It could perhaps be said that with Multiplicity of Movements 9 we are entering one of Matej Kejžar’s curious creative and open paradoxes. While his 2021 piece Movement of 9 was inspired by the notion of a favourite album (Floating Points, Promises) as something which is one’s own, something that one can share but still preserve as his personal, intimate sphere in which a resonance of proto-knowing, rhythm, musical force, listening and hearing, narration, and abstraction come in intertextual action to produce something that can again be shared, his latest piece, Multiplicity of Movements 9 disrupts this chain. Instead of his favourite album being “his own” and the dance that the listening activates being “his” dance piece, a creative division is put into action. Kejžar shares his thought and dance with his dance students. One album becomes many, a movement evolves into movements, recognizable and repetitive patterns appear, and a question arises: What is the position of one if one – as a whole one – is involved in a process of division? In other words: what holds such a multiplication together? 

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dance maker: Matej Kejzar * dancers: 3rd-year Contemporary dance department at ADU – Akademija Dramske Umjetnosti, Zagreb - Nataša Kustura, Dora Sarikaya, Barbara Mamić, Silvija Musić, Marko Gašparović, Maja Petani, Kristina Lisica, Stjepan Kelenić, Sara Škrobe, Klavdija Radojčić, Iva Katarinčić, Mia Radošević, Mateja Miković, Tea Cvetan * production: Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb

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