Dance composition in three-quarter bar
author
2024
Dance composition in three-quarter bar
author
2024
I am a dancer – three quarters human.
I am Slovenian – three quarters European.
I am human – three quarters animal.
I repeat steps, sequences, and combinations. I create movements that never truly end. My body works, my thoughts count – one, two, three. Order calms me, and at the same time, it unsettles me.
In Three-Quarters of a Human, eight liberated bodies move through patterns, rows, columns, repetitions, canons, and pauses. Together, they inhabit a space of both structure and uncertainty — a geometry that holds and dissolves itself with every turn.
We persist in the waltz — the dance of peasants and nobles alike — democratically counting to three. One. Two. Three. We turn around the same thought: what would happen if we counted differently? But at the thought of four, we stumble, correct ourselves, and continue.
The work unfolds as a meditation on discipline and instinct, identity and belonging. Between symmetry and deviation, between the human and the animal, a question lingers:
Is a step ever just a step?
Is the waltz ever just a dance?
Is the body ever just a body?
Video • 5’20”
video
2023