Why can’t I leave you
Why I Can’t Leave You reflects existential void, the disintegration of language and the lack of harmonious vision of humanity. Avoiding precise definition it portraits the view of the world shocked and depreciated by conflicts and ideologies. The authors don’t move in accordance with a definite objective but rather constantly refer to their mode of expression and suppressed mutual dialogue. They talk past one another, without dialectical exchange. The triumph over the tragic inhibition and anxiety is reflected through anti-dance, the ironic attitude towards the society and effort to escape fixation.
Despite subtle confessional character as well as aesthetical attitude, the performance provides a rather substantial dose of self-irony and therefore a shift from self pity. Indeed, the authors directed the composition to the postmodern choreography processes, such as deconstruction, parody, irony, pleasure and hyperreality
Authors: Tina Valentan, Urška Vohar
Production: Maska, Ljubljana
Premiere: 21.03.2011, Stara mestna elektrarna
All and nothing
Why Can’t I Leave You is:
1. A tense trial about looking for pleasure in dance after a 20 years long dance career.
2. A saga about a disabled, insensitive, empty and detached body.
3. A systematic escape from depression.
4. The performance of the year.
5. A performance about attachment.
6. A confession, of two around 30 years old women, about happiness, sadness, anxiety and quenchless desire for recognition.
7. A comedy about the human existence, that is fragile and meaningless but still worth something.
8. A duet between a woman that won a choreography award and a woman who tends to disappear.
Tina Valentan and Urška Vohar, the authors of the performance entitled Why I Can’t Leave You, share nearly identical dance background. They almost simultaneously start dancing at Maribor-based Plesna Izba, and in fourteen years of education and creative work in this dance institute they participated in the same dance classes and performances. They simultaneously left to the acknowledged Amsterdam Dance Academy and nearly at the same time return to Slovenia where they declared themselves dancers, dance teachers and performers.
Their constant readdressing of the sense and value of their work often drives them to uncertainty, doubts about their creativity as well as talent and lack of self-confidence. After a few encounters, Tina and Urška realise they have been living in a moderate depressive state for some years and that they find it difficult to enjoy in their work. Thus they decide to engage in a therapeutic process in order to relive that long forgotten pleasure and feeling of happiness.
Cast
Authors and performers: Tina Valentan, Urška Vohar
Dramaturge: Aleksandra Blagojević
Light designer: Jaka Šimenc
Stage and costume designer: Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
Graphic designer: Peter Auguštiner
Technical manager: Janko Oven
Photographer: Nada Žgank
Exsecutive producer: Tina Dobnik
Production: Maska Ljubljana
Co-production: Plesna izba Maribor
Partners: Bunker Ljubljana, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Zakaj te ne morem zapustiti v javnosti
Valentanova in Voharjeva z novo plesno predstavo Zakaj te ne morem zapustiti
STA / 21. 3 2011
Navkljub subtilni osebnoizpovedni vsebinski ter tudi estetski drži predstava ponuja dobršen odmerek samoironije in s tem odmik od samopomilovanja. Avtorici sta namreč kompozicijo naravnali na postmoderne koreografske procese, kot so dekonstrukcija, parodija, ironija, užitek in hiper-realnost.
Zala Dobovšek: Terapija v ukinjanju plesa
Delo / 23. 3. 2011
Zakaj te ne morem zapustiti se nagiba k namernemu parafraziranju perečega hendikepa sodobnega plesa, ki namesto z okončinami raje (pridušeno) miga z intelektom in se namesto h kolektivni zavesti ter globalnim zamahom raje ozira po spiralnemu preizpraševanju lastne pozicije in svoje (samostorilne) razdrobljenosti.
Leonora Flis: Lepota krhkosti
Dnevnik – Nika / 30. 3. 2011
Tina Valentan (umetnica): Preveč kupujemo, premalo se poglabljamo vase, živimo za vrednote, ki ponujajo le kratkotrajne trenutke sreče, še vedno premalo recikliramo in premalo izkoriščamo naravne vire energije. Smo žrtve farmacevtskih družb, ki nas zaradi dobička delajo bolne, naravne katastrofe se kopičijo, vse bolj nas strašijo in nadzirajo, premalo je sočutja, preveč vojn. Prevečkrat dovolimo, da se drugi odločajo za nas. Prevečkrat samo stojimo in strmimo v prazno. Premalo raziskujemo, kdo smo, kaj in kam hočemo in za kaj se zavzemamo. Umetniški proces je čas za tak razmislek in reorientacijo, v katerem se odraža ustvarjalčevo dojemanje sveta.
Urška Vohar (umetnica): Takole bom rekla: kadar slučajno pogledam TV-poročila, se mi zmeraj dvigne tlak. Ampak pri tem tudi ostane. Potem pogledam ljudi okoli sebe, ki gredo skozi isti proces. In pri tem ostane.
Zakaj te ne morem zapustiti
Story / 25. 3. 2011
Tina Valentan (umetnica): Na odru se igramo specifičen čas in prostor ter nešteto obrazov, ki so drugačni od vsakodnevnih. V življenju se soočamo s tem, kako s tem preživeti, ohraniti nekaj tistega užitka, ki je obstajal, preden je najljubši konjiček postal poklic, najti smisel odrskih dogodkov, medtem ko se svet trese od katastrof.
Ples je moje izrazno sredstvo
L&Z / 1. 6. 2011
Urška Vohar (umetnica): Moje telo je moje orodje. Če se obrabi ali poškoduje, lahko začnem iskati alternativno zaposlitev. In ker ga velikokrat izrabljam do njegovih skrajnih meja, mu moram v zameno pač posvečati toliko več pozornosti.
