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- , La Visiva, Barcelona, ES
- , Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, SI
The dance-performative research project Exquisite Corpse is part of a series of projects by young (though not necessarily) authors produced by Emanat that explore stage language. The aim of these explorations is to break the concentration of creative processes that focus exclusively on the product and redirect them towards the development of performing language and a reflection on the issues of WHAT and HOW in relation to artistic creation. At least one public presentation will be performed using freely the surrealist play principle of the “cadavre exquis” (the exquisite corpse) to reflect on the structure of the presentation, the development of the performative language or the working methodology developed through the research process.
About
The author begins this research out of frustration. Frustration with the endless search for reasons. With the need we have, as viewers, to constantly explain, contextualize, and justify what lies before us; to make sense of it, right there and then, before we’ve even processed it. And this response is most raw when a naked body stands before us. She will explore nudity as a performative tool: how it influences the gaze directed at it, and how it challenges the social norms that condemn it. The main tools of her research will be duration and circularity as instruments of the desexualization of the naked body. Imagine a naked body on a rotating platform: there is no perspective that remains unseen, no angle that can be hidden. It is impossible to frame the body in a specific way, because the rotation reveals absolutely everything. And so the naked body slowly becomes nothing more than a mass of muscle and skin. Through the observer’s perspective, she will explore the tension between intimacy and voyeurism, between vulnerability and power, between curiosity and shame. Above all, it will be about defying justification and rationalization; resisting explanation and logic; a simple WHY NOT?
Neža Ana Goričar (2003) is an artist working in the fields of contemporary dance and performance. After graduating from the Secondary Ballet School in Ljubljana, she decided to study contemporary dance at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands, where she will graduate this July. During her studies, she has collaborated with many internationally renowned choreographers, including Anouk van Dijk, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, and Maciej Kuzminski. As a choreographer, she created the solo piece “Lesson no.1” in 2022, which was selected as part of ArtEZ’s annual “Dance Artist Presents” performance and presented alongside works by renowned choreographers such as Ann van den Broek and Mercedes Pedroche. A year later, the site-responsive duet Choo Choo Blue Shoe followed, which she created and performed together with Swedish dancer Olle Arrhenius in the sculpture garden of the Arnhem Museum. Neža was part of the TANZ_KASSEL dance ensemble in Germany last season and is currently collaborating with the interdisciplinary production house KASKO in the Netherlands. As an artist, she is constantly fascinated by the absurdity of everyday life and its parallels with performance. What do we perceive as normal or acceptable—and how do these norms in everyday life differ from those on stage? This is one of the questions currently inspiring her artistic practice.
Collaborators
Research, movement: Neža Ana Goričar
Mentoring:
Lighting design: Veronika Hana Grubič
Support
Production: Emanat
Co-organisation: Cankarjev dom
Co-production residency: La Visiva (Spain)
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS
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