Constellations is an artistic project that creates a meeting point between contemporary dance and jazz improvisation, between body and sound, between the individual and the collective. It is a performative practice grounded in the principle of instant composition, here co-created by a generationally and stylistically diverse group of dancers and musicians: Neža Pele, Nina Fajdiga, Žigan Krajnčan, Kristýna Peldová, Lara Matea Ivančič, Urška Centa, Milan Tomášik, Sara Janašković, Kristijan Krajnčan, Boštjan Simon and Rok Zalokar.
The project moves beyond an understanding of improvisation as merely immediate responsiveness or impulsive expression. Instead, it foregrounds a shared awareness of dramaturgy as something that emerges organically during the performance itself—a dramaturgy that is not pre-determined, but arises through countless micro-decisions, continuous listening and relational sensitivity. What unfolds is a complex choreographic weave that, in real time, asks how inner coherence can be maintained within a polyphony of expressions, practices and artistic languages.
The artistic focus shifts toward the exploration of relational structures, both between bodies and between sounds. In doing so, the creators touch upon a fundamental truth of human experience: that reality, as we perceive it, always comes into being through relation with others. Without these relational entanglements, the world would lack inner depth, multiplicity and sensory density. Constellations thus functions as a laboratory of contemporary community, in which individual expression reveals itself only through the capacity to transform and to recognise itself in the other.
At its core lies a horizontal structure of collaboration, without hierarchies and without a fixed distribution of authorship. The roles of leader and follower are in constant circulation. The creators consciously act as parts of a broader compositional whole that cannot be controlled or framed in advance. It can only be co-created through a heightened degree of presence, flexibility and ethical openness.
Constellations is therefore both an artistic practice and a way of being: an attempt to imagine a community that is not homogeneous, but constellational—interwoven, responsive and layered.