The project by Anamaria Klajnšček with Elvis Homan, Krystina Peldová, Boštjan Simon & Gabriela Lotaif marks the first collaboration between emerging artist Anamaria Klajnšček and Pekinpah. Movements trigger sounds that constantly drives new motions, all reflecting cognitive processes. An interlace of four individual entities, fighting for attention, diving into a whirl of shared thoughts with a single motive: to keep going on.
© Matija Lukić
In the dimly lit atmosphere, evoking improvised jazz with percussion and saxophone, the dancers move in a balanced manner until, as if propelled by gravity, they ultimately collide. With scattered gazes in the audience and abrupt hand movements, they incorporate powerful dance twists.
Metod Zupan, Sigledal
By thought flow we usually mean an individual thought process, but Anamaria Klajnšček traces the intertwining of four thought flows, which are not satisfied with the mental playing of images and ideas, but the entire body is the instrument of their thoughts - namely the "musical" body, which to the center of Anamaria, on the one hand, and the "dancing" body, as developed by Elvis, on the other. Anamaria Klajnšček brings another dancer into this flow, and Elvis Homan another musician.
Four bodies, dancing and musical, flow into a single, collective, clear thought that can be heard in a series of intense and experimental encounters arranged throughout the year. We are witnessing an unstoppable flow of thoughts that turns into a whirlwind, roaring and overflowing movements to the sounds of drums. Sound drives motion, and motion drives sound, which in turn drives new motions. And all movements are thought processes. Despite their singularity, thoughts run simultaneously, sometimes indistinguishable, and sometimes they fight for exclusive attention.
Performance Flow of Thought: The Interplay leaves no doubt that individuality is important for the construction of a flow of thought, but at the same time as it is established, it is already disappearing, as it begins to transform into cooperativeness or, more precisely, symbiotic or solidary cooperation. The performance further explores the potential of the originally chaotic nature of thought, which refuses to be molded into forms of orderly and judicious thinking, but on the contrary, without self-censorship and ego, accepts thought impulses that constantly pass through the body, which responds to them with the same frequency. If a certain stream of thought is understood individualistically as an intimate life force, the creators of the performance are interested in where to cross the border of individuality in order to create a coexistence between all four streams of thought without any of them losing their autonomy, at most the opposite, each meeting of these streams means on an intimate level the spiritual and physical enrichment of individual thought and at the same time the construction of a new common thought, which also utilizes the potential of its chaos.
CREDITS
Author: Anamaria Klajnšček
Performed by: Anamaria Klajnšček, Elvis Homan, Kristyna Peldová, Boštjan Simon
Costumes & scenography: Gabriela Lotaif
Producer: Žiga Predan
Produced by: Pekinpah
Supported by Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture
PREMIERE
6 November 2023, Španski borci, Ljubljana
