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DYNAMICS OF SPACE, 2016-2019 | Pendulum, 2016
Parada plesa, 20 November 2016, Daliborka PodbojThe October Dancing Stage Fever. And the End of the Year has not Yet Come!
(...) In October the dance performances followed one another at an even pace throughout a whole month, while some other exciting art forms were ennobled by dance, too. One of these events was offered by Kresija Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Glassworks Separated from Life by Urša Vidic where next to the exhibited artworks a dance performance Pendulum / Dynamics of Spaces 2016-2018 Trilogy by the dancer and choreographer Nina Fajdiga took place, with the dramaturgy by Barbara Novakovič Kolenc and music by Davor Herceg (Mia Marija Hercegs vocal). The opening of the exhibition on the 7th of October was followed by some reruns of the performance, up to the exhibition's closure on the 26th of October.
The word Pendulum is translated as swinging -it can be related either to the mood or to performing, which was most evidently interwoven in the dance performance by Nina Fajdiga based on the visual arts concept by Urša Vidic. In the space the battery (the bellows) producing the fog was visible and audible: it was connected to the two glass showcases in the form of larger glass tubes, while next to the bellows the field of the visible and invisible was swinging to and fro. When the interior of the hazy tubes clears out, the two enchanting filigree exhibits of skillfully made trees become its visual shape. They are formed from fine wire splicers, surrounded by a brown coverage similar to tree bark, and the small branches adorned with little green leaves.
A fairly-tale feeling lingers in these tiny tree gnarls, at the same time quite painful as the wire construction keeps reminding us of human possessiveness and domination; it's a visual arts insight related to the modern knowledge and also a painful metaphor of the contemporary status of the nature in the hands of human race and capital. In the harmony of life and an allegory of the natural, the artists interweaved the dynamics of an abstract (body) forms with the statics of the visual arts conception.
The dance waves performed by Nina Fajdige breathingly interlaced with a picturesque vision: the forms of tiny trees were relived, and in space - from the entrance to the exit - blew a meditative mood, fulfilled with an optimism of artistic inspiration. The dancer in her blessed state of future motherhood was wrapped in the costume form of power (costume design by Urška Recer) with the reminiscences of the bark and the compactness of huge trees.
In the Gallery, the tranquility and gracefulness of Nina Fajdiga's movement found its expression that was blown through the gallery space of absorbed gazes and thoughts, (... .)
