Pedestrian Zone

Solo project: Branko Potočan
Premiere: 9.1.2004, Cardif (GB)
Touring: Cardiff (Great Britain), Berlin (Germany), Esh (Luksemburg), Istres (France), Vienna (Austria), Montreal (Canada), Kluze (Slovenia), Ljubljana (Slovenia) Maribor (Slovenia), Hrastnik (Slovenia)

The author views the term pedestrian zone as a meaningful and indispensable supplement to our daily life, which poses a counterpoint to our stressful daily morning-to-night race. «In other words, I see the pedestrian zone as a space in time where we ease up. We permit our imagination to spread its wings and take us to heights yet undreamed of, where different laws of physics and existence apply.«

«I perceive it as a safeguarding valve for the releasing of wishes, intentions, ideas and needs, which we felt or still feel, if only on the spur of a moment or in the elation of fiction. With an ironic distance towards myself, I will rid the armour of my daring and courage of flear, and reach higher with every jump.

Review excerpts

»The solo Pedestrian Zone is a light, relaxed miniature, distinguisher by Potočan's extraordinary imagination, choreographic talent and a sense for details that are frequently carried out with startling and humorous solutionst. Pedestrian Zone is a well-structured solo, in which Potočan interweaves his two strongest points: detailed movement and exellent performance.«
Mojca Kumerdej, Delo daily, 30. January 2004