Branko Potočan: MORALITY IS BY ITSELF I’m going on foot …

photo: Sunčan Stone

Two worlds, the world of the physically challenged and the world of the physically unchallenged, live physically separate lives in every society, but they are integral parts of the same attitude to the world, which is manifested through the attitude towards the body. Through various dance-theatre situations, conventions are simultaneously emerging and breaking. We mostly set and implement them ourselves, primarily on our body, and then on another’s body and on everything that we don’t know, that is alien to us. Human vanity knows no limits, warmth and aggression come in waves, revealing our concealed side that we try to hide under our “coats” of hypocrisy, repellency, false morality. (more…)

Bunker’s New Year’s Dance

Invitation to the Bunker New Year’s Dance 2016

You are kindly invited to the Bunker New Year’s Dance at the Old Power Station on Saturday, December 19.

At 8 pm, we will begin with the performance Everything we’ve lost while we’ve gone on living. Beton Ltd. group will take us to the 70s, back to the glamour days of the hotel resort Haludovo. Even though the performers also cruise through the 90s, the years of hopes and expectations, and end up on the hard ground of the present, our dance night, with its rhythms and atmosphere, will try to stay in the time when everything is possible and look forward to the future. DJ Lili Put Put will keep the rhythm going from 9.30 pm and we will dance away into the day when everybody will say YES.

Happy 2016!

Tickets for the performance Everything we’ve lost while we’ve gone on living by Beton Ltd. can be paid by voluntary contributions – however, reservations at info@bunker.si are mandatory. The performance was produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre, Novo mesto, and the Bunker Institute, Ljubljana.

photo: Borut Peterlin

BETON LTD.: Vse, kar smo izgubili, medtem ko smo živeli

In their performance, members of Beton Ltd. collective, actors, performers and authors Katarina Stegnar, Branko Jordan and Primož Bezjak posed questions to themselves and to each other, relating to their personal, professional and social starting points, and spanning back to three separate time periods: the 1970s and the context of the former Yugoslavia, the period of adolescence, ending with the maturity exam in the 1990s, and the projection into the future, which remains intangible. A decade of happiness and comfort, with the first premonitions of decay, a decade of graduation and great prospects of the new country, and a decade of facing the reality and stolen promises.

The performance combines personal stories of the protagonists with historical milestones and is characterized by the typical Beton aesthetics; an attractive theatre where the gaps, the premonitions of problems and the conflicts hide in the undertones of the spectacular, the good music, the outstanding acting and dancing.

Concept and directed by: Beton Ltd.
Music: Dead Tongues  (Janez Weiss, Jure Vlahovič)
Set and lighting design: son:DA
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Costume design: Mateja Benedetti
Slovene editing: Barbara Rogelj
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Make up: Luka Luka
Printed materials design: Gašper Brezovar

Performers: PRIMOŽ BEZJAK, BRANKO JORDAN, KATARINA STEGNAR
Off voice: Taja Zuccato

Technical co-ordinator: Andrej Petrovčič
Wardrobe: Nataša Recer
Costumes made by: Slavica Šubašič, Irena Tomažin, Marija Špeh

Head of project from APT: Andrej Berger
Bunker producer: Maja Vižin
Production: Anton Podbevšek Teater, Novo mesto
Co-production: Bunker, Ljubljana

The performance was made possible by: Ministry of Culture, Novo mesto City Municipality, Ljubljana City Municipality

KRKA d. d., Novo mesto – general sponsor
Telekom Slovenije d. d. – donor
Steklarna Rogaška – sponsor

Supported by: Elektro Ljubljana d.d.

Thanks to: Daša Doberšek, Igor Remeta, Jasmin Talundžić, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, CUK Kino Šiška, Vinogradništvo Franc Bezjak

Petr Šourek: Maribor – European Capital of tourism 2021 (CZ/SI)

Photo: Petr Šourek

19 –25 November 2015
pre-festival walk: 19th November at 5.00 pm
festival walks: 23, 24 and 25 November at 5.00 pm
start of walks: under the Old bridge in Maribor

Petr Šourek, also known as philosopher, translator, director, writer and much more, found an ingenious niche: in Prague, a city flooded by millions of tourists, he founded a tourist agency Corrupt tours along with his fellow theatre artists, dealing exclusively with touring successes of corruption, one of the most flourishing cultures of our time.

This unusual tourist offer immediately became a worldwide sensation. And it seemed that Maribor, with its recent history of the reign of Franc Kangler and the (un)fortunate manoeuvrings with EU funds, would be an immense source of inspiration in this field. Šourek delved into it, also in collaboration with high school students, and a staged walk along Maribor’s tourist attractions emerged, guided by Old and New Vine tourist guides, where historical falsehoods intertwine with entertaining tales of financial blunders. The title promises an ironic tour of the city, where nothing is simply what it seems.

The Project aribor – European Capital of tourism 2021 was created as a co-production of the International network TheatreFit in the frame of the project Urban Heat. More at www.urbanheat.co.

