Kiss Me

Première 30. 5. 2024, Plesni teater Ljubljana
Running time 45 minutes, no intermission.
The production briefly uses a strobe light.

Concept author and performer Leon Marič
Consultants Maja Delak, Nataša Živković
Author of accompanying text and outside eye Benjamin Zajc
Set designer Tomislav Krnač
Costume designers Jan Brovč, Marija Marič
Music selection and sound designers Maja Delak, Luka Prinčič
Lighting designer Urška Vohar
Technical support Aljaž Zaletel
Graphic designer and illustrator Matic Brinc
Photographer Marijo Zupanov
Translator and language consultant Katja Kosi
Music used in the performance: Trgaj mi rožice, antonym21 ala pecula, accordion Matjaž Predanič, background1 Blaž Pavlica
Sounds used from platform freesound.org by authors smallsushi, klankschap, slwbase, ravelite, moai15, fmiramar, vdmr, leonelmail, defysolipsis, sholecolitis, dibko, sebbas414

Whenever you’re in Prekmurje and a pozvačin – a caller, or a (wedding) summoner – knocks on the door of your four-corner house, you know an important event is about to take place in the village: two people have decided to tie the knot and the pozvačin’s role is to invite all the villagers to their wedding. The author places the pozvačin side-by-side with his own identity. Although at first sight, it seems that Slovenian cultural heritage and the freedom of expression of a contemporary individual do not have much in common, the performance finds parallels in their confrontation and very obviously sketches the author’s many firsts. In it, the roots of traditions in which he grew up are woven together with the elements of queer (night) culture in which he emancipated himself.
Kiss Me is a love letter to the existing and the emerging traditions of the author’s and our space in a time, which most certainly demands a bold stance about whose wedding we will go to.