GLORY HOLE

Production: BELEF and BTD

The concept, choreography, performance: Dalija Acin
Scenography: Marija Kalabic
Music composed by: Andrej Acin
Video: David Nikolic
Design: Nenad Bacanovic
Consultant in the sexology: Tea Nikolic

Dalija Acin was born on 15 October 1974. She attended the elementary and secondary ballet school "Lujo Davico". She is the author of choreographs Echoes of Silence/Passion of the Flesh, Peep Sorrow (2001), Buridan (2000), The North-West Shore (1999), City Animation (1998), Intimus (1998), Monoview (1997) and Orange (1995).

Performer in shows: Echoes of Silence/Passion of the Flesh, Peep Sorrow, Buridan, The North-West Shore, Intimus, City Animation, Dream About Flying, Monoview, Sonnets, Orange, Free fall (1995), Deserted Land (1995), Nizinski (1994), Paradise Lost (1993)

Confrontation, Introspection and Asking Questions
The concept of the project

The project/play is outlined as a solo dance of a contemporary theatrical expression on the stage where a part of the audience is also being placed.

Video projections, designed as a counter-point make a part of the stage scenography: pornography and massmedia on one side and the individual on the other. Costumes are created of authentic elements, characteristic for female sexuality, resulted from bizarre and fetish on one side, but on the other - relieved of any sexual connotation.

The concept of the project is based on confrontation, introspection and on asking questions. The question is what is the female sexuality? The starting point for this question if the phenomenon of a female sexuality, and its given, acquired and in most cases accepted form, which became the most specific since the moment of appearance of bizarre and fetish; the closing point for the issue is the current sexual/erotic/hyper exposure in commercial and/or political purposes. The fact is that the woman, constantly introspecting the form of her own sexuality and in search for the ideal, has been submitting, or not to the male fantasy.Why the woman has accepted such a "role" and how is her sexuality being achieved or not through the accepted image? Is the woman's main task, looking from the aspect of the sociology to please? To what extent the man's and woman's understanding of the sexuality coincide? Are they willing and ableof acceptance and understanding in the given environment of the contemporary society? How is the issue of power closely connected to the sexuality and thus to the male-female relation? Are sex - present in the mass media context and pornography, not legal, but still allowed and controlled from the social point of view but just tools for achieving the mass relief by means of virtual practice?

As a result to the ever present alienation and loneliness, the fear from potential emotional suffering and pain or fear from AIDS, the individual is avoiding the possibility but is not losing the desire to make a sexual contact. At the same time, the sex is ever more present in the media, becoming more aggressive, while the internet is providing a consolation in the virtual image, offering a compensation for the real feeling. The excitement is becoming stronger while the natural fulfillment is being suppressed. Subjected to the immense influence going from macro to the micro levels, the sexuality goes through changes, deviations and deforming. By being over exposed, the threshold of excitement is moving up and an impression is being created that everything is available while the sexual communication itself is becoming all the more problematic.

The project was supported by Orchestra Ballet Studio and CEMPI.

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