1.9. Being the audience

If performance looks at us really, we run. If we look at it really, sometimes it runs.
In this fragile space, this potentiality, this offering through space and time, bodies reveal the histories of being watched. We watch one another all the time. And yet we run away from it, from being watched or watching too close. It seems like before we do not reconcile with the act of watching and being exposed and exposing by watching, we can not move forward. So please, lets reconcile. Lets find pleasure again in seeing life unfolding before our eyes. Lets find pleasure again in playing, in allowing to be seduced.
When a child plays or watches someone else play for him, they take it very serious. Taking it serious means surrendering their control completely. That is how you take things serious.
Not by parading your mechanism of control before your eyes, enjoying your own display of power over what invites your attention. No.
It is by being so serious that you surrender.
That is how you do not need to parade your alertness. But you simply are.
Sometimes we pretend we surrender. We play dead. Our mechanisms of control are endless. We die off, closing our eyes and in the deepest corners of our mind we wait. Enjoying in the anticipation of the moment when performance will come to close to a mistake..and bam!...we hit it dead.
Playing dead and only waking up to kill things is a truly messed up dynamic of a relationship. I think it will take some years to clean such space properly. Good luck.
Playing dead to be kissed back to life... Good luck for that one too.

How do we body-stare in each others bodies? And by keeping ourselves present and out of reach of control, how do we let this relationship to breath and grow and mature? After all I think both sides at the end are looking for some kind of connection really. 

Needless to say, looking is not enough. 
"Be generous." A sentence from today for tomorrow.

(Anja Bornšek.)

1.9. Parkour 4 !!!! Sobota/Saturday 1.9.

19.30 Predstavitev/ Presentation Mala Kline, Plesna izba Maribor

21.00 Predstavitev/ Presentation Fanni Futterknecht, Salon Rotovž

23.00 Koncert-predstava John Kihot/ Concert performance John Quixote, John the Housband, Kino Udarnik (po filmu/ after the movie)

*Posamezni parkouri so večurni dogodki, ki se dogajajo v določenem zaporedju na festivalskih lokacijah. / Individual parkours are separate, several hours long events taking place in a specific order at the festival's locations.

31.8. ShakeIN' - ob 21.00 Predstavitev, Slasten zalogaj/ Presentation, The very delicious piece, Cristina Planas Leitao in/ and Jasmina Križaj, Vodni stolp

I was shaking with Jasmina and Cristina a while ago. We were sharing residencies in Poznan and Barcelona. I was shaking with Jasmina also in Maribor. 

After, I was shaking many times on my own in some studio, or in my living room. I became a little addicted. 

We had this task every morning - shaking the body (how ever, by jumping, moving, shaking parts), ...you just had to shake the whole body for 1 hour. We were using different types of music...many times percussions (african, asian, oriental...), also jazz music etc.

it was really really wonder-full....

At some point you just start dancing...there is no division between shaking, vibrating, jumping and dancing anymore...as you dance you shake and vice versa...Move.me.

The rhythm and movement, both together forming this powerful unity of expression of the most vital, of the most alive of alive in us. It felt like this is what alive means....to move and while moving you at the same time celebrate the anticipation of every next moment and the moment you are in right now...you celebrate it by moving, you move in order to move. While moving you feel the life force...expressed, released through moving...freeze is withholding. Not moving is stagnation...is death.

With every movement (from micro...cellular...breathing...to huge jumping, running, dancing), with every step, stomp to the ground, push from the gravity you feel the life force with which we escape the death. Yes, I could feel that in every second of a shake there is this space which is simultaneously escaping the death and celebrating the life.

I would feel how through music, its rhythm...our dance becomes also a part of the whole...of all the history...of all the stories captured within that rhythm. Because this is what rhythm is,..it is stories, feelings,..it is an emotional audio DNA of our ancestors, now becoming a part of us.

We become connected to all of them that already danced to that music, to that rhythm....Shaking I would feel that when we dance, it stretches beyond ourselves....it is a part of the past, present and future....it is dancing for all those who can not anymore...and for all those that will come and pick up our dance when we will not anymore...

It is a passing of a torch of eternal survival, of life, of vitality, and at the same time experiencing all that in one's body.

And inside of it, inside each movement there is all energies, patterns...an essence of breath, of joy, of aggression, of pleasure, of sex, of devotion, of silliness, of madness, of love, of erotic, of sensual, of surrender, of attack, of giving birth, of getting born, of devouring, of possessing, of loosing, of animalistic, of fucking, of spiritual, of working, of marching, of transcending, of starring into the eyes of the possibility of death and stomping into life.....

(Anja Bornšek.)

P.S. 31.8. ob 21.00 Predstavitev, Slasten zalogaj/ Presentation, The very delicious piece, Cristina Planas Leitao in/ and Jasmina Križaj, Vodni stolp

31.8. Samo.hoja - nadaljevanje ta petek 31.8. ob 18.00 Refleksija/ Reflexion Tina Valentan in/and Luka Martin Škof, Paviljon v parku

