Maja Pelević, Matjaž Pograjc, Betontanc: MOŽDA SMO MI MIKI MAUS
MLADI LEVI: Saturday, August 29th at 8 pm
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Playful Love Photographs
Maja Pelević, a young Serbian dramatist, won an anonymous contest for best contemporary dramatic text at the Sterijino pozorje festival in Novi Sad in 2007. An emotional and surprising theatre piece began to emerge when she met director Matjaž Pograjc and creative members of the Betontanc group. Pograjc decided to form his acting cast from the younger generation of Serbian actors for the purpose of this performance and led them back into the very arena of movement, which was left behind by the first Betontanc cast in the beginning of the nineties. A succession of gentle, rough, amusing and sad scenes slide by, portraying the moments and destinies of random passersby. Even though the story Možda smo mi Miki Maus may seem like a collage of drama motives at first, it becomes evident eventually that the photo machine is producing an image of a contemporary subject, coloured with their joys and worries, their disorientation and resourcefulness. An energetic performance in a true Betontanc style, marked with a pinch of Serbian humour, sentimentality as well as excellent music, not to mention the unique motive signature of choreographer Branko Potočan. The Mladi levi Festival is proud to premiere
this performance of Možda smo Miki Maus to a Slovenian audience for the very first time.
Director, choice of music: Matjaž Pograjc
Artistic concept: Betontanc (Matjaž Pograjc, Tomaž Štrucl, Branko Potočan, Mateja Benedetti, Jure Vlahovič)
Actors: Bojan Krivokapić, Ana Marković, Stefan Bundalo, Jelena Ilić, Damjan Kecojević, Anastasia Mandić, Pavle Jerinić, Milena Predić
Set and light design: Tomaž Štrucl
Costume design: Mateja Benedetti
Choreography: Branko Potočan
Text and dramaturge: Maja Pelević
Language editor: Ljiljana Mrkić Popović
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Ilustrations: Milica Butković
Executive producers: Maja Vižin, Milorad Jovanović
Organiser: Jasmina Urošević
Assistant set design: Miraš Vuksanović
Assistant costume design: Olga Mrdjenović
Production: Narodno pozorište v Beogradu, Bunker, Ljubljana, Sterijino pozorje
Translation and surtitles: Maja Vižin
Slovene language editing: Eva Horvat
75 minutes
Performance is in Serbian with Slovene surtitles.