Jelena Kostic - A Short Odyssey I Woman
Jelena Kostic - A Short Odyssey I Woman

A SHORT ODYSSEE | WOMAN

By Jelena Kostić

In preparation for her full-length performance A MOOD FOR DEEP LONGING Jelena Kostić created a solo for a female dancer questioning the implications of radical choices and a resounding 'yes'.

In the dance solo A SHORT ODYSSEY | WOMAN meets a woman on a journey full of wanderings and trials. She is tempted, trapped, hunted and abandoned. Her devotion is strung together by many alienating years. Is the oath she once took tenable now that she is no longer the same? In A Short Odyssey, promises and threats find each other in a passionate dance and in the simple truthfulness and melancholy of traditional Eastern European music.

Credits

Premiere

2013

choreography & concept

Jelena Kostić

In collaboration with dancer: Judit Ruiz Onandi

composers

Jeroen Strijbos and Rob van Rijswijk

dramaturgical advice

Thomas Falk, Lou Cope and Pietjan Dusee

light design

Ellen Knops and Pim Mans

a production of

Kostić Foundation in co-production with DansBrabant and in collaboration with Strijbos&VanRijswijk