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REHEARSING FREEDOM IN THE CITY - artistic itineraries through LjubljanaStarting point of all itineraries: Slovenski etnografski muzej Thursday, May 15 from 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm -- Friday, May 16 from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm -- Sunday, May 18 from 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm -- Leja Jurišič and Teja Reba, both dancers and choreographers, will take the participants on a tour through the city as they experience it. A mixture of past and the present, those that lead and those that observe, and last but not least the hidden parts of the city that exist only if we awaken them: this will be the common thread of the itinerary. Hidden passageways, parks, cross streets, and cultural points in Ljubljana. We will visit the cultural and non-cultural, the personal and collective, intersections of past and present in our voyage through the city. -- Betontanc, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, and Ez3ekiel are preparing a project that will re-enact a famous scene from the Battleship Potemkin using ten thousand slinkys: the flight to love, to a better life. The spectacle will unite the big scale project with the intimacy of horror and of love, it will unite the pop approach to address everybody and a multilayered performance and the seriousness needed for the time we live in. Our guide through the city will be M. A. Vogrinčič, the visual artist who dressed houses, decorated a desert with buckets, and brought an enchanted forest to the centre of Ljubljana. On the way he will also present the project, and at the end of the itinerary, will unleash the slinkys. We will all be allowed to play with them. -- Martin Bricelj, the director of Code EP, will take participants to the current location of Robovox, an interactive installation in space (an eight-metre tall robot) that functions as “the voice of the people”. It can be your voice too! Along the way, he will talk about other projects and take you to the headquarters of Code EP. -- The conceptual starting point of this arts-communication intervention in the public space is the idea of space as belonging to everybody. The tour will strive to give visitors a feeling of belonging, to provoke questions, to arouse interest and creative excitement. The city itself, its buildings and streets as social witness, narrates a story to passers-by about peace and searching, poetry and erasure, coffee and gas… through the eyes and outline of Studio Poper. -- LIVING ON THE BORDER -- Artists are familiar with the most beautiful mysteries of Ljubljana: riverside streets, the shade of a romantic tree, a glass of beer on the corner, a boat ride complete with dance and music. Bara Kolenc, Borut Bučinel, both dancers and choreographers, and other members of the art associations KUD Samosvoj and KUD Pozitiv, will walk you through their Ljubljana, recall memories with you, and show you places that inspire or merely offer a relaxed afternoon. -- CITY OF WOMEN–VITAMINS FOR THE CREATIVE SOUL AND THE USED BODY The City of Women team invites you to relax with the Slovenian female artists who have been collaborating with the festival in various modes for the last fourteen years. Chatting with the artists and mixing vitamin cocktails, the team will present the activities of the City of Women festival. This will be followed by performance of Simona Semenič’ I, Victim, in English and DJane Kuroko will play the rhythms of local and international musicians. We will take a look at Metelkova City on the way. -- TRAINED AND SPONTANEOUS CHOREOGRAPHIES OF PROTEST In a demonstration that is something between a lecture and a performance, we will compare planned versus spontaneous choreographic protests. This issue was debated in the magazine Maska and in a Maska seminar on contemporary performing arts. The latter led to the emergence of the Janez Janša’s performance Slovenian National Theatre, which, through an audio reconstruction, has as its subject the demonstration against the Roma in the Slovenian village of Ambrus in autumn of 2006. Along the route, three areas of activity (publishing, seminars, and production) will be presented. -- The introduction to this itinerary will be a performance in which well-known European performers are replaced by children. Sound artist, Tomaž Grom, and producer, Špela Trošt, will videotape the audience while reading a short text that unfolds in several languages simultaneously. The tapes will be used as material for an audio work-in-progress. -- Culture is also horticulture. The phenomenon of Slovenian gardening will be introduced (also city gardening) as well as the project Symbiogarden, which is an architectural prototype for raising plants in the city. The tour of the gardens will also have a practical aspect: participants will have a chance to dig into the soil. -- REHEARSING FREEDOM OF THE BODY Plasma is the training of physical intelligence. We are offering IETMers a time of relaxation, presentation of ourselves, and socialising. If the weather is good, we will move though the park, otherwise under the rooftops. No experience is necessary. The training will be led by Gregor Kamnikar, a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and researcher of physical intelligence. -- Hrastnik is the home of Branko Potočan, contemporary dancer and founder of the group Fourklor, and also the home of the Red Beats Festival. This itinerary features an outing into the Hrastnik mine and all its attendant folklore: a shot of brandy before changing clothes and the descent into the mine. At the same time, it allows a direct look into the connection of movement, dance, and stage props with the roots of the artist. -- Dragana Alfirević and Dejan Srhoj, both dancers and choreographers, met at the IETM meeting at the Dom Omladine in Belgrade. Together with their little daughter Doroteja they invite you to a tea party at Špica, a quiet spot on the banks of the Ljubljanica River. We will celebrate IETM, new family, and new projects. --
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