Notes to Antiphon by Petra Veber and Leja Jurišić is the conclusion of the first phase of reading The Antiphon, the great work by Djuna Barnes, as well as an announcement of the Slovenian translation by Miklavž Komelj, which will be published by cf.
Read moreRDEČI GOZD
Ljudje posegamo v gozd, a je tudi moč gozda, da oblikuje ljudi, neizogibna. V gozd si gremo celit rane, v gozdu rane nastanejo, tišina gozda ni nenasilna, glasnost sveta prav tako ne. Z Rdečim gozdom Leje Jurišić se sooči pet plesalk in plesalcev, koreografinj in koreografov. Nastaja omnibus soočanj z gozdom in rdečo.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: dance and performance
From 10 to 31 May, Leja Jurišić will conduct a forty-hour workshop in the field of dance and performance. The program will be based on the physical and emotional patterns of the participants: the participants will try to turn their own habits into a dance movement in order to establish a stronger awareness of their own subjectivity.
Read moreCONCERT
For quite some time, the dancer and choreographer Leja Jurišić has been developing her interest in the arts that in their time transformed the field of art, those that had cut into it, stirred it up, and redefined it. This impulse and focus can be observed in her creative work; she collaborates with artists from various fields to create pieces in which she can cross the conventions and boundaries of a dance performance. In the new piece entitled CONCERT, the horizon of the leap from the dance arts is even bolder, even bigger.
Read moreBRINA - a Kinaesthetic Monument
A monument: a structure, a tangible structure, a lasting tangible structure as a reminder to a historical phenomenon, a fixation of a specific memory arising from the fear of loss of memory. Now: to make one who is movement itself into a monument.
Read moreNi mogoče čakati zaman
Ni mogoče čakati zaman Miklavža Komelja in Leje Jurišić je soavtorski projekt dveh umetnikov, ki prvič sodelujeta. Odločila sta se, da bosta delila skoraj enoleten ustvarjalni proces, znotraj formiranja končnega umetniškega dela pa ne želita sprejemati kompromisov, zato sta ustvarila vsak svoje avtonomno delo z naslovom Ni mogoče čakati zaman.
Read moreDE FACTO - Go With Yourself
The meeting of the musician and dancer on the stage, which is also a dance floor and a concert venue, resonates with the connection of the incompatible – the first joint project by Leja Jurišić and Milko Lazar acts as a hybrid experimental work, in which the artists engage in a creative dialogue to transcend their own authorial position.
Read moreTogether
The top performing duo Jurišić-Mandić, in collaboration with director Bojan Jablanovec and writer Semira Osmanagić, address the all-time ideal of performing arts and the forever irresolvable issue of politics: what does it mean to be together and how should we be together?
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The most beautiful moments are the shortest
Dancer Leja Jurišić is a hanging body in her installation that has been forcibly deprived of subjectivation, which is why it is fixed: “The most beautiful moments are the shortest"
Read moreLeja Jurišić: Najlepši trenutki so najkrajši
Otvoritveni dnevi grafičnega bienala - Leja Jurišić: Najlepši trenutki so najkrajši. Performativna Instalacija o Samoumevanju Negacije Subjekta. Lokacija in dan izvedbe: Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije, petek, 16. junij: 9.00–16.00. (Foto: Petra Veber)
Read moreIdeal
Revealing the connections between female sexuality and patriotism, Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba occupy a bed in order to interrogate the lives of dead and immoratal male figures. Ideal premiered at the 2015 Spider Festival in Ljubljana.
Read moreI Fear Slovenia
Slovenia is a world superpower, subjugating populations throughout the world. Jurišić depicts a bunch of Slovenian females whose fresh imperial subjectivity has been evolving either perfectly or disastrously. In short, the War on Terror à la Slovénie.
Read moreKING LEAR: A DECLARATION OF SINCERE LOVE
With the king absent, the audience becomes a sovereign in this peculiar feminist take on the Shakespeare classic text. Premiered at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, King Lear by Jurišić and Rusjan is as contemporary as it is archetypal.
Read moreThe Second Freedom
Seductive iconoclasts, Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba dissolve the private-public boundary, presenting the audience with secretion as a desirable tool for testing morality and freedom of expression.
Read moreBallet of Revolt
Dancing across a banknote map of Europe strewn across the stage, Jurišić praises and ridicules the possibility of revolt in the contemporary West. Ballet of Revolt premiered to a critical acclaim at the Tanzquartier Wien in Austria.
Read moreSofa
Premiered at Tanzquartier in Vienna and staged in Prague, London and New York, Sofa is a site-specific and context-specific durational performance on the social role of laughter. It features Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba as the Almighty Laughing Weapon.
Read moreLeja Jurišić
The last Champion of Yugoslavia in artistic gymnastics, Leja Jurišić (Ljubljana, SI) collaborated with Tim Etchells and Meg Stuart and created a series of critically acclaimed pieces. Her works have been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, Hellerau Dresden, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, BiennaleOnline Art+ New York, Les Subsistances Lyon, and ]performance space[ London.
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