Jana Menger & Rok Vevar: LOAD MEASURERS
Premiere: 12 January 2019, 20.00
Repeat Performance: 13. January 2019, 20.00
The performance Load Measurers presents a series of relational choreographic situations, based on rhythmical, spatial, physical and kinetic interdependencies of the dancers. Even in the cases when the dance material becomes independent, there is always some other body imprinted on it. Or at least on its space. (more…)
Beton Ltd.: GROSSE ERWARTUNGEN|GREAT EXPECTATIONS
The second performance of the German cycle
Beton Ltd. are a collective of authors: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan. Große Erwartungen|Great Expectations is their sixth performance. They say they always begin a performance from ground zero, but for a performance to emerge from nothing, personal grips are almost always of key importance for them. They do not enter narrations and dilemmas through individual stories alone, but also through personal ones. »We can only legitimately speak about ourselves.« (more…)
Sanja Frühwald: TIGER LILLIES
In the frame of Bobri festival.
January 21 at 6 p.m. (general public)
January 22 at 10 a.m. (schools)
There will be a 15 minute discussion with the director after fter the performance for schools. The discussion will be translated to slovene.
Six women, six stages of life, six stories. The youngest is nine, the oldest eighty years old. A whole life between them. What have they experienced and what still awaits them? (more…)
ŠIFT#4: KEEMO
According to the latest data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer – IARC, the number of cancer patients in 2018 increased to 18.1 million, with 9.6 million deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) expects this disease to become the leading cause of death in the 21st century. However, the number of people affected by the disease is much larger. (more…)
Festival MENT Ljubljana
The fifth edition of the winter festival of musical creativity is taking place in different venues across Ljubljana.
At the Old Power Station we will host: (more…)
Improvocations: MANIFEST OF IMPROVISATION
second performing conference
Following their first season (2016), which took place in the form of studio meetings, Improvocations are returning this year in a different format: conference. Gorazd Pakozdi, Andreja Kopač and Žigan Krajnčan began with Improvocations in order to study improvisation together with the community of performers and audience, in a manner that people in this community understand and use improvisation. (more…)
WEDNESDAY AT ELEVEN / WEDNESDAY AT FIVE
February 6 at 11 a.m. (for schools) and 5 p.m. (for general public)
It’s nice to watch good performances. And one can learn a lot. It’s nice to create performances that you would like to see yourself. The kind of performances that can be discussed. That one can ask questions about. (more…)
Physical Manifestations 2: EVERY NOW IS A TIME, A PLACE
variation #2
February 19 – 21
Laboratory will be open for public on Thursday, February 21, at 1 p.m.
From February 19 to 21, 2019, Snježana Premuš and her colleagues will carry out three laboratories in the form of an installation – two for closed groups and one, open for general public. (more…)
VIA NEGATIVA: 365 FALLS
Each performance is a dangerously slippery situation. Both for performers and for the audience. We are all looking for something unique, exceptional, unforgettable. This path is filled with unexpected slips, falls, and failures. This is precisely why we’re doing theatre, why we are eager to see the shows. We are risking. The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose.
Matija Ferlin: STAGING A PLAY: ANTIGONE
In the frame of Gibanica – Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art
In his performance, Staging a Play: Antigone, Matija Ferlin continues with his reflection on the concept of solo performances, and on the expanded concept of his Staging a Play series. By choosing Antigone, Ferlin decided to adopt the approach of complete reduction of the stage, for a minimalism, with which he wants to reduce the character heterogeneity of the play in its functions to a single performing body, while at the same time preserving the entire narrative and logic of dramatic situations. (more…)