Maja Delak is a choreographer and dancer. She studied contemporary dance at CNDC L’Esquisse in Angers, France, and at numerous dance seminars, lead by internationally renowned pedagogues. She was, from 1993 to 2002, a member of the international dance group En-Knap, and a programme leader of the realization of a high school programme for contemporary dance, provided for at the Pre-School Education and Grammar School Ljubljana. In her choreographic opus, Maja Delak has traversed numerous worlds, which – despite the different themes and approaches to work – whirl into an anchorage of the author’s dance and performative poetics, with which she is making a clearer and clearer definition of the methodologies of contemporary art and dance. In 2006, Maja Delak established institute EMANAT, with which she aims for the affirmation of contemporary dance – both with performance production as well as with a book programme (Transitions series) and education (variety of research and educational projects). In 2010 she won the Prešeren Fund Award, the highest recognition for achievements in the field of art in the Republic of Slovenia.
How can we, in a world of technology and high-power digital resolution, connect to the essence of our inner drives? To use our capacities to deepen our expressivity and interconnectivity? Or are these things imperceptible and inaccessible at higher resolutions of the digital era?
Love calls, marking a rise to verticality, a new clarity, a sharper resolution. When we expose ourselves to this light, we notice that our very presence casts a shadow, and we are tossed into a battle of projections. Yet, we remain closed to the world in a heart-tied, bound, and inexpressible body. We fight the emergence of something that seeks to be said, a new dimension, a new use, a new illusion. We seek a higher resolution. The ephemeral home of love.