If on the one hand, digitalisation presents a positive turn towards a wide availability of knowledge, the other hand reveals an obsession with data within societies. We can find anything on the internet – what exists and what doesn't, that which is true or false, reasonable or perhaps not, what awakens our interest and what bores us. It is all already there on a digital plate. In the words of Saša Lončar, choreographer and pedagogue: “Digital browsers have obscured the children's curiosity and explorations.”

This situation may be passively accepted and even passed on, or it can be cut into and transformed. Saša Lončar decides, in collaboration with the choreographer Ana Romih, for an active approach: an interested discovery of curiosity. 3

2 dancers, from 6 to 18 years old, which compose four dance groups, use dance and movement to carefully research the possibilities of a contemplative body in modernity. And what do they find? An internal browser. That which contains the “primary curiosity” which has an independent access to interesting discoveries and constructive amazement. 

They show us that one needs not go far: the discoveries “are carried within ourselves”.

#something sparkling there # make passivity sleep # awaken curiosity # when if not now

dance groups KIČE: Brina Jeraj, Dimitra Srhoj, Jurij Širca, Linda Ter-Oganesyan, Mila Golubović, Mija Lušič, Reka Vreča Stepan, Roza Andolšek, Rudi Perinčič, Tara Knežević, Tine Avdić; GIBLE: Hana Kozina Balantič, Mila Vute, Mina Jelkić, Olja Bulatović, Ruj Šalamun; SPIRALIS: Gaja Petković, Gaja Pikl, Kaja Cvetko, Mila Medea Črnac, Nuit Vale; QAXIS: Darma Prešiček, Ema Sirotić, Ivana Kocutar, Kiša Janković, Lana Kariž Meško, Lara Matos, Manu Nonković, Olja Srdić, Pika Črnič, Uma Žnidaršič, Zoja Palko * mentors & choreographers: Ana Romih, Saša Lončar * production: KUD Qulenium, Pionirski dom Ljubljana – Centre for Youth Culture

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