Dance performance JUMP OVER MY SKIN (Skok čez mojo kožo) | Tjaša Bucik

Through movement, sound and repetition, the performers transform fragments of the past into a contemporary physical experience.

What remains of a mine when the machines fall silent?

Stories. Traces. Imprints in memory, sound, and movement.

About the Performance:

The title of the performance derives from the miners' tradition known as the "jump over the skin" (skok čez kožo), a symbolic rite of passage into the underground world and acceptance into the mining profession and community. The Idrija Mercury Mine, where miners worked from 1490 until 1995, is today inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Throughout its centuries of operation, it profoundly shaped the life of Idrija and its inhabitants.

The performance revisits the heritage of mining and lacemaking through personal experience and contemporary dance. It brings together two distinct forms of labor and physical experience, both defined by repetitive movement, perseverance, and patience.

A central element is the relationship between the male and female body. On one hand is the miner's body, descending daily into the underground—into darkness, depth, danger, and strenuous physical toil. On the other hand is the body that remains above—the body that waits, worries, and lives with the quiet awareness of peril. The space of the performance emerges between them: a space of labor, waiting, memory, intimacy, and interdependence.

JUMP OVER MY SKIN is a collection of emotional landscapes and physical imprints of a space defined by its industrial past. The movement reflects how heritage and memory shape both personal and collective identity.

• Admission is free.