From Water to Land
From Water to Land is the sequel to the play Underwater (2017), which Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Alenka Marinič accompanied with the release of an excellent music album. The play From Water to Land also playfully combines music and theatre. It focuses on the experience of repression, precariousness and being trapped in neoliberal relations, and on the other hand, on the search for spaces in which different, more authentic relations can be formed.
The play draws on the life situation in which the two artists found themselves as middle-aged creators (they are noi longer eligible for old social benefits, but at the same time they do not belong to the category of promising “young artists”), as mothers, as self-employed in culture, as precarious workers, as members of the disappearing or sliding middle class, and, last but not least, as women. Their source of inspiration is distinctly personal, but with the help of different work methods and carefully selected artistic approaches, they transform it into a more universal theatrical and musical event.
Production: City of Women; co-production: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, DU Narobov; supported by: Ministry of Culture, City of Ljubljana
Maja Dekleva Lapajne works as a creator in the field of performing arts. She is a director, author and performer, co-founder and member of the multiple international award-winning Narobov Collective, one of the artistic directors of the international festival Naked Stage (KUD France Prešeren), the author of various of clown projects (My Thread Is Red, To Die For, Red Noses) and movement performances (Remade Life, Zavod Federacija), and a member of the international art collective Orcas Island Project. She also participates in children’s (Unikat Theatre) and youth theatre (Society for the Development of Theatre in Education), as well as on radio and television (RTV Slovenia).
Alenka Marinič is a graduate philosopher and historian and an independent creator in the field of performing arts. With the Narobov Collective, she was featured as a performer and co-author at many Slovenian and international venues. In 2013, she completed her education at the Helikos International School of Physical Theatre in Florence, Italy. Since then, she has been working with Justin Durel, with whom she teaches physical theatre under the auspices of the Hystericus Society both at home (ŠUGLA, Storytelling Variety Show, Naked Stage, Zavod Bob) and abroad (Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, USA, etc.). As a creator, she works in the field of street, clown and physical theatre. The general public knows her from the satirical TV show Kaj Dogaja, in which she jokingly discusses current events with Tilen Artač, and as a Red Noses clown.
