Three Quarters of a Human

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Three Quarters of a Human

Dance composition in three-quarter bar

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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?

Concept and choreography
Kristina Aleksova
Choreography assistant
Anita Wach
Performers
En-Knap Group (Nika Zidar, Núria Capella, Tina Habun, Davide Lafabiana, Carolina Alessandra Valentini, Tamas Tuza), Polett Kasza, Mateja Železnik
Music
Eduardo Raon
Light design
Špela Škulj
Artistic consultancy
Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec
Producer VN
Špela Trošt
Producer En-Knap
Karmen Keržar
Production
En-Knap, Ljubljana • Via Negativa
Partner
City of Women, Ljubljana

Showings

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