The Origami project uses the process of creating a visual situation in a performance context, and this is where the subtitle of the event – visualy – performative study – comes from. By juxtaposing the movement of bodies, material and space, Origami strives toward a performance in which six performers use their movement and the coordination of their paths to develop and modulate the chosen material; spreading, bending, turning, folding, clamping and unfolding it. The duration and processuality of each phase of the changing sculpture offers a simple but elusive metaphor – everything changes and modulates, nothing is permanent, and yet in its fluidity, it also has small micro stops that provide a starting point for the next modulation. Duration is directly related to the movement of the matter; the duration of surface establishment, folding, gluing, shaping.
The movement of bodies, materials, light and sound enters into various associative formations that appeal to the imagination of the spectators and open up space for associative stringing of impulses.
Concept and choreo – directing: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Set design: Peter Rauch
Lighting design: Jaka Šimenc
Movement design: Katja Legin, Bojana Robinson, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Music: Josip Maršić
Performed by: Katja Legin, Bojana Robinson, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Peter Rauch, Jaka Šimenc in Josip Maršić
Production: Federacija
Coproduction: Bunker – Old Power Station, Association DUM
Financial support: Ministry of Culture Slovenija, City of Ljubljana, SKICA Vienna
Duration: 60 minutes
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik is a choreographer, improviser, performer and teacher, author and coordinator of many performative, research and educational projects. She collaborates with musicians, actors, singers, designers and dancers in his projects. She received several awards for her work.