Room & Road
contemporary dance performance

20. January 2005 / repetition 21., 22.January 2005 at 20.00
Skuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana

idea, choreography: Mateja Bucar
dance and collaboration: Rebecca Murgi and Jonathan Pranlas
space: Vadim Fiskin
software: Miha Petelin
music: Random Logic production: Association DUM, co production: SKUC Gallery

entrance free

information and reservation:
Alina Lovrecic tel. +386 31 476 743 or
e-mail: dum@dum-club.si

(please don’t hesitate to contact us in case you plan to visit the performance,
and would need any further information)

about the performance:

ROOM & ROAD is an open story, speaking about the desire to make a move, to long for distance and for change. It is a story speaking about the elemental, about the motion, about itself.

ROOM & ROAD is a story about a girl and a tramp, about unreachable point t that has an exciting charm and about a traveler who stops in one place but his mind is already in another.

ROOM & ROAD is also two different spaces completing each other, one closed and the other open are at the same time the two human poles endlessly opposing, inspiring and seducing each other.
Gregor Podnar

ROOM & ROAD is a continuation of the work Mateja Bucar began in her last creation named Koncept Koncepta (Concept of Concept) where a dancer is confronted with the space which is able (with a help of computer program) to move and so being an “alive” pace is able to partner a mover or dancer inside it.
In ROOM & ROAD (which is also placed in a space of gallery) there are two such spaces, one is a Room, the inner or the closed space, that is able through its own moving and distorting to communicate with the outside space the Road and at the same time to the two or occasionally three dancers moving between and inside both spaces.

about the authors:

Mateja Bucar
After the classical ballet education she continued with the training in International dance center Rosella Hightower in Cannes and on the dance seminars and projects of contemporary European and American choreographers (Arthur Rosenfeld, Donna Uchisono, John Jaspers, Fatou Traore). She was a member of Ballet SNG Ljubljana and Dance Theatre Ljubljana. Since 1991 she worked as a dancer in contemporary dance productions of Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, Institute Egon March and further created works as author and choreographer: Ton-Ka, Cukrarna, Discipline as a condition of freedom, A.B. Sence, Pleasure in displeasure, DepenDanse, Telborg, O kvadrat, Media-Medici, Koncept Koncepta (concept of concept)

further information available on: www.dum-club.si

Rebecca Murgi is an Italian dancer and choreographer. Graduated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten v Arnhemu E.D.D.C. (European Dance Development Centre). Her professionall career began in 1985 being a member (and choreographer ) of Cast Quinto Piano dance company in Ancona. In Slovenia she had worked with Iztok Kovac in performances Spread your wings (1994), in dance film Naravabeso and “ Perfect steps” (2001).
As choreographer and dancer she created performances Magnum Miraculum (1995), Pyhisis (1998), Senza Identita (1999), io sono shake (2001), No words to say (2002), Fuzzy times(2004).
Since October 2000 she is guest teacher on SAED, Salzburg (Austria).

Jonathan Pranlas is young French dancer. Graduated from National dance school in Annecy in art history. In 2004 he specialized theatre production on the University of Aix Marseille. In 2003 he trained with Ballet Preljocaj with the National theatre of Marseille in performances Heliocopter, Le sacre du printemps, Romeo and Juliette and Near Life Experience. In 2004 he worked with Nataya Dance Company in Pouce’s Circus. He also specialized at workshops led by C. Carlson, C. Germaine, S. Waltz, C. Haleb and others.

Vadim Fishkin is visual artist who is and has been in past 10 years widely exhibiting internationally. His works were shown among others in Biennale di Venezia, Manifesta, Collection 2000+, Istanbul Biennale, Secesion Wienna. As stage designer he worked mostly in Ljubljana with Dragan Zivadinov, Mateja Bucar, Bojan Jablanovac and others.

further information available on: www.dum-club.si

Random Logic, Miha Klemencic and Gregor Zemljic who are one of the outstanding representatives of slovenian contemporary music. Among their music productions for slovenian and foreign record houses they also create music for contemporary dance and theatre with authors as Marko Peljan, Matjaž Faric, Goran Bogdanovski.

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Cultural Department of the City of Ljubljana.

sponsored by: SD Tabor, Institut français Charles Nodier