Snježana Premuš: Asymmetry of the embrace

The author developed the “embrace” as a collective field of co-existence. She understands the embrace as a fundamental, elementary gesture that is deeply rooted in human experience and can be both literal and figurative. In doing so, she examines what is human in the gesture and possibilities of “landscapes” and sculptural within the human body. In her latest work, in the form of an interdisciplinary dance performance, she expands the meaning of the gesture into an intimate, fragile, fleshly, compassionate landscape of communication between a woman and a man. The embrace becomes a sphere, a field where erotic interacts with the imaginative. Sensory-somatic landscapes and the impulses arising from the touch reveal subtle nuances of the relationship in the temporal-spatial context. However, every arrival in the embrace also carries with it the possibility of disintegration.

Artistic director and choreographer: Snježana Premuš.
Performance: Gregor Zorc and Snježana Premuš
Video: Hana Vodeb
Sound design: Boštjan Perovšek
Lighting design: Darko Herič
Lighting management: Žiga Planinšek
Costume design: Barbara Kapelj
Technical support: Danilo Pečar
Producer: Barbara Zonta
Production: Zavod Federacija Ljubljana
In collaboration with: DUM Artists’ Association, Glej Theatre
The project was supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana