Live video stream from the National museum of Slovenia

Please check the schedule below for the time of streaming. We will broadcast only the Open University, Experiences and closure of the forum.

Live video stream from Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

Please check the schedule below for the time of streaming. We will broadcast only the Open University, Experiences and closure of the forum.

Beton Ltd.: SO FAR AWAY introduction to ego-logy

Photo: Urška Boljkovac

Perhaps we truly are the masters of our own destinies.
Perhaps we truly are held captive in the systems we ourselves are unable to influence.
Perhaps little actions we take may truly result in great deeds.
Perhaps waiting is all it truly takes for things to come together on their own.
Perhaps our gut instincts truly do tell the truth.
Perhaps we are truly wrong about everything.
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Sophia Rodríguez: Without Filter

Workshop: Mon – Thu 15 – 18 Apr, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Public presentation: Thu 18 Apr at 8:00 p.m.

Sophia Rodríguez invites you to devise a new performative work together. Let’s bounce our cliches and inner fire, construct and deconstruct a series of fake and true phenomena in a relationship with yourself. Through exercises of body, voice, mind, and language, we will prepare ourselves to reveal our feelings and thoughts, this will be the masa bruta, the clay that we will use to develop an aesthetic performative statement.

Every day we are going to construct something individually out of our voice/body/actions and show it. We are going to open up fantasies and frustration, in action, in poetic actions that pull out our trash/fullness/fail/fight/flame/death/expression. We will be playing with superficial and deep, with subjective and objective, fake and true, letting ourselves to be influenced by poetry and metaphors we might encounter in the process.

How we stand for what we do? How do we give the value to emotions or thoughts that come from very deep or hidden space in our body? What can we discover through group communication? How can we change our perception of reality and our perception of art by giving a different form to our thoughts and feelings through group work?

Whatever comes to us in the process of research is an integral part of us. At the same time, when it is placed somewhere and inhabits a concrete shape, it is already something new, and something that we can distance ourselves from, observe and treat it. It is composing and decomposing, creating a space between the personal meaning and the value that that action itself can have for the environment, the public, etc.

Those are the things we are gonna experience together and reflect on while we develop our performances without any filters.

Sophia Rodríguez is a Venezuelan performer, currently living and working in Brussels. In 2000, she got her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Theatre at Educational Program of the National Theatre of Venezuela. In 2003, she attended one year-long study in tightrope at National Circus School in Cuba and in 2008 she got her diploma in Dance/Performance at the University of Experimental Arts (UNEARTE) in Venezuela. In 2010, she was invited to participate in the project “50 days in Costa Rica” with David Zambrano, since then she has been teaching contemporary dance technique “Flying Low” and “Passing Through” around the world. In 2014, she got her Master’s degree in Physical Theatre. Since 2006, she has created several performances, either solo works or in collaboration with different artists, such as Ines Rojas, Nene Raul Vargas, Thomas Proksch, Ivo Dimchev, Micha Goldberg Inter Alias. She has worked with different choreographers, such as David Zambrano (VE/NL), Osmany Tellez (NY), Ayelen Parolin (BE), and currently, she is touring with a new dance performance by Koen Agustijnen and Rosalba Torres Guerrero, called “(B)”.

Practical information:

Sophia Rodríguez: Without Filter

4 day-long performative workshop

When and where:

Workshop: Mon – Thu 15 – 18 Apr, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at Old City Power Plant

Public presentation: Thu 18 Apr at 8:00 p.m. at Old City Power Plant

Application:

Performers with stage experience (actors, dancers, performers, acrobats, clowns) interested in the genres of contemporary burlesque and cabaret are welcome to join us. Attendance at all four days of the workshop is obligatory. Attendance at the final performance is desired but is not a condition to take part in the workshop. Please send us a short description of your stage experience when you apply and also write a short motivation letter describing the reasons why you would like to attend.

Application deadline:

Please send us your application with short description of your knowledge and motivation letter at sindikat@emanat.si before Wednesday, 10 April 2019.

The number of participants is limited; in case of large interest we reserve the right to make a selection.

Workshop fee: 40 €
Workshop leader: Sophia Rodríguez
Organised by: Emanat
In collaboration with: Old City Power Plant
Coordination and executive production: Sabina Potočki

photo: Danny Willems

Financial support: Ministry of Culture of RS, Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture and Flanders Department of Culture, Youth and Media

More: 
https://sindikat.emanat.si/en/project/without-filter/

https://sindikat.emanat.si/en/project/without-filter-public-presentation/

Right on Time? On Resilience and Timeliness, round table discussion

Theatre is said to be a here and now experience, which defies today’s logic of quick changes and virtual presence. It takes time. Irena Štaudohar wrote some years ago that one of the important characteristics of the Mladi Levi festival was that all curatorial choices were right – on time. Or ahead of time, maybe? Is this the recipe for survival of an arts organization, of an NGO, to be on time or to beat time?

We would like to explore the idea of being on time and of being ahead of time or being behind time in terms of curatorial choices and also in terms of the decisions we make in order for our arts organizations, for our work and for us to survive. Does resilience in the world of art depend on the capability of predicting and anticipating changes (are the things that we took for granted – like artistic freedom – disintegrating)? Is there a gap between Eastern and Western understanding of contemporaneity? And how to fight for time at the time when time is a commodity? We would also like to find inspiration for resilience at the time when changes are so quick that the problems sometimes already become passé before we are able to address them.

