Mon 8 August, Sv Dominik │ 21.30
Premiere
U BITI
Decipula
Director Vjera Vidov
Authors, Performers Iva Burčul (dance), Marta Musap (voice), Vedran Miočić Stošić - Gumeni (guitar)
Technical realisation Tomislav Kraljević - Shome
Coproduction Kazalište lutaka Zadar, Zadar snova
Production U biti, Teatro VeRRdi, Zadar, Croatia
Duration 30’
Decipula (lat. cage)
This is a story of three different loves.
This is a story of three ordinary people who choose an adventure and are willing to go all the way.
This is a story in which decision creates an explosion.
... this is just one story...
Mon 8 August, Sv Donat │ 22.30
ZADARSKI PLESNI ANSAMBL
Tri Marije hojěhu
Author, Choreographer Sanja Petrovski
Performers Martina Ružić, Nikolina Dolfić, Tea Kulaš, Stella Rončević, Sanja Petrovski
Costumes Marija Šarić Ban
Dance advisor Petra Hrašćanec Herceg
Music advisor Igor Cecić
Music Izbor glagoljaške glazbe │ Selection of Glagolitic chants
Light, Sound Tomislav Kraljević Shome
Graphic design Srđan Babić
Production Zadarski plesni ansambl, Zadar, Croatia
Duration 30’
Marking its 20th anniversary Zadar Dance Ensemble continues its passionate journey devoted to the art of dance. Diverse in program themes that unites contemporary dance, elements of physical theatre and use of media, the Ensemble encourages self-expression and creation opening the new areas of collaboration of professional dancers and emerging new talents. For their new dance story author and choreographer Sanja Petrovski finds inspiration in the handwritten song ‘Tri Marije hojěhu’ recorded in the area of Zadar at the beginning of the 16 century. Retelling of the story written in an old Croatian Glagolitic alphabet by using Laban's contemporary dance technique creates a new language, a playful ongoing ritual of dance sequences where random change of sites takes us on an old yet anew spiral route through time and space, as cyclic as the inside of the St Donat’s church.
Mon 8 August, Ul. Borelli 3 │ 12.00
Breakfast at 12 Act I
Tue 9 August, Ul. Borelli 3 │ 22.45
Masquerade Act II
Fire Act III
Wed 10 August, Ul. Borelli 3 │ 19.30
Soap opera Act IV
Choreodrama
Three sisters
Director, Choreographer Jasna Frankić Brkljačić
Based on drama “Three Sisters“ by A. P. Čehov
Costumes Marija Šarić Ban
Light design Ivo Nižić
Music Selection from the repertoire of Tamara Obrovac and Transhistria Ensemble
Participants Sanja Petrovski, Iva Burčul, Stošija Zrinski, Denis Brižić, Petra Hrašćanec Herceg, Sanja Zalović, Mimi Zadarski, Zlatko Košta, Ivica Antić, Deana Gobac, Jure Aras, Dalibor Brkić, Ante Dujić & Floorshakers, Marko Brkljačić, Stipe Nekić, Filip Mijić
Producers Ministry of Culture of RoC, City of Zadar, Zadar County and workshop participants
Co-producers UPUH Zagreb, Zadar snova
Special thanks to Fire Department Zadar, Tavern “Tu mi je lipo“
Choreodrama “Three sisters“ is inspired by solo dance performances of Sanja Petrovski, Iva Burčul and Stošija Zrinski at “Monoplay“ 2010. Corellation between the powerful dance techniques of these three artists and the drama “Three sisters“ by A. P. Čehov, as noted by the choreographer and director Jasna Frankić Brkljačić, have offered a range of solutions for staging of the piece. The workshop goal is to present four acts of Čehov’s play using the language of performance that resulted from a four hour long working process. The process has been agreed in advance, along with the given themes and dramaturgical/mise-en-scène frame that engages spaces of creative freedom. This approach to the public presentation is based on the notion that with an adequate dedication any rehearsal is an artistic act. What it follows is that the length of the creative process, whether in hours, months or years, is vital for its form but not so crucial for the power of the artistic act.
