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

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

What has by now become a distinctive creative posture of the Beton Ltd. collective – namely, its ability to provide the immediately responsive and comprehensively communicational comments on the time and the world we live in – once again becomes embodied in the project Everything we’ve lost while we’ve gone on living, where the image of the current present time is placed right next to the past. It is, of course, not only sweet nostalgia that becomes evoked as the history is thus brought back to life, but also the individual anguish, emanating from the polar opposite between what was before and what is today. (Zala Dobovšek, Delo, 28. 9. 2013) (more…)

Teja Reba: MADE WITH LOVE

Photo: Miha Fras

Similar as in her earlier works, Teja Reba is continuously intrigued by the relationships between physical, emotional and political acts.These acts are always walking the line – between aesthetics and ideology, between references (repetition) and new possibilities (difference), between the sublime and the object, between sex and sexuality, between everyday life and art, between courage and vulnerability. (more…)

Via Negativa & Oblivia: AND SO ON AND SO FORTH

Photo: Marcandrea

And so on and so forth. The phrase implying that something goes on to infinity. If one has enough imagination that is… (more…)

Oblivia: MUSEUM OF POSTMODERN ART

Photo: Eija Mäkivuoti

The international performance group Oblivia set itself a megalomanic task: to do something that is new. Elegantly and only seemingly disoriented they wander about our known world as if through a dark theatre. (more…)

Oblivia: SUPER B

Photo: Eija Mäkivuoti

In Super B, Oblivia is embarking on a new adventure: to question and explore the remains of theatricality in the performing arts. Super B is not about presenting or representing these remains. And it is not about taking the audience on a museum tour. (more…)

Oblivia: KA-BOOM

Photo: Eija Mäkivuoti

Oblivia have already explored the concepts of reason and emotion in their Museum of Postmodern Art and Super B. While the first two installments examined the past and the traces of it left in the present, Ka-Boom travels into the future and turns to look at the present day from this new vantage point. (more…)

Marlene Monteiro Freitas: GUINTCHE – CANCELLED!

Photo: Ilaria Scarpa

Energy, dance, vitality. In constant reversal, in perpetual rhythm of percussion. Rapid spotlights follow gestures and movements as they arise in the arena of the feminine and gradually transform into animalistic in their untamed and sensual expression. This is Guintche, performance by a Portuguese dancer and choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, enfant terrible of the contemporary dance. (more…)

Teja Reba: MADE WITH LOVE

Similar as in her earlier works, Teja Reba is continuously intrigued by the relationships between physical, emotional and political acts.These acts are always walking the line – between aesthetics and ideology, between references (repetition) and new possibilities (difference), between the sublime and the object, between sex and sexuality, between everyday life and art, between courage and vulnerability. (more…)

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

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Cankarjev dom, Culture and Congress Centre

The performance Everything We’ve Lost While We’ve Gone on Living emanates from the absurd as defined by the contemporary temporal context and as developed by the French playwright Eugène Ionesco, in his work The Killer. Bold glamour and exquisite show; grandiose buildings and time when everything is possible; is that merely a dream that belongs to the past? (more…)

Via Negativa & Oblivia: AND SO ON AND SO FORTH

Photo: Marcandrea

Premiere of the joint original project of two groups from the margin of the European centre, the international Finnish group Olivia and Via Negativa.

What connects both groups is that each of them fosters its unique form of performing, bound to constant reduction to the basic performing language and to the performing principles of staging. (more…)