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SAD SAM LUCKY
2012/07/22

SAD SAM LUCKY

Choreographed & performed by Matija Ferlin
Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec
Text: Srečko Kosovel & Matija Ferlin
Music: Luka Prinčič
Stage design: Mauricio Ferlin
Light design: Saša Fistrić
Costume design: Matija Ferlin
Graphic design: Tina Ivezić
Poster artwork: Christophe Chemin
Photography: Danko Stjepanović, Nada Žgank
Translation: Katja Kosi, Danijela Bilić Rojnić
Project assistants: Ana Kovačević & Nina Janež
Produced & organized by: Emanat
Co-produced by: Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre National de la Danse
Hosted & co-produced by: Zagreb Dance Center
Project partnership: Region of Istria, Municipality of San Vincenti, Festival of Dance and Non-Verbal Theater San Vincenti, Bunker - The Old Power Station - Elektro Ljubljana
Financial support by: Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana, Municipality of Pula

Choreographer and performer Matija Ferlin has taken the life and poetry of Srečko Kosovel as the starting points for his new project SAD SAM LUCKY, continuing the SAD SAM series that started in 2004.

Kosovel's melancholic and confessional poetry stems from the ruggedness of Slovene karst and from the existential crisis in the aftermath of WWI. It strides over Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism and Constructivism and deals physical blows to language in an attempt to find an ideal form that would reach higher than poetry itself. These physical attacks and radical choreography into language create a tangible score that Ferlin uses in his exploratory process.

By repeated interpretation of Kosovel's poetry, he has created a critical mass of poetic images, concepts, meanings and emotions that call for a physical form of presentation.

The first form is speech, in its own right, movement is the second, and space the third. By associating the strength of the verse, the material nature of speech, the stamina of the movement, and spatial self-reference, Matija Ferlin creates a choreographic whole of intense physicality. He insists on extreme concepts such as the beginning and the end, happiness and sorrow, life and death, transience and eternity, activity and passivity, and creates a radical, physical, turbulent and emotional dialogue with this unique avant-garde poet on the European scene, paying tribute to his life and work as a universal paradigm of artistic life and work.

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