ROJENA ZUNAJ SVOJE VASI, 1978. – BORN OUTSIDE HER VILLAGE, 1978.

dance performance

Autor and dance:
Maša Kagao Knez

Choreography:
Rosana Hribar (Slovenija) & Filibert Tologo (Burkina Faso)

Dramaturgy:
Andreja Kopač

Produced by:
Kulturno-umetniško društvo Baobab

Co-produced by:
Plesni Teater Ljubljana

BORN OUTSIDE HER VILLAGE
Choreography and music selection: Rosana Hribar

1978.
Choreography: Filibert Tologo

ABOUT PERFORMANCE:

The African word “kagao” means “woman born outside her village”, 1978 indicates year of her birth. Maša Kagao Knez whose roots are Slovenian on her mother’s side and from Burkina Faso on her father’s is a dancer and choreographer, born and raised in Ljubljana. She has been actively involved in the Slovenian dance scene for almost two decades.
Her solo performance is based on the experience of being on the outside and not belonging anywhere, combined with the principles of dual identity. Maša involved two choreographers from different dance backgrounds in her project, Rosana Hribar and Filibert Tologo, to develop the physical dance material of one a single body – of the dancer, Maša Kagao Knez – from two different perspectives.

 FROM THE MEDIA

Choreographer Rosana Hribar has managed to sculpture an artistic image of a woman in the process of self-recognition, which was danced by and vividly shaped in her entirely new way of movement by Maša Kagao Knez.
Born Outside My Village is a completely finalized performance which makes you think, it overwhelms you, making you believe in its every move, in the entirety of its choreography which spells out biographical moments and draws an entire cultural symbolism.

PARADA PLESA Daliborka Podboj

 In this half an hour solo, choreographer Rosana Hribar precisely transferred the dancer’s spiritual and identity diaspora which opened the movement of Maša Kagao Knez in a way we have never had a chance to see before. And this difference did not show only in the dance methods used, but also in the performance: through exact exchanges and passages between tension and relaxation, stiffness and softness, confidence and insecurity or hesitation.

The half-hour solo Born Outside My Village is distinguished by its well thought-through choreography intertwining the dancer’s various movement experience: in the second part of the show modern dance techniques prevail and in the third part African dances are predominant. But the show is also marked by the precise and disciplined performance of Maša Kagao Knez showing a span of movement she had never staged before.

DELO Mojca Kumerdej

 Born Outside Her Village positions Knez in black on stage, in a battle with herself, in search for identity, marked with the African in a cold and strict Western society. During the dance voyage on stage the performance turns over to the second part, 1978, in which Knez glows in fiery colours and just as passionately and explosively controls the stage.

SIOL.NET Manca Čujež

 Next to dispersed atmosphere, to which contributes the excellent lighting design, the performance is distinguished for the performing span of Maša Kagao Knez, who at this moment is one of the top Slovenian dancers.

DELO, Mojca Kumerdej

THE PERFORMANCE REPETITIONS

2011
Born outside her village - Festival Rdeči revirji, Hrastnik
Born outside her village - Festival Lent, Maribor
Born outside her village - Festival Kluže
Born ouside her village – Dance Theater Ljubljana

2012
Born outside her village, 1978 – Festival Tjedan Afrike, Zagreb (Croatia)
Born outside her village 1978. – International summer festival Trnfest, Ljubljana
Born outside her village, 1978 – International Festival Baofest, Ljubljana

2013
Born outside her village, 1978. – Slovenian national theater, Trieste (Italy)
Born ouside her village, 1978. – Dance Theater Ljubljana

2014
Born ouside her village, 1978. - Echos danses festival, Geneva (Switzerland)