Global City – Local City project partners’ meeting, 9th and 10th March 2014, London

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.

Imagine 2020 project partners’ meeting, 23rd January 2014, Brussels

The Imagine 2020 network researches new ways of producing and presenting exciting artworks with minimal environmental impact, and shares its learning in order to get the European cultural sector as a whole to include climate change concerns in their everyday working practice.

Beton Ltd. 22nd and 23rd January at APT

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

22nd January at 8.00 p.m., 23rd January at 11.00 a.m. and at 8.00 p.m., Anton Podbevšek Theatre, Novo mesto

The performance Everything We’ve Lost while We’ve Gone on Living emanates from the absurd as developed by Eugene Ionesco, in his work The Killer, whereas the performers guide us through three different periods in time: the years of their birth (1976 and 1977), the coming of age period that comes to a closure with a rite of passage (1995 /1996) and the present time.

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Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik: Time Body Trio

Photo: Martin Podrzavnik

I know what time it is all the time. Rarely do I get lost in time. My day is split into hundreds of tiny units, as I go around doing different stuff, thinking different thoughts.
It’s a feeling of disorientation, of losing of something at the expense of something else. It’s a struggle for a new formation, for a redefinition. And lots of shame on top of that. (more…)

Matija Ferlin: SAD SAM LUCKY

Photo: Nada Žgank

The performance, devised by an award-winning dancer and choreographer Matija Ferlin, is a physical, turbulent and emotional tribute to a one-of-a-kind avant-garde poet Srečko Kosovel. (more…)

Maja Delak: WHAT IF

Photo: Nada Žgank

What if … we lived differently? And what if – we wouldn’t? What if is a performance about how we fail to lead a different life in the end. It is a performance about how time dictates the pace of life; how instability and hyper-productivity define the rhythm of work and how the scope of resistance is often defined by the rhythm of the senses. (more…)

Debate evening AND WHAT DO OTHERS HAVE TO SAY?

The forthcoming What do others have to say? discussion evening will follow the performance All Together Now! and the current theme it tackles, namely revisiting the reasons for migration. The conversation will delve into the same theme by addressing the question of what departure actually means today, amidst a difficult economic situation globally speaking, which means that migration as such no longer represents an automatic solution for one’s problem. (more…)

Urban Kmet: B-SIDE

Source: Luigi Serafinij, Codex Seraphinianus

B-side is a blow of a hand on a dusty table, allowing tiny fragments of dust to form different bonds and constellations before they lull back onto the table. (more…)

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

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

22nd January at 8.00 p.m., 23rd January at 11.00 a.m. and at 8.00 p.m., Anton Podbevšek Theatre, Novo mesto
3rd, 4th and 5th February at 8.00 p.m, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

The performance emanates from the absurd as developed by Eugene Ionesco, in his work The Killer, whereas the performers guide us through three different periods in time: the years of their birth (1976 and 1977), the coming of age period that comes to a closure with a rite of passage (1995 /1996) and the present time.

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Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

Photo: Borut Peterlin

Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd., are tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original and innovative way.
»Repeating and creating Beckett here and now, in the time and space of stifling capitalism, is more than welcome, especially by way of collective creative input as is presented by Beton Ltd. From the edge of its own production this performance is telling us that the emancipatory art has said what it has to say and wants to go on speaking.« (Nenad Jelesijević, Radio Študent, 9. 10. 2012) (more…)