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The dance performance Platonic Dances by Alja Branc Barbosa, as the artist describes, highlights and transforms the notion of “sincere superficiality”, an honest and unironic embrace of surface-level behaviours, interests or interactions, to examine the intersections of social and virtual performance, exhibitionism and the pathologies of self-curation, self-production and self-presentation. This immersive, living algorithm of dances reflects the fragmented, meticulously curated and performative nature of contemporary identity, caught in the unfiltered landscape of plastic fantasies.

Alja Branc Barbosa (1994, SI) is a contemporary dance artist working at the intersection of choreography, performance and dance practice. Educated in Ljubljana and at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, she works between Ljubljana and Budapest, developing an authorial practice focused on bodily introspection, conceptual dramaturgy and sensory experience. She creates and performs internationally, both independently and as part of the Irene Plaque collective.