Ko sem prejšnji petek, 24.8. stopala po asfaltnih kockah Grajskega trga, sem razmišljala o času, o takem, v katerem prebivata Luka in Tina. Čas in telo v času. Ko korak postane celo vesolje. Minute so minevale, jaz pa sem prestavljala nogo pred nogo. V najpočasnejšem možnem časovnem razmahu. Za večino sem bila pri miru. To večino sem pozabila. Kar pozabljala sem, marsikaj. In marsikaj nepozabljenega je vzniknilo iz povsod. In čez čas, so stvari polzele narazen. Zvok od slike, teža od telesa, pogovori od prostora. Koliko enosti vidimo, ko smo v "vsakodnevnem" času. In ta enost, ki se kaže kot enost, je v resnici razmerje med tolikimi delci, ki so v nenehni interakciji. Življenje je skozi formo, ampak forma je le manifestacija mnogoterih povezav, ki se razpenjajo in vpenjajo skozi prostor in čas.
In ko telo nekako tako ustavljaš, ugotoviš, da smo velikokrat prehitri, da bi bili zmožni stvari zares občutiti. Da bi bili zmožni zaznavati povezave in ne le to, kar pač na hitro povežemo skupaj v to enost, ki je v resnici sploh ne razumemo.
Kolikokrat se dejansko vprašamo kako čuječi smo v nekem trenutku?
Percepcija je ključ do trenutka. Kako to, da je ne vadimo bolj zavestno...bolje..z več strasti..?

In ko sem končala in se obrnila po trgu navzdol, sta hodila samo še dva. Čisto blizu en drugega, z istim korakom. Ostal mi je ta močan občutek telesnosti, čeprav je bilo na tistem trgu takrat polno glav, rok in nog. Ta dva, pa sta v tistem trenutku, skozi čas ki sta ga raztegovala, odpirala tisto živo telesnost, kjer skozi vsak del telesa zaznavaš tok. Tok, ki združuje neznano, odločitev, kompromis in prisotnost. Telo ki se odkriva, skozi gravitacijo in zavest. Telo, ki razkriva.

(Anja Bornšek.)

P.S. ....nadaljevanje ta petek 31.8. ob 18.00 - Refleksija/ Reflexion Tina Valentan in/and Luka Martin Škof, Paviljon v parku

31.8. Parkour 3 !!!! Petek / Friday 31.8.2012

18.00 Refleksija/ Reflexion Tina Valentan in/and Luka Martin Škof, Paviljon v parku

19.30 Predstavitev/ Presentation Mala Kline, Plesna izba Maribor

21.00 Predstavitev, Slasten zalogaj/ Presentation, The very delicious piece, Cristina Planas Leitao in/ and Jasmina Križaj, Vodni stolp

23.00 Zabava/ Party Coraline Lamaison and Guillaume Marie, Kino Udarnik (po filmu/ after the movie)



*Posamezni parkouri so večurni dogodki, ki se dogajajo v določenem zaporedju na festivalskih lokacijah. / *Individual parkours are separate, several hours long events taking place in a specific order at the festival's locations.

30.8. Thursday's Song for the upcoming Parkour 2

Dear you, 

This is an invitation. To join our Parkour 2, this Thursday, 30th of August 2012.

Breath in and out. Focus. 3 places for arrival. 3 moments to surrender to. Cristina & Jasmina, Coraline and Guillaume. 

Interwoven in movement in language in space. One foot in front of the other, dream. Get lost. Imagine. 

I see you walking with us. From one place to the other. To race our hearts and keep arriving deeper into the journey.

What if Thursday would be re-written as a song? 
A song made of the words they used to describe their work...Jasmina, Cristina, Coraline and Guillaume....

I wrote Thursday, this Thursday as a re-cycling song. Here it goes.... 

THURSDAY's PARKOUR SONG

We come here every day and one of us proposes things to the others

an idea is a strange vision which brings a big chaos

it will become a big obsession in your head 

and with this obsession you have to fall in love with

music dance make up

certain tasks that can potentially lead to certain states

you have to trust what you do to the gut

it is not about boring or being bored

we search for a very particular state

emotional body

to create another universe

please work on pulsations

please do it with a big sense of humor

please lots of pleasure

please a cinematographic atmosphere

we come here every day and one of us proposes things to the others

it is a lot about tension moments and expectations that they bring

a cruel digger of the body and the soul

and i work also with my mother

wig and heels

so we share a lot

we search for a very particular state

if you like zombie movies

if you like politics

if you like funny perverse dark humor

then you should come

we need joy to work

we share

lots of pleasure

then...come.

(material: Jasmina, Cristina, Coraline, Guillaume
text choreography: Anja Bornšek.)


                                                                        Jasmina Križaj

                                                                                                
                                        
                                                                                                  Cristina Planas Leitao

                                                                          Coraline Lamaison

Guillaume Marie

Programme: Četrtek/ Thursday 30.8.2012 

16.00 Preizkušnja/ Testing mode Jasmina Križaj in Cristina Planas Leitao, Plesna Izba Maribor

19.00 Predstavitev/ Presentation Coraline Lamaison, II. Gimnazija

23.00 Video projekcija/ Video projection Guilaume Marie, Kino Udarnik 

*Posamezni parkouri so večurni dogodki, ki se dogajajo v določenem zaporedju na festivalskih lokacijah./ Individual parkours are separate, several hours long events taking place in a specific order at the festival's locations.

Parkour 2 !!!! Četrtek/ Thursday 30.8.2012

Četrtek/ Thursday 30.8.2012 

16.00 Preizkušnja/ Testing mode Jasmina Križaj in Cristina Planas Leitao, LOKACIJA: Plesna Izba Maribor

19.00 Predstavitev/ Presentation Coraline Lamaison, LOKACIJA: II. Gimnazija

23.00 Video projekcija/ Video projection Guilaume Marie, LOKACIJA: Kino Udarnik 

*Posamezni parkouri so večurni dogodki, ki se dogajajo v določenem zaporedju na festivalskih lokacijah./ Individual parkours are separate, several hours long events taking place in a specific order at the festival's locations.