Magdalena Reiter
“Quartet”
German premiere
August 11, 2025
20.30 H
HochX Theater and Live Art
22,- EUR / 12,- EUR / 30,- EUR Supporting price
Barrier-free
“Quartet” is a poetic choreography about the internal and external architectures of human relationships. Between a dancer and two live cameras, a cinematographic experience unfolds. The cameras not only document what is happening on stage, but also amplify, highlight, distort and capture what would otherwise remain hidden from view.
Magdalena Reiter uses reduction, duplication and montage as essential principles of choreography. A glance, a step, a touch: she condenses minimalist gestures into the sensual image of a relationship that appears different from every angle. At the interface of bodies and their medial reproduction, a space for action is created that the performers playfully explore. Between closeness and distance, coexistence and alienation, pleasure and violence, the performative reality is constantly reshaping itself, challenging the audience's perception and questioning individual patterns of interpretation.
Magdalena Reiter is a Polish choreographer, dancer and teacher who lives in Slovenia. She received her training at the National Ballet School in Gdańsk, Poland, and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. She has created over 20 choreographed pieces for independent production houses and as commissioned works, including for the Studio Contemporary Dance Company in Zagreb, Croatia, the Polish Dance Theatre - Poznan Ballet, the Bodhi Project in Salzburg, Austria, the Anton Podbevšek Teater in Novo Mesto, the Puppet Theater Ljubljana and Plesna Izba Maribor, Slovenia. Reiter has also choreographed opera and theater pieces (with Mateja Koležnik, De Tijd, Janez Burger, Matjaž Berger, etc.) and works as a movement coach for film.
Her work has been shown and awarded internationally. Among others, she received the Ksenija Hribar Prize 2021-22, as well as the prize for the best performance at both the 2nd Slovene Dance Festival Gibanica and at the 8th Teaterfest in Sarajevo. Reiter leads choreography and dance workshops in Belgium, Germany, France, Croatia, Austria, Poland and Slovenia.
Choreography, video direction: Magdalena Reiter
Created with and performed by: Jerca Rožnik Novak, Beno Novak
Video design: Sandi Skok
Music: August Braatz
Set design: Urša Vidic, Maruša Mali
Light design: Mojca Sarjaš
Costume design: Pia Gorišek
Photo documentation: Darja Štravs Tisu
Production: Zavod Mirabelka
Co-production: Cankarjev dom
Co-financed by: Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Guest performance in cooperation with: Slovenian Cultural Center Berlin - SKICA Berlin