MN Dance Company & Silence:
Borderless Body

Running time: The performance lasts approximately 75 minutes without intermission.

Borderless Body, developed over four years under the artistic direction of Michal Rynia and Nastja Bremec Rynia with a permanent international dance ensemble, brought to life several full-length productions, shorter choreographies, and dance films (To the Moon and Back, Distance, Border-Line, F-Lights, Prometheus, A-Line, Drop).
During the candidacy for the European Capital of Culture, we conceived this project as one of the program’s highlights — a platform for questioning humanity’s future in the face of climate change and, above all, our responses to the challenges the future will bring. The project seeks to explore the limits of the human body and connect dance with artificial intelligence and robotics, while raising questions about the future relationship between the biological and the technological.

What happens when the human body can be “optimized” through technology?
What will a “body” even be in the future, and will the mind still need a biological body to function?
Can artificial intelligence move a body through algorithms?
The “future” reached us sooner than we had expected. Today, artificial intelligence is our constant companion. Cyborgs are becoming a reality. Robotic arms and legs can be moved by the power of the human brain. And with the advancement of medical technology, we are becoming increasingly hybrid beings.
How should we respond to this? Will we use technology to serve us, or will we succumb to the principle of self-optimization — imposed on anyone who is “not perfect”? These are frightening yet inevitable questions for the future of humanity. But within them lie hope and new solutions for an aging society.

In the exciting phase of exploring this urgent topic within the *Boundless Body* process — which concludes with a performance of the same name — we examine these questions through the dancer’s “flawless” body, caught in limitations and placed in various contexts.
What intrigued us most was the human confrontation with the limits of their body, mind, and planet — and the possibilities of surpassing them. Historically, humans have turned to religion and science for this — today, to artificial intelligence and robotics.
Humanity senses that beyond its limitations lies an immense potential, something it constantly longs for. It reaches toward boundlessness, seeks the true meaning of its existence, and explores its vastness and depth. The fear of death and meaninglessness drives us to strive every day to be better than the day before — to create, explore, conquer, and discover new worlds both outside and within ourselves.
Will we succeed in finding what we seek?
 

MN Dance Company

– Where Movement Speaks, and Stories Come Alive

MN Dance Company is a bold ensemble of 17 contemporary dancers from Nova Gorica, Slovenia (EU), dedicated to creating transformative performances that combine powerful storytelling with a cutting-edge dance language. Our work explores the depths of the human body and psyche, fusing expressive movement, dynamic partnering, and theatrical nuance into a singular artistic vision.

Silence

Silence is Hladnik (music and arrangements) and Benko (music, lyrics, and vocals).
The duo's discography consists of five studio albums: Ma non troppo (1997), Unlike a Virgin (1999), Vain – A Tribute to a Ghost (2004), Musical Accompaniment for the End of the World (2012), and The Vocabulary of Madness (2022). In 2006, the duo released Key Silence, a 2CD anthology and rarities collection. 
The duo has scored more than seventy plays and dance performances. Silence's discography includes four theatre scores: Maison des rendez-vous (2003), Veronika (2005), Love Unto Death (2007), and The Passion of the Cold (2008), a double album with music from Tomaž Pandur’s plays Barroco and Caligula. In 2024, Anton Podbevšek Theatre produced Proces(i), the first play written and directed by Silence.
The duo has scored a number of feature-length films, including A Call Girl (Damjan Kozole, 2009), which won Best Film at the 2012 Girona Film Festival, and Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, 2024), which won Best Feature Film and Best Original Score at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film. In 2022, the duo scored Trigrad, an 8-part TV series.
The duo frequently collaborates with Laibach. In 2006, the duo composed and produced Volk, Laibach’s 7th studio album. In 2015, Laibach and Silence became the first Western alternative acts to perform in North Korea. Silence rearranged a number of standards from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The Sound of Music for the occasion. The songs were released by Mute Records in 2018.