ONE BODY IS NOT ENOUGH
dance performance
NEW REPRISES: Thursday, July 11th, 2024, and Friday, July 12th, 2024, at 21:00
premiere: Sunday, November 19th, 2023, at 20:00
reprises: Monday, November 20th, and Tuesday, November 21st, 2023, at 20:00
City museum Ljubljana
Tickets are available at mojekarte.si and the ticket office of the City Museum of Ljubljana.
Concept and direction: Agostina D’Alessandro
Created with and performed by: Milan Tomášik, Kristýna Peldová, Žigan Krajnčan, Agostina D’Alessandro and Kristijan Krajnčan
Original music: Kristijan Krajnčan
Light design: David Cvelbar
Costumography: Vesna Mirtelj
Author of video and photography: August Adrian Braatz
Director of photography in video: Dejan Ulaga
Graphic design: Rok Marinšek
Executive producer: Urška Centa
Producer: Goran Pakozdi
Production: NEST Institute
Co-production: Flota, Murska Sobota, Flota, Ljubljana
Partner: Adrian film Institute
Special thanks to Andreja Kopač.
“The bodies are understood as a social mycelium, which in the absence of the “I” suddenly become a present “we”. Dancing mycelia thus become a tool of articulation and actualizion of a social discourse.”
One body is not enough is a space for questioning identity and the multiplicity represented by a single body. In a shared space, four dancers play up with their political bodies to highlight key questions: How is our identity constructed? Is it determined by our bodies? Maybe by a cultural identity? Or maybe by our family identity?
The piece reflects on what defines us: first emerges the body and its gender, a gender identity that belongs to a family and is part of a social group that forms a culture and emanates from a particular country. In doing so, it attempts to grasp the notion of multitude of four collaborating dancers from four different countries: Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Argentina.
These diverse origins provide a wide canvas for a radical exploration: What are our unique social gestures? Can we discern elements of our own identities in our movements? Is it possible to detect atavism in us? And what distinguishes us in our individual homelands?
One body is not enough looks at the notion of identity to understand better the complexity of interpersonal relationships; and the resulting verbal and non-verbal communication, language, social adaptation, and individual behaviors that interact with the community. The physical postures of the family, the movements of the body that represent the homeland—everything that allows us to identify ourselves—is research material in this piece.
In the context of today’s society, which is moving toward new conceptions of what constitutes our identity and defines who we are, this self-questioning seems necessary. The creators of the play aim to transcend narrow perspectives and simplistic answers, encouraging individuals to challenge their own self-conceptions and uncover surprises along the way. They invite the audience to question the ‘reality’ of their political, social, and abstract bodies to enter in the process of disidentification, which allows us them discover other ways of positioning our bodies.
With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana.