Venue: ZPC
Duration: 15 min.
The performance “HERE” was created through the further development of my final thesis and the
continuation of a year-long research after completing my studies. The primary interest in the research topic came
from consciously noticing changes and progress in my work and education as a performer and
choreographer, but also in aspects of my private life. I was primarily prompted by questions that
often concerned my experience of my own performance and sense of presence. Through my extended research through this project I revisited the theme
of transformation, I focused on exploring decision-making, explored new ideas of the hybrid body, catalysts,
levels of presence in performance, and the relationship between the sudden and the gradual. Important questions to visit during this performance are focused on what is enough on stage and how do we percieve our experiences.
“Rather arbitrarily, because I have not yet found a more fitting definition, I have called this phenomenon the fictive body: not a dramatic fiction but a body that commits itself to a certain ‘fictive’ zone which does not perform a fiction but which simulates a kind of transformation of the daily body at the pre-expressive level.”
— Moriaki Watanabe, Between Orient and Occident
Author and performer: Mina Ugrin
Photo: Nina Đurđević
