Dance

Cluster

24, 25 June 2026

The show

Dance Season 2026

Company

Company Balletto del Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Maribor

Choreography

Choreography Edward Clug

Programme

Proof

Music

Radiohead | Thom Yorke

Dancers

Asami Nakashima Beatrice Bartolomei Ionut Dinita Davide Buffone Matteo Magalotti Christopher Thompson Matteo Beeckman
Mutual Comfort

Music

Milko Lazar | PErpeTuumOVIA

Dancers

Asami Nakashima Catarina de Meneses Matteo Magalotti Yuya Omaki
Handman

Music

Milko Lazar; Justin Hurwitz & Tim Simonec

Dancers

Asami Nakashima Catarina de Meneses Tijuana Križman Hudernik Monja Obrul Ionut Dinita Yuya Omaki Matteo Magalotti Davide Buffone Tomaž Viktor Abram Golub
Cluster

Music

Milko Lazar

Dancers

Monja Obrul Tijuana Križman Hudernik Asami Nakashima Davide Buffone Matteo Magalotti Christopher Thompson

Creative team

Luci (Proof): Tom Visser
Scene (Proof): Marko Japelj
Costumi (Proof): Leo Kulaš
Luci (Mutual Comfort): Tom Visser
Scene e costumi (Mutual Comfort): Edward Clug
Luci (Handman): Tom Visser
Costumi (Handman): Edward Clug
Luci (Cluster): Tom Visser
Costumi (Cluster): Edward Clug

Dates and performances

Slot E

24 Jun 2026

At 20:30
Slot F

25 Jun 2026

At 20:30

Venue

Comunale Nouveau

Details

Information

The mixed programme opens with Proof, a piece to the music of Radiohead that explores, hypnotically and introspectively, the ideas of fragility and resilience in human life. Then come three choreographies shaped on the music of the Slovenian composer Milko Lazar, in which Clug probes again and again the inner and outer bonds of our lives. A quartet of bodies, Mutual Comfort is a refined, intimate study of the weave of human relationships. Here the leading role is taken in turn by each performer, masking the contradictions of human behaviour between unexpected and ironic moments. A fluid, playful journey through intricate relationships and fleeting encounters, Handman mirrors in its choreographic weft, rich in spatial geometries, both the resonances of the creative process and the complicity of the dancers. Finally Cluster, the piece that gives the whole evening its title, where through an extremely precise physical score movement is explored as a collective force.
Choreography
Edward Clug
Dancers
Ballet of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor

An evocative work to the music of Radiohead, Proof explores the themes of human fragility and resilience. Clug’s distinctive movement vocabulary translates raw emotion into an extraordinarily complex choreography, inviting the audience into a hypnotic world of rhythm and introspection.

A refined, intimate study of human connection, Mutual Comfort examines the nuances of physical and emotional interaction. With minimalist elegance, Clug sculpts movement into a deeply expressive and personal dance language. The movements often have a kind of almost rhythmic nervousness, with bodies darting and starting in an intensity perfectly synchronised with the beat. Clug deftly illuminates the contradictions inherent in the human spirit, revealing moments of unexpected beauty and spontaneous irony along the way.

Handman takes you on a fluid journey, where brief encounters take place between man and woman, women and women, woman and man, men and men, and the man and Handman. The title refers to a particular moment in the piece that might go unnoticed. As we pass by, the choreographic sequences unfold before us, culminating in dance situations strongly inspired by Milko Lazar’s music and by the genuine experience we shared with the dancers while making this piece.
Edward Clug
Cluster

The piece that gives the show its title, Cluster, is an exploration of movement as a collective force, an intricate web of interconnection and contrast. With its evocative musical landscape and the hypnotic flow of the choreography, Cluster reflects on the tension between individuality and shared human experience.