VN LAB 2017 – final production

In the frame of Elektrarna’s programme SPARKS we present:

The VN Lab is a Via Negativa laboratory for performing arts, in which we deal with the questions of why and what to perform. The Lab is organized as a series of six workshops taking place from January to June that are connected into a continuous creative process. It is open to all who wish to develop their own creative processes and to explore strategies of contemporary performing arts.

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Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS

THE DATE IS CHANGED!

Sports Club Tabor hall (Tabor 13)

“Ich kann nicht anders leaves an impression of staging some fundamental existential fear, powerlessness and the feeling of uneasiness that still remain with the spectator after the performance ends. The form of the performance is built on the dramatic, and is based on the excellent acting skills of the three authors/actors/performers … “ Nenad Jelesijević, Radio Študent (more…)

Branko Potočan: When I Looked At Myself From Above

The film takes us through the working day of protagonists, female factory workers. Their basic working tool is their body, ready to execute strenuous manual tasks. (more…)

Pia Brezavšček, Barbara Krajnc Avdić, Saška Rakef: IDEAL (M)OTHER

“Performance Ideal (M)other is written in best tradition of feminism which puts glorification of maternity opposite to countless difficulties of current practices of giving birth and breastfeeding. The difficulties that are integrated in subjugation of body and mentality and are too often minimalized, if not completely “forgotten”. (more…)

Marko Bulc: The First Altruistic Performance

22nd November at 6.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. – premiere
23rd and 24th November at 6.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m.
29th November at 4.00 p.m., 6.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. at Narodni dom Maribor, in the frame of Drugajanje festival and in collaboration with 4th season of contemporary performing arts programme Nagib na oder and Cultural Bazaar Maribor

“Altruism is defined as a behavior where one helps others without expecting anything in return.”

 “Altruistic suicide is defined as sacrifice of one’s life to save or benefit others.”

 “In the event of a loss of cabin pressure in an airplane, please fit your own mask before helping others.” (more…)

Betontanc & Umka.Lv.: SHOW YOUR FACE!

On the 20^th anniversary of BUNKER Institute, we are back in Ljubljana!

Since their premiere in 2016 and guest appearances in various theaters across Europe and worldwide, the brilliant and emotional performance SHOW YOUR FACE! by BETONTANC and Latvian collective Umka.LV has not lost its enthusiasm! (more…)

Kitch: THE OATH

Photo: Nada Žgank

I know a city, its name is _ _ _ _ _ _ _  … Every copy wishes to be an original, yet there is only one Kitch kafana ♥
Awakening spring inspires us, while The Oath is still driven by the epic wisdom: Dreams are allowed tonight. Tomorrow is a new day. Welcome and let’s shake the room again! (more…)

Via Negativa: THE NINTH

Photo: Madster

Galloping through the Beethoven’s Ninth. From absolutism to socialism … From defeatism to optimism … From populism to vulgarism … Welcome to the house of humanism.

“Half men, half horses. Performers who think horses. Five naked performers sitting in chairs, galloping. The Ode to Joy echoing from the speakers. A magnificent sight.” Jedrt Jež Furlan, Fokuspokus (more…)

Leja Jurišić & Teja Reba: IDEAL

Photo: Petra Veber

One needs to distinguish between intimate, personal-public, and public life.
Goebbels

A lot of work gets done in bed.
Marx

This dance performance for “two performers, a bunch of patriarchal semi-celebrities and a bed” has the suggestive title Ideal as an ironic backside of a serial of human relations that always evolve via a certain inertia – and then again. And again. Self-evidence of available subjects within the reach of a bed hence turns from an everyday pattern into an ultimate “golden rule” governing the variety of lives we live. Like a look into Hitchcock’s bedroom through his own Rear Window. (more…)

Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS

Sports Club Tabor hall (Tabor 13)

Photo: Toni Soprano

The authorial poetics of the Beton Ltd. collective (Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan) is characterized by a search for personal entries into the global issues – a search for new, hybrid forms of performing, and a mastery of performing techniques. Ich kann nicht anders is their fifth performance, where a counterpoint between complete intimacy and reflections of the global events reminds us of the thesis by Srećko Horvat that a true revolution is always a revolution of everything, all social relations, including the most intimate ones. (more…)