Jana Menger, Rok Vevar: LOAD MEASURERS

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. Our body is never a whole, but rather the multitude, or the consequence, the outcome and the possibility of various quantities and relations with time, space, other bodies, and movements. (more…)

Maja Delak: JUST FOR TODAY

After creating the solo What If (2013) and having been part of the Image Snatchers collective for the past several years, Maja Delak has gone on to choreograph a pentagram with performers from different generations. Just for Today is a seemingly slow-moving instant composition intentionally crafted to bring to view the less visible, less conspicuous materialities, embodiments, physical states. (more…)

Nataša Živković: SONNY

A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo.

#Unwanted. That’s a common girl name in our Montenegro. – a Women’s Rights Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice, Montenegro, 2017 (more…)

Three Versions of Space, 2019

Three Versions of Space (Tina Valentan, Maja Kalafatić, Polona Maher, Barbara Novakovič) is the last performance of the dance trilogy The Dynamics of Space, featuring duets of choreographers and visual artist, and represents a continuation of the study of performances Dynamics of Liminal Space (2017; Maja Kalafatić, Venelin Shurelov) and Pivot Point (2018; Tina Valentan-Polona Maher). (more…)

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…)

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…)

Branko Potočan & duo Silence: BLACK FRIDAY

Melancholy as an image of levitation set to music

The performance is based on the poem Melancholic Thoughts by Dragotin Kette; He passed through a forest, a dark forest – his heart filled with sadness and grief. He asked a luxuriant tree: »Do you have any friends, tell me!« (more…)

Matija Ferlin: Staging a Play: ANTIGONE (HR)

In his performance, Staging a Play: Antigone, choreographer and performer 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 decides to adopt the approach of complete reduction of the stage. 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. By assuming the roles of all protagonists and their relationships, Ferlin exposes his performing tools – his body, movement, and speech – to a series of situations on the limit of performing possibilities.

The author uses stage as a place to search for the nonexistent, all powerful, ideal performing body, which builds and destroys, creates and terminates at the same time. In this mono performance, the director and performer Matija Ferlin enters the deconstruction of the theatre conventions in his performing habitus, with the desire to create a choreographic whole of an extremely delicate physicality in juxtaposition to a spoken word.
Choreography and performance: Matija Ferlin
Dramaturgy: Goran Ferčec
Set Design: Mauricio Ferlin
Music: Luka Prinčič
Lighting Design and Technical Direction: Saša Fistrić
Costume Design: Matija Ferlin
Graphic Design: Tina Ivezić, Matija Ferlin
Translations: Urban Belina
Production: Emanat, Matija Ferlin
Co-production: Mediteranski plesni center, Svetvinčenat
Photo: Nada Žgank
70 minutes

The performance is in English with Slovene translation.

Narodni Dom Maribor as part of “Nagib on Stage”, season of contemporary performing arts, and Drugajanje Festival.

Maja Delak: JUST FOR TODAY

After creating a solo What If (2013) and having been part of the Image Snatchers collective for the past years, Maja Delak goes on to choreograph a pentagram with performers from different generations. Just for Today is a seemingly slow-moving instant composition intentionally crafted to bring to view the less visible, less conspicuous materialities, embodiments, physical states. (more…)

Anna Konjetzky: CHIPPING

In the frame of CoFestival.

Everything vibrates: the stage in Anna Konjetzky’s Chipping is constantly in motion: cubes are moving –  sometimes very slowly and hardly noticeable, sometimes faster and seemingly running everything down, changing images and shapes flood the space, breaking it, making it wide or flat. (more…)