Friday

18:00

Dance

NÓTT (CRO)

Dance performance

Choreography and dance: Lada Petrovski Ternovšek
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Scenography, costumes and lights: Petra Veber
Sound: Jure Vlahovič
Song: Balkan Beat Box - Cha Cha
Technical assistance: Aljaž Zaletel
Producer: Katja Somrak
Production: Plesni Teater Ljubljana - Debut PTL 2015
Partner: Mediterranean dance centre (San Vincenti, Croatia)
Special thanks: Magdalena Reiter

Duration: 40 min

Nótt is s set of personal stories, originating from the same emotion, what they have in common is a feeling of a summer night. Nótt is an impression, a song, a smell, Nordic goddess, a nocturne. Movement arises from a moment of silence, from physical memory, drawing an image in the space. A moment that has just passed reappears. Over and over again. Memory is storing images, body is storing emotions. Nothing that is produced by body can be determined anymore - everything needs to be found, invented anew; to recognize a smell of the movement, a breath of light, a temperature of sound. Impossible images merge on the paths that are promptly blurred, while imprints remain toned inside of the body like a memory: between pulsation and extension. My neck hurts, I squeeze my forehead, I feel dry air in my throat ...

Lada Petrovski Ternovšek was born in Croatia (Zadar) 1985. She started dance education as a child. 2008 she graduated at dance academy Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). Member of Zadarski plesni ansambl. From 2009 -2011 member of Slovene dance company En-knap Group. Today she is living and working in Ljubljana as a freelance artist. During her schooling, she collaborated with well-known choreographers Salva Sanchis, Zuna Kozankova, Anna Macrae, Begum Erciyas, Matej Kejžar, Libby Farr, Ted Stoffer...
After her schooling till today she collaborated with choreographers and theatre directors: Mala Kline, Tomi Janežič, Bojan Jablanovec, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Iztok Kovač, Petra Hrašćanec, Laszlo Hudi, Dalija Aćin, Ivica Buljan, Jordi Casanovas, Magdalena Reiter...