SHORT CUTS
Performances
| Jovana Rakić: A Mind Cut (SRB) dance performance |
A story constantly reframed, entangled, cut and edited. A story about a man, or a woman, or two women, or maybe someone else. Surely a story about something.
Co-created and performed by: Florian Wessels, Martina Rukavina, Krasimira Y. Bakardjieva, Jana Jevtović, Kliment Poposki Contemporary dancer and anthropologist, with a residency in Belgrade. Worked with choreographers, directors, musicians and visual artists from Serbia and |
| Florian Wessels: Dice Decided (D) a chance device |
the dice is waiting//throw it//an empty table at the wall//throw it//choose a square/fill it/fill the table/set the frame//return//gather around/let it/see it/happen
Performed by: Jovana Rakić, Esta Matković, Eléonore Richard, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Domen Šega, Florian Wessels A vast multiplicity of themes running through my life along a long and winding road, leading me from science to arts, from the south of the border to Norwegian woods, however nonetheless encountering chances with this year’s nomaddanceacademy. |
| Viktorija Ilioska: I am always watching you!(MAK) performance |
I am always watching you! is a performance about the feeling of being constantly observed. How do you feel when you are under surveillance? Five performers will put you in an uncomfortable situation and it will depend on you how much you will allow this to affect you.
Performed by: Esta Matković, Martina Rukavina, Domen Šega, Kliment Poposki, Viktorija Ilioska Viktorija is a young Macedonian dancer and performer. She lives, works and studies in Skopje. |
| Inti Šraj: It All Leads to a Smile (SLO) solo performance |
Through a very personal language a very personal story. Exploring presence and sincerity on stage.
Performed by: Inti Šraj, Domen Šega, Florian Wessels, Pierre-Yves Diacon Intimacy, Intimidate, Inti Šraj 1. 9. 1980 Ljubljana, Integrate, Intellectual, Intense, Interact, Intercept, Intercourse, Interest, Interpose, Internal, International, Interpreter, Interrogation, Interruption, Interstice. |
| Domen Šega: Watch Me Love; Is It Enough? (SLO) performance |
What a man is capable of while being obsessively in love.
Created and performed by: Maya Levy, Domen Šega bi·og·ra·phy: Pronunciation: \bī-ä-grə-fē also bē-\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural bi·og·ra·phies |
| Esta Matković: So You’re a Philosopher? Yes. (HRV) physical theatre |
I’ve got a plan in my hands, which is perfect for you! Based on a brilliant and unique idea, with all its habits and obeying traces of society. I will deliver it to you as soon as possible. I didn’t put the guarantee inside now because I’ve already closed the letter. Just trust me. Yours.
Performed by: Viktorija Ilioska, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Martina Rukavina, Esta Matković I´m between 19 and 34 years old. I am sitting. There is no chair. I don’ t have legs nor hearing, my arms are not there. I am controlling my breath, following my thoughts with a movement of the eyes. I am an improviser. The best I can do. It´s better not to start talking about my skills, they could disappear. It could be really awkward not to know whom you are talking with. |
| Katelina Kancheva: Step Within (BOL) experiment |
“Step Within” seeks and opens boundaries between dance, theatre, interview, video, film and life improvisation. This is the story of all of us who are searching a path towards the other. We are usually looking for a place somewhere outside, but the step is usually very small and usually happens inside us, if we have the eyes to see it. “I feel my eyes tearing up. What should I do with my eyes? What should I watch? You ask what you should watch. I ask how I should live. It’s the same thing.”
Performed by: Katelina Kancheva , Krassimira Bakardjieva, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Florian Wessels, Viktorija Ilioska, Martina Rukavina, Esta Matković, Inti Šraj Katelina Kancheva is a Bulgarian freelance performer with a background in directing, acting, visual arts and writing. She has earned her degree at the Department of Theatre Acting (2009) in the New Bulgarian University. She attended a one year class of film and television directing in NATFA (The National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts) (2004) and was awarded a 3 month scholarship specialization in Utrecht School of the ARTS (HKU) (2008). Katelina performed in many independent art projects and she continues her research on the subject of “what is act, dance, theatre and film in every art field“. |
| Martina Rukavina: “1891” (HR) performance |
A woman is waiting, her husband is at war, the son trains for a competition that doesn’t exist. They are lost in time. The connections between them fade. They struggle to hold on to memories.
Performed by: Inti Šraj, Kliment Poposki, Pierre-Yves Diacon Martina Rukavina was born on 2nd August 1987 in Rijeka, Croatia. When she was five years old she attended the rhythmic course under the mentorship of Tereza Dubrovic. She began her studies in classical ballet at the Ivan Pl. Zajc Theatre in Rijeka, Croatia. After finishing elementary school she was admitted into the |
| Maya Levy: Atomic Bomb From the Left (IZR) a group performance |
Fourteen performers from different countries and nationalities are researching group behaviour. Through short moving pictures they experience situations of violence, competition, joy and hysteria. They ask questions about the collective and its patterns, the stupidity of the mob, and the choices we have as individuals despite the circumstances.
