Alien Express: Drugi let / Second Flight

Première: 23. 3. 2019, CUK Kino Šiška
Running time 1 hour. No interval.

Concept, choreography and performance Gašper Kunšek, Žigan Kranjčan
Music and performance DJ SunnySun and Kristijan Kranjčan
Lighting designer, video and photography Borut Bučinel
Sound designer Jure Vlahović
Dramaturg Andreja Kopač
Producer Nataša Zavolovšek

Thanks to Dansstationen, Malmö, Dança em Trânsito, Brasil, in KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille, France.

Urban dance styles, the integration of various movements and unburdening combined in their debut Alien Express, which was premiered in the Ljubljana Dance Theater in 2016. The duet brought them the Ksenija Hribar Prize for the most promising dancer, an invitation to the Aerowaves network and over sixty performances around the world. After a successful first takeoff, the enigmatic movable dual Alien Express on the stage of Kino Šiška in the enhanced musical ensemble of DJ SunnySun, jazzist Kristijan Kranjčan, guerrilla light intervention Borut Bučinel and the sound landscape of Jure Vlahović in March 2019 presented – the 2^nd Flight. Among other things, it raises issues of artistic inspiration and creative, vital force. Where does it come from, how it travels, and where it goes? What happens if the unknown force, which at the same time is the engine of our existence, embodies us and does not want to let us down? Do you give it up or control it? Between the order and the chaos, outside and inside, my and your movements exists with the apocalypse inspired state that questions the edges of our own possibilities and limitations. And the 2^nd Flight offers exactly that; clashing forces not only at the level of two bodies and their mutual relations, but also at the level of the theater signs; space, light, sound, and intermediate states between performers and viewers. The key to the diverse, partly spectacular creation is the structured improvisation and sparkling spontaneity of both actors who think each performance as – a new one.

Moving dual Žigan Krajnčan and Gašper Kunšek "entered the public as an outer force of the scene and managed to some extent succeed in providing a new audience, as well as a different dance practice," wrote dance critic Pia Brezavšček.