ALLEGORIES, (2022-2025)

Allegories Trilogy

The trilogy Allegories, 2022–2025, consisting of three dance projects and a synthesis performance, is being developed in the period from 2022 to 2025. The subject of the three-part project is allegories – the prism of time in the framework of iconographic paths woven by poetry, literature and fine arts.
The programme of the Muzeum Institute is conceived as a series of platforms, that is, trilogies, which overlap and supplement its contents over several years: the Dynamics of Space in Art trilogy, 2016–2019 was focused on the phenomena of spatial dynamics as the changing surroundings in which the body resides; the Sleep trilogy, 2019–2021, stemmed from the abundant iconography of depictions from sleep in relation between vigilance and dreams.
The first part of the trilogy Allegories, the dance performance Allegories of Months – Attributes, 2022, is based on the motif of monthly cycles with attributes that encompass the life of nature (flora) in the context of the tension between tasks and the sensory and emotional impulses to which life gives rise.
The second part of the trilogy, Allegories – Fragments, is a performance focusing on the physicality and visuality of dance language through the specifics of nature and the rhythm of work, as a rhythm determined by astral forces (Ovid, Verij, Flak …). This triptych was explored in the genre embodiments from historical cycles in literary and visual arts paradigms from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
The third part of the trilogy, a dance-theatre performance entitled Hortus Conclusus – Garden, 2024, will traverse the relationships between the external appearance of phenomena and cosmological compositions based on the principles of the natural elements (winds, rivers, moons, Zodiac constellations) and the mathematical systematisation of calendars and encyclopedias.
The trilogy ALLEGORIES will conclude with the performance The Offering, 2025, which will reference the liturgy of celebration and the theme of the splendid image of moons and other natural personifications marked by festivals and rituals.

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