“The essence of humanity is hidden inside a block of marble. The block was taken from the mountain and now it awaits further processing in the middle of a geomet¬ric field. We cannot understand it easily. It is perfect and yet full of cracks, black fluid runs through its white veins. This fluid carries in itself long forgotten ideas and stirs emotions torn from the heart.”
Marble Shoes is a contemporary dance-theatre performance that combines various theatre languages to form empty spaces for the dance of the soundscapes. To get to the dance, we fall through the cracks of our own psyche only to be captured by the water that prevails. The state of powerlessness makes communication difficult and altered movement through the liquid can be frightening.
The performance is based on flamenco dance that undergoes structural trans¬formations throughout the performance. Flamenco rhythms merge with original electronic music, fragments of the dance communicate with spoken words, com¬bining various forms of expression into a whole. Movement and voice, the dance of the sounds that replace words, the dance that finds a word and forces it to answer with a cry, the form that absorbs words, the voice that guides the movement. Sometimes trapped, sometimes support¬ed by the rhythm, sometimes completely free.
Art direction: Anja Mejač
Choreography: Anja Mejač, Sasha Sasic
Dramaturgy: Katja Černe, Mojca Uršič
Original music: Tine Grgurević
Additional sound creation: Anja Mejač, Tim Crnek, Voranc Boh, Vasja Štukelj
Scenography: Anja Mejač, Tomaž Zarifa
Costume design: Katarina Šavs
Light design: Igor Remeta
Dance film: Anja Mejač, Fabris Šulin, Črt Potočnik
Photography: Ajda Schmidt
Performing: Anja Mejač, Voranc Boh
Sound design: Tim Crnek
Cajon: Vasja Štukelj
Special thanks to: Tanja Zgonc, Jasna Vastl
