Artistic Work

Archetypes video

Short dance film, which in the context of the unity of time, place and action captures certain human archetytes. Project is based on experimental choreography of the concept of „archetypes“ of Slovene dance choreographer Sandra Anais.

Credits:

  • Dancers: BALASZ POSGAY, ROBERTA RACIS, HILDE SANDVOLD, JAMO MWEU, MARIT FOGELGREN

  • Movie director, photography & editing: TOMÁŠ HLAVÁČEK

  • Author of concept & dance director: SANDRA ANAIS

  • Artistic advisor: GORAN BOGDANOVSKI

  • Music: JON HOPKINS (album insides)

  • Special Thanks: Michael Cornege, Daura Hernandez, Vangelis Legakis

The essence of the unknown

  • Choreography & editing: SANDRA ANAIS

  • Dancers: BALASZ POSGAY, ROBERTA RACIS, HILDE SANDVOLD, JAMO MWEU, MARIT FOGELGREN

  • Camera: TOMÁŠ HLAVÁČEK

  • Music: The Song of Butterfly Music made by Collaboration of: Istvan Sky Kék Ég, Estas Tonne, Pablo Arellano, Indrė Kuliešiūtė.

  • Thanks: to 3rd Interdisciplinary NO BORDERS project Tenerife, december 2014

  • Special thanks: to Daura Hernandez, Michael Cortege, Goran Bogdanovski in Vangelis Legakis

Dancing Myths

Dance performance - 45 min

  • Choreography: HUGO LEONARDO SILVA & SANDRA ANAIS

  • Dramaturgic advice: ROMANA ERCEGOVIĆ

  • Dance: HILDE I. SANDVOLD, HANA ALHADI, SILVIJA DOGAN, ROBERTA RACIS

  • Camera: BOJAN NOVAK

  • Edit: SANDRA ANAIS

  • Music: Glenn Gould, LCD Soundsystem, Skarabej, La Linea Scura, Four Tet

  • Thanks to: Goran Bogdanovski, Urška Štrukelj, Tatjana Šundov Bašin, Bojan Novak, Gregor Mavrič

Performance reveals dance as sensual, penetrating and avanturistic experience, which deals with identification of private (public and intimate) meanings. Through embodiment of archetypes, dancers address habits in body and mind in relation to habits in environment, sensing and experiencing. The performance reveals different aspects of feminine archetypes, specially those related to sexuality and inner confrontations in every women's life . There is this always conveniant, socially accepted face of elegant woman, always behaving properly in contrast to uncivilized and unpredictable passions going on inside.

Seeking deeper meaning in intense sexuality, crossed with diplomatic and balanced integrity.

Every woman is also facing periods in life, when acts of sabotage in various different ways appear, addressing issues of fear and low self-esteem that blocks their empowerment. May be sabotaging her inner drives and desires or sabotaging other while looking for more acceptance and attention for herself. A modern, contemporary women, facing her addictions.

A struggle with the absence of self-control.Specially those of negative attitudes and the kinds of thrills that bring on adrenaline rushes.

Rebel

this viodeo was also screening in frame of DANCA EM FOCO in Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL

24 May - 4 June 2016

Addiction of being in command, addiction of serving others, addiction of searching for perfection can lead her to sever victimized situations and experiences which at the end manifest in series of inappropriate actions and rebelious behaviours. Breaking the patterns and finally freed from her own misjudgements.Growing up, facing the stages from girlhood to womanhood is a path full of doubts and ambiguities. Seeking and judging. Society, people and specially herself. Crossing all this phases, a girl at the end of her Persefonian journey in the underworld confronts herself as a woman - fully embraced and accepting her fertilizing power.

SACRED CONVERSATIONS

Premiere: 18. 11. at 20h, at Gibalni institut Vija Vaja

Upon donations

Author and dancer: Sandra Anais

Music: Anoushka Sankar & Joshua Bell, Yann Tiersen - Porz Goret,

Effroyables Jardins - Zbigniew Preisner, Etheric Uprise - Badawi,

Rayhan Sudrajat - Beraei Di Long Bawang

Remix and Video Editing: Sandra Anais

Costume Advice: Tjaša Avsec

Production: Fičo Balet

Special Thanks:

Tjaša Avsec, Goran Bogdanovski, Suzana Grau, Neja Zupan, Uroš Andič,Matjaž Konda, Michael Sterna, Martina Kavčnik

Project was co-supported by JSKD Ljubljana









She was seeking. Seeking for sacred within.

In the garden. In her interwoven arms. From impulses in her feet.

Despite of all punches, she kept on falling in love with life, with aliveness...

She sacrificed her youth, freedom and embraced the crying bird inside,

so she could hear the instructions from the shell of destiny.

The wind has come near to her and breathed her wisdom.

