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‘Us humans encroach on the forest, but the power of the forest to shape people is also inevitable,’ says Leja Jurišić about the conceptual impulses that drove the creation of ‘Red Forest’. In the forest we heal our wounds, in the forest wounds are created, the silence of the forest is not non-violent and neither is the loudness of the world. 

A forest is mystical, dangerous, wild, powerful, lonely, idyllic and natural; an animal kingdom, a place of retreat or longing and also a place of exploitation and destruction. The attempt to stand out from the everyday realities of capitalism, its ideological and material catastrophes, and the desire to rest in the forest, turns out to be an illusion: 

‘Each subject who is sent to the forest considers it an important obstacle. Even though the forest is never conquered, the subject still has to travel through it. There is always a forest between defeat and success. In fact, it is the forest that makes the subject’s success possible. Subjects enter the forest with little or no knowledge, and come out with acute self-awareness,’ says Jurišić, loosely quoting Erica Spelman. 

Five dancers and choreographers are faced with the Red Forest. What comes to life is an omnibus of confrontations with the Red Forest, a series of individual entries that are infused with collective actions but require strong and sensitive individuals. The human forest is a field of empty, consumer-oriented signals, empty political pamphlets, and likewise empty promises.. The Red Forest does not silence sensibility but instead welcomes its glow and constructive potential in which we devise how to withstand the intensity of the world. The Red Forest tries to establish a situation where conventional social arrangements - which are most often also social arrangements of destruction - lose their charm of instant pleasure and the sense of insufficiency that follows it. Our direction is therefore not turned towards the human forest - but to the Red Forest.

Duration: 60 min
Genre: Dance
Language: n/a

Credits:

Author and choreography: Leja Jurišić
Co-authors and performed by: Urška Centa, Gašper Kunšek, Žigan Krajnčan, Kristýna Peldová, Veronika Valdés
Set design, dramaturgy, costume design: Petra Veber
Music: Eduardo Raon
Songs used in the performance: Žar Ljubezni (Žigan Krajnčan), The Age Of Love (Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano Remix)
Sound: Jure Vlahovič
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Producer: Žiga Predan
Produced by: Pekinpah

Get in touch

Production contact: Žiga Predan, ziga.predan@pekinpah.com 

Status: Ready for touring