Žak Valenta / TRAFIK Tranzicijsko-fikcijsko kazalište (HR): Travelogue...

24th of September at 21.30 @ &TD Big Hall Starting point of the project is the meeting of the performance team consisting of a young (Flego, Vrdoljak) and old performance couple (Sibila, Valenta). By putting together the two performing qualities and forces (youth versus experience) TRAVELOGUE opens many intriguing approaches to research dance heritage and mechanisms of memorizing, storing and predicting the future of the dance. The heritage, its importance and transfer to the new generations and the perception and reception, as opposed to their predecessors, is subjected to the processes of unlimited reinterpretation, recycling and transformations into a new choreography language. Activation of performativity lies in the possibility of rejecting the anti-interpretation, the mistakes in the interpretation and the difficulties with archiving dance as live art media. The work is inspired by Mak Dizdar’s poetry. As Mak said: ‘You know that the travel from you to me is not the same as the travel from me to you’. Autor: Žak Valenta Koautori i izvođači: Toni Flego, Iva Nerina Sibila, Žak Valenta, Eleonora Vrdoljak Glazba i zvuk: Dušan Maksimovski Vizualna oprema predstave: Lara Badurina, Dajana Jurman Osip Produkcija: Trafik 2017 Koproducent: Ganz novi festival Kulture promjene Studentskog centra u Zagrebu Projekt realiziran uz podršku: Grada Rijeke, Ministarstva kulture RH, Plesnog centra TALA Zagreb BIOGRAPHY Žak Branko Valenta was born in 1966. in Umag (HR). He is a solo dance artist, a dancer, performer, eurythmist, choreographer and theatre pedagogue. He is one of the founders and current artistic director of theatre group TRAFIK from Rijeka. He performs and choreographs for TRAFIK since 1998. TRAFIK is one of the first independent theatre groups in Croatia consisting of professional and schooled artist. I started with theatre at the age of 4 when I performed in the living room...

Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rósa Ómarsdóttir (IS/BE): The Valley...

21st of September at 8pm @ &TD Big Hall The Valley is a place where man and machine have merged and the boundaries between lifeless bodies and animate machines have blurred. The Valley is a place of doubles. Where two become one, only to duplicate again, as it becomes unclear where one thing ends and another begins. What is a replica of which? Playing on the line of what is natural and what is artificial the performers use objects to make sounds and sounds to make movements as they question what is really in control. By dwelling in the ambiguous grey zone, in the valley of the uncanny, they bring to focus the double meaning of mechanical humans, artificial nature, organic machines and synthetic gardens. Koreografija i izvedba: Inga Huld Hákonardóttir & Rósa Ómarsdóttir Muzika: Sveinbjörn Thorarenssen Scenografija: Ragna Þórunn Ragnarsdóttir Rasvjeta: Michael Janssens Produkcija: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek U sklopu Flemish Artists’ Focus, uz potporu Flanders State of the Arts i Ministarstva kulture RH. Uz potporu: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Reykjavík Dance Festival, Tjarnabíó, Vooruit, BUDA, WpZimmer, WorkSpaceBrussels, de School van Gaasbeek, Reykjavík Dance Atelier, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, Reykjavík Culture Fund, Garðabær Culture Fund BIOGRAPHY Inga and Rósa started their collaboration 6 years ago at the start of their education in P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. The Valley premiered at Reykjavík Dance Festival in 2015. In 2016, they received the Icelandic Theatre Award Griman for the work in the category Choreography of the Year. BEST CONDITIONS FOR WORKING? Best conditions for working are having inspiring and considerate people in the room, and even just in the building. One great thing about travelling around to work at different residencies (though it can be exhausting) is that you frequently meet likeminded people and often end up having...

Roberta Milevoj (HR): Familija...

24th of September at 8pm @ ZPC (Zagreb Dance Centre) For the last couple of years, Roberta Milevoj’s choreographies have been exploring the relationship between the natural and the artificial space, looking for ways in which natural emotional experiences can be transformed into the artificial spaces of a performance. As a species gradually going extinct in nature, the elephant becomes the basis for the creation of a special dance language which examines the concept of community and begins to function as a metaphor for relationships among humans. The choreographer paid special attention to the recognition of the potential of their physical and emotional intelligence, and their moving habitus became a template for a dance piece in which eight dancers create different perspectives of the relationship and experience of the performance space. The piece creates a specific choreographic community which is formed from the discourse about nature, and becomes the discourse about corporality. Through exploring the world of animals, Family presents on stage the issues of co-existence in the world of humans, looking for new meanings of active presence in the community. Koreografija: Roberta Milevoj Ples: Filipa Bavčević, Silvija Dogan, Antonia Dorbić, Ana Jelušić, Katarina Rilović, Sara Škrobe, Lana Šprajcer, Mia Zalukar Glazba: Nenad Sinkauz Oblikovanje svjetla: Bojan Gagić Savjetovanje: Matija Ferlin Prijevod: Ana Uglešić Produkcija: Roberta Milevoj (Nikad kraja) i Multimedijalna koliba Rezidencijalna i financijska potpora: Pogon – zagrebački centar za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade u sklopu programa Pogonator, Mediteranski plesni centar Svetvinčenat, Zagrebački plesni centar, Ganz novi festival Kulture promjene Studentskog centra u Zagrebu, Ministarstvo kulture RH i Gradski ured za kulturu, sport i obrazovanje BIOGRAPHY Roberta Milevoj is a professional dancer, choreographer and pedagogue born in Pula in 1979. She gained dance experience through many workshops, residential programs at home and abroad and developed...

