Umbaucism: what seems like nonsense, especially literary nonsense, gains its translation through a narrative move. Umbaucism as a consequence of the “wind’s deaf silence”, as a desire to “move the environment which doesn’t hear the turned-off nights and illuminated mornings”, explains the choreographer and dance pedagogue, Saša Lončar, who is also the author of The wind sings from within me. Her group of “bold young potentials of the new generation”, which she mentors together with Ana Romih, has been exploring their potentials for several years. Nace, Nuit, Manu, Ana, Lana, Alja, and Jernej appear on the stage where their “stories find a way out from the confinement of their own thoughts, and this is how Umbaucism was created”. Their movement builds on “awareness” and “entrapment in a pragmatic scarf of everyday life”. But this is not the endpoint. Rather, “each stumble becomes the only possibility for a different perception”. 

# narrative move as translation, nonsense → sense, silence of wind, desire, to move, someone doesn’t hear, hollow cave

performance: Nace Fojkar, Nuit Vale, Manu Nonković, Ana Štular, Lana Kariž Meško, Alja Jovan, Jernej Šmid / choreography: Saša Lončar / production: KD Qulenium Kranj, KUD Qulenium Ljubljana, Pionirski dom

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