MESTO ŽENSK- 15th International Festival of Contemporary Arts

The final year of this decade will see City of Women thematically approach the cultural constant of the South, which has been gaining increasing importance in the social, political and cultural context of the 21st Century. The field of culture and art proved itself far from immune to the general trends of globalization due to a specific distribution of thought, moral standards, and ethical values. The distribution in question took place through information networks, which were monopolized by the prevailing type of culture. Despite this fact, what nevertheless has succeeded to coexists on the sidelines are certain artistic practices with a critical stance, contemplating the modern mutated vision of society, which abolishes history, differences, identities, and specifics. What remains to persist and insist is art, which reflects upon wider or merely local and violence-soaked images of the peripheral Global South. It is for this reason that they decided to invite artists from all artistic genres and many peripheral continents to participate in this year’s festival and thus contribute to the contemplative and discursive arena evolving around the issue of the Global South with their own discourse on political-social and cultural reality. (more…)

Daniil Harms: JELIZAVETA BAM

“Jelizaveta Bam presents Ms. Novakovič as a performer of various characters and styles. The polyvalent performance thus portrays Jelizaveta and her executioners on both, stage and screen. Video screen opens a door into another space and enables simultaneous speech of several people. Ms. Novakovič displays her acting apparatus in front of the audience, encompassing speech abilities, movement and dance techniques, as well as the power to disclose her acting intimacy (…).«
Irena Levičar, Indirekt, 19th November 2008 (more…)

THE SHOCKING GALA SHOW

EVENTS AT THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUPILJA FERKEVERK GROUP

Short-lasting but nevertheless powerful work of the Pupilija Ferkeverk group managed to leave a lasting mark on the theatre neo-avant-garde in Slovenia and former Yugoslavia. (more…)

Magdalena Reiter: INSOMNIA

foto: Nada Žgank

Insomnia subtly discloses our very own assumption that fear normally resides on the Other side. And that, furthermore, it must be kept there at all costs in order to have a goodnight sleep. The problem of sleep as tackled by the performance, which is unable to sleep, touches upon the question of the right side and of the right sleeping/sexual position: between the fluid nature of the (female) body and the symbolic nature of the (male) speech. Fear thus becomes a different word for the binary reality, split upon the wrong sides, amidst which the contemporary individual still sleeps … on the Right side. Day by day, night after night. (more…)

Branko Potočan & Fourklor: NA DRUGI STRANI NAGAJIVEGA POGLEDA

When we become aware of the fact that the point of our self-fulfilment has been achieved, when we rise above ourselves and see the meaning of life in its fullness, when we step out of the game and watch its course from the side only. (more…)

Tina Dobaj Eder and Gregor Kamnikar: KAPITAL

Kapital will be choreographed, performed and thus conceived by two of us, Tina and Gregor, together. Since each of us will be several, there will be quite a crowd. Here we will have made use of everything that will come within range, what is closest as well as farthest away. The elements of dance will circulate like goods, like a person that plunges deep into itself only to surface up easier. We will assign clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition in this circulation. Why then we will keep our own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. (more…)

Premiere of Betontanc, made in co-production with National theatre in Belgrade: MOŽDA SMO MI MIKI MAUS

• 2nd June 2009 at 9 PM, Sterijino pozorje, Poslovni center NS – Naftagas, Novi Sad, Serbia
  (www.pozorje.org.rs)
• 6th June 2009 ob 8.30 PM, stage Raša Plaović, National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia
  (www.narodnopozoriste.co.rs)
• 31st August, 1st and 2nd September 2009 at 8 PM, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Slovenia

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EKG examination

Let’s measure the beat of the first permanent group in the field of contemporary dance in Slovenia.
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Nomad Dance Academy: SHORT CUTS #2

Short Cuts #2 are the international performances of contemporary dance. They are the culmination of ideas of 13 nomads, choreographers and dancers from six South Slavic nations (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria), Latvia, France and the USA. Between February 24th and June 22nd, the nomads will live, travel and create together, within the programme of the NOMAD Dance Academy Group. (more…)

EKG (EnKnapGroup)

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