Mala Kline: GENESIS, Slovene premiere

Photo: Petra Veber

“It’s like I’m in a movie that starts quiet but something is underneath and may rise unexpectedly at any time. I wake up. A blurred object is hovering right in front of me. I’m so shocked I can’t really see it. ‘I knew it. This is the Thing.’ I try to calm down and look at it again. (more…)

Helena Velena: STEP ASIDE, LADY GAGA!! THE FUTURE OF OUR BODIES AND THE JAPANESE PARADIGM

Photo: Gerard Bruneau

After the “free love” era of the 70s, we’ve gotten more and more accustomed to the concept of the virtualization of our bodies, with the result of detaching ourselves from the most important sensory experiences. Nowadays we don’t have lovers, but friends on Facebook – Whatsapp, and we don’t make love or have sex, we chat. (more…)

Cassils: BECOMING AN IMAGE

Photo: Manuel Vason 

Becoming an Image was originally conceived as a site-specific work of art for the ONE Archives in Los Angeles, the oldest active LGBTQ archive in the United States. Working at the interstice of performance, sculpture and, for the performance, the artist unleashes an attack on a 2,000-pound clay block. (more…)

Anne Juren, Annie Dorsen: MAGICAL

Photo: Christoph Lepka

Magical, a solo dance piece, uses the canon of feminist performance art and the rituals of a magic show to play with illusion, trickery and transformation. Juren and Dorsen work with five iconic and influential performances from 1965–1975: Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen, Cut Piece by Yoko Ono, Marina Abramović’s Freeing the Body, and Interior Scroll and Meat Joy by Carolee Schneemann. (more…)

Moira Finucane: GOTHARAMA

Photo: Jodie Hutchinson

From the art-house of Finucane & Smith comes Gotharama – a blood soaked hour of skin-shedding theatre that writhes through dark fairy tales, gothic dreams, angels, demons, soul searing music, wild tales and physical madness. (more…)

WHITHER AWAY concert : performance : film KOALA VOICE BABALAN

Photo: Nada Žgank

Whither away is no mirror. It is no depository. In a project of fragmented present, Koala Voice Babalan use an abundance of new hit-like riffs to pierce mischievously the mute European megalopolis of Brandenburg. The way they do it, you will be humming their choruses to yourself before the performance even ends: (more…)

Lyrical Minutes in the City at the Spectrum Theaterfest (Austria)

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Opera artists will be a special surprise for the visitors of the Spectrum Theaterfest, which will take place from 1st to 4th July in Villach (Austria).

Lyrical Minutes in the City came about in the production of Bunker under the auspices of the Mladi levi festival 2011. The events were directed by the renowned Belgian artist Dirk Opstaele, who has been working with his Brussels-based artistic group Leporello for several years now. Singers/actors performing were all nationally as well as globally renowned opera artists. The synergy formed between the director, his sensitivity for opera music and outstanding performers thus assures the success of every »lyrical surprise in the city«.

Betontanc & Umka.lv at the Spectrum Theaterfest (Austria)

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Betontanc & Umka.lv will perform Show Your Face! on 1st July 2015 at the Spectrum Theaterfest (Villach, Austria).

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.

“This is sharp, politically engaged, relevant, timely, restless work.” (Chicago tribune, January 15th 2011)

“The excellent puppetry gives a breathless and anxious animation to the Faceless One. The choreography element is raw and fluid. The physicality of the actors is called upon to project ragged emotion on one hand and to keep the action flowing seamlessly at the same time. Music is haunting, melodic and quite beautiful.” (Chicago Theatre Beat, January 15th 2011)

Betontanc: TRACK OF THE WORLD

Photo: Jure Frelih

Track of the World revolves around the theme of cycling by highlighting the strength, extremism and dynamics involved in adrenaline sports. As they skilfully circle around the velodrome, the performers have to test their mental and physical endurance in a very specific manner. (more…)

SPIDER SLANG FESTIVAL

Photo: Matija Lukić

June 13th 
8.00 p.m. Leja Jurišić, Teja Reba: IDEAL, premiere
9.30 p.m. Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen: OVERANDOVERANDOVERAND…
10.10 p.m. Pavlos Kountouriotis: MOVEMENT MONOCHROMES 
10.30 p.m. Matej Kejžar: TRUE ROMANCE (more…)