Global City – Local City project partners’ meeting, 29th November 2013, München

From 2012 onwards, the Drugajanje festival is part of the network entitled Festivals in Transition, Global City – Local City project, which brings together eight European festivals. By way of artistic exploration, the network strives to tackle social, ecological and political issues related to the cooperating cities, as well as global tendencies in the transformation process of urban city centres.

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19th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women

This year’s festival Let’s Create a Place for Ourselves will highlight the importance of claiming a space and the relevance of efforts invested in recognizing the situation of women within spaces, which seem to be closing down all too often in this time of neoliberal reforms and in the crossing of various discriminative attitudes. (more…)

SPARKS: Enable Cookies (an evening of dance solos)

Illustration: Nuša Jurjevič

Enya Belak: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON (Work in progress)

Addiction. The truth. Intoxication. Hallucination. Ecstasy. Feelings. Dreams. Misconception. The story follows associative logics and metaphors. The play of light. DRAGON. A little girl plays with a dragon, has him slide over the sky in a free, playful and happy spirit. In a timeless spirit. (more…)

Beton Ltd.: EVERYTHING WE’VE LOST, WHILE WE’VE GONE ON LIVING

Photo of rehearsal (photo: Toni Soprano)

Anton Podbevšek Teater, Novo mesto
September 24th at 8.00 p.m., pre-premiere
September 25th at 8.00 p.m., premiere
September 26th, 27th and 28th at 8.00 p.m. and October 11th, 12th and 13th at 8.00 p.m.

The performance titled Everything We’ve Lost While We’ve Gone on Living emanates from the absurd as portrayed by the current time and as developed by the French playwright of Romanian descent, Eugene Ionesco, in his work The Killer [fr. Tuer sans gages]. (more…)

Betontanc & Umka.LV at the festival Theatre Confrontations

Betontanc & Umka.LV will perform Show Your Face! on 17th October at the 18th International Festival of Theatre Confrontations, which will take place from 12th to 19th October in Lublin. Show Your Face! is a virtuosic performance of puppetry, theatre, dance, and live music that examines the effects of courage (or lack thereof) throughout the 20th century.

SPARKS: Jan Rozman: Bird Dementia

Photo: Marijo Župan

Dementia is a state of oblivion. A state of madness. A state of lunacy. Dementia isn’t something you get to choose. She chooses you. Everything that had solid form before has now changed. It has become forgotten without knowing what it was and without anticipating what it will become. And it is changing in this very moment. Forgetting. (more…)

Via Negativa: ON THE RIGHT TRACK

Photo: Marcadrea

Grega Zorc and Vito Weis as back vocalists find themselves alone on an empty stage. No solo singer, no band. Both seem pretty lost, though in fact they are not as helpless as they look. They have a programme. And an opportunity of a lifetime to come to the fore. To take over the game. (more…)

Boris Kadin, Via Negativa: < > THIS!

Photo: Boris Kadin 

< > THIS! is a multimedia performance that contemplates whether anything without political nature can be uttered in theatre at all? Are we more enlightened thanks to everything we see and hear on stage? Why is it that we tend to believe more in what we see rather in what we say? < > THIS! takes place in the arena of a dia-logue (“division of logos”), where words and images pile up in contradictory and exclusionist meanings. (more…)

City as a CANVASS, as a STAGE and as a BATTLEFILED

Photo: Sunčan Stone

Discussion with accompanying programme

The theme of the conversation will revolve around a city as a canvass (graphic interventions in space, graffiti, space-invaders, installations, light interventions etc), as a stage/gallery (street theatre, musicians and other performers, flash mobs etc) and as a battlefield (the so called artivism: subvertising in culture jamming, protests through art etc). (more…)