MEDIATHEK

Brane Potočan has picked up a fatal, sensitive, and for Slovenians an especially unpleasant topic for one of his annual projects which continue to charm the audience with refined dance-oriented sensibilities from the very beginning. The choreography was inspired by a poem.of the Slovenian poet Dragotin Kette. It is a story about a suicide, set into the contemporary urban environment with all its pressures and the stress of living in a competitive society. "The tree took him in, and he's no longer alone... Now he's swinging from its crown." The basic element - this time also a metaphor, not just a gymnastic device - is a rope: it supports freedom and levitation, weighted down by the body it breaks necks, spreads whiteness, and leads into other worlds. The refined choice of scenic elements gives the performance a stable visual and physical identity; at the same time, the effective choreography and the witty, ironic physical presentation of the suicidal mood of the protagonists open up a conspicuously unique world of physical movement of rushed personal communication and the bustling human crowd.(ljudmila)(RS)