23rd International Festival City of Women

In the frame of International Festival City of Women  in the Old Power Station we present:
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Kaja Lorenci: JUST IN APPEARANCE SOMETIMES AS EVERYONE ELSE

Photo: Nada Žgank

In her performance Just in Appearance Sometimes as Everyone Else, Kaja Lorenci multiplies the form of the duet with different dance tasks and configurations, delimiting it by two choreographic contrasts: the solo as the dancer’s monologue, which is a kind of a precondition for establishing communication with the other, and the group choreographic configuration, in which the duets enter their indistinguishable multiplicity. (more…)

Simone Aughterlony & Phil Hayes: SHOW & TELL (DE/CH/GB)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

„Show and Tell“ sets up an experiment that challenges the  fragile relationship between what is said and what is done. Phil Hayes and Simone Aughterlony consider the supposed  pecking order between these two modes of communication and  establish  a dialogical practice whereby sensing and sense  making have equal status. (more…)

Simone Aughterlony & Nic Lloyd: AFTER LIFE (DE/CH/GB)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

“After Life” is the second duo in a trilogy that  marks the biography of a body by means of existential states: its presence in flesh and  blood, post mortem and in view of im/possible futures.
In “After Life”, the performers appear as obfuscated post bodies that hover and  haunt what is literally the other side of the spatial design where  the first duo “Show and Tell” played out. (more…)

Simone Aughterlony & Hahn Rowe: BIOFICTION (DE/CH/US)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

Biofiction is a rare love story between many, an unexpected clearing on a wilderness that offers a close-up on human and non-human assemblages and their affects. Situated within an inquiry into vibrant matter, a choreographic poem emerges that is both careful and utterly libidinal. (more…)

Ana Dubljević & Milan Marković Matthis: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER (RS)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

A short piece about the other side of European cultural identity

 What are the values we aspire to in Europe today? What is it that brings these twenty- eight different countries, numerous languages, religions and spaces of cultural heritage together? (more…)

Milan & Nina Marković Matthis: A LETTER TO HASEEBA (SE/RS)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

Short piece about the European dream of the Other.

Nina Markovič Matthis, a Swedish, and Haseeba Kareya, a Syrian refugee, exchange a series of letters during Haseeba’s escape from the war-torn country. (more…)

Tania El Khoury: GARDENS SPEAK (LB/GB)

Photo: archive of City of Women Association

Wednesday, October 12^th – Friday, October 15^th
4 pm – 8 pm (every 60 min)
Saturday, October 15^th – Sunday, October 16^th
11 am – 6 pm (every 60 min)

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation (more…)