Tue 9 August, Sv Dominik │ 21.30
MINI TEATER & KAZALIŠTE HOTEL BULIĆ
Ma and Al
Director Ivica Buljan
Actors Senka Bulić, Marko Mandić
Based on texts by Bernard-Marie Koltès and J. D. Salinger
Music Mitja Vrhovnik-Smrekar
Costumes Ana Savić-Gecan
Scenography Slaven Tolj
Musician Tomislav Vedrina
Production Mini Teater, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Kazalište Hotel Bulić, Zagreb, Croatia
Duration 60’
Ivica Buljan is one of the most prolific Croatian directors, and among the few directors today known for his extensive work with the contemporary theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-89), the French playwright whose plays are built around monological dialogues instead of plot. “Ma and Al” is inspired by J.D. Salinger’s novels about the Glass family and Koltès’ debut drama Salinger (1977). The play evolves through three separate monologues-performances in which the actors alternately play characters from the novel and theatre piece. The line between the real and fictional experience becomes vague. Caughtin the living room of the titular couple the viewers areinteractively drawn into the playful hysteria of their relationship. The powerful text of highly charged dramatic situations opens the topics of family breakups, American democracy and the Vietnam War, authority and segregation, correlation between classical and contemporary theatre, art and warfare.
Wed 10 August, Sv Dominik │ 21.30
KRALJEVSKO POZORIŠTE ZETSKI DOM
Rozamunda
Director Senka Bulić
Actors Tihana Ćulafić (Rozamunda), Marinko Leš (Fulvio)
Costumes Oliver Jularić
Scenography, Music Tomislav Ćurković
Light design Nikša Mrkonjić
Photographer Jasenko Rasol
Production Kraljevsko pozorište Zetski dom, Cetinje, Montenegro
Duration 60’
Rozamunda is the third one-act play from the cycle “The Princess Plays“, together with the Snowhite, Sleeping Beauty, The Rock and Jackie. Elfriede Jelinek’s princesses are contemporary parodied counterparts of Shakespeare’s princes. They are myths of deconstruction, anti-princesses who cannot fight against their own preset destiny. Rozamunda is forced to admit that women’s status is irreconcilable with writing and that every female creative activity is doomed to failure. Pressed by an anxious crisis of a female writer and an intense but ambivalent relationship with her partner Fulvio, Rozamunda poses the question of whether her role of a writer defines her own body. Rozamunda is the response to the criticism of Lacan’s psychoanalysis by American post-structural philosopher Judith Butler and her theory about the discursive construction of the body. Rozamunda the writer is trying to wrench herself free from the symbolic order by which she undermines the bases of established identity categories such as lust, sex and sexual identity.
Thu 11 August, Forum │ 21.30
Premiere
VIA NEGATIVA
Miting istine
Author, Performer Boris Kadin
Text Bojan Jablanovec, Boris Kadin
Art Director Bojan Jablanovec
Production Via Negativa, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Via Negativa’s work is focused on the relationship between a performer and audience in a real time and space. Group searches the situation that triggers various emotional, rational or irrational responses in a contrast to usual, habitual collective routines.
Meeting of Truth is a performance that challenges the greatest of truths, confronts them, and sings them. The performer is a narrator, singer, entertainer and primarily the sheep that calls for unity, for the smallest unit of humanity. To reach that point the sheep must unreservedly throw herself into the whirlpool of questions of meaning and truth, myth and religion, economics and politics, the Balkans and Europe, global warming and ice age, oil and water, sheep and apes ... A sheep does not recognize taboo limits, she consciously violates them knowing that the community is on her side. She knows that everything has happened the only way it could happen. And bravely she holds on to these facts. A sheep knows that without the past there is no future.
Meeting of Truth is a kind of cabaret macabre, a dedication to all the sheep for making us what we are today.
