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Concept and choreography: Zrinka \u0160imi\u010di\u0107 Mihanovi\u0107
\nDance: Iva Hladnik, Ivana Pavlovi\u0107, Zrinka \u0160imi\u010di\u0107 Mihanovi\u0107
\nMusic: Sven Pavlovi\u0107<\/p>\n

This work is inspired by reflections on perception of dance, senses involved in that perception, kinesthetic empathy, as well as by research on the activity of mirror neurons.\u00a0 These are the neurons found in primates and humans. They fire when we perform an intentional action; intention thus plays an important role in activation of mirror neurons. The interesting discovery is that the same neurons fire while observing someone else performing a movement or an intentional action. Activity of mirror neurons explains our great potential for imitation, understanding and predicting the intention, and thus our capability of learning, empathy and social interaction.<\/p>\n

This kind of neurons acts at the level of sensation rather than interpretation. Our empathy is therefore faster than our rational understanding. The implication is that observation and the experience of body movement work at the same level.<\/p>\n

The activity of mirror neurons might be helpful in explaining the empathy we feel, as well as the kinesthetic experience we gain, while we observe dancers moving. However, is it the observer\u2019s experience which is crucial in this process? Or is it the dancer\u2019s virtuosity? Is it easier to experience and connect to the movement that we have experienced ourselves or to the one that is completely unknown to our body and which our body cannot perform? How does the visual experience affect the kinesthetic experience[1]<\/a>? What is the role of music in that process? And finally, what is the meaning that each observer inscribes in what s\/he sees?<\/p>\n

These are some questions that led us through this creative process. The role of an observer in it is obvious. The presence of an audience, their active watching, as well as the traces they leave after each show, on pieces of paper they found on their seats, gave us some of the answers. Each new performance is a chance for us to get new answers, to better understand why and how we watch dance.<\/p>\n

This project was co-produced by NANO Gallery and the City Center for Culture \u2018Maksimir\u2019 and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sports.
\nThe premiere was given at NANO Gallery in March 2012. The project was also presented at \u201cGanz New Festival: The Festival of Developmental Theater\u201c (Student Center, Zagreb, Croatia) and at the IETM Autumn Plenary meeting (Zagreb, Croatia).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026those parts are extremely interesting as the author managed to change the perception of the audience. Silence on one hand and sound on the other really bring relaxation, piece and respite from the terror of constant visual input. By hardly perceptible light the bodies are dematerialized, but still their presence, even though invisible, becomes very real by other senses. What comes next is the presence of tiny lights attached to the dancers\u2019 bodies. They give us an impression, coherently with the theme, of pure electrical impulses in motion, with a poetic associative spectrum going from fireflies, starry sky to the image of light impulses provoked by pressing closed eyes\u2026\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cOscillations\u201c is an interesting and precisely structured piece than opened up different\u00a0 themes about relationship movement-performer- audience, offering also different directions of their interpretation.\u201c<\/p>\n

Iva Nerina Sibila, PLESNA SCENA.hr, 27 March 2012
\nhttp:\/\/www.plesnascena.hr\/index.php?p=article&id=1427<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In his article \u201cMaking sense of Mirror Neurons\u201c Lawrence Shapiro explains\u00a0 his research on mirror neurons as part of a distinct sensory system responsible for the perception of an action, which uses receptors of other sensory systems (primarily\u00a0 visual and\u00a0 audio sensory systems).<\/p>\n

Photography & video: Jasenko Rasol<\/p>\n

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