Maja Delak: SHAME

Photo: Nada Žgank

Lights, performers’ bodies, a TV screen, the walls in space become projection screens for a gaze to rest upon, desires and thoughts of a spectator. Shame is a complex, integral and independent staging. It may dig up a memory or two and tenderly subject a person to re-questioning. It doesn’t provoke, it simply just touches you. (more…)

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

Photo: Toni Soprano

The performance titled Everything We’ve Lost While We’ve Gone on Living emanates from the absurd as portrayed by the current time and as developed by the French playwright of Romanian descent, Eugene Ionesco, in his work The Killer [fr. Tuer sans gages]. By going back to the perception of reality as an increasingly fictive and imaginary landscape, a contemplative posture towards our own selves is invoked, about what we are like and about the constantly changing circumstances that surround us. (more…)

Leja Jurišić, Teja Reba: THE SECOND FREEDOM

Photo: Nada Žgank

“In The Second Freedom the authors paste together some motives from their previous solo and co-authored pieces and then develop them in an experimental manner, without obsessing excessively about the exact dramaturgical limits of the performance. In this diversity of roles, images and transformations the potential for reflection and self-reflection arises and we see it run smoothly during the performance itself. (more…)

Fičo Balet: PARODOS

Photo: Peter Uhan

“Parodos – the arrival of the antique urban choir on stage. What can be so important that the audience simply must see it, hear it and experience it?” (Goran Bogdanovski) (more…)

Kviss búmm bang: GALA – Celebration of Minorities

Photo: Nada Žgank

Slovenian Railways, the Glass hall, entrace from Pražakova street

The Icelandic collective Kviss búmm bang stages what could be defined as documentary and participatory theatre, since their projects are normally produced in the city they’re being hosted in. The ironic approach they use in their work often allows the spectator to see things from another perspective. Their work GALA – Celebration of Minorities, which was created under the framework of the European project Global City – Local City, tackles the issue of minorities in the broadest sense of the term. (more…)

Senzorium: CRO-MAGNON

Graphics: Tamara Németh

The magic of earth, water and sky
Strniša’s Poetry staging with elements of sensory theatre. (more…)

Jelena Rusjan, Kristina Gorovska, Tina Perić: ŠKRIP INC.

Logo: Ajdin Bašić

When you can say what’s bothering you without fearing the subsequent loss of something. And disclose your secrets without feeling guilty about it. A place where you can be tied down, but free nevertheless. Where it’s you who counts and not the mistakes. That warm feeling that you’re amongst your people. Škrip Inc. Belief in magic is the dominating force in our lives. (more…)

EXODOS 18th Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

The common virtue of all performances, this year selected by the artist and curator Tim Etchells, is that they are »simple, very simple, deceivingly simple, absolutely complex«. This year the Exodos Festival Focus is on the Asian Dance Platform, where distinctively particular and distinctively intelligible Asian solo dancers were invited by the curator Tang Fu Kuen. (more…)

Via Negativa: JUST THE BEGINNING

Premiered on the first round of presidential elections in Slovenia, the third consecutive performance in the series entitled Unsolvable reveals just how very lucky we are to live in democracy. (more…)

Janez Janša: WHO IS NEXT?

The performance opens the questions of individuals’ responsibility in the contemporary society – society of recession, shock, precarious livelihood, insecurity and carelessness. What kind of action would it take to trigger a change? Is democracy nothing but an empty ritual of endless dialogues that lead nowhere? Who will take the responsibility and do something? Do something and not back down? Is violence really the only way out? (more…)