Lyrical Minutes in the City at the Berlin Festival

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Opera artists will be a special surprise for the visitors of the Berlin Festival, which will take place from 29th to 31st May in Arena Park.
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Ula Sickle, Yann Leguay: LIGHT SOLOS

Photo: Silvano Magnone

What choreographer Ula Sickle and sound artist Yann Leguay perform isn’t merely new choreography – it’s also the technique inherently inscribed in the very foundation of choreography as such. In their triptych of short studies, the authors examine how light affects our perception of body and space. (more…)

Nouveau Cirque: Ephemeral night – a trip to an unknown circus

Photo: Paulo Nani

Ephemeral night – a trip to an unknown circus will be performed in the frame of the Festival of Contemporary Clowning and Circus Arts (Klovnbuf) organized by the Institute Bufeto. Cast: Sylvain Monzat, Company Two: Ricardo Gaiser, Katja Andersen, Antoine Gibeaux Company Noga: Nata Galkina.

Theatre Playground in Stara elektrarna

A culture day will be organised in Stara mestna elektrarna for ten elementary schools as part of the Theatre Playground project: Youngsters will have the opportunity to visit performances, participate in various workshops and experience Ljubljana from the artists’ perspective while discussing the performances seen. (more…)

GIBANICA – Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art

Ever since 2003, the biennial Gibanica Festival has been featuring the best contemporary dance production in Slovenia. This year’s performances were selected by an international committee, composed of Iva Nerina, Nina Meško and Marc Olivé López.

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Olivier Bonin: Dust & Illusions – 30 years of history of Burning Man

Photo: 2010 Madnomad Films

Dust  & Illusions is the only worthwhile documentary about Burning Man. Most are navel-gazing, utopian affairs. (more…)

Betontanc & Umka.lv at the festival Reims Scènes d’Europe (France)

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Betontanc & Umka.lv will perform Show Your Face! on 10th and 11th February 2015 at the festival Reims Scènes d’Europe 2015, Le Manège de Reims (Reims, France).

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)

Teja Reba: MADE WITH LOVE

Similar as in her earlier works, Teja Reba is continuously intrigued by the relationships between physical, emotional and political acts.These acts are always walking the line – between aesthetics and ideology, between references (repetition) and new possibilities (difference), between the sublime and the object, between sex and sexuality, between everyday life and art, between courage and vulnerability. (more…)

Magdalena Reiter: Pars pro Witkacy

Photo: Borut Peterlin

The work and character of the Polish writer, dramatist, painter, photographer and philosopher Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Witkacy give us an intimate and painful insight in a decaying, fragmentary space that belongs to him, and even more to us – to him as a premonition and to us as a fact. (more…)

#BIZAAR, Exchanging mismatched gifts

#bizaar gives you an opportunity to exchange gifts that may have found their way under your Christmas tree during the holiday season (or during past holiday seasons), but seem out of place there. (more…)