar
Costume design: Urška Recer
Graphic design: Atej Tutta
Stage technician: Borut Cajnko
Photography: Nada Žgank
Video: Borut Bučinel
Public relations: Saša Kejžar
Executive production: Nataša Zavolovšek
Production: Exodos Ljubljana
Co-production: Bunker Ljubljana, KUD Pozitiv, DIC
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture