Mladi levi festival: Rod Dickinson-CLOSED CIRCUIT (WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY AND HOW #2)

Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Rod Dickinson is a visual artist and lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of West England in Bristol. His art work revolves around the subject of social control systems and the ways in which responsive social structures (i.e. the media) affect our own actions. (more…)

Mladi levi festival: Pichet Klunchun- I AM A DEMON

Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Khon is a form of a classic Thai dance in masks with four central types of characters – phra (a man), nang (a woman), yak (the devil), and ling (a monkey). (more…)

Mladi Levi festival: A LOOK FROM THE OUTSIDE

Photo: Suzana Kajba

by Maarten Roels

Brussels-based Maarten Roels is passionately involved in development of new economic models for the functioning of companies and organisations, which would like to include the consumers into the process of production. (more…)

Mladi levi festival: Mathurin Bolze / Hedi Thabet- ALI

Location: Plesni Teater Ljubljana

The French circus artist Mathurin Bolze, an acrobat of the air and a dancer, already bewitched us to the point of taking our breath away with a performance entitled Les Fenetres at The Mladi Levi Festival held two years ago. Despite his virtuosity, Mathurin never employs his skill in a boastful manner. He merely sets out to prove that his own body evades the laws and limits of gravity, which are there for the sole purpose of being constantly challenged. (more…)

Mladi Levi festival: WILD SEED

Photo: Suzana Kajba

by Zlatko Zajc

It happens almost all the time that we simply overlook the abundance of what surrounds us. This time we had drawn attention to what grows wild and unattended around us in the city by the help of Zlatko Zajc, also known to many as Zlatko Zakladko. (more…)

Mladi levi festival: Gregor Strniša, Iztok Lovrić, Paramundus- BEATLEGEIST

Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

There was a time when generations actually learned their English by listening and singing to The Beatles songs. And if there is such a thing as a universal repertoire to be performed by anyone at any given moment, it definitely includes The Beatles and perhaps some partisan songs on top of that. (more…)

Mladi levi festival: Sanja Mitrović- WILL YOU EVER BE HAPPY AGAIN?

Location: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Sanja Mitrović is a young Serbian-born author and performer, living and working primarily in the Netherlands, including as a mentor in the Mime Department of de Theaterschool in Amsterdam. (more…)

Festival PLESkavica

The upcoming Pleskavica Festival 2010 consists of two main and somewhat distinct programmes. The first is entitled Short Cuts 3 and will premiere 14 short contemporary dance performances created by participants of this year’s NOMAD Dance Academy (NDA), whereas the second entitled Blow Up will present three contemporary dance performances of authors and dancers already familiar to the local audience.

The festival programme will be accompanied by discussions on the subject of the Region’s dance potentials and possible models of collaboration together with the meetings of the NDA partners. These events are planned for the purpose of questioning the capabilities and the specificities of the regional productions and their placement into the European context. (more…)

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…)

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…)