Choreographed & performed by Matija Ferlin Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec Text: Srečko Kosovel & Matija Ferlin Music: Luka Prinčič Stage design: Mauricio Ferlin Light design: Saša Fistrić Costume design: Matija Ferlin Graphic design: Tina Ivezić Poster artwork: Christophe Chemin Photography: Danko Stjepanović, Nada Žgank Translation: Katja Kosi, Danijela Bilić Rojnić Project assistants: Ana Kovačević & Nina Janež Produced & organized by: Emanat Co-produced by: Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre National de la Danse Hosted & co-produced by: Zagreb Dance Center Project partnership: Region of Istria, Municipality of San Vincenti, Festival of Dance and Non-Verbal Theater San Vincenti, Bunker - The Old Power Station - Elektro Ljubljana Financial support by: Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana, Municipality of Pula
Choreographer and performer Matija Ferlin has taken the life and poetry of Srečko Kosovel as the starting points for his new project SAD SAM LUCKY, continuing the SAD SAM series that started in 2004.
Kosovel's melancholic and confessional poetry stems from the ruggedness of Slovene karst and from the existential crisis in the aftermath of WWI. It strides over Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism and Constructivism and deals physical blows to language in an attempt to find an ideal form that would reach higher than poetry itself. These physical attacks and radical choreography into language create a tangible score that Ferlin uses in his exploratory process.
By repeated interpretation of Kosovel's poetry, he has created a critical mass of poetic images, concepts, meanings and emotions that call for a physical form of presentation.
The first form is speech, in its own right, movement is the second, and space the third. By associating the strength of the verse, the material nature of speech, the stamina of the movement, and spatial self-reference, Matija Ferlin creates a choreographic whole of intense physicality. He insists on extreme concepts such as the beginning and the end, happiness and sorrow, life and death, transience and eternity, activity and passivity, and creates a radical, physical, turbulent and emotional dialogue with this unique avant-garde poet on the European scene, paying tribute to his life and work as a universal paradigm of artistic life and work.