GRAN BOLERO
Inspired by Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, Gran Bolero unfolds as a collective dance ritual in which two companies and the audience come together in a shared experience. Through repetition and crescendo, a strong sense of unity emerges, culminating in an energetic collective climax.
In collaboration with Cankarjev dom, En–Knap presented Slovenian contemporary dance on the country’s largest stage for the first time.
Madrid-based choreographer Jesús Rubio Gamo has shown his work at major international festivals and has received significant European recognition.
The Zagreb Dance Company, Croatia’s only permanent contemporary dance ensemble, is internationally renowned for the originality and energy of its productions.
DANCING AUDIENCE
Dancing Audience is an interactive and immersive dance performance that effortlessly merges virtual reality (VR) dance films and live dancers within a common space. En-Knap in collaboration with fabien prioville dance company takes the audience on a captivating experience of VR films while contributing to a simultaneous live performances. As the audience puts their VR glasses and explores the virtual realm, live dancers respond and interact with their movements, creating a dynamic and reciprocal dance experience.
Fabien Prioville is again in virtual reality’s embrace. Unlike Rendez-Vous (2018), the company and audience, the one with headset, are immersed in pure virtuality, not the everyday, of strict, nonetheless playful self-contained choreography, from which an interactivity emerges, as if Pina Bausch came to life as a video game. Interactivity is not all participation. While virtuality embraces the gaze, the body opens up to participation, effortlessly. Participation participates the body. Live dancers respond to participation, movements on the stage, prompted by a series of VR dance films, prompt movements on the stage, establishing a shared physical language that morphs into a playful, nonetheless strict self-contained choreography. The collective embodiment blurs the boundaries between audience and dancers, creating a transformative experience beyond the performance. Does the body, gaze, reality need sovereignty? Does collectivity need sovereignty of the body, gaze, reality?
