Sparks presenting: VN LAB 2014, public production

The working theme of this year’s VN Lab is “power”. To be more precise: it is the instinct-urgency-need triangle that constantly drives us to “build up” our personal position of power. And it’s not just about power with ideological connotations here – ideology is nothing but a form of power representation – it’s about that very type of power that comes to life in Darwinist determinism and functions as a precondition of every ideology, skilfully exploited by every social system thus far. (more…)

SPARKS: Enable Cookies (an evening of dance solos)

Illustration: Nuša Jurjevič

Enya Belak: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON (Work in progress)

Addiction. The truth. Intoxication. Hallucination. Ecstasy. Feelings. Dreams. Misconception. The story follows associative logics and metaphors. The play of light. DRAGON. A little girl plays with a dragon, has him slide over the sky in a free, playful and happy spirit. In a timeless spirit. (more…)

SPARKS: Jan Rozman: Bird Dementia

Photo: Marijo Župan

Dementia is a state of oblivion. A state of madness. A state of lunacy. Dementia isn’t something you get to choose. She chooses you. Everything that had solid form before has now changed. It has become forgotten without knowing what it was and without anticipating what it will become. And it is changing in this very moment. Forgetting. (more…)

SPARKS: Alen Prošić: Antichrist

Photo: Sunčan Stone

Four years after Lars von Trier’s controversial film Antichrist, a theatre staging inspired by the film will be presented by hybridTheatre. This is yet another step of hybridTheatre in the direction of melting the old and the new forms of art into a format that is believed to be the foundation of contemporary theatre in the next 10 years to come. (more…)