Premiere: 2-3/10/2023, Spanski borci cultural center, Ljubljana, SI
MEMORIA is a performance about memory and its loss. I used the visionary paintings of Marko Jakše, one of the most acclaimed Slovene painters, as source material to write a letter to the future us about where we are coming from. I brought the paintings to my father, a visual communication analyst, so he would read them to me. I recorded his contemplations of paintings and his ruminations on beauty, love, image, life, death, the sacred and creation that knows no end.
Sourcing from Marko’s artworks, my father’s readings of the visual material and my own performative and movement archive based on the practices of dreaming, I intertwine these as threads that weave the performance. MEMORIA is an exploration of time, for only us who perceive time, can remember. It is an exploration of imagination, for memory is impossible without it, our memory being time and experience arrested in image. It is a plunge into the visionary consciousness and a reaffirmation of experiencing from which we arise and into which we return. I dedicate it to You, Dad.
Concept, choreography, text in performance: Mala Kline
Set-design, light-design, costume-design and photography: Petra Veber
Music and sound composition: Kristijan Krajnčan
Video, video synhronization and mapping: Hana Vodeb
Text performance: Robert M. Hayden
Production of set-design: Gašper Puntar
Technical direction: Hotimir Knific
Translation: Katja Kosi
Executive production: Ajda Kline
Production: ELIAS 2069 in Mercedes Klein
Co–production: EN-KNAP Productions (ŠpanskiBorci Cultural Center) from Ljubljana, Slovene National Theatre from Nova Gorica, Moment from Maribor, Croatian Cultural Center from Rijeka, The Zagreb Youth Theater (Zagreb Dance Center) from Zagreb, Mediterranean Dance Center from San Vincenti, ArtistiAssociati from Gorizia
Supported by Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
Thanks to Miro and Alenka Kline, Marko Jakše, Gašper Puntar and Matija Zvezdan Puntar Kline.