my private own*

my private own* is a solo dance performance of personal fiction by author Petja Golec Horvat. A series of thematically connected dance miniatures represents a search for one’s own poetics through the reading of others. As Van Sant erased the boundary between his own words and Shakespeare’s texts in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho, so my private own* intertwines its reality with what could be called “cinematic dreaminess” — the building of a personal fiction.

“To stand alone in the middle of a road, alone on stage.
To be one’s own in the exposed, vulnerable and tender revelation.
A gaze within – a young body, intimacy, one’s own and – is it even private?
Can I feel at home here?
…when, in a moment of ecstasy, we fall asleep.”

Memories, experiences, or materials from a personal archive compose a kind of heuristic dance that confronts questions of home, privacy, and intimacy in a space where everything is visible.

After the performance, there will be a discussion with the author and performer. Entrance: donations.