Ways of Love

Photo: Nada Žgank

Created and performed by: Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič
Music, video, photography: Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič
Visual design and advising: Maja Smrekar
Costumes and styling: Jelena Rusjan
Light design: Urška Vohar

The performance Ways of Love embarks on a research, investigation, and formulation of a common language of two authors with very different formal backgrounds and experiences. They meet through common themes and common working process, with which they at the same time investigate the dialectics of this particular creative collaboration. The process and the product centre on the intimacy created in the artists’ encounter. The central theme revolves around violence, which was in the process perceived as the only possible articulation of the inner hub of forces - craving for love, lust, disembodiment, and loss of bodily fetters. By bringing the violence and desire into consciousness, two possible ways of resolution open up. First is the way of "purification/catharsis' through pain, the other, through laughter and self-irony.

Maja Delak is a choreographer and dancer. In her opus of twelve dance performances, Maja Delak has traversed numerous worlds, which - despite the different themes and approaches to work - whirl into an anchorage of the author's dance poetics, with which she is making an ever more clear definition of the methodologies of contemporary dance.

Luka Prinčič is a musician, sound designer, and media artist, who has participated in a number of sound-music and multimedia projects. His work focuses on personally reflective and socially critical use of new technologies within contemporary audio-visual contexts. Most of his work is based on hacker ethics and DIY philosophy.