GOLDILOCKS 2009

The 12th traditional bestowal of Goldilocks (Zlatolaske), the annual student awards of The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. The awards are nominated, chosen and given by students to their colleagues for the greatest creative achievements in student production in the past academic year.

Photography: Boris Bezić

MOVING CAKE Slovene Dance Festival

The first Moving Cake was made in 2003. Slovene dance producers make it every two years with the same recipe, but always with fresh ingredients and present it to international selectors and audiences. The Moving Cake Festival is a condensed presentation of the best of Slovene dance productions in the last two years. This time, the selectors of the 4th Slovene biannual dance festival, Amelia Kraigher, Barbara Novakovič and Samme Raeymaekers chose 12 performances for the competition and 8 performances for the accompanying programme. In Stara mestna elektrarna– Elektro Ljubljana, we will see the following performances:

19.2.2009 at 6.00 pm: Mateja Bučar: BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – volume two MADE IN CHINA
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MOONLIGHT SKY

MOONLIGHT SKY, a Slovenia based group, has been enrapturing audiences for quite some time now. As far as genre goes their music could be depicted as progressive rock, although there is more to it than that. The music of MOONLIGHT SKY is a fusion of different tastes and styles, from rock, jazz, blues up to film score. All of this is presented with a great deal of respect for the music history. (more…)

Artistic evening of six generations of graduates from SVŠGL: P.G.G. (Postgraduate Gathering)

Institute EMANAT will organize the first artistic gathering evening of graduates of SVŠGL secondary school – module contemporary dance in 2009. We have invited six generations of graduates, who completed their studies between 2003 and 2008, to participate in the project. (more…)

Urška Vohar: THE REPUBLIC, OR BON VOYAGE GRETA GARBO

The Republic, Or Bon Voyage Greta Garbo is Urška Vohar’s Slovene debut. After two solo performances, the author returns to creating a group project. The performance is a testing ground for desire. The body follows its own interests, tailors its identities, solves the consequences of rejection and searches for a space to express the repressed. What is on the margin is positioned to the foreground, and voyeurism becomes the main principle of perceiving the developments that unfold. (more…)

Via Negativa: OUT

Stage is power. This power is given to the stage by the spectator. The pride of a performer is expressed in the way he or she uses the stage. OUT is a performance that challenges the logic of pride in the relationship between the spectator and the performer. (more…)

Matija Ferlin: SAD SAM /ALMOST 6/

In his new performance sad sam /almost 6/ Matija Ferlin wants to investigate a mind of a child that is not conditioned by anything, not even by his own existence. While growing up, the conscience of the existence creates numerous “terrorizing” facts that are results of social conditions and constraints. All fictitious childhood characters become enemies. The fact that we have to grow up results in imperfections that make our lives and modes of existence specific and individual. (more…)

Druga godba koncert: VIENNA VEGETABLE ORCHESTRA

One of a kind in this world, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. There are no musical boundaries for the Vegetable Orchestra. The most diverse music styles fuse here – contemporary music, beat-oriented House tracks, experimental Electronics, Free Jazz, Noise, Dub, Clicks’n’Cuts – the musical scope of the ensemble expands consistently, and recently developed vegetable instruments and their inherent sounds often determine the direction they take. (more…)

Magdalena Reiter: INSOMNIA

“A man invents phantoms and then they kill him. In this sense each man is a suicide.” Ryszard Kapuscinski
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