This is a story about oscillations between certainty and indeterminacy. Rejecting the traditional relationship between Dance and Choreography means attentively following the myth of Aphrodite’s birth. Born from foam, Aphrodite evokes images of irregular rhythmic patterns, the spectacle of movement over movement, and the voyage from one pattern to another. Will the cut between one and the other always mean the end of repetition, a kind of end of reproduction? How will we handle this change? Will we?
Read moreNOTES TO ANTIPHON
Notes to Antiphon by Petra Veber and Leja Jurišić is the conclusion of the first phase of reading The Antiphon, the great work by Djuna Barnes, as well as an announcement of the Slovenian translation by Miklavž Komelj, which will be published by cf.
Read moreSTREAM OF THOUGHTS: INTERLACE
Anamaria Klajnšček and her team blend music and dance to explore the potential of a ceaseless collective flow of thoughts. Movements trigger sounds that constantly drives new motions, all reflecting cognitive processes. An interlace of four individual entities, fighting for attention, diving into a whirl of shared thoughts with a single motive: to keep going on.
Read moreZakaj je vaza podobna hiši? Od sistemskega do fantazijskega z oblikovalko Janjo Lap
V Muzeju za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO) smo 15. junija 2023 odprli prvo pregledno razstavo arhitektke in oblikovalke Janje Lap (1929–2004).
Read more303
The dance piece 303 draws its title from the analogue synthesizer Roland TB-303 which was highly popular in the past decades but was later replaced with digital machines. Inspired by the intense digitalization of our lives during the pandemic, the project focuses on the relationship between our time's analogue and digital realities.
Read moreSpider festival 2023
Welcome to Spider Festival 2023, a Dance study of the digital space as a field of resistance to the hegemonic contemporary choreography interfaces. We invite you to tilt in and out and encounter empty frames filled with organic materials. Welcome to the place of opacity, inhalation, and reflection. Bring all the data and expectations, and let all thought be metabolized by idiosyncratic dancers who feel their way through the world imaginatively and artfully.
Creative bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable performance
Over 60 migrants from 31 countries got engaged in our educational programs in costume design, scenography, dance and music. Over 15 of them engaged in onstage performance called Creative Bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable Performance, the artistic expression around the topic of vulnerability, crossroads and inclusion.
Read moreMedtem ko mi Spotify po meri ustvarja playlisto z naslovom Moodymix
Filip Štepec in Jernej Potočan nagovarjata čas, v katerem Google brskalnik najbolje pozna naš notranji svet. Za izhodišče vzemata nereflektirano vskadanjost, beg med štiri stene, skrite fantazije, ki pa se paradoksalno zrcalijo v naših brskalnikih.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: dance and performance 2
Second part of Dance and Performance program will be taking place from 6 to 28 February under the mentorship of renowned dancer and choreographer Matej Kejžar. The workshop will be permeated by the mentor's otherwise creative agenda, which focuses on the deconstruction and re-construction of the technical structure, social and emotional range of dance.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: PREPARATORY WORKSHOPS
The final set of educational programs within Creative Bodies in Movement, the preparatory workshops and engagement in a stage performance production, will be taking place from 13 to 28 February. The workshops are organised as individual counselling by renowned artists and mentors to help participants prepare and give public presentation of the project.
Read moreRDEČI GOZD
Ljudje posegamo v gozd, a je tudi moč gozda, da oblikuje ljudi, neizogibna. V gozd si gremo celit rane, v gozdu rane nastanejo, tišina gozda ni nenasilna, glasnost sveta prav tako ne. Z Rdečim gozdom Leje Jurišić se sooči pet plesalk in plesalcev, koreografinj in koreografov. Nastaja omnibus soočanj z gozdom in rdečo.
Read moreTHE FOLLOWING BODY
V začetku leta 2022 se je umetnica Tatiana Kocmur skozi umetniško perspektivo pričela posvečati raziskovanju zgodovinskih in aktualnih problemov telesnega in spolnega nasilja ter koncepcij in jezika (ali pač ne-jezika) o bolečini. The Following Body je prva vizualna artikulacija tega raziskovanja.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: music workshop
Fourth educational program within Creative Bodies in Movement, mentored by Elvis Homan, will be taking place from 7 to 18 November, and is dedicated to creating (film) music. Participation of both beginners and those with some music knowledge and experience is welcome.
Read moreDnevi Produkcijske platforme BIO27
Zaključek razstave Produkcijske platforme BIO27, med 23. in 25. septembrom v MAO, bo obeležen z naborom dogodkov in aktivnosti, ki predstavljajo njeno delovanje v sklopu 27. izdaje bienala oblikovanja. Dnevi produkcijske platforme BIO27 bodo raziskovali tudi odnos do trajnostnega oblikovanja in trajnosti na splošno pri mlajši generaciji slovenskih oblikovalcev in ustvarjalcev.
Read morecreative bodies in movement: dance and performance
Second part of Dance and Performance program will be taking place from 3 to 17 October under the mentorship of renowned dancer and choreographer Matej Kejžar. The workshop will be permeated by the mentor's otherwise creative agenda, which focuses on the deconstruction and re-construction of the technical structure, social and emotional range of dance.
Read moreSTD – Spending Time Dancing
Spending Time Dancing presents Matej Kejžar’s artistic experimentation with Dancing discharged from the drive for choreography. In order to relieve dance from the burden, constructed in the concept of choreography, the burden of a carefully planned succession of movements as progress, the dancers indulge in the processes that defy the linearity of both movement and time. They compost.
Read moreSILENCE | vocabulary of madness
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.— Akira Kurosawa
On November 4, at Cankarjev dom, Silence will present The Vocabulary of Madness, their first album in a decade
FUTURING: a co-project for bio27
Futuring's objective is to use the biennial to interrogate its practices and future; to observe, source, and examine the existing sustainable practices in cultural production. Our findings are collected in an open-source toolkit and offer selected perspectives on sustainability. The findings will enable cultural institutions, designers (and individuals) to reduce the environmental impact of their work.
Read moreResurrection 2.0
A hybrid improvised music concert and dance performance by Beno Novak, Boštjan Simon, and Elvis Homan, awarded as the best performance of the 12th Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art Gibanica 2023.
Read moreSpider festival 2022
Join us in disrupting the normative, the fixed, the harmonious. Enter the sphere of exploration, attentive listening and subtle encounters, dance, cinematic performances, music performances, DJ sets, hangouts, and interactions. Welcome to Spider Festival 2022!