Mala Kline is a performer, choreographer and writer. Her artistic and theoretical work is embedded in the practice of dreaming. Her extensive body of work is based on Saphire® dream techniques, which she uses to open up original spaces of feeling and to generate images characterised by semantic fluidity, contradictoriness and atmospheric intensity. With her original works, she creates unique worlds woven through the language of our dreaming. She has received a number of major Slovenian awards for her choreographic works, including the Golden Bird (2005), Povodni mož (2005, 2013), the Gibanica Award (2013, 2023), and the Ksenija Hribar Awards for Choreography (2013) and for Theory (2021). She is the author of two books, Capfico: Writings from the Belly of the Whale published by Capfico/Madrid and Theatres of Potentiality: between Ethics and Politics published by Maska/Ljubljana. In 2018, she founded ELIAS 2069 - a school, artist residency, organic farm and outdoor spa located in an unspoilt natural resort deep in the wilderness of southern Slovenia, dedicated to education and creation through the use of dreaming techniques.
The debut of Mala Kline, the solo performance Campo de Fiori, takes the Renaissance period as a point of reference in European history. The piece was inspired by the personality and thought of Giordano Bruno, magician, philosopher and scientist, sentenced to death due to his audacious criticism of corruption and decadence of religious and social institutions of his period and due to his belief in the necessity of an ethical and political reform. The subject of Campo de` Fiori is the idea of transition, when the new and the old world reveal themselves at the crossroads, and the newly-appearing life wildly struggles with the mechanisms of inhibition and inertia. The hero who wanted to save the world is seduced by wild passion and love for life and truth to overstep the line of what is allowed. He is burnt alive on the stake, with his tongue tied. However, his words keep speaking.