Production

BETONTANC: DANCE OR DIE

A REVOLUTION WITHOUT DANCING IS A REVOLUTION NOT WORTH HAVING

Premiere: December 22nd at 20.00

Performance: December 23rd at 20.00 and Februar 16th, 17th and 18th at 20.00

One of the key words of the performance is the human body. After all, the human body and its passions are the engine of the human world. Nothing is more difficult to understand than that magic moment when the head and the body are no longer one, when the feet take different direction than the eyes, when the arms don't obey what the mouth ordered, and when the body rises to move, although the brain told it to sit. Is dance truly the best revenge for human laziness and mass stupidity?

This dance performance, based on Latin American rhythms of salsa, rumba, merengue, bachata, is inspired by three stories: The seven wives of Bluebeard whom he sweet-talked into marrying him, locked them into his castle, threw them onto his bed, took their virginity and forbade them to open the last room in the sombre hall of his castle, the story of  Salome who loved Johanaan's body so much that she danced for her stepfather and cast off all seven veils in front of him, and above all, the story by Edgar A. Poe,The Mask of Red Death, where prince Prospero and his guests were celebrating in a walled abbey, wanting to escape from a menacing plague ravaging outside the walls, but had forgotten that death is inevitable, impossible to escape from, ever.

Directed by: Matjaž Pograjc
Conceived and performed by : Primož Bezjak, Ana Hribar, Branko Jordan, Blažka Müller Pograjc, Ivan Peternelj, Branko Potočan, Snježana Premuš, Dejan Srhoj, Katarina Stegnar, Donia Streher
Stage movement assistants: Matjaž Brinovec, Branko Potočan
Music by: Silence and live mix*
Music of Silence performed by: Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik, Blaž Celarec, Matej Javoršek, Riki Zadravec
Costume design: Boris Arivuković - Emigrant
Set design: Estríhi&Ométi
Light design: Tomaž Štrucl
Sound design and live mix: Jure Vlahovič
Research: Tibor Hrs Pandur
Make up and hairstyle: Kreator maske in pričeske Empera3zz in Špela Veble
Graphic design: Saša Kladnik
Photo: AMATER
Executive producer: Maja Vižin
Production: Bunker, Ljubljana
Co-production: Slovensko mladinsko gledališče

* live mix contains excerpts from
performer – song title (author) / record label
The KNIFE - Pass This On (Knife) / V2;
END. - Countdown To The End (Peirce) / Ipecac;
Nortec Collective - Tijuana Bass (Amezcua) / Nacional;
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Bloc Party) / Wichita;
Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo (May, Vivanco) / Capitol;
Yma Sumac- Taita Inty (Vivanco) / Capitol;
Yma Sumac - Najal's Lament (Fain, Harburg) / Capitol;
Boban Markovic - Svatbarska Igra
Sid Vicious - My Way (Anka, Francois, Revaux ) / Virgin;
Gogol Bordello - Sally (Gogol Bordello, Hutz) / USA Side 1 Dummy;
Gogol Bordello - Not a Crime (Gogol Bordello, Hutz) / USA Side 1 Dummy;
David Bowie - Let's Dance (Bowie) / Virgin;
Beirut - Scenic World (Condon) / Ba Da Bing!;
Beirut - Bratislava (Condon) / Ba Da Bing!;
Cocorosie - Beautiful Boyz (Cocorosie) / Touch And Go;
Sebastien Teiler - La Ritournelle (Teiler) / Lucky Number Ltd;
Metric - Calculation Theme (Metric) / Everloving;
Nouvelle Vague - Dancing With Myself (Idol, James) / Justin Time;
Balkan Beat Box - Hermetico (Kaplan, Muskat, Yosef) / JDub;
Fruko - El Preso (Alvaro Velasquez) / Discos Fuentes;
Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye (Placebo) / Astralwerks;
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - 1997 (Nils Frykdahl) / Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sex Pistols - Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morison) / Bang Records;
Fantomas - Omen (Goldsmith) / Ipecac

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