Untitled

UPCOMING DATES
Premiere: 22 October 2025, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana

• 23-24 October 2025, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana

Choreography and video directed by: Magdalena Reiter

Performed and co-created by: Jerca Rožnik Novak, Beno Novak, Davide Lafabiana

Video design: Sandi Skok

Music: August Adrian Braatz

Light design: Janko Oven

Photography: Darja Štravs Tisu

Produced by: Mirabelka

Partners: Bunker, The Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia, Adrian film

The performance forms part of Magdalena Reiter’s body of work with the umbrella title Blow-up, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia throughout the 2024/2025 period.

Untitled is a choreographic installation at the intersection of dance and audiovisual media, set within the architecture of the Old Power Station. The work seeks to trace a state of transit — of being on the edge, beyond the centre. The performers create portraits suspended between presence and absence, between space and body, between the two-dimensional image and its origin.

The installation unfolds as a network of images, bodies, and echoes — a space where reality and its representation overlap and crossfade. A choreography of gaze, disappearance, and displacement emerges, inviting the audience to enter as travellers, witnesses, and observers.

Artistic statement:
Untitled is conceived as a record of a journey — a work in progress and an installation rather than a traditional performance. Within this idea, I am drawn to what remains unfinished, in transition, on the periphery – and to the inevitable sense of loss that comes with it.
Dance, by its nature, resists closure; it exists only in the moment of passage. Untitled stays close to that condition — to the fragile balance between appearance and disappearance.

The title derives from the language of visual art, where Untitled is not merely an unfinished gesture but a conscious refusal to name or close meaning.

The form of the installation follows this logic: dispersed into fragments that never merge into a single narrative, reflecting a reality that is itself fractured and unstable. Within the installation, physical space expands into image — into a terrain where movement shifts its form.
Through the camera, I explore how perception is constructed and constantly shifting. Each image becomes a temporary reality — caught between the real and the fictive, between seeing and being seen, between time as it unfolds and time as it is remembered.
The camera captures what eludes dance: it offers the illusion that time can be held or returned to. What remains is not presence, but its trace.

Untitled, at this stage, is not conceived as a conclusion but as an open phase within an ongoing process.