She exhaled her sadness and became friends with happiness inside

and she is carrying it carefully now.

She didn’t listen.

She accepted the storm.

She sighed and the droplet

slipped through a large leaf of life.

She got used to perceive everything

through the prism of embrace.

And the only thing she regretted was her uncertainty.

SEEKER - WEAVER.

GODDESS - LIONESS.

She smiled to her inner child.

She sabotaged sacred actions,

because she didn’t noticed his presence while playing...

She continued coughing in the bloody

seas - oceans of fate -

and she didn’t noticed that

the only thing keeping her from being alive is a song.

Una Numa

KONCERT skupine UNANUMA – RITMO DA PAZ (Ritem miru)

v sredo, 22. 6. 2016, ob 21.00, SNG NOVA GORICA

Ime glasbene skupine Unanuma v jeziku domorodnih južnoameriških Indijancev pomeni mir. Mir je neke vrste univerzalni jezik, njegov utrip je mogoče zaznati povsod. Glavni namen glasbene skupine je združevanje in spajanje ritmov brazilskega pragozda z ritmi sveta. Eksotična brazilsko-slovenska glasbena mešanica predstavlja temeljno sporočilo skupine: združitev, unija.

"Poje se s srcem!"

Na koncertu bo mogoče začutiti glasbo, ki izvira v tradicionalnih domorodnih, spiritualnih skupnostih. Starodavne teme, ki so se ustno prenašale iz roda v rod, še vedno odmevajo in nas spodbujajo, da presežemo svoje notranje in zunanje omejitve ter tako prepoznamo resnično svobodo. Ritem Unanume prenaša univerzalno energijo in moč združevanja ljudi ter krepi razumevanje različnosti etničnih skupin po svetu, od domorodnega ljudstva Brazilije do hindujcev in Afričanov.

Poslušati in slišati glasbo Unanume pomeni izkusiti nov pogled na naš izvor in našo resnično naravo ter na naš odnos do sebe, drugih ljudi, sveta in narave.

Del zaslužka bodo izvajalci namenili brazilskemu združenju, ki preučuje in širi znanje uporabe zdravilnih rastlin amazonskega gozda.​

ANDRE LUIS NASCIMENTO (vokal, djembe / vocal, djembe)

DOCHO MANTA (kitara, vokal / guitar, vocal)

KRISTJAN GUČEK (kitara, vokal /guitar, vocal)

JANEZ MODER (bas kitara/ bas guitar)

IVO RIMC (tolkala / drums)

GORAN BOGDANOVSKI in SANDRA ANAIS (ples / dance),

ANA FACCHINI, MARJUTA SLAMIĆ, ARNA HADŽIALJEVIĆ (interpretativni vložki/ interpretation of text)

UNANUMA - Ritmo da Paz com Orixas

Songs

  • 1. Caminhos (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 2. Convocacao (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 3. Encontro dos Orixas (Written by Angelo Donga)

  • 4. Estrelas (Collective Authorship)

  • 5. Flor de Jaci (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 6. Jaci (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 7. Jardim Dourado (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 8. Mae Rainha Yemanya (Written by Angelo Donga)

  • 9. Oxossi Ogum Beira Mar (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 10. Sereni Reya (Collective Authorship)

  • 11. Tucano (Written by Passarinhu)

  • 12. Voo Libertador (Written by Passarinhu)

  • ANDRE LIMA: Vocal

  • LUCAS RUBENICH: Guitar

  • MATEJ GOBEC: Bass / Theme Guitar

  • ANDRE LIMA: Percussion

  • DOCHO MANTA: Percussion

  • BOJAN ZUPANCIC: Saxofon

  • LAREN POLIC: Sinth / Piano

  • JAIR VIRGILIO: Flute / Saxofon

  • YKSON NASCIMENTO: Bass

  • PETR ZUPAN : Back Vocal

  • SANDRA ANAIS: Back Vocal

  • AJDA BOZEGLAV: Back Vocal / Solo Vocal

Special thanks to KRISTIJAN GUCEK & NEJA ZUPAN

Recorded, mixed and mastered by MATEJ GOBEC in studio SOUNDGROUNDED

PROJECT : MARACAS PRODUCOES

COVER DESIGN: Amanda Moa

COVER PHOTO: Andre Lima

JOURNEY TO PERSPEHONE

Persefona je pradavna predgrška boginja čistega, nedolžnega srca - predstavlja mistično svetlobo v človekovem središču, najsvetejše bistvo, do katerega pridemo skozi temo naše notranjosti, ki jo v mitu simbolično predstavlja potovanje v podzemlje. Stari Grki so v Elevzinskih misterijih ta središčni prostor imenovali »kraj dospetja« in hkrati »kraj vzpona«, kajti namen spusta v podzemlje je preporod na novo raven zavesti, novo razumevanje življenja in sebe.

