There, in the garden

Première 13. 6. 2024, Štihova dvorana Cankarjevega doma
Running time 1 hour and 20 minutes, no intermission.

Author of concept Urška Centa
Co-creators and performers Urška Centa, Domen Novak
Dramaturg Nik Žnidaršič
Set designers Lučka Centa, Urška Centa, Domen Novak
Lighting designer David Cvelbar
Costume design Draž
Photographer Lucija Helena
Graphic designer Rok Marinšek
In collaboration with Zavod MOJA KREACIJA, Maribor.

“Their garden is a space which codes human effort into the idyll of retreat. Their garden is their body.”
The artists invite you to the garden of two where they unveil the beauty of listening mechanisms and let the pure instinct of curiosity be the guide through the performance of sound and movement. They understand a garden to be a playground, a microcosm of human interaction, a construction of community, a space for researching different relationship constellations, a place of invitation. Together, they observe the far-reaching and chain-like the reactions in it – and beyond it – and highlight the role of the senses in shaping the human experience.
In the production, the human body as an instrument intertwines with different inter- and transdisciplinary structures that perceive the ways in which our lives are connected, while the idea about the social evaluation of human dependence on nature is mirrored in the background. Cultivating a garden is a metaphor, a cultural value that constantly connects with all living things and provides a decision about a more earnest experience of being present in the world