[ Sweat and Soot ]

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Sweat and Soot is a conjunction of movement, sound, light, dance and music, yet it has but one genre: the dance.

The structure of the performance enables the substances of movement and free invention to create innumerable imaginary spaces filled by the imagination of spectators.

The graceful moves of ballet are juxtaposed with raw, industrial music to achieve a comic but also strangely tribal effect. The trance-inducing noise blasts your senses alongside apoplectic seizures that stick in a loop, finally sucking you back into reality with a sharp slap.

Sweat and Soot blurs your sensory perception and leaves you in a completely different place.

Choreography: Goran Bogdanovski
Dance: Damjan Mohorko, Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar, Goran Bogdanovski (Gregor Lustek)
Vocal: Boris Benko
Music: Peter Penko
Sound Design: Gregor Zemljic
Dramaturgy: Mojca Dimec
Stage Design: Irena Pivka
Costume Design: Alan Hranitelj
Light Design: Miran Sustersic
Light Technician: Borut Osojnik
Co-production: Maska, Cankarjev dom and Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet
The production was supported by: Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and Ljubljana City Municipality
Thanks to dr. Slavoj Zizek

Premiere 14. 6. 2001