Kompost is a work in constant becoming and transformation, a collaborative research process in which performers and co-authors establish and examine the feedback loop between proposals for dance improvisation scores, texts that emerge as reflections on dance, and working principles through which they (re)formulate co-authoring relations.
This episode of Kompost builds on themes of togetherness, tenderness, care for the other, uncertainty, play, and support, and represents composting—settling, decomposition, and transformation of previous stages of the work, when the Kompost samizdat was published and the dance-poetic performance under the same title was presented.
The co-authors find inspiration for this working method in the ongoing disintegration of (non)institutional structures and programs on the local contemporary dance scene, which is transformed into continued action on that same scene through mutual support and collaborative/friendly relations.
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compost is a process that endures, an energy that changes form in its fall.
compost is a community and a driving force.
compost is a history of imbalance—of bodies, ideals, experiences.
compost is not a spectacle. compost is a principle.
compost speaks of supportability.
compost arose from supportability.
compost practices supportability.
compost is the desire to create without turning one’s nose up at the working conditions.
the women of compost have no populist tendencies.
the women of compost create in unfit conditions.
compost is women who do not wish to be framed.
compost is women who still make mud pies, children still alive within them, pies tastier than before.
compost is extended time and concentrated space that waits for questions.
* from the Kompost Manifesto / Love Letter to Kompost, workshop with Nina Gojić, Pokretnica Festival 2021
