Marijs Boulogne: IF FISHES COULD TALK

DANCE AND THEATRE WORKSHOP FOR ACTORS, DANCERS AND PERFORMERS
March 1st to 5th from 10 AM to 5 PM
Participation fee: 50 €
Registration and information: EMANAT, Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana, info@emanat.si

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Marijs Boulogne: MARZIPAN OR PLEXI- study process

STUDY PROCESS OF AN AD HOC PROJECT
March 6th to 15th from 10 AM to 5 PM
Continuation of the study process for the selected workshop participants only.

The Flemish director, playwright and performer Marijs Boulogne will give a five-day intensive workshop entitled, If Fish Could Talk. The workshop is intended for dancers, actors and performers. During the workshop, the author will make a selection of seven performers, who will continue with the process between March 6th and March 15th. The process will result in an ad hoc project, based on the author’s text Marzipan or Plexi.

MOVING CAKE Slovene Dance Festival

The first Moving Cake was made in 2003. Slovene dance producers make it every two years with the same recipe, but always with fresh ingredients and present it to international selectors and audiences. The Moving Cake Festival is a condensed presentation of the best of Slovene dance productions in the last two years. This time, the selectors of the 4th Slovene biannual dance festival, Amelia Kraigher, Barbara Novakovič and Samme Raeymaekers chose 12 performances for the competition and 8 performances for the accompanying programme. In Stara mestna elektrarna– Elektro Ljubljana, we will see the following performances:

19.2.2009 at 6.00 pm: Mateja Bučar: BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – volume two MADE IN CHINA
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Artistic evening of six generations of graduates from SVŠGL: P.G.G. (Postgraduate Gathering)

Institute EMANAT will organize the first artistic gathering evening of graduates of SVŠGL secondary school – module contemporary dance in 2009. We have invited six generations of graduates, who completed their studies between 2003 and 2008, to participate in the project. (more…)

Urška Vohar: THE REPUBLIC, OR BON VOYAGE GRETA GARBO

The Republic, Or Bon Voyage Greta Garbo is Urška Vohar’s Slovene debut. After two solo performances, the author returns to creating a group project. The performance is a testing ground for desire. The body follows its own interests, tailors its identities, solves the consequences of rejection and searches for a space to express the repressed. What is on the margin is positioned to the foreground, and voyeurism becomes the main principle of perceiving the developments that unfold. (more…)

Via Negativa: OUT

Stage is power. This power is given to the stage by the spectator. The pride of a performer is expressed in the way he or she uses the stage. OUT is a performance that challenges the logic of pride in the relationship between the spectator and the performer. (more…)

Matija Ferlin: SAD SAM /ALMOST 6/

In his new performance sad sam /almost 6/ Matija Ferlin wants to investigate a mind of a child that is not conditioned by anything, not even by his own existence. While growing up, the conscience of the existence creates numerous “terrorizing” facts that are results of social conditions and constraints. All fictitious childhood characters become enemies. The fact that we have to grow up results in imperfections that make our lives and modes of existence specific and individual. (more…)

Magdalena Reiter: INSOMNIA

“A man invents phantoms and then they kill him. In this sense each man is a suicide.” Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Bara Kolenc: STUDIO

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Jacob in Wilhelm Grimm, Marek Bečka: THE WISHING TABLE

The Wishing Table is considered to be one of the most beautiful and most popular fairytales in the world. There was once a house in the suburbs where a father lived with his son Michael. They had a goat who used to tell only lies. Michael was in love with Margaret. One day he came in possession of a wishing table, a golden sheep and a magic club that could punish all the liars and the thieves… (more…)