MILOS SOFRENOVIC // Sheila Sofrenovic (voice): Dialogues with Marcel Proust (trailer)

Artistic Statement:
"I only know who I am and what I am when I find out who I was and who I was surrounded by." ( Marcel Proust )
Artistic Statement:
Live movement, performed and perceived in the present, is actually a temporal experience, in a sense of, that once executed, it is constantly analyzed and processed as a revisit of past experience. Through my dialogue with Marcel Proust's capital work "Remembrance of Things Past", I discovered a strong relationship between three discourses of Memory, Movement and Monologue. This performance film "Lost Albertina" investigates this relationship as it is being established and questions it. The following questions became the dramaturgical building blocks upon which this solo performance in 12 scenes is based :
1. Is it possible to revisit the realm of past physical movement in order to reach a Proustian state of timelessness?
2. Can movement be assumed to exist only as remembrance?
3. Can movement be re-lived or re-experienced in order to make it last forever?
4. Can we reach and experience a metaphysical level of existence through movement?
5. Can the conceptualisation of bodily action make thought a physical reality and movement a cognitive reality?
by Milos Sofrenovic
"One minute within us that is free of the constraints of time creates within us a being that is free of time and allows us to experience not immortality, but eternity." ( Marcel Proust )
This performance film is dedicated to the loving memory of ex-Yugoslav composer KSENIJA ZECEVIC ( 1956 - 2006 )
Devised and performed by Miloš Sofrenović
Sound dramaturgy by Miloš Sofrenović
Sound devised by Jan Vysocky
Text re-translated and spoken by Sheila Sofrenović
Costume and stage design by Miloš Sofrenović
Photo memory by Ksenija Spanec & Ivan Ilic - Kisholjubac
Trailer devised by Chris Clow
Duration of performance: 63 minutes
Executive producers of this stage production:
Zagreb Dance Center (Ms. Mirna Zagar)
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Delikos Company (Ms. Mina Rakicevic)