POKLON
- 12.00 EUR Odrasla
- 8.00 EUR dijaki, študenti, upokojenci
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Tanja Zgonc
TRIBUTE
butoh
Authorship, Choreography & Performance: TANJA ZGONC
Costume Design: ALAN HRANITELJ
Music: ALDO KUMAR
Light Design: ANDREJ HAJDINJAK
Creative Producer & Assistant: KATJA SOMRAK
Produced by: PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA
The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
About the performance
The author created the performance POKLON / TRIBUTE to celebrate sixty years of butoh dance, as well as her thirty-year journey, and above all, to pay tribute to her teachers – the pioneers of butoh, to her pupils, and to her colleagues who accompanied her on her thirty-year journey.
The story revolves around Khandro, the so‑called “sky dancer – traveller”, and the four activities of the butoh body: the calming, enriching, inspiring and energetic protective activity, which – much like the phases of the moon – give rhythm to life, to the stages of the development cycle: birth, youth, maturity, age – symbolizes the cyclical changing and eternal restarting.
The performance comes close to the original butoh, deriving from her personal aesthetics, which has developed over the decades of delving into butoh and is based on the exploration of attentiveness, on concentration on details, spine and facial language, and on connecting movement archetypes and above all, on the “wisdom of the body”. The body carries a memory, stored in cells in the form of images and senses, instinctively perceiving the psyche as an informational network with endless communication systems.
The performance is accompanied by a photographic exhibition and a selection of videos of her butoh performances.
Excerpt from press review
»Tribute is a new artistically polished performance by dance artist and creator of contemporary butoh stage composition Tanja Zgonc, which lithely reflects and clearly delves into eternal reflections on human existence, which enrich the art of contemporary Slovenian and international butoh dance scene, as well as a broader influence on the artistic horizons of modern times.” Daliborka Podboj, Dance Parade