AnimatekaPRO

December 4–8

AnimatekaPRO is a professional platform of the Animateka International Animated Film Festival, where you will learn about trends and novelties in the field of original animated film, with an emphasis on Eastern and Central Europe, through a series of lectures, roundtable discussions, thematic presentations and interviews with authors. (more…)

11. KLOVNBUF – international festival of contemporary clownfest and new circus

June 18–21  

Fools and freaks – holders of a special form of living, which is at the same time real and ideal – find themselves at the frontiers of life and art, as they are not merely freaks or fools in the literal sense, nor they are only comedians‑actors playing their roles. (more…)

SPIDER FESTIVAL

Over a period of one week, Spider Festival will provide us with a fresh and radical dance production, catering to the connoisseurs with sophisticated performances by great masters. In September, the spider will weave its web between two extremes: it will bring into the Stara elektrarna both fresh assertive artists at the beginnings of their careers (such as Samira Elagoz with her performance Cock, cock … Who’s there?), as well as projects by renowned artists who are passionate about quality and constant re thinking of their own position an expression. (more…)

MENT Ljubljana

GIBANICA – Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: COMMON DREAMS (PT, BE) – prolongued!

Photo: Nada Žgank

UPCOMING: Saturday, September 3rd  and Sunday, September 4th, 16.00 – 18.00 (every 30 min); Tuesday, September 6th till Friday,  September 9th , od 16.00- 19.00 (every 30 min)

Saturday,  August 20th, 3.00pm – 19.30pm(every 30 min)
Sunday, August 21st , 3.00pm – 19.30pm (every 30 min)
Pedaling on the river Ljubljanica (more…)

OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL MLADI LEVI 2016

Friday, August 19th at 8.00 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

You are kindly invited to join us on 19th august at 20.00 hours in Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, for the opening of the International festival Mladi levi 2016!

We’re starting the festival with the performance Night of the Moles (Welcome to Caveland!) by acclaimed French director Philippe Quesne. The play on the lives of humongous moles is a fable without a moral, an allegory of life itself, in itself the most interesting of stories.

Afterwards, at 21.30 on the platform behind the Old Power Station,the young-lion dance is unravelling for everyone to attend. This year, music delights will be served by DJ Bakto (Tetkine radosti) and DJ Udo Brenner (Zeleno sonce). While tasty morsels are composed by dazzling chef Primož Dolničar alongside ladies from the Daytime Activity Centre for the Elderly.

More about the programme here.

Encyclopédie de la parole / Joris Lacoste: SUITE N° 2 (FR)

Photo: Jose Caldeira

Sunday, August 28th, 9 pm
The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

Slovene philosopher Mladen Dolar explored, philosophically, the voice beyond meaning, beyond aesthetic pleasure, beyond presence, voice as an object residing in the space in-between, between outside and inside, body and soul, nature and culture. He recognizes the voice as a symptom of being not existing seamless within, of being that is, thus, in conflict with itself.

This precise terrain of intermediateness or internal conflict, where voices are not mere transponders of sense/meaning and yet still not aestheticized into »music«, where the voice is grounded fully neither in thought – message, nor body – sound, is the grounds where the four choral suites of Joris Lacoste reside, drawing content from the Encyclopédie de la parole (Encyclopaedia of Speech), a collective project compiling existing recordings expressing various forms of locution. The first in the cycle, Suite no. 1 ABC, focused on cases from the basic register patterns of human speech: learning to speak, babbling, the way we enjoy foreign languages and talking in general. Suite No. 2, created by Lacoste in tandem with composer Pierre-Yves Macé, assumes the form of words in action; from the most intimate to the notorious, expressing the complete spectrum of emotional states, again in a number of different languages. If the first suite was a symphony, the second one is a sonata – presented by five extraordinary performers.

