EDEN
Premiere: 18,19/9/2012, Ganz Novi Festival, Zagreb; 20/11/2012, Kino Siska, Ljubljana
EDEN juxtaposes two worlds that are simultaneously present in the meeting between a performer and an audience. The here and now of the theatrical meeting collides with the realm of images that hover in the spaces within, outside and in-between the bodies. Working with these images through a figure of a clown, EDEN collides opposites and stages paradoxes playfully and with a sense of humor. EDEN is not a blissful state of rest. EDEN is a place of healing with a razorblade.
If tenderness was concentrated to an essence, or turned to extremity beyond imagining, what would it look like, would I remember it like this? Joe Kelleher
Concept, creation and performance: Mala Kline
Space, light & costume design: Petra Veber
Music: Alen and Nenad Sinkauz (East Rodeo)
Song arrangements: Luka Ropret
Sound: Sašo Kalan in Luka Ropret
Asistance and coaching: Lucija Barišić in Adriana Josipović
Advising: Andrea Božić
Costume design assistant: Amanda Kapić
Technical director: Luka Curk
Executive producer: Žiga Predan
Production: DasArts Amsterdam, Pekinpah / Kink Kong & E.P.I. center
Coproduction: Kino Šiška, Student Center Zagreb – Culture of Change – Theater &TD, EN-KNAP / Španski borci
Support: Ministry of Culture RS, Ministry for Education, Science, Culture and Sport RS, City of Ljubljana
Project is a part of an international production network Modul dance.
Awards
2013 Audience Award for EDEN as the best performance at the national platform for contemporary dance and festival Moving Cake 2013
In ‘Eden’ Kline and her colleagues created a touching as well as surprising ‘quest for heaven’ – but without flirting with promises of otherworldly salvation. Instead, they put at risk the here and now, the unity of body and voice, sound and movement, animal and spiritual. (I. Nerina, TANZ AKTUELL)
Ethereal, fragile and eclectic, the Slovenian artist propels us in our everyday Eden in which the force is confronted with the fragility the demand to be loved is to deal with the gaze of others. (V. Sardeli, Le molteplici metamorfosi di Danae, PAC)
Eden is a complex project that in one swipe lucidly explores raw aspects of the subconscious and collective dream images while expressing the exquisite originality of the author’s ideas and their intriguing realization. (Z. Dobovsek, DELO, Z. Dobovsek, DELO eng)
(stage) was transformed into a paradise of images of the real and dream-like, conscious and unconscious, that at once with a touching bitterness and unthinkable humor shows the internal imanent processes of transformation of identity. (S. Zlobko, RADIO STUDENT)
The action appears refined and flexible while rooted in the intangible form of emotions, in a symbiosis of sounds and languages through which the interpretation of animalistic and primitive creatures defines the eclectic and virtuous nature of Slovene researcher. The word finally reaches curiously towards the audience and develops, with tenderness, an authentic and disruptive relationship with the audience, which assists amazed at the threshold of a primordial dark world and sound of creation, to the mythological transformation of light and the first and the last concrete vision of Mala Kline. (A. Greppi_EDEN)
It’s been long since i’ve seen something so brave and radical. (J. Jez, PARADA PLESA)
In the teeth of fierce competition, Eden (Slovenia) , founded on the technology of dreams and the affective transformation of image/character represents a choreography written on the skin of the animal voice of movement, which isolates those powerful moments of creating one’s own outer space, all the while looking like a tranquil green day in Paradise, so much so that the spectator wants to get up and do an electronic waltz in it. (I. Krešić, NIN, On Infant Festival)
Eden is a solo that is to be experienced on an intuitive level but communicates dreamlike associative series of appearances, sounds and texts. Nothing is literal or yielding to rational analysis. Structurally, the author combines the abstract movement, speech, performance, music, her own vocal performance and strong visuals in a rich theatrical expression. (I.Nerina, PLESNA SCENA)
EDEN is thus the last resourt of truth, the oasis of escaping the illusion and prosecution of time. With her new and somewhat provocative performance Mala once again indisputably proves that the artistic freedom of expression is without limits. (D. Podboj, PARADA PLESA)
EDEN explores relation between outside and inside on different levels and works with the notion and thought of a paradise, not the biblical one, rather the one here and now. (N. Mrevlje, SIOL)
I wish to create a 3-D encounter in the here and now (N.Arhar, MMC RTV Slovenija)
Singing the world into existence (N. Mrevlje, SIOL)