Predstava »Potovanje k Persefoni« pripoveduje zgodbo ženske, ki se odpravi v podzemlje, da bi našla izgubljeno radost svojega srca…


Ne gre za klasičen pomen besede »predstava«, temveč za gledališki dogodek ustvarjen v sočutenju in sodelovanju z naravo, dogodek, ki nas odpira v globoko osebno izkušnjo stika s samo/samim seboj. Umetnost nam služi, kot je v časih svojih izvorov, za doživljanje rahločutnih in magičnih plasti življenja,

Predstavi »POTOVANJE K PERSEFONI« bosta 15. in 18. avgusta od 14.30 do 20. ure v slovenski Istri.

(natančna lokacija, do katere jo pol ure hoda, bo znana ob prijavi)

Ustvarjalke predstave:

Romana Ercegović, režiserka, avtorica dramskega teksta, izvajalka

Sandra Anais, koreografinja, plesalka in izvajalka

Kim Mirjam Seppala, izvajalka

Mateja Ribarič, izvajalka

Tina Sovič, glasbenica

Tadeja Stegel, organizatorka prijav

Fotografije: Silvija Dogan, Tomaž Bukovnik, Kim Mirjam Seppalla

premierna predstavitev 15. avgust 2015

Obredno gledališče Duša Zemlje/ Ritual Theater Soul of the Earth, Slovenia

Predstava je nastala brez kakršnekoli finančne podpore. Večmesečni proces dela je potekal na temeljih predanosti in ljubezni do ustvarjanja te predstave, v osebnem procesu samo-zavedanja, ki ga je doživljala vsaka izmed nas, v ozračju medsebojnega zaupanja in spoštovanja. Dobrodošle in dobrodošli v naš krog in hvala za prisotnost in podporo našemu delu.

Prispevek za udeležbo: 40 eur (cena vključuje predstavo, delavnico in dva prigrizka)

30 eur (za brezposelne, študente, upokojence, sodelavce našega gledališča...)


Ker bomo dogodek izvedli v manjšem krogu, je PRIJAVA OBVEZNA najkasneje do 8. avgusta.

Prijavite se lahko na emailu: . Dodatne informacije na tel: 031 642 056 (Tadeja)

ZELO POMEMBNO:

Sestop v dolino traja pol ure, hoja med predstavo še dodatno uro, zato vas prosimo, da imate s seboj

- Primerno obutev, min. 1,5 litra vode, pokrivalo oz. klobuk za zaščito pred soncem ter brisačo oz. armafleks za sedenje, svetilko-baterijo za pot navzgor (če bi se želeli dlje zadržati pri druženju ob ognju)


Več informacij o Obrednem gledališču Duša Zemlje in dosedanjem delu in predstavah Romane Ercegović lahko najdete tukaj:

Ustvarjalke smo se podale v odkrivanje in čutenje Lepote narave in človeka, v različnih odtenkih.

Kaj pomeni živeti? Živeti zares? Kaj pomeni ljubiti? Kaj pomeni zares ljubiti sebe?

Zares čutiti in živeti svobodo, radost, žalost… svojo avtentičnost? Zaobjeti vse v sebi in polno živeti?

Kako biti svoja in hkrati biti zlita z drugim? To so vprašanja, ki si jih zastavljamo skozi predstavo.

ZeroIdentity

ZEROIDENTITY

is an artistic project, a playground for various artistic expressions to coexist in same time and space. It is improvised exploration of connections and empty space at the same time. Inspired by Japanese concept Ma - understood as a gap between two women. A consciousness of a space and simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision taking place in their imagination.

Research of possible body contact and connections between two women.

Looking for empty spaces in between their relation.

Floating in poetic vocabulary and dancing the songs of paradise.

Bringing intimacy to the fore.

Embracing the sounds of birds, cats, horses and a car passing by.

Digesting Poetic Mysticism.

Looking for spaces, for liquidity, moment, improvisation, fall, waiting, silence.

Expression of inner impressions.

Ambiental flow.

Being between lightness and darkness.

How does sand change my dancing?

In a state of becoming an interactive installation with elements of VJ-ing, light design, dance jam session and a live concert.

Urška Štrukelj

interdisciplinary artist, graduated in a field of aesthetics - Artaud's theater and film. In parallel she also attended studies of dance through visiting various workshops. In 2004, she co-created movement and circus group Trupa Aduta (https://www.facebook.com/trupa.aduta?fref=ts). Through oil paintings she represented herself in several Ex - tempore in Slovenia, where she also receives prizes.Through experimentation in a unique design, she created a brand Dilight and cofounded Smetumet (http://www.smetumet.com/klapa-urška-štrukelj.html)