Miniature No. 9 & The Garden
Performance:
Urška Centa, Domen Novak
Concept, choreography and music:
Urška Centa
Dramaturgical consultation:
Tina Habun
Costume:
Draž
Video:
Dorian Šilec Petek
Production:
NEST Institute
Miniature No. 9 and The Garden are the result of a choreographic research project exploring the parallelism between movement and sonority, developed with the support of a working grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia in the field of music arts.
The exploration of dance as a visual–sonic practice opens a view of choreography as an engagement with the intermodal potential of the moving body, where systems of movement, gesture, and sound operate as a unified system through which meaning, emotional states, and references are formed.
Miniature No. 9
Premiere date and venue: October 2023, Atrij ZRC, Ljubljana – 4 miniatures
I, becoming myself through dance.
Because dance gives birth to words.
And words demand poetry.
I, in the spiral corridors of my poetics,
always in the process of transformation.
With my soul turned outward and my body turned inward.
A spontaneous self,
revealing the curves of the story
— in sound, voice, space.
This sound choreography places at its creative core the woman and her connection to the voice: the woman who, as child and mother, intuitively weaves her bond with singing; the woman within mythological and religious representations; and the woman in the originating culture of flamenco.
This interdisciplinary miniature is grounded in expanding the sonic potential of the body within contemporary flamenco, while searching for and absorbing sources of musicality from the surrounding environment into the body’s internal world.
PHOTO GALLERY
The Garden
Premiere date and venue: November 2023, International Festival of Contemporary Art FIACmx, León, Mexico
The Garden invites the viewer to enter the perspective of an observer of micro-events within the garden. Inspired by the concept of biophilia, the piece dissolves boundaries between the human and the natural, creating an immersive landscape in which gesture, rhythm, and breath function as extensions of an organic environment. The garden emerges as both a metaphorical and sensory space of transformation, where identity is continuously reshaped through interaction and presence.
