365falls

Première: 9 March 2018, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 50 minutes. No interval.

Director and author of concept Bojan Jablanovec
Composers Tomaž Grom and Eduardo Raon

Music contains also fragments from works by W. A. Mozart: Requiem; P. I. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Richard Wagner – Das Rheingold – Vorspiel; György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna; Iánnis Xenákis: Metastasis
Additional music Chubby Checker: Let’s Twist Again; Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the UK; The Clash: Should I Stay or Should I Go – arr. by Alexei Shulgin; The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction – arr. by Alexei Shulgin
Sound designer Tomaž Grom
Props, costume and set designer Olja Grubić
Lighting design sonda7
Technical director Igor Remeta
Curtain system Jože Zajc, David Pilipović, Nika Sajn
Producer Špela Trošt
PR Sara Horžen

Performers
Grega Zorc
Anita Wach
Vito Weis
Kristina Aleksova
Loup Abramovici
Nataša Živković

365falls is nonverbal physical performance. The fall is treated as a physical and metaphysical experience, as a comedy and a tragedy happening at the same time, as an historical stumbling of mankind. In a series of situations and images, bodies, objects, ideas, symbols, beliefs, ideals, expectations, fears and hopes are falling. Everything falls. Theatre also. But this is not the story of the great last fall. 365falls is a story of falling beyond human pride, beyond normative countdown, beyond the beginning and the end, beyond religion, politics, ideology …
Every step is a little fall. Slightly forward. Walking is merely an illusion of having control, making progress, holding direction. Civilization is the utopian struggle of mankind to overcome gravity. Every political system is just an ideology of temporary syncronized falls. Illusion of balance. At first glance the gravity is a one-way sequence: to fall – to fail – to die. But the tragedy and comedy of fall is not hidden in its metaphysical outcome. It is not about that we know the end, it is about how we deal with what we know. This is slippery surface of knowledge. More knowledge – less stability. But gravity still holds us together.
The big slip could happen anytime and in any form. Financial, health, economic, cosmic, meteorological, environmental, nuclear ...One small distraction, one computing error, one innocent miscalculation, bad timing, bad weather condition ... We are on standby. Busy to keep everything in balance. Personally, locally, nationally, globally.