I Fear Slovenia is the latest performance by dancers Leja Jurišić and Petra Veber as part of At.Šiška! – of the Austrian-Slovenian focus on contemporary performing arts, which will take place from December 4 to 8 in the Ljubljana urban culture center Kino Šiška.
Graduated lawyer, dancer and choreographer Leja Jurišić and Petra Weber, multiple award-winning stage designer, architect and visual artist, convinced Kino Šišek on the big stage two years ago with the resounding performance Ballet of the Rebellion. Their upcoming show I Fear Slovenia also resists – this time the justified panic that is affecting us all these days.
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We live in a world in which we are "bombarded" from all sides with obvious or hidden messages that our body is not beautiful enough, capable enough, smart enough, unique enough or strong enough. The feeling that we are not enough is anchored somewhere deep in our subconscious, so the fact that our body, which may not be "enough", is still only ours and the only one we have in this life, usually floats into our consciousness only then , when we are already lost - in the world and in ourselves. At the same time, the play raises the issue of the country, which has changed from a sensual symbol under the slogan "I Feel Slovenia" to a symbol of fear under the slogan "I Fear Slovenia".
So why will we be at Kino Šiška on December 5? Let the painter and sculptor Victor Brauner answer for us: "Because we are physical and functional. Because we are fascinating, lyrical and symbolic. Because we are attractive, seductive, passionate and impatient, because we are crazy and mythical. Because we are dialectical enough to become and primitive enough not to be afraid of freedom.”
More information:
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