The roundtable will begin with cases from the speakers on their strategies and tactics of survival and time and continue into a debate. We will start behind time and finish on time.

Moderator: Tjaša Pureber
Speakers: Rarita Zbranca, Sodja Lotker Zupanc, Tomasz Kirenczuk, Siniša Labrović, Nevenka Koprivšek
In collaboration with: Relais Culture Europe, AltArt

The discussion is in English.

More information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll): EVROS WALK WATER 1 & 2 (DE)

Daniel Wetzel is a member of the Rimini Protokoll, a well‑known art collective visiting us already with their fifth project. Wetzel, Stefan Kaegi, and Helgard Kim Haug founded the collective following their common experience at the Giessen Institute for Applied Theatre Studies. They are known as (co)founders of the reality theatre trend – using various innovative theatrical approaches, their works provide new perspectives of what we perceive as reality.

The title Evros Walk Water 1 & 2 combines two elements as the basis for the performance: a three-minute piece Water Walk by John Cage, where the musician creates music on the set that featured a bathtub, transistor radios, a pressure cooker, a plastic duck, etc.; and the name of he river which separates Greece from Turkey, a deadly border of “Europe” for those who tried to enter before it was closed with a massive fence – the Evros. In Athens, Wetzel cooperated with eight boys who arrived in Greece by boat from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. They have not been permitted to travel in Europe, so what they share about their life, had to find another form. With audio recordings over headphones we listen to their stories and jokes, and to their instructions how to perform Water Walk. This way, it becomes a playground for the audience combining the stories with Cage’s playful piece, to play with them based on their instructions, making music in their and the author’s witty style. Part 2 beams the piece into the present. The boys have grown older, some of them have chosen to find other places to live in Europe, so the instruments change, and thus the sound of their concert to us, that we perform.

Cast: Abel, Aron, Ehsan, Jawad, Jined, Massoud, Moussa, Omer, Sowie
English version: Andreas, Dennis, Elektra, Maria, Nefeli, Orfeas, Thodoris
Concept and direction: Daniel Wetzel
Dramaturgy: Ioanna Valsamidou
Research: Konstantinos Kallivretakis, Ioanna Valsamidou, Nefeli Myrodia, Margarita Gerogianni
Set design: Adrianos Zacharias, Magda Plevraki, Maria Kakaroglou
Sound: Peter Breitenbach, Lampros Pigounis, Panos Tsagarakis
Lighting design: Guy Stephanou, Michalis Kloukinas, Martin Schwemin
Light objects: Guy Stephanou, Michalis Kloukinas
Video: Ehsan
Flute, caval: Dimitris Brendas
Translation: Bakar Albakar, Abbas Golbas
Producers: Violetta Gyra, Juliane Männel, Heirdun Schlegel, Charlotte Streck
Production assistant: Kostas Valsamidis
Production: Rimini Apparat, Onassis Cultural Centre / Fast Forward Festival
Co-produced by: HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe – Department of Culture
Based on: Evros Walk Water – a coproduction by: TAK Liechtenstein, Schloßmediale Werdenberg, Rimini Apparat

Foto: Daniel Wetzel

The performance is in English.

90 minutes

Jurij Konjar: TOUCHING DANCE, a two-day workshop

Touching dance, a two-day workshop

About the workshop, in short:
A workshop on the subject of sensitivity and communication through touch. We’ll observe what is common to all dances with a partner, but which is often covered up with pre-learnt steps, or the style of the dance. The workshop is suitable for all levels of knowledge. (more…)

MENT Ljubljana

REPOLITIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE, discussion

Thursday, August 27th at 11.00 am
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana

It seems that everything has already been said on the subject of public space, and yet the fight for it never ends. While in some areas public space seems completely saturated and the less privileged inhabitants are being pushed out from public surfaces by consumerist activities, other areas deny residents access to public space due to social or political norms. This was partly the reason that art has spread out from theatres and galleries (venues usually serving the wealthier and the more educated part of the public) into the public space – also reflecting the wish to address and surprise coincidental audiences.

To what degree does public space still enable interaction, dialogue and space for critical thought? What form can the strategies for interventions in public space assume in order to function as acts of political resistance? Experience of this and other themes will be exchanged between: Marta Keil (PL), Taguhi Torosyan (AM), Pavel Yurov (UA), Benjamin Verdonck (BE), Andrej Rozman – Roza (SI) …

Moderatork: Nevenka Koprivšek (SI)
In cooperation with: East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP)

The discussion will be held in English.

Torres Vedras and Hamburg are hosting Katarina Stegnar`s performance DOUBLE GAME

Photo: Nada Žgank

3rd October 2014, Transforma, Torres Vedras, Portugal
11th October 2014, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

Katarina Stegnar is an actress, a dancer, a performer and also an author. She is a member of the collectives Betontanc, Via Negativa in Beton Ltd. The range of her creative work is extremely broad, as the essential arena of her creative activity, the theatre, expands well beyond the stage, all the way to curating and film acting. (more…)