Concept/choreography: Mateja Bučar, in collaboration with Katja Legin and Nataša Živković
Production: DUM Association of Artists
Coproduction: Kino Šiška Special thanks to: Zavod ZET, Robert Pfaller, and Rok Vevar
This project was made possible by: The Municipality of Ljubljana, Department of Culture; The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

DUAL / Dancers Without Answers comes as a discrete urban and choreographed paraphrasing of that which we carry with us and bring along as baggage; on one hand, our actual physical hand luggage, which we curious travellers like so much, and, on the other hand, something else, possibly a bucket, possibly the serious baggage of all “times and spaces”, that which, again and again, overwhelms our everyday, our pulse, and social fabric… This time DUAL / Dancers Without Answers has been set up on the square next to the Monument to the Victims of All Wars, ancient and recent, into the wars of the complicated, of dualities… This work also belongs to a series which represents a collection, or a series of urban choreographies which the choreographer and dancer Mateja Bučar has been putting on in various public urban spaces since 2009 (Green Light, 2010; Parking Packing, 2012; The Unnoticed 2013; Green Table, 2015), all with her aesthetic membrane of choreographic formations, rhythmic everyday tasks and social rituals; the harmonised compositions of chaotic transitions and the non-functional, yet sensible choreographic commentaries proceed through an entertaining set of lenses, and render our own kinaesthetic automatism into a kind of a problem. These urban choreographies are set up among passers-by and pedestrians; generic spectators. With an almost unnoticeable presence they break into the routine of places and spaces, which otherwise have names and are usually populated with transitions, the stations of the everyday rhythm of the city and its affairs. When spectators find themselves in an urban aestheticisation of a city, they look around, experiencing a fleeting feeling of anxiety that perhaps all those around them are also participants in the choreography…

Rok Vevar.