FLANDERS – BALKAN EXPRESS

The field of art and culture has always been one of the most proactive pillars of society. Culture can be a powerful factor of social regeneration, contributing to raising awareness and sensibilizing about important social issues. Through engagement and participatory art practices, it promotes cooperation and contributes to the empowerment of people, who in turn help build engaged and professional communities. (more…)

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

Photo: Borut Peterlin

Bold glamour and first-class entertainment; majestic buildings and a time where everything is possible; is all of this nothing but dreams that belong to the past?

“In the project Everything We’ve Lost While We’ve Gone On Living, the now already recognizable creative attitude of the Beton Ltd. collective, which is reflected in the continuously responsive and forthcoming commentary on the time and the world in which we live at the moment, materializes by putting the image of the actual present side by side with the past. (more…)

Maja Delak: WHAT IF

Photo: Nada Žgank

What if … We lived differently? What if – we didn’t? What If is a performance about not living differently. It is a performance about how time measures out the rhythm of our lives; how instability and hyper productivity dictate the rhythm of work and how resistance often frames the rhythm of feeling. What If is a solo of a dancer and a solo about a dancer; it is a dance solo about what the body is capable of doing and what not (any more). (more…)

Irena Tomažin: THE TASTE OF SILENCE ALWAYS RESONATES

Photo: Nada Žgank

Irena Tomažin uses the medium of voice and body as her tool(s) to tackle the themes of tradition, heritage and the status of voice(s) and images, which are carried on by voice as a medium of oral tradition, from one generation to the next. In a way, we belong more to the past and to the tradition that – at first glance – seems to have faded away already; it also seems that we don’t belong to the present as much, the present that is supposed to be “the here and now.” (more…)

Festival of Migrant Film – FMF Slovenia

In the context of Festival of Migrant Film, Slovene Philanthropy and Peace Institute organize film screenings on the subject of solidarity economy, followed by a discussion on the topic of fair economy beyond the capitalist ideology, along with a banquet and socializing. In Slovenia, social end solidarity economy (SSE) is still a developing concept. (more…)

Branko Potočan & Fourklor: POCKETS FULL OF STARS Physical theatre

A performance about common people with tender hearts that contain sedimentary deposits of their lives. Many of these people lead an ordinary life. They seem content but appearances can be deceiving. Therefore, their innermost secrets start coming out. These are short stories related offhandedly like snapshots of life. The red thread of the show is rope. Its physical presence is figuratively reassuring: the rope ties, intertwines and unties. As a metaphor, as an imaginary reality. Life’s a circus, and circus a reflection of life. (more…)

Summer Dance School – PPŠ 2017

Summer Dance School, taking place during the first week of the summer school holidays, offers various dance workshops and courses run by local and foreign dance experts. Its program is designed to integrate both complete beginners as well as dancers with extensive prior knowledge. It offers a varied range of dances for all age groups: classical ballet, contemporary dance, modern, contact improvisation, Afro-Contemporary dance, yoga, capoeira, breakdance, hip-hop, etc. In this way, dancers can learn about the basics of their chosen genre, or upgrade their skills. (more…)

Pre-Seminar to SENSOTRA Summer School 2017

In Stara elektrarna the pre-seminar of the Summer school SENSOTRA 2017 will be taking place.

Summer School/Intensive Program “Sensory Dimensions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”
Sensorial Studies and Challenges in Methodologies

What most scholars within the humanities seem nowadays to agree on is that smell, hearing, touch, taste, and vision are historical, i.e., they are not universal but products of place and time (cf. Smith 2007; Howes 2011; Low 2013; Howes & Classen 2014): “The number and order of the senses are fixed by custom and tradition, not by nature” (Howes 2011: 435). One of the premises of the anthropology of the senses is that sensory perceptions are cultural as well as physical (Feld 2013(1982), Classen 1993, Smith 2007). (more…)

20th international festival MLADI LEVI

We are happy to invite you to the international festival Mladi levi 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Join us in late summer for the 20th edition of the festival. Below please find the preliminary program; the final program will be available in the following weeks.

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VN Lab – Laboratory for contemporary performing arts – Application due date: January 15

Photo: VN archive

January – June 2017

The VN Lab is organized as a series of six workshops connected into a continuous creative process. The work follows the method of self-staging we’ve developed on the basis of a 10-year creative practice and on experience from giving numerous workshops at home and abroad. (more…)