Beton Ltd.

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Beton Ltd. performances:

Beton Ltd. are active members of the group Betontanc, which was founded in the early 90s by the director Matjaž Pograjc and is since one of the leading Slovenian collectives in the field of contemporary performing arts. In September 2010 Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar launched the first original project under the name Beton Ltd., the name referring to a limited liability company, entitled So far away (Introduction to Ego-logy), produced by Bunker.

The Beton Ltd. collective is always tackling problems of the contemporary world with much self-reflection and humour, with innovative performing practices and methods. The starting point of the performance I Say What I Am Told To Say is Beckett’s novel The Unnamable and the mechanism of interpretation enabling the “translation of a generation”, which is living in a time of doubt, anxiety, fear and some intangible horror, subordinated to the rule of constant self-questioning, self-persuading and verifying the own identity.

The continuation of the Beton Ltd. poetics is most directly connected to the question of ego-logy as dreadful status quo, where conscience, consciousness and responsibility for the world or the place of the other in it don’t play any other role than serving to subordinate to external rules. And this is not so much about a new aesthetics, as it is about the “state” of our operation, which has become impossible to co-create. Art has nothing to do with clarity – no matter how much the latter is of our interest or is (in)directly touching us.

Katarina Stegnar (Ljubljana, 1976) is an actress, dancer and performer, AGRFT graduate and one of the most versatile theatre artists, who is working for institutional theatres as well as independent production. Through time she developed a unique performing field, where she is exploring practices of performing presentation and questioning her own creativity as a medium she is expressing herself in. Since 1999 she has been a permanent member of the group Betontanc, since 2004 a member of the group Via Negativa and since 2015 she has been a permanent member of the Slovenian Mladinsko Theatre. In 2016 she received the Prešeren Fund Award for artistic achievements.

Primož Bezjak (Maribor, 1977) is an actor, dancer, performer and AGRFT graduate. Since 1999 he has been active in the theatre landscape, when he became a member of the group Betontanc. Since then he has been active inside theatre institutions as well as in the independent dance and theatre productions, international co-productions and film. Since 2008 he has been a permanent member of the Slovenian Mladinsko Theatre.

Branko Jordan (Novo mesto, 1977) is a performer and actor, AGRFT graduate, who continued his studies at the International School of Theatre Anthropology. He is a former member of the Celje People’s Theatre, Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and Prešern’s Theatre Kranj, from 2009 he is a permanent member of the Slovenian National Theatre Drama Maribor. Since 2000 he has been a member of the group Betontanc and is also working in various other theatre projects, international co-productions, film and radio.