[ Švic in Švarc ]

An industrial-sized fan whirrs above the stage; the engine of an approaching bomber throbs
in your ears. A quartet of dancers lurk in the shadows downstage, disjointed hands and faces becoming visible moving in and out of a small beam of light. Graceful, balletic moves are juxtaposed with raw, industrial music to 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. Elements of comedy are uniquely used with distorted quotes from famous films. At one point microphones are attached to the dancers chests and the sound of their movement, breathing and heartbeat produce a transfixing intimacy and blurring of the barriers. Sweat and Soot blurs your sensory perception and leaves you in a completely different place.
Rachel Tonkin, On line review, London, February 2002

Men’s Round with Humour
 A group of three Slovenian dancers appeared at the 11th International Festival of Dance Theatre in Graz with a performance entitled Švic in Švarz. The three young dancers from Ljubljana made a comical impression in pleated skirts - like Roman gladiators dressed by a Swedish fashion house. Classical and comical dancing with elements of pantomime in the choreography of Goran Bogdanovski and with the co-operation of Maska and the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet from Ljubljana, it is accompanied by everyday and motor sounds. Light and with a good deal of self-irony, the Slovenian men enraptured the audience as expressive artists.
Kleine Zeitung, Graz, 10 July 

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