Photo: Saša Hess Tanja Zgonc PLESNO – GLEDALIŠKA PREDSTAVA / A DANCE-THEATRE PERFORMANCE A DANCE-THEATRE PERFORMANCE “Tulkudream is a meditative dance ode about human creation and one’s links with the universe, which may in any visitor encourage new and unique horizons of aesthetic feeling, and philosophical reflection about time and life of earth revelation.” Daliborka Podboj, Parada plesa “A clear and evident performance which opens new questions to the spectator and leaves him astonished by the emotional depth and complexity of consistently performed Butoh dance.” Tina Šrot, Pogledi ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE Tulkudream is a performance about existential dichotomy between joy and pain, desire and disappointment, success and failure, fear and courage, between nonsense and understanding. In it, choreographer and dancer Tanja Zgonc intertwines Butoh method with Tibetan Buddhism and next to Butoh body sets Tulku – the pure physical body of spiritually enlightened Buddhists. The term Tulku namely represents a person who has been reborn in the human world, has experienced complete enlightenment and has stayed in the world to help other sentient beings. Both bodies - Butoh, whose origin is in confrontation with human Dasein (existence), and Tulku, which, according to Buddhist tradition, is released from fateful integration into matter - are in their extreme abstractness, reduced to concrete material bodies, emptied of their individual meaning, that originate from the void beyond the imaginary. In the performance, Tanja Zgonc embodies a Tulku, who dreams of a Tulku, who dreams ... maybe of his previous existences, perhaps of his own footprints in some other places and times, maybe of his replicas in the same space and time, similarly to how the substances in the bodies of “Tulku’s” students are lined up in the film directed by Ema Kugler. At the same time, Tanja Zgonc embodies the split between human existentiality, which is liable to birth, changes and transience and is imbued with vitalism, sometimes thwarted by loss, inherent vulnerability and death of the loved ones, and the existentiality of Tulku, who simply smiles at everything that life brings and takes, knowing that the perception of reality depends on one’s own viewpoint. Author, Screenplay of the video, Choreography and Dance: TanjA Zgonc • Video Directing, Editing and Set Design: Ema Kugler • Music: Aldo Kumar • Lighting Design: David Orešič • Costume Design: Alan Hranitelj • Performers on video: Rosana Hribar, Klemen JanežIč, Uroš Kaurin, Blaž Šef, Igor Sviderski, ANjA Drnovšek, Jernej Gašperin, Maruša GEymayer - Oblak, Liza Grašič, Lena Hribar, Jaka Lah, Nataša Keser, Rok KravanjA, Robert Korošec, Maruša MAjer, ANjA Novak, Nina RAjIć – Kranjac, Barbara Ribnikar, Ajda Smrekar, Nik Škrlec, Stane Tomazin, Ana Urbanc, Jaka Andrej VOjevec, Nina Vombergar, Vito Weis, Nina ZupančIč • Assistant of Video Directing: Ina Ferlan • Director of Photography: Lev Predan KowaRski • Post-production of Sound: Boštjan KAčIčnik • Compositing, Colour corrections: Janez Ferlan, Andraž Čok, Lev Predan KowaRski • Costume Make: Dominika Zver / Beasthetica • Producer: KatjA Somrak • Produced by: Plesni Teater Ljubljana 2013 • Co-produced by: VPK The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is in national interest and is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and by the Municipality of the capital Ljubljana, Department for Culture. TULKUDREAM Photo: Miha Sagadin ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tanja Zgonc has been creative as choreographer and dancer, and recognized at the global and Slovenian dance scene for more than thirty years. She created 21 dance performances and received numerous awards: Yugoslav alternative actress (1989), Golden Bird (1992), Golden Stick (1994), Prešeren’s Fund Award (2002) for performance Kagami Reflection and the Triton Prize for the best performance selected by the critics (2002) for performance Koora. She danced in successful performance of Plesni Teater Ljubljana ( Dance Theatre Ljubljana), collaborated with numerous acknowledged theatre directors in Slovenia and internationally, and created choreographies/stage movement in more than 100 theatre performances. From 2002 she lectures at the Academy for theatre, directing, film and television - AGRFT in Ljubljana, from 2012 as Professor for the field of Dance and movement expression. Tanja Zgonc is a choreographer Butohist. She got acquainted with Butoh 25 years ago, when she became a member of Ko Murobushi’s International Butoh Dance Company founded in Köln, Germany. She perfected her knowledge in Japanese Butoh with leading masters, such as Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Ko Murobushi, Carlotta Ikeda and Tadashi Endo. Through transformation of different dance technics and movement methods by using the methodology of Butoh, Tanja Zgonc has developed her very own systematics and authorial principle of movement, primarily the back. In the latter years she acts as leading lecturer and conducts creative workshops on the method of Butoh in her own specific language in Europe, United States and also in Japan. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 1. STAGE REQUIREMENTS (provided by the venue): - 1 Video projector HD 6500 ansi minimum The light and sound direction need direct view onto the - 1 built in Shutter controlled by wire remote - if no DMX stage (at the centre behind the audience). The light and shutter sound desks are preferred to be in the audience and not in - 1 Projection screen 16:9, size 520 x 290 cm minimum, a separate room and must be next to each other, so that front projection video, light, sound can all be regulated by one person. Stage is a black box, minimum stage size: 11 x 11m with 3. SOUND REQUIREMENTS (provided by the venue): black dance floor. Theatre sound System: Projection screen hanged in the centre of the stage, some - FOH 2 x 500W minimum 8 to 9 meters from the front row of the audience. Plastic - SUB 500W foil 5 meters long hanged from the ceiling (can be fixed on - 2 monitors for the performer wooden boards 5 x 5 cm) starting at the projection screen and going towards the audience at an outward angle, 4. TECHNICAL STUFF (provided by the venue): approximately 8 meters in length. FOR preparation (stage setting, light setting): - 1 video technician LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS (provided By the venue): - 1 music technician - 7 x PC 1kW Quadro / R200+119 - 2 light technicians - 9 x PC 650W Combi / 3 x R202 - 2 set technicians - 5 x PC 500W CCT / 1 x R202 During the show: - 3 x ETC 575 / 25-50 / 3 x R201 / 3 x GOBOS - 1 light technician - 2 x Flood Light 1kW or Dimmable House Light - 1 sound / video technician - Lightingboard with Cross-fader - 1 set technician STAGE SETTING/PREPARATION OF THE STAGE: 5. MISCELLANEOUS (provided by the venue): Stage - 2 hours, Light - 3 hours for focus if the lights are Important: No pictures, videos, mobile phones and pre-hanged and tested, 1 hour for cueing entrance after the beginning of the show are allowed! The duration of the piece is 1 hour. 2. VIDEO REQUIREMENTS (provided by the venue): Before every rehearsal and every show the floor has to be - 1 Blu-ray Player, connected to sound desk wet cleaned. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjepzkfN44 Video: http://vimeo.com/88631590 PLESNI TEATER L jUBLjANA T: +386 41 365 184 PRIjATELjEVA 2, L jUBLjANA E: [email protected], SLOVENIA, EU [email protected] WWW.PTL.SI facebook.com/PTLjubljana.