COFESTIVAL 2025

14. mednarodni festival sodobnega plesa
CoFestival 2025

VSTOPNICE:
✦ Festivalske vstopnice so že v prodaji: https://www.eventim.si/event/cofestival-2025-razlicna-prizorisca-20757495/
– 40 EUR
✦ Vstopnice za posamične dogodke v prodaji kmalu.

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Med 21. in 28. novembrom bo potekal že 14. CoFestival, mednarodni festival sodobnega plesa, ki nastaja v organizaciji Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija in Centra urbane kulture Kina Šiška ter ob podpori partnerjev. Z letošnjim programom festival izpostavlja, da so naša telesa vselej del nečesa večjega. V tem je tudi moč plesa.

Umetnost plesa je ena redkih umetniških praks brez posredniškega nadomestila. Tako rekoč nemogoče si jo je vzeti domov. Nobena knjiga, plošča ali posnetek nam ne zmoreta nadomestiti izkušnje plesnega dela, osredotočenega na človeško telo. Ta izkušnja je na voljo večinoma zgolj v živo, kadar nismo sami. Slednje dejstvo nam je s svojo skupnostno karakteristiko blizu, vse dokler ples ne spregovori tudi o pogledih, ki so pritrjeni na stene v obliki nadzornih kamer, da bi prepoznali oblike človeške kinetike in informacije o naši prisotnosti poslali v centre nadzorov. S slednjim se ukvarja predstava Marka Milića in Uroša Krčadinaca Brez koraka, ki bo na CoFestivalu izvedena v okviru evropskega projekta Modina, posvečenega razmerju med koreografijo in tehnologijo ter umetno inteligenco. Kino Šiška je partner tega projekta.

Centri nadzora pa niso vselej izključno zunanje instance. Ker smo v spektaklu sveta gledana bitja, kot nekje pravi Maurice Merleau-Ponty, so nadzorne kamere v naših lastnih očeh – hočemo ali nočemo – velikokrat oblika samokontrole. Zrcalna podoba v naših lastnih očeh je svojevrstna nadzorna kamera, ki lahko od časa do časa zazna tudi tujke, ki jih ni sposobna pripisati sebi. Operacijo samo-ogleda je mogoče, tako kot v solu Sonje Pregrad Objekt plesa, vzeti kot queer metodo in ples ali telo gledati drugače.

✦ TRAILER: https://youtu.be/7P_3nlLmOzQ

Predstave Dance On Ensemble (Izdelovanje plesov, plesni večer z deli Mercea Cunninghama, Marthe Graham, Tima Etchellsa in Mathilde Monnier) ter Andreje Rauch Podrzavnik in Milana Tomášika (Cage Open. Tovornjak, ki se pelje mimo glasbene šole) so povezane s paradigmatskim prelomom v sodobnem plesu, ki je pod vplivom nazorov ameriškega skladatelja Johna Cagea prekinil s težnjo, da mora biti plesna koreografija skomponirana z avtoriteto koreografovega zunanjega pogleda. Namesto tega je podvržena lastnim notranjim mehanizmom, ki jo gradijo z reševanjem koreografskih problemov, ne da bi ti bili nujno optične narave. Takšno razumevanje je močno razprostrlo ustvarjalno participacijo, s katero plesalke in plesalci niso bili več izključno instrumenti koreografovega pogleda, ampak soustvarjalci umetniških del. Pod vplivom evropskega konstruktivizma in s Cageevim zanimanjem za čutne lastnosti vsakdanjega okolja se je v plesu vzpostavil prostor za širok spekter tega, kaj vse je lahko koreografija, ne da bi morala na vsak način biti vizualno všečna.

Pogled drugega ali drugi pogled postane zagaten, kadar želi biti naš koreograf. Umetnost performansa, s katero že več kot pol stoletja sodeluje tudi sodobni ples, je učinkovita predvsem zaradi tega, ker vztrajno spodkopava in problematizira koreografovo avtoriteto, zaradi katere lahko koreografa razumemo tudi kot družbeno normo. Predstavi Haralda Beharieja (Batty Bwoy) in Tirana Willemseja (blackmilk) se osredotočata na spolne vidike te norme in se spopadata s tem, kar želi uveljaviti. Petja Golec Horvat (moj privatni lastni*) in Bor Prokofjev (Equilibrium) po drugi strani svoje razmerje z njegovimi zahtevami premišljeno razgibata v različnih eksistencialističnih plesnih krajinah.