Concept: Encyclopédie de la parole
Composition and direction: Joris Lacoste
Music: Pierre-Yves Macé
Performing: Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Emmanuelle Lafon, Nuno Lucas, Barbara Matijević, Olivier Normand
Assistance and collaboration: Elise Simonet
Lighting and video design, technical management: Florian Leduc
Sound: Stéphane Leclercq
Costumes: Ling Zhu
Video coder: Thomas Köppel
Video assistant: Diane Blondeau
Translation, project manager: Marie Trincaretto
Proofreading and corrections: Julie Etienne
Vocal coaches: Valérie Philippin et Vincent Leterme
Language coaches: Azhar Abbas, Amalia Alba Vergara, Mithkal Alzghair, Sabine Macher, Soren Stecher-Rasmussen, Ayako Terauchi Besson
Invited archive collectors: Constantin Alexandrakis, Mithkal Alzghair, Ryusei Asahina, Adrien Bardi Bienenstock, Judith Blankenberg, Guiseppe Chico, Manuel Coursin, David-Alexandre Guéniot, Léo Gobin, Haeju Kim, Monika Kowolik, Federico Paino, Pauline Simon, Ayako Terauchi Besson, Helene Roolf, Anneke Lacoste, Max Turnheim, Nicolas Mélard, Tanja Jensen, Ling Zhu, Valerie Louys, Frederic Danos, Barbara Matijevic, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Olivier Normand, Nuno Lucas
Production and administration: Dominique Bouchot, Marc Pérennès
Project development: Judith Martin, Ligne Directe
Produced by: Echelle 1:1 (with the support from Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication /DRAC Ile-de-France).
Coproduction: T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers/Festival d’Automne à Paris, Asian Culture Complex – Asian Arts Theater Gwangju, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Théâtre Agora-Seinendan, La Villette – résidences d’artistes 2015, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Rotterdam Schouwburg.

Suite N°2 is co-produced by NXTSTP (with the support of Creative Europe Program). With the help of Institut Français and its programs Théâtre Export and CIRCLES, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, l’Usine, Scène conventionnée – Tournefeuille.

Creation Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, May 2015.

85 minutes

Free tickets, but you can support our festival with voluntary contributions. More information and ticket booking: +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si.

Christiane Jatahy: #THEWALKINGFOREST.DOC (BR)

Photo: Cia Vértice de Teatro

Sunday, August 28th, 4 pm – 8.30 pm
DUM

The work of Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy is characterized by dialogue between artistic spheres and – as she calls them herself – new creative dispositifs. Jatahy found success already with her performance Julia, a simultaneous film and theatre adaptation of Strindberg, as well as having opened last year’s Mladi Levi with a contemporary version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, a performance doubling as film.

The outset of #thewalkingforest.doc is another timeless classic, Macbeth, his lust for power so easily transposed into the contemporary zeitgeist. The focus, though, is here reversed – we’ve been inundated with stories of rotten, morally bankrupt rulers; the title hints at a fresh angle: Macbeth, let’s remember, scoffs at the prophecy Birnam Wood would march against Dunsinane Castle on account of failing to comprehend metaphor. Herein lies the challenge extended by the performance – what about us? Do we recognize ourselves in the forest, are we even capable of insurrection? Ljubljana plays the setting of Jatahy’s video installation, an amalgamation of the stories of people locked in conflict with authority; a mosaic of pre-recorded narratives, tales belonging to refugees to Slovenia, stories performed by local artists – all victims of a Macbeth of some sort or another.

Author: Christiane Jatahy
Inspired by: Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Creation and live direction: Christiane Jatahy
Director of photography: Paulo Camacho
Live editing: Felipe Norkus
Performers: Andraž Jug, Gal Oblak, Sara Janašković, Miranda Trnjanin, Safiullah Ebadi, Ghasem Zarei
Producer and tour manager: Henrique Mariano
Co-production: Le Centquatre, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Tempo_Festival, SESC São Paulo
Cia Vértice de Teatro is sponsored by Petrobras.
Local producers: Katarina Slukan, Mojca Jug
Technical support: Janko Oven

Videoinstallation is in English.

More information: +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si

Waldemar Tatarczuk: UP (PL)

Photo: Waldemar Tatarczuk

Saturday, August 27th 8.00 – 8.20 pm
Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana 

Collective memory resides in two big narratives: history and mythology. With both of these, though – just as our own personal memories – we have abandoned the battle for objectivity, for the one truth, a single shared understanding. What about personal memories, then, and their relation to the collective?

Memory remains an enigma; despite the fact science is gradually deciphering its laws and procedures. It stays a mysterious process in which information imprinted in us during consciousness is transformed into cerebral databases and, even more interestingly, woven into our personal stories. Perhaps, memory in some sense functions exactly like the strategies of art creation.

Waldemar Tatarczuk is a Polish artist currently residing in Lublin. He creates performances and installations, is an art curator, was the founder of the Performance Art Centre in Lublin, and is currently the director of the Labyrinth Gallery (Galeria Labirynt). “The essential substance of my performances is memory. Memory as a phenomenon as well as memory embedded in material objects, traces, that which remains. Memory that refers to the past while contradicting the future. The question of traces that remain, of where they are actually written, refers to what is left after every event as well. It refers to memory and how it evolves, how memories become deformed and blurred, replaced by other, more vivid ones.”