Compagnie Maguy Marin: Salves, Dance Performance

About the Event

The French Compagnie Maguy Marin will perform the choreography 'Salves' at the Cankarjev Dom (Linhart Hall).

“We must organize pessimism,” repeats Maguy Marin after Walter Benjamin and adds: “We must give life to forces of resistance.”



As much as Maguy Marin’s artistic creed might demand creative freedom, it furthermore dictates ethical consciousness. An artist who knows precisely what she wants to say with her performances and how to voice it physically, Marin’s works reveal themselves as essential. They are frescos/epic poems on contemporaneity that, to the artist, shows itself as a field of ruins, the ravages of 20th century collective catastrophes. A nightmare and a personal apocalyptic vision, Salves enthralls with its artistic intensity.



Many a dance lover will still remember May B, the celebrated 1981 show by Maguy Marin, which toured Ljubljana in mid 1990s, as a remarkable event. Devised in 2010, critics and spectators alike consider Salves an equal sequel to the previous work and a choreography that has re‐established Marin’s pivotal position in European dance theatre. This year, The Paris Autumn Festival will dedicate a special section to Marin, re‐introducing as many as eight of her stage productions at its most prestigious venues.

Choreographed by: Maguy Marin