S solom Temna pesem (1937), ki danes sodi v kanon sodobne plesne umetnosti, bo prvič domačemu občinstvu na ogled kakšno delo ameriške koreografinje Marthe Graham. V tridesetih letih preteklega stoletja je plesno odgovarjala na špansko državljansko vojno in vzpon nacizma v tretjem rajhu. Umetnost plesa je s tem izrazila svojo solidarnost z bojem za reči, ki so nam skupne in ki jih moramo kot človeška skupnost deliti. Pionirke modernega plesa so menile, da s plesnimi soli plešejo skupnost ali duet s tem, kar jih obkroža, zato nikoli niso imele občutka, da so v plesnih solih same. Isabelle Schad v Študijah brezmejnosti #2 – Golota in krajina ubere obratno pot, saj skupino teles preplete v mnoštvenost, v kateri samota izgine. Sylvain Huc in Mathilde Olivares pa v Novem življenju ustvarita nekakšen temeljni plesni duet, ki želi počastiti radost skupnega plesnega dela.

Programi CoFestivala, mednarodnega festivala sodobnega plesa, so svoje motivacije vselej iskali prav v tem izhodišču, ki se zdi leta 2025 pomembnejše kot kadarkoli doslej. Naša telesa so vselej del nečesa, kar je večje od nas samih. Četudi nas utegne to dejstvo kdaj tudi preplašiti, je moč plesa prav v njegovi umeščenosti v telesa skupnosti. Ko se nam v umetnosti plesa primerijo čarovnije, ki jih skupaj prepoznamo, nas to hkrati razveseli. Takrat vemo, da nismo sami.

Označite si koledarje in spremljajte kanale CoFestivala, več podrobnosti o programu bomo delili kmalu!

📍Na programu:
Cage Open. Tovornjak, ki se pelje mimo glasbene šole (Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik & Milan Tomášik)
Batty Bwoy (Harald Beharie)
blackmilk (Tiran Willemse)
Equilibrium (Bor Prokofjev)
Temna pesem / Deep Song (Martha Graham)
Brez koraka (Marko Milić & Uroš Krčadinac, projekt Modina)
Objekt plesa (Sonja Pregrad)
Izdelovanje plesov – Dance On Ensemble (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Tim Etchells, Mathilde Monnier)
moj privatni lastni* (Petja Golec Horvat)
Študije brezmejnosti #2 – Golota in krajina (Isabelle Schad)
Novo življenje / La Vie nouvelle (Sylvain Huc & Mathilde Olivares)

21.–28. november 2025, več prizorišč
www.cofestival.si

Predfestivalski dogodek:

ČET, 20. 11., 16.00–20.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Politična udeležba za vse – za Evropo enakopravnih
skupščina

Srečanje bo potekalo kot strukturirana razprava z namenom, da se oblikujejo priporočila in predlogi, ki bodo prispevali h krepitvi vključevanja migrantov in migrantk v družbo. Priporočila bodo posredovana odgovornim institucijam.

Vstop prost.

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PET, 21. 11., 19.00–22.00 / Kino Šiška, zgornje preddverje
Slovenski gledališki založniki na CoFestivalu
prezentacija/sejem

Tiskane izdaje mreže Slovenskih gledaliških založnikov – Emanata, Knjižnice MGL, Maske Ljubljana in SLOGI-ja – bodo na voljo za nakup po sejemskih cenah.

Vstop prost.

PET, 21. 11., ob 20.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Sylvain Huc & Mathilde Olivares: NOVO ŽIVLJENJE
plesna predstava I otvoritev

Novo življenje Sylvaina Huca in Mathilde Olivares je plesni duet, zasidran v radikalnost sedanjega trenutka in v raziskovanje skupnega. Kontemplacija življenja v času, v katerem nam politika prireja konec sveta.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

SOB, 22. 11., ob 18.00 / Viba Film, mali atelje
Tiran Willemse: BLACKMILK
plesna predstava*

Plesni solo preplete geste uniformiranih bobnarskih mažoretk, belih ženskih starlet in črnskih maskuliničnih raperskih zvezd ter raziskuje, kako gibanje opredeljuje kulturno kodirane drže posameznih socialnih skupin in manifestacije moškosti.

