The quartet is a performance for a dancer, a dancer and two cameras. The research excursion is devoted to the internal and external architectures of our relationships. Live cameras follow the action, act as a mirror and a voyeur; they emphasize and change what is already visible and expose the hidden.
The primary processes of building the choreography and the performance itself are reduction, doubling and editing. Reduction to the most basic elements of relationship, movement and physical closeness. Walking, touching, looking, composing into a quartet score. Duo view, camera view, viewer view. And the play, as the essence of the relationship and the act of staging itself. A game of possible combinations of reduced and re-expanded elements. The central point between the body and the two-dimensional image is the game of opposites between pleasure and violence, coexistence and travel.
The fabricated story, shown from different perspectives, is revealed to the audience and allows you to follow the construction of the stage reality itself.
Magdalena Reiter (PL / SLO) is a choreographer, dancer, pedagogue who has been living and creating in Slovenia since 2002. She is a graduate of the State Ballet School in Gdansk, Poland and the P. A. R. T. S. Academy (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels, Belgium. Produced by non-governmental organisations or in the framework of public institutions and dance groups (Studio for suvremeni ples, Anton Podbevsek Teater, Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Polish Dance Theatre – Poznan Ballet, Bodhi Project, etc.) has created more than 20 original solos and group projects, which have been shown at home and abroad, including: vibration of a single string (with Katarz Animna Chmiele Animovski and Jakub Truszko Animovski), Preludes and fugues (with Mateja Rebolj), Conversation pieces, Alice In Wonderland, forma interrogativa, Attention, Transland, Pars pro Formitac/, close-ups, Solo for two voices (with Milan Tomashik and Anja pigeon), et al. Her performances were shown both at home and in other European countries.
She works as a choreographer in theatre, opera and film. As a teacher, and a mentor, she has been teaching in Slovenia and abroad, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Zagrebška Dance Academy, Zagreb Dance Center, SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy, SVŠGL, a group of En-knap / ECG, in the workshops in France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Poland, etc.). She is the recipient of the Ksenija Hribar award for choreographic opus (2023).
Kvartet je predstava za plesalko, plesalca in dve kameri. Raziskovalna ekskurzija je posvečena notranjim in zunanjim arhitekturam naših odnosov. Kameri v živo spremljata dogajanje, delujeta kot ogledalo in voajer; poudarjata in spreminjata to, kar je že vidno in razgaljata skrito.
Primarni postopki gradnje koreografije in same predstave so redukcija, podvojitev in montaža. Redukcija na najbolj osnovne elemente odnosa, giba in fizične bližine. Hoja, dotik, pogled, ki se sestavljajo v partituro kvarteta. Pogled dvojice, pogled kamer, pogled gledalca. In igra, kot bistvo odnosa ter samega akta uprizoritve. Igra možnih kombinacij zreduciranih in ponovno razširjenih elementov. Središčna točka med telesom in dvodimenzionalno podobo je igra nasprotji med užitkom in nasiljem, sobivanjem in potujitvjo.
Fabricirana zgodba, prikazana iz različnih perspektiv, se razkriva občinstvu in omogoča spremljanje konstrukcije same odrske resničnosti.
Magdalena Reiter (PL / SLO) je koreografinja, plesalka, pedagoginja , ki od leta 2002 živi in ustvarja v Sloveniji. Je diplomantka Državne baletne šole v Gdansku, Poljska in akademije P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) v Bruslju, Belgija. V produkciji nevladnih organizacij ali v okviru javnih zavodov in plesnih skupin (Studio za suvremeni ples, Anton Podbevšek Teater, Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana, Polish Dance Theatre – Poznan Ballet, Bodhi Project, idr.) je ustvarila več kot 20 avtorskih solov in skupinskih projektov, ki so bili prikazani doma in v tujini, med drugim: Vibracija posamezne strune (s Katarzyno Chmielewsko in Jakubom Truszkowskim), Preludiji in fuge (z Matejo Rebolj), Conversation pieces, Alica v Čudežni deželi, Forma interrogativa, Attention, Transland, Pars pro Witacy, Bližnji plani, Solo za dva glasova (z Milanom Tomašikom in Anjo Golob), idr. Njene predstave so bile prikazane tako doma, kot v drugih evropskih državah.
Kot koreografinja deluje v gledališču, operi in na filmu. Kot pedagoginja in mentorica je poučevala v Sloveniji in tujini (Folkwang Universität der Künste, Zagrebška Plesna Akademija, Zagrebški Plesni Center, SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy, SVŠGL, skupina En-knap / EKG, na delavnicah v Franciji, Italiji, Avstriji, Belgiji, na Poljskem, idr.). Je prejemnica Nagrade Ksenije Hribar za koreografski opus (2023).