A ‘favourite album’ as a choreographic frame where dance resonates between proto-knowing, rhythm, musical force, listening and hearing, narration and abstraction. Matej Kejžar was literally moved by Floating Points’ album Promises. 9 pieces, 9 movements. Kejžar follows this music, which persistently follows him. They contemplate each other. From a ‘favourite album’ a new dance piece arises, a new dynamic territory. Within music, in a parallel which is precisely here.
CREDITS:
Author & performed by: Matej Kejžar
Light design: Petra Veber
Artistic advice: Julia Reist
Producer: Žiga Predan
Prodution: Pekinpah & Matej Kejžar
Matej Kejžar (1974) is a graduate of SNDO in Amsterdam and a dance artist who consistently develops his signature approach through the exploration of the relationship between body and digitality, as well as the power dynamics that emerge through rigid choreographic control over movement. He furthered his education at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York. Kejžar is the recipient of the Croatian Theatre Award (Nagrada Hrvatskog glumišta, 2024) and the Ksenija Hribar Award (2023) for his body of work, praised as “an outstanding dancer and a visionary creator who inspires.” Over the past decade, he has developed his oeuvre between Brussels and Ljubljana while regularly working worldwide (India, Singapore, Brazil). He is the artistic director of the international Spider Festival and a dance pedagogue at SNDO and numerous other dance institutions.
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