Students of SVŠGL: Pre-premiere ’13: A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

Pre-premiere is an annual closing performance of the Educational School and High School of Ljubljana – the Arts Programme. The students from contemporary-dance and theatre study courses are thus given an opportunity to enter professional stages in an organized manner and pre-experience performing. Pre-premiere ’13: A Room of One’s Own tackles the position of a woman in contemporary society. The performance addresses identity politics and issues of gender equality by referring to the personal and the social, the engaged and the critical. It re-examines gender as a social construct and opens a reflective stance towards its captive nature on the one hand and possibilities for its expansion on the other. Can one define male and female as evident categories by their very nature, or can it be that these categories are the result of our own constructs and ideological re-transcriptions? What are gender representations like and what inhabits them? (more…)

SPARKS

The Sparks programme aims to present young and not yet renowned artists as well as bold and penetrative ideas by acclaimed authors. The intention is to allow for something new and innovative to arise.

• 6.00 p.m. SHUDDERS, multimedia installation
• 6.00 p.m. DOORS SHUT
• 7.30 p.m. VN LAB presents three sparks of 2012: (more…)

Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd., are tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original way. (more…)

Mare Bulc: ALL TOGETHER NOW!

The music-theatre project is »theatricalizing« the musical to dissect the migration and the impossibility of migration, the leaving and staying, the reasons why to persist and why to leave. The choice of the performing team consisting of musicians and not actors established the circumstances for a non-every-day creative process and faced the director with a unique challenge as far as how to theatricalize the de-theatricalized musical situation. (more…)

Neven Korda: CONSOLIDATIONS

Video strategies of mapping in an artist’s time and work

In his performance, video artist Neven Korda »returns« to his initial position, that is, to the manipulation of video material, while he gives up neither his own performative attitude nor the presence of theory (Miha Zadnikar) or music (Lady Bird). (more…)

2013 SVŠGL’s Evening of Soli

Besides the Pre-premiere, the final dance production of all four classes of the Early Childhood Education High School and Gymnasium Ljubljana – Art Gymnasium, this year we present authorial soli by the High School graduates of the Dance Department. Preparing solo choreographies the graduates autonomously explore a chosen topic and develop individual choreographic approaches. This years’ topic is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s work A Room of One’s Own.
Production: Emanat, SVŠGL

Katarina Stegnar: DOUBLE GAME

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

Lecture Performance

It isn’t possible. It isn’t possible for me to react in any other way but with bitter cynicism, when I hear about the plan to save the world. The plan, which is full of diagrams, pictures and numbers, the scientific plan, the factual plan. On the other hand I know, me, Katarina Stegnar, that the cynicism is only a bad defence mechanism protecting me from doing what I have to do. It is necessary for people to know that such a plan exists. It is my duty. It is my calling. In fact I am playing a double agent, playing a double game.

Credits

Author: Katarina Stegnar
Performers: Katarina Stegnar & Katarina Stegnar
Dramaturgy: Andreja Kopač
Light design and technical direction: Igor Remeta
Producer: Maja Vižin
Thanks to: Mateja Benedetti, Primož Bezjak, Matej de Cecco, Tomaž Grom, Bojan Jablanovec, Branko Jordan, Teja Kleč, Barbara Kukovec, Grega Zorc
Commissioned and co-produced by Imagine 2020 – Arts and Climate Change and Bunker, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Performances

Premiere:
23rd May 2013 at 8.00 pm, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Critics

N. Jelesijević: Shizophrenia of a performance, Radio študent, 28. 5. 2013 (pdf 272 KB)

Video

Video, editor: Gregor Gobec

Photos

Photo: Jon Aleksander Krančan

Beton Ltd.: I SAY WHAT I AM TOLD TO SAY

The perfomance I Say What I Am Told To Say is tackling the interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s work in an original way. Beckett, intimate in presenting his own stream of thoughts and yielding himself to the events from the outside world, is a starting point for the authors and performers: Primož Bezjak, Daša Doberšek, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, united in the collective Beton Ltd. (more…)

Mare Bulc + performers: ALL TOGETHER NOW!

The music-theatre project is »theatricalizing« the musical to dissect the migration and the impossibility of migration, the leaving and staying, the reasons why to persist and why to leave. The choice of the performing team consisting of musicians and not actors established the circumstances for a non-every-day creative process and faced the director with a unique challenge as far as how to theatricalize the de-theatricalized musical situation. (more…)

VN LAB – Laboratory for contemporary performing arts

January – June 2013, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

VN Lab is Via Negativa laboratory for performing led by Via Negativa artistic and theatre director Bojan Jablanovec and Via Negativa performers Katarina Stegnar and Grega Zorc. The laboratory will run from January to June 2013 as a series of 6 workshops connected into a continuous creative process. (more…)