WHAT DO WE SEE?
14 -17 September 2023
Holes in a fence are for peeping. (J. Foster)
This choreographic laboratory will be based on sharing practical tools that help the dance maker to establish a relation between the practice of making and the practice of seeing and witnessing. Through establishing a relationship to the space and time we share, we will try to open up the moment of exchange that happens between the stage work, the performer and the audience. Participants are invited to try out the tools offered to build their own choreographic vocabulary, as well as more extensive compositions, and then use them to construct their own choreographic ideas and materials.
During the last two days we will also work with composer and musician Nenad Sinkauz to explore how we can build a stage microcosm in relation / friction with other stage genres and elements.
Petra Hrašćanec (Croatia) founder and artistic director of the organization 21:21. Dancer, choreographer, associate professor at the Dance Department of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Petra Hrašćanec works in the field of performing arts as a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue. The primary area of her interest and education is contemporary dance, and her works are characterized by the exploration of the body as a reality of performance through various media. She produces her choreographic works in the 21:21 Art Organization and in other organizations and institutions: De facto organization, Teatar &TD, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb Dance Center. Since 2013, she has taught the Contemporary Dance Technique course at the Department of Dance at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. From 2009 to 2020, she was the artistic director of the Monoplay solo festival in Zadar. Petra Hrašćanec’s works have been presented at renowned European dance festivals and theater institutions such as Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, Impulsstanz in Vienna, UOVO festival in Milan, La Jette Dance Center in Brussels, Les Subsistances in Lyon, Paris Theater de la Bastille, Festival Atos de Fala in Rio de Janeiro and others.
Nenad Sinkauz (Croatia) finished studies in musical ethnomusicology in Padua, Italy. As composer and performer in last 20 years he took part in more than hundred musical, theatre, contemporary dance, multidisciplinary, radiophonic, sound art and film projects. His artistic work, especially when playing live, is mostly oriented towards exploring unconventional musical forms, improvised and creative music, but his musical roots comes from the 90’ underground punk and metal scene. Through performance and composition, which are strictly connected in their work, he is interested in a dialogue of acoustic and electronic instruments, hybridity of the connection of musical and theatrical principles in performance as the research landmark for new performing formats.
SCHEDULE
14 – 17 September, 10h00-17h00
LOCATION
JSKD Studio, Cankarjeva 5, Ljubljana
APPLICATION FORM
The project is co-financed by the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
The project is developed in partnership with the JSKD – Public Fund for Cultural Activities of the Republic of Slovenia.
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