Yasmine Hugonnet: »A, A! A? AA._ «
According to Yasmine Hugonnet; movement is created between external and internal reality for both spectators and performers. This performance invites the audience to collect experiences and to recognize them, and at the same time encourages them to create their own path. It suggests sliding movements of thoughts, which sway between the body, images, senses, symbols, acts and emotions… “A, A! AA. It is a resounding space, intertwined with dancers, a musician, spectators and subtle lighting variations, which are then moulded amongst the fragments of our imagination.
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EKG (EnKnapGroup)
Branko Potočan and Fourklor: O SOLO TRIO
“Through the situations which carry us across the associative fields of life, we begin a creative dialogue and create answers with our own procedures and forms. By walking on the edge of physicality, we constantly question ourselves and redefine our actions.” Fourklor
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Daniil Harms, Barbara Novakovič: JELIZAVETA BAM
In her performance Jelizaveta Bam, Novakovič again proves herself of being able to assume different roles and the creation of different styles. Novakovič displays the entire plethora of her acting skills: from speech to movement and dance techniques and her intimate world of acting… Barbara Novakovič and her team (…) have created a dynamic and fresh performance.
Irena Levičar, Indirekt, November 19th, 2008
EXODOS- An international festival of contemporary performing arts
With their core theme, a different art, Exodos returns to the beginning: it questions the current situation in the arts; the position of artists in society; the development of different art systems and how they correspond with the challenges of the present and the future; and the understanding and positioning of artistic projects with border languages, multi and interdisciplinary concepts, contents and structures.
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Snježana Premuš: EVERY PARROT IS A KING OF HIMSELF (festival EXODOS)
This is the premiere of the multimedia dance project by the persistent researcher of the human body, its perceptions and the relationship between dance, music and video. With language and relationships, Snježana Premuš continues her performances and questions copies and copying. On the one hand, the original has an incredible motivating power due to its direct addressing, while on the other hand, copying is the introductory act to any innovation.
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Tarek Atoui: UN-DRUM / STRATEGIES OF SURVIVING NOISE (festival EXODOS)
An intense and physical electronic sound performance. It draws upon the 3 days of arrest and torture the author experienced during the July 2006 war in Lebanon, during which he permanently lost partial hearing in his left ear, after receiving a beating to the head. ‘Un-drum / strategies of surviving noise’ draws parallels between the attempts to break states of physical and psychological detention and siege, and the collapsing of musical performance boundaries, laptop art and electronic music.
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Big Art Group: CINEMA FURY (festival EXODOS)
Cinema Fury encompasses a series of shows constructed from intense collaborations between members of Big Art Group, live musicians and forgotten or little known literature, with the aim of creating new works of Image Performance, an experimental form that combines the visual arts, sampling, and musicianship, merging contemporary visual language with a deep literary dramaturgy. Artistic director, Caden Manson founded Big Art Group to create a contemporary language for the theatre; for the past seven years the group has pioneered the use of new and experimental theatrical forms.
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Students of SVŠGL: Avant-Premiere 2009: OPPOSITES
FINAL PRESENTATION OF STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL (Pre-School Education and Grammar School Ljubljana – Contemporary Dance Department)
24th of March at 8pm (sold out)
25th of March at 6.00 and 8.00pm
Tickets: 6 EUR (an hour before performance at the venue box office)
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Marijs Boulogne: MARZIPAN OR PLEXI
Marcipan or Plexi is an ad hoc project by the Belgian director Marijs Boulogne. The project will be a collaboration of Slovenian performers, selected at the workshop in Ljubljana, with the Belgian actresses Eva Schram and Timna Vanhecke. (more…)