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“Two Men in Underwear” is a gentle wrestling match that explores the tension between our inherent need for vulnerability and the barriers that protect us from it. On the stage transformed into a quiet arena, the performers pass through subtle lifts, falls and deconstructed movement patterns, where flying limbs rearrange their intertwined bodies – like a moving pile of flesh eager for collision. In their desire to taste vulnerability, they seek refuge in a departure from the societal view, where strength is often associated with physical endurance and emotional restraint. Their transformative relationship revolves around the fine line between pain and pleasure, love and hate, where the measure of courage will be the one to draw it.
Presentations of work in progress:
30 January 2026, NEFCD, Härnösand, Sweden
15 February 2026, Zuhause Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Tickets: 14 € / 12 € ▶ vstopnice.cd-cc.si/en/burja-podlesnik-moska-v-spodnjicah/tickets-226046.html
Collaborators
Concept, choreography: Burja Podlesnik
Co-created: Oscar Magnusson, Koen Kaya Eye
Performed by: Oscar Magnusson, Koen Kaya Eye/Ivan Tocchetti
Dramaturgy: Maša Radi Buh
Mentorship: Danielle Dietz
Light design: Veronika Hana Grubič
Graphic design: Špela Šivic
Executive production: Tamara Pepelnik
Support
Production: Emanat, Institute for Development and Affirmation of Dance and Contemporary Art
Co-production: Cankarjev dom
Co-production residencies: NEFCD New Education for Contemporary Dance, Performing Arts STUDIO, Härnösands folkhögskola, Zuhause Arnhem, Festival Velenje
Partner: Secondary Preschool Education, Grammar School and Performing Arts Grammar School Ljubljana
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City of Ljubljana
Burja Podlesnik (2001) is a dancer and choreographer. After graduating from the contemporary dance grammar school SVŠGUGL (Secondary Preschool Education, Grammar School and Performing Arts Grammar School Ljubljana), she continued her studies in Sweden at the NEFCD program (New Education for Contemporary Dance) and in 2025 graduated with a Bachelor of Dance degree from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. Burja was part of IlDance's youth company IlYoung, where she danced the work Self Contained, choreographed by Israel Aloni. She performed the work Addio Unplugged by ICK Amsterdam and worked with choreographers such as Mari Carrasco, Miguel Altunage Verdicie, and Caroline Finn. Burja received the Best Dancer Award at the OPUS 1 International Festival of Young Dance Creators in 2019 for her solo Med borovjem temnim (Among the Dark Pine Trees) and during her bachelor studies delved into choreography with the solo Snippet, group work Leftovers, and the duets In My Room and On the Mat. In critically responding to current reality, Burja seeks to reconfigure the space given to things that have no space and voice things that otherwise remain silent.
Swedish dancer Oscar Magnusson (2001) graduated in dance from ArtEZ University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance degree in the Netherlands. Oscar performed the work Addio Unplugged by ICK Amsterdam and worked with the choreographers Mercedes Pedroche, Faizah Grootens, Jelena Kostić, and Anderson Carvalho. With the choreographer Jasper van Luijk, he worked on the solo Pushing Waves and the group piece Krave. He was a choreographic assistant of the work come in but never come back by the choreographer Dalton Jansen.
Dutch-Turkish dancer Koen Kaya Eye (2002) graduated from Codarts University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance degree. Shortly after, Koen danced with Introdans and Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club. He has performed works by Martha Graham, Mauro Bigonzetti, Andonis Foniadakis, Ed Wubbe, and Adi Schwarz, among others. Koen was a choreographic assistant for "The Breakable Us" by Olivia Court Mesa, created for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. From 2025 onward, Koen joined Ultima Vez under the direction of Wim Vandekeybus, reviving "What the Body Does Not Remember" in 2026.
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