Beton Ltd.: GROSSE ERWARTUNGEN|GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The second performance of the German cycle

Beton Ltd. are a collective of authors: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan. Große Erwartungen|Great Expectations is their sixth performance. They say they always begin a performance from ground zero, but for a performance to emerge from nothing, personal grips are almost always of key importance for them. They do not enter narrations and dilemmas through individual stories alone, but also through personal ones. »We can only legitimately speak about ourselves.« (more…)

Sanja Frühwald: TIGER LILLIES

In the frame of Bobri festival.

January 21 at 6 p.m. (general public)
January 22 at 10 a.m. (schools)
There will be a 15 minute discussion with the director after fter the performance for schools. The discussion will be translated to slovene.

Six women, six stages of life, six stories. The youngest is nine, the oldest eighty years old. A whole life between them. What have they experienced and what still awaits them? (more…)

VIA NEGATIVA: 365 FALLS

Each performance is a dangerously slippery situation. Both for performers and for the audience. We are all looking for something unique, exceptional, unforgettable. This path is filled with unexpected slips, falls, and failures. This is precisely why we’re doing theatre, why we are eager to see the shows. We are risking. The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose.

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TWO performances of Beton Ltd.’s  German Cycle in ONE evening!

Beton Ltd.: GROSSE ERWARTUNGEN|GREAT EXPECTATIONS
March 10 at 7 p.m.
Stara mestna elektrarna

Beton Ltd: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS
March 10 at 9 p.m.
Dvorana Športnega društva Tabor (more…)

Janek Turkowski: MARGARETE (PL)

Janek Turkowski is a Polish theatre author and curator. His main creative focus is the concept of time and narration, or the origins of the storytelling.

In 2008, he discovered a cardboard box containing 64 reels of 8 mm film at a flea market in the north of Germany; each reel contained images of the same woman, Margarete Ruhbe. He embarked on an artistic journey to reconstruct the life of the women discovered on the tapes. A mixture of images and narratives, the performance is a wonderful example of the intimate traversing the global, as we are witnessing Margaret against the backdrop of the former Communist Germany. In 2018, it is also hard to ignore the reflection on the self‑recording, on the images that we are accumulate of ourselves. Will anyone ever use them to create a performance, too?

 
Creator and Performer: Janek Turkowski
Video: Margarete Ruhbe, Martyna Głowacka, Adam Ptaszynski, Marcin Piatkowski, Janek Turkowski
Set Design: Wiesława Turkowska, Janek Turkowski
Music: Roger Anklam, Przemek Radar Olszewski
Translators: Jeannette Boettcher, Marcin Piatkowski, Andrzej Wojtasik
Management: Iwona Nowacka
Photo: Konfrontacje
 

55 minutes
The performance is in English.

Beton Ltd.: EVERYTHING WE’VE LOST WHILE WE’VE GONE ON LIVING

»The visual cocktail, saturated with hit tunes and enticing rhythms of the time (music by Janez Weiss and Jure Vlahovič), disco balls, neon glow, champagne galore, orgy of action, and entertainment hysteria is conceived as a sort of a gala evening (set design by son:DA, costume design by Mateja Benedetti). (more…)

Lana Zdravković / Kitch: No.1

No. 1 is bold. She defies the dominant logic of factuality, counting and recounting that is backgrounded in economy, law-regulation, and marketing of the dominant dispositive of anti-politics. No. 1 is arrogant. She knows that resistance in those circumstances can only be collective, even though she knows very well that the quality of multitude depends on the quality of an individual. No.1 is rude. By constantly working on herself she affirms the gesture of emancipatory subjectivation that refuses the counting logic and reveals a scandalous fact:  politics is based on “incorrect” counting that opens the space of absence of any governance. No. 1 is dangerous as she is self-conscious. No. 1 is human as she is artificial. No. 1 is the one as she is the multitude.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci/students, seniors)

Produced by: Kitch in collaboration with City of Women

Supported by: City municipality of Ljubljana

Foto: Nada Žgank

Simona Semenič: THE SECOND TIME

The performance the second time that premiered on the 20^th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in 2014 is a sequel to her first solo; where the first solo ends, the second one begins. Literally. “Let me smoke,” the last line in the performance I, Victim. is the first line in the performance the second time. Simona recounts her recent years during which she has been coping – in one way or the other –with the aggravation of her epilepsy and – what else? – the health system.

The performance is in English.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (students, seniors)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Simona Semenič: I, VICTIM.

Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece entitled I, Victim. premiered on the 13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women Festival in 2007. The autobiographical text and performance that Simona directs and performs herself deals with her close encounters with the dark forces of one kind and another. She shares her experience with epilepsy and the health system, with genital herpes and the health system and a bunch of other things and the health system.

Performer: Maruša Majer

The performance is in English.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (students, seniors)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Lana Zdravković / Kitch: NO. 1

No. 1 is bold. She defies the dominant logic of factuality, counting and recounting that is backgrounded in economy, law-regulation, and marketing of the dominant dispositive of anti-politics. No. 1 is arrogant. She knows that resistance in those circumstances can only be collective, even though she knows very well that the quality of multitude depends on the quality of an individual. No.1 is rude. By constantly working on herself she affirms the gesture of emancipatory subjectivation that refuses the counting logic and reveals a scandalous fact:  politics is based on “incorrect” counting that opens the space of absence of any governance. No. 1 is dangerous as she is self-conscious. No. 1 is human as she is artificial. No. 1 is the one as she is the multitude.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci)

Foto: Nada Žgank