Concept, directing: Petr Šourek, Corrupt tour
Executive producer: Katarina Slukan
Production and research assistance: Tajša Perović
Corrupt tour guides: Anja Koleša, Nataša Dover
Help with the research: Konceptualna delavnica Druge gimnazije Maribor, mentorica: Nina Šulin, dijaki/nje: ana Štuhec, Gabriela Štumberger, Lara rubin, Urška Stefanič, Neža Kokol, Gašpar Marinič, Marta Bastovanović, Marina Kanatova, Jernej Imperl
Costumes: Eva Holá
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
Co-produced by: GuestRoomMaribor

The walk is 60 minut long.

THE AUDENCE COUNCIL #4 – 10 conversations throughout the season 2015/2016

In the season 2015/2016, The Audience Council will respond to specific stage events on the Ljubljana independent scene. Throughout the season, we organize a series of Council assemblies (presumably ten) at various venues in Ljubljana, which will be taking place immediately after the performances. We will discuss with the audience about what we have seen and how we were watching it, what caught our attention, what were our expectations, and about our perception of the performance after the performers have left the scene.

The The Audience Council is not about debates about the contextual, conceptual or theoretical guidelines of the attended performances. It is about articulating and exchanging experiences, feelings and reflections about the relationship that the particular performance established with us, how it “communicated” with us and vice versa … The discussion will be entirely in the hands of the audience. We want to detect the moments in which we recognized ourselves as something that transcends individual differences among us – as an audience. Did the performance succeed in achieving this? At which point, in what way, why?

1^st The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: September 22, 2015, Old Post Office, Mladinsko Theatre, after the performance Something’s In The Air! by Janša, Narat, Preda and Tomažin

2^nd The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: October 14, 2015, Španski Borci Cultural Centre, after the performance Body of Voice by Irena Tomažin

3^rd The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: November 14, 2015, Duša Počkaj Hall, Cankarjev Dom, after the performance Abrasion of Beauty by Saška Rakef

4^th The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: December 11, 2015, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana, after the performance Staging a Play: Glass Menagerie by Matija Ferlina

5^th The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: February 25, 2016, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, after the performance Welfare to the Nation by Sinja Ožbolt

6^th The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: February 28, 2016, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana, after the performance If You’re Happy, Anti-Celebration by Jus, Duša, Frlic, Janežič, Živković, Zorman

7^th The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: March 10, 2016, Mini Theatre, after the performance by Draga Potočnjak and Mare Bulc Zavednonezavedno

8^th The Audience Council in the season 2015/2016: April 10, 2016, Glej Theatre, after the performance The Conference of the Birds by Jean-Claude Carrière and Nina Rajić Kranjac

The Audience Councils will be guided and moderated by Jedrt Jež Furlan, while the discussion will be in the hands of the audience.

Organized by: Bunker, Maska, Mesto Žensk and Via Negativa

Matija Ferlin: STAGING A PLAY: THE GLASS MENAGERIE, premiere

Photo: Mauricio Ferlin

In his new creation Staging a Play: The Glass Menagerie, Matija Ferlin continues to mine the interzone between the abstracted dancing body and the conventions of the theatrical. For the first time Ferlin works from a source text, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a play belonging to the theatrical cannon. (more…)

Peter Kus: WOLFHEART, Slovene premiere

Photo: Peter Kus

The puppet and music project Wolfheart tells a story about the life of a young wolf being separated from his own pack and forced to venture on his own path of life. Along the way he is facing challenges similar to the challenges of the youth in human cultures: He has to say goodbye to the safe haven of his family (pack), start a life counting on experience passed onto him, face the new environment which is foreign and sometimes hostile, overcome fear, be resourceful, gather the strength and courage and start a new life in his own pack. (more…)

Jan Rozman: SENZASENSO, premiere

Photo: Matija Lukić

Senzasenso is a place where I find no meaning.
Senzasenso is a state of restlessness which leads nowhere.
Senzasenso is an idea gone wrong.
Senzasenso is a thought falling apart. (more…)

HIDDEN VIEW, concert

Photo: Jure Breceljnik

Hidden View is a band from Ljubljana creating a musical mixture of down-temp, chill-out, electro-pop, rock and ambiental music. They will be presenting their debut Oceans.

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THE CANYON OBSERVER – FVCK, Concert

The Canyon Observer are the leading Slovene representatives of atmospheric sludge metal, post- metal and similar modern -metal- brutalities, extremes and incarnations.

In the Old Power Station they will present their new album FVCK. (more…)

Drugajanje 2015

Teenage years used to be the period in which an individual’s identity was formed. Today, identity is no longer something formed, but rather a dynamic process, intertwining throughout one’s life in an ever new ensemble. In the cacophony of identity choices, there exists a risk that a choice deafens us or that the choices become categorical, as if there is no more time or will for the entire range between black and white. This is why art is important; a field of the undefined, where new choices emerge, and where lives and identities are beyond categories, beyond dichotomies.

This year’s program of Drugajanje festival invites for a reflection on identities and on experiencing of identities outside the centre, be it sexual, political or locally-global (more…)