freeŠn musical contest

freeŠn will once again be looking for fresh musical faces that are ready for new challenges!

Within the contest of creative communication this year we are organizing also a music competition open to all young people who want to break the ice on the Slovenian music scene. Applications will be open from 1 to 21 March, three winners, selected by a jury will be announced on 3rd April. (more…)

EXODOS – International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

This year’s jubilee Exodos, International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, will be marked by young artists from around the globe, from Tibet, China, the countries of the European Union and the Balkans, to Burkina Faso and South Africa. They share a high creative potential, but are not (yet) known to the European audience. In addition to their extraordinary talent, they share the commitment to the idea that diversity enriches us and contributes to the creation of a common, united world.

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Your Gay Thoughts, concert – CANCELED!

The concert that should take place on April 26th 2017 is being cancelled due to illness. (more…)

David Jarh & Big Band RTV Slovenija

Photo: Iztok Vidmar

***Original concept Stop***David Jarh trumpet/flugelhorn + Big Band + RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Stop***conductor Jaka Pucihar Stop***arrangers Jaka Pucihar, Tadej Tomšič, Steve Klink Stop***guest vocals: Mia Žnidarič Stop***guest instruments Bruno Domiter drums, Nino Mureškič percussion Stop*

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Via Negativa: THE NINTH

Photo: Madster

Galloping through the Beethoven’s Ninth. From absolutism to socialism … From defeatism to optimism … From populism to vulgarism … Welcome to the house of humanism.

“Half men, half horses. Performers who think horses. Five naked performers sitting in chairs, galloping. The Ode to Joy echoing from the speakers. A magnificent sight.” Jedrt Jež Furlan, Fokuspokus (more…)

Leja Jurišić & Teja Reba: IDEAL

Photo: Petra Veber

One needs to distinguish between intimate, personal-public, and public life.
Goebbels

A lot of work gets done in bed.
Marx

This dance performance for “two performers, a bunch of patriarchal semi-celebrities and a bed” has the suggestive title Ideal as an ironic backside of a serial of human relations that always evolve via a certain inertia – and then again. And again. Self-evidence of available subjects within the reach of a bed hence turns from an everyday pattern into an ultimate “golden rule” governing the variety of lives we live. Like a look into Hitchcock’s bedroom through his own Rear Window. (more…)

Jurij Konjar: TOUCHING DANCE, a two-day workshop

Touching dance, a two-day workshop

About the workshop, in short:
A workshop on the subject of sensitivity and communication through touch. We’ll observe what is common to all dances with a partner, but which is often covered up with pre-learnt steps, or the style of the dance. The workshop is suitable for all levels of knowledge. (more…)

No Sailor

Photo: Matjaž Krivic

No Sailor is the moniker of American singer and songwriter Kieran Garvey and his five-piece folk band. Their debut album, Anchor Broken Free, is rife with stories of spoiled love, fickle romance, and the absurdities of dating.

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Snježana Premuš: POÍESIS OF SELF

Photo: Madster

“The dance ‘performance’ Poíesis of Self, created by dancer and choreographer Snježana Premuš̌ in co-operation with contemporary dance theoretician Rok Vevar, could be described as a fluid installation of moving, sentient bodies in space. In the continuation of her exploration of the physical as a dynamic structure of the reflective or intelligent body, the author expands the question of the presence (of the body and in the body) and the perception of body to the group experience, which involves visitors as well.” Nika Arhar, MMC RTV Slovenia (more…)

Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS

Sports Club Tabor hall (Tabor 13)

Photo: Toni Soprano

The authorial poetics of the Beton Ltd. collective (Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan) is characterized by a search for personal entries into the global issues – a search for new, hybrid forms of performing, and a mastery of performing techniques. Ich kann nicht anders is their fifth performance, where a counterpoint between complete intimacy and reflections of the global events reminds us of the thesis by Srećko Horvat that a true revolution is always a revolution of everything, all social relations, including the most intimate ones. (more…)