Pablo Castilla, Hedvig Biong, Niko Hafkenscheid (ES/NO/BE): Syden / Songs From...

22nd and 23rd of September at 8pm @ &TD Semicircular Hall Syden (the south) is a word commonly used by Scandinavian tourists and it is a geographical synonim for happiness and relaxation. Syden is a metaphor for the experience of freedom, a holistic mental space where humans can explore themselves in a distinct environment, away from the constraints of daily life. Syden, the project, is looking for a multi-faceted representation of these ingredients. Songs From A Valley Of Love And Delight presents on stage 7 tourists, no actors, Northerners who have moved partially or completely to different places on the Mediterranean. The interviews that were conducted with them have been converted into song lyrics, and music has been composed. They come on stage and sing their own interview material, which describes their own observations, desires and intimate feelings about the life they live. The spectator follows the show in a program book where the lyrics are printed, adding an extra fictional distance to the scene that plays on stage. Izvođači: Glenda Crooknorth, Marianne Suter, Albert Doody, Rudolf Rutschmann, Margaret Lockie, David Lockie, Ann Holloway Produkcija: Kevin Or Harry (Pablo Castilla, Niko Hafkenscheid and Hedvig Biong) Koprodukcija: workspacebrussels, Kaaiteater Uz potporu: GST Foundation, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Arts Council Norway, Black Box Teater Oslo U sklopu projekta Flemish Artists’ Focus, uz potporu Flanders State of the Art i Ministarstva kulture RH. BIOGRAPHY Kevin Or Harry is an art collective launched in 2015 by musician and composer Niko Hafkenscheid (BE), visual artist Hedvig Biong (NO) and photographer and filmmaker Pablo Castilla (ES). Within Syden, a core research and pluriform work on the theme of authenticity and identity at tourist destinations in the South, Kevin or Harry has produced Syden, A Moment of Being, a reading-room combining, photography, music, text...

Ivan Penović: Prijeđanje Vublike 148...

21st of September at 9.30pm @ MM centre What offends you? Can it be expressed with words? Or only grimaces? Has Peter Handke ever succeeded to offend audience? Today, hardly. Well, we have already played Vrijeđanje publike for 148 times. We are playing this show for twenty-six years. Two generations are playing it. It is an ancient skill. It is craft. It is not acting. It is offending. We have won big awards at big festivals. Of course, we will not tell which festivals. If we put ego aside, this research and, in the end the performance, deals with theatre audience, taking over current TV and internet marketing strategies, examining the term spectacle and the way that kind of event deals with other, more dominant media, and in the end, with forming of specific audience, their point of view. Režija: Ivan Penović Izvođači: Robert Budak, Matija Čigir, Domagoj Janković, Karlo Mrkša, Bernard Tomić i Pavle Vrkljan U sklopu apap – Performing Europe 2020 projekta „Student u rezidenciji“, uz potporu programa Kreativna Europa Europske Unije te u suradnji s Akademijom dramske umjetnosti Zagreb. BIOGRAPHY Ivan Penović was born in Split in 1992. He works in theatre as a dramaturge, writer, director and performer. Last year he performed at Ganz novi festival in the project Cabinet of Delicious Wonders in Theatre &TD. BEST CONDITIONS FOR WORKING? From my perspective and experience, best conditions for work are, and I am primarily talking about cultural institutions here, the ones giving a larger group of people of various backgrounds, education and interests the possibility to work. Today, when culture as activity and human instinct is fighting for survival, programmatic (or thematic, lightly said) filtering of ideas creates unnecessary layer of thinking for young people, because their desire to express...

Anica Tomić & Jelena Kovačić (HR): Magic Evening...

23rd of September at 9.30pm @ &TD Big Hall Quite an ordinary evening. Two couples in one apartment. Good dinner and a few bottles of alcohol. A lot of talk about everything and nothing. About politics, art, crises, crosses, failed love(s) and Vivaldi. About the time in which everything is allowed, in which the criteria do not exist, but there are those who are pushing them steadily. And then suddenly a completely banal, maybe just a random event that will stop them, which will only interrupt the magical evening for a moment. A banal event that will ask maybe completely banal question: what are you afraid of? A banal event that will not stop with the question, but will insist and constantly ask new ones. Where can all your fears take you? At what point does fear become paranoia? At what point it can no longer tell apart from what is true and what is an illusion? Or is it all true and we are no longer safe? Even in one apartment, one evening with a good dinner and a few bottles of alcohol. Režija: Anica Tomić Dramaturgija: Jelena Kovačić Glume: Ivana Krizmanić, Nataša Kopeč, Marko Makovičić, Marko Petrić Zvuk i obrada zvuka: Nenad Kovačić Scena i kostimi: Anica Tomić Produkcija: Studentski centar Sveučilišta u Zagrebu – Kultura promjene – Teatar &TD BIOGRAPHY: Anica Tomić graduated in comparative literature and Croatian language and literature from Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and in Theatre Directing and Radio Broadcasting from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She collaborates, almost regularly, with dramaturge Jelena Kovačić. Jelena Kovačić graduated in Polish language and literature and comparative literature from Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and in dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. She works as...