Co-creators and performers: Domen Šega, Inti Šraj, Esta Matković, Martina Rukavina, Kliment Poposki, Viktorija Ilioska, Katelina Vladimirova Kancheva, Krasimira Yossifova Bakardijeva, Jana Jevtović, Jovana Rakić, Eléonore Richard, Pierre Yves Diacon, Maya Levy, Florian Wessels Maya was born and lives in Israel. She was educated in the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Since 2003 she has been working as an independent choreographer and her work has been performed in Israel and abroad. Maya was the artistic director of the dance department in the Hazira Theatre for performance art in Jerusalem between 2007 and 2009. Her new piece KINGFISHER- a duet on a trampoline, premiered in April 2010 in Dresden Tanzwoche, Germany, and will be performed in Israel this September. |
| Éléonore Richard: Pink Sketches of blue (CH) choregraphism |
Pink sketches of blue explores the thought of movement, neither in time, nor in space, but to move the spectator in a perfect bubble where everything is mixed, where nothing is important, where absurd is next to reality. Bubbles of imagination, chaos of choreographies where the fundamental rules of time and gravitation do not exist anymore.
Performed by: Éléonore Richard Eléonore Richard is a Swiss artist born in 1982. She benefits from two trainings which allow her to practise professionally two professions in equal part: graphic designer and dancer-choreographer. Eléonore develops consequently these two disciplines in an auxiliary, additional way, experiments to the everyday life with the visual strength of the art as much in front of a computer as on a stage. Since 2009 she is the founder and director of her company. |
| Jana Jevtović: The Wishing Floor (SRB) a trio |
How close is the closest touch? What is the minimum distance between two people? And if we reach it, will it hurt? Three performers survive intimacy and loneliness in a world where nothing quite fits, their bodies collapsing, failing, exhausted. As situations shift from the extremely absurd to the painfully real and back again, who will survive the consequences of desire? What is the logic of disgust?
Collaborators and performers: Maya Levy, Esta Matković and Jovana Rakić Jana is a choreographer and performer born in Belgrade and living in Montréal. Since the completion of her studies in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in 2006 she has continued to perform in the works of several local choreographers as well as Transition Opera in London, U.K. Her collaborations with experimental film-maker Csérnak-Risko produced a number of works which continue to be screened at festivals such as Screendance Basel Film Festival and LOIKKA Dance Film Festival. |
| Kliment Poposki: The rite of passage (MAK) physical theatre |
This performance is about an outsider searching for a way in. Struggling to belong without losing identity and facing the hurdles of that journey.
Created and performed by: Florian Wessels, Domen Šega , Jovana Rakić, Kliment Poposki, Pierre-Yves Diacon Kliment Poposki currently lives in Skopje-Macedonia and graduated in Arts – Acting at the Melbourne National Theatre in 2005. His works include dance, stage, film and TV in Australia and Europe. |
| Krassimira Yossifova Bakardjieva: Tu as oublié le sel ma chérie (Dragi, pozabil si sol) (BOL) contemporary dance performance |
A story about motivating a series of meetings with yourself, with friends, with people. It is aromatic, tasty, colourful and sound dinner with an unexpected ending. Sugar + Flour + Eggs + Olive oil + Soda + Baking powder + Cinnamon + Raisins + Carrots + Walnuts + Pineapple +Orange+ Cheese + Salt = A Meeting
Created and performed by: NOMADS 2010 Krassimira Bakardjieva is an optimistic Bulgarian freelance performer. |
| Yves Diacon: Interstices – Pierre (CH) occupation of empty gaps |
Interstrices is using the small gaps existing in between performances in order to replay extinguishing fragments of memory and resonance from these performances, and as well to leave, around the venues, other type of traces. This proposal borrows the thematic from another performance project, named “empty shell”, which was elaborated during NDA 2010, but which couldn’t be realized for the Short Cut festival. The “empty shell” project seeks for the temporal state of desertion of a place: the remains left behind by an event that had just happened; remains which are about to be covered or overwritten by a new happening; the sedimentary layers of memory accumulated in a place.
Concept: Pierre-Yves Diacon / Mondes Transversax Co. Pierre-Yves Diacon studied choreography at the SNDO (Amsterdam). He works professionally as dance-maker and contemporary dancer since 2005. He also practices break-dance in a high level since the middle of the 90’s. In July 2008, he started the Mondes Transversaux dance company based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. |
Price: 7 eur
Festival pass: 32 eur
Tickets: One hour before performance at the given location.
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