Fri 12 August, Sv Dominik │ 21.30
ORIAN THEATRE
Beckett
Director, Choreographer, Performer Mehdi Farajpour
Based on “Krapp’s last tape“ by Samuel Beckett
Sound Masoud Mardan
Scenography, Costume Mehdi Farajpour
Director Assistant Stanislaw Bitka
Director Adviser Youngoh Won
Photographer Sangdon Yun
Production Orian Theatre, Paris, France
Duration 45’
Written in 1958, one-act play “Krapp’s last tape“ is considered to be Beckett’s most autobiographical piece. The play revolves around the old Krapp who is sitting by his tape-recorder and whose routine is to review his life as he listens to a recorded voice of his younger self. It’s his 69 birthday and on this occasion Krapp chooses to listen to the tape when he turned 39.
Box... three, spool... five. “Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.” Krapp motionless staring before him. The tape runs on in silence.
Several years had passed until director Mehdi Farajpour found a proper way to expose his vision of Krapp. Beckett, as he notes, does not let you go on stage and do what you like. Sooner or later you end up caught in the atmosphere directed by Beckett. Mehdi Farajpour decides to challenge this subject. The path he started with was the text, the very foundation of Beckett’s thought, and the concept was to pass through words into movement, dance.
Sat 12 August, Sv Dominik │ 21.30
TEATR A PART
Klepysdra
Author, Director Marcin Herich
Co-author, Performer Monika Wachowicz
Music Fragments of works by Archive and Keith Jarrett
Text Fragment of the poem "Thirty-year Woman" by Ryszard Krynicki
Photographer Przemek Wiśniewski
Production Teatr A Part, Katowice, Poland
Duration 40’
Teatr A Part creates author’s theatre by method of visual narration. Full of symbols and metaphors on all levels of artistic impact, their work focuses on area of senses and enters deep into human nature, its secrets of existence, into meanings which are almost imponderable.
An intimate solo project “Klepsydra” draws its meaning from a Polish word that contains two significances; klepysdra is hourglass, but also obituary notice. Joining the poetic of theatre of body, gestures and emotions, Monika Wachowicz portrays a thirty-year old woman. An illustration of pain, suffer and unbearable solitude. Her body is merely a piece of flash outside her lifeless heart. Her soul seeks its place among the Forgotten.
Ned │ Sun 14 August, HNK Zadar │ 21.30
SANTASANGRE
Seigradi
concerto per voce e musiche sintetiche │ concert for voice and synthesised music
Concept Diana Arbib, Luca Brinchi, Maria Carmela Milano, Dario Salvagnini, Pasquale Tricoci, Roberta Zanardo
Live video designers Diana Arbib, Luca Brinchi, Pasquale Tricoci
Score and live sound Dario Salvagnini
Performer Roberta Zanardo
Visual designer 3D Piero Fragola
Water animation 3D Alessandro Rosa
Voice and violin H.E.R, │ Violoncello Viola Mattioni, │ Wind instruments Giacomo Piccioni
Costume Maria Carmela Milano, Fiamma Benvignati
Photographer Laura Arlotti
Coproduction Romaeuropa Festival 2008, Romaeuropa Promozione Danza, Sistema Teatro Marche / Inteatro with the contribution of Città di Ebla
Production Santasangre, Roma, Italy
Santasangre aims to investigate that blank space existing beyond the defined language, to pass through new forms touching the most significative styles of performing arts such as video, music, body art and environment aesthetics design. Santasangre’s need of expression takes the work further, beyond every particularity and every complementary experience, to be realized in a bold fusion of expanded theatre languages.
“Seigradi” is a story about water, the element that gives life. And just like water the play-concert synthesizes life only from itself and its immediate environment, or in other words the body-movement, the sound-voice as well as the image of the world are being produced before our very eyes by the sole dance. In a poetic way of an apocalyptic theatre a dancer and a hologram create the image of the birth of life and its flow. The scientific ratio and the spiritual experience are merged in a symphony about the perfection of nature in the whole beauty of her wordless simplicity.
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