Mateja Bučar: REAR WINDOW / DANCERS WITHOUT ANSWERS

The original title Rear Window of the dance performance by Slovenechoreographer and dancer Mateja Bučar, which plays with alternative performative territories and staging methods, resembles Alfred Hitchcock’s American mystery thriller of the same name, but in this case, it plays with literalism and voyeurism, which is not rewarded with the solution of riddles, but with beauty and grace. The dance performance features a courtyard window that places the viewer in the position of a voyeuristic observer of the dancers within the boundaries framed by the window. Window, as one of the most important elements of the choreography of views and vistas, provides aesthetics, transmits light, helps control the sound, and serves as a viewing option for the outside visitor attracted by the intimacy of the inside. At certain moments, the view can capture everything, while at others, the walls and the disconnectedness of the courtyard windows force it to complete the events behind the four walls and three windows. The dancers in the dance performance are separated – by a courtyard window. The dancers are in the safe intimacy of the inside, while the viewer and the passing observer can run into dangers and surprises of the outside. This creates a special intermediate space of riddles between danger and intimacy, between the outside and the inside, where it’s not quite clear where the inside begins, where the outside enters, and where it exits.

Concept, choreography: Mateja Bučar v sodelovanju z/in collaboration with: Katja Legin, Tina Valentan, Kaja Lorenci, Vadim Fiškin
Words: iz nedokončane zgodbe Franza Kafke Brlog/from the unfinished story by Franz Kafka The Burrow
Reading: Borut Savski
Sound, songs, musical parts: Borut Savski, Nick Cave, Billie Cowie
Produced by: DUM – društvo umetnikov

40 minutes

Photo: Jaka Babnik

Video: Klara Drnovšek Solina
Editing: Domen Martinčič

About the show:

Date

24. 08. 2020
Expired!

Time

21:00

Cost

Reservations: info@bunker.si

Location

DUM
Category