*Predstava bo izvedena v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

SOB, 22. 11., ob 20.00 / Stara mestna elektrarna
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik & Milan Tomášik: CAGE OPEN. TOVORNJAK, KI SE PELJE MIMO GLASBENE ŠOLE
plesna predstava z glasbo v živo I premiera

Plesalca in koreografa Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik in Milan Tomášik v delu Cage Open spletata povezave med »odzivnim telesom« in v živo izvedenimi skladbami Johna Cagea, enega od osrednjih imen avantgardne glasbe 20. stoletja. Redko in izjemno sodelovanje.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

NED, 23. 11., ob 19.00 / Španski borci, zgornje preddverje
Slavčo Dimitrov: ANARCHIC BODIES: Corporeal Materialism, Affects and the Political
predstavitev knjige*

V tesni navezavi s telesnostjo in afekti Dimitrov premišljuje, kako bi si lahko zamislili in udejanjili »politično« kot radikalno razliko – nepredvidljivi trenutek, ki hkrati omogoča kot tudi razgrajuje družbene osnove.

*Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

NED, 23. 11., ob 20.00 / Španski borci, Velika dvorana
Sonja Pregrad: OBJEKT PLESA
plesna predstava

»Kaj nam lahko drag persona z imenom Objekt plesa pove?,« se sprašuje Sonja Pregrad s svojim neobičajnim, intimnim in hkrati družbeno naelektriziranim koroegrafskim predlogom.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

PON, 24. 11., ob 18.00 / Stara mestna elektrarna
Harald Beharie: BATTY BWOY
plesna predstava in pogovor�*

Harald Beharie je s solom Batty Bwoy (»peder« oz. »ritopik«) dodobra pretresel mednarodni plesni prostor. Z ambivalentno pojavo, ki niha med osvobojeno močjo, radostjo in nasiljem, subvertira mite o črnem queer telesu.

*Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

*V predstavi je prisotna golota.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

PON, 24. 11., ob 21.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik: GUBA
likovno uprizoritveni dogodek v treh delih

Guba Andreje Rauch Podrzavnik plesno-gibalnim sekvencam ustvari vrsto prostorskih, materialnih, svetlobnih in zvočnih vzporednic, ki koreografijo razširjajo v druge medije.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

TOR, 25. 11., ob 19.00 / Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana
Dance On Ensemble: IZDELOVANJE PLESOV (z deli Mercea Cunninghama, Marthe Graham, Tima Etchellsa in Mathilde Monnier)
plesne predstave, predavanje in pogovor*

Izdelovanje plesov je hranljiv obrok plesne zgodovine, začinjen s plesno sedanjostjo. Dance On Ensemble je k sodelovanju povabil Mathilde Monnier in Tima Etchellsa, da ustvarita svoj umetniški odziv na kultni deli Mercea Cunninghama (odprto koreografsko delo Zgodba iz leta 1963) in Marthe Graham (solo Temna pesem iz leta 1938, nastal kot odziv na špansko državljansko vojno in vzpon fašizma v Evropi). Zgodovinski uvod v predstavo/predavanje ob 18.30.

*Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

SRE, 26. 11., ob 17.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Liis Vares & Taavet Jansen: ŠE VEDNO SE PREMIKA
VR instalacija*

Liis Vares in Taavet Jansen sprašujeta, kako bivamo v svetu, v katerem tehnologija razširja in posreduje človeško izkušnjo. Obiskovalci so povabljeni v izkušnjo, ki združuje fizični prostor in navidezno resničnost.

*Predstavitev bo potekala v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

SRE, 26. 11., ob 19.30 / Stara mestna elektrarna
Isabelle Schad: ŠTUDIJE BREZMEJNOSTI #2 – Golota in krajina
plesna predstava

Študije brezmejnosti #2 so koreografska instalacija, v kateri koža postane polje odnosov in skupnosti, kot zrcalo, ki vrača odsev, in privlači, kar se razprostira. Pred predstavo bo potekal senzorični uvod v predstavo (ob 19.00).

*V predstavi je prisotna golota.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

ČET, 27. 11., 11.00–15.00 / Stara mestna elektrarna
ISABELLE SCHAD: masterclass
delavnica za plesalce*

Isabelle Schad bo na delavnici izhajala iz somatskih načel in koreografskih praks, ki jih razvija tudi pri lastnem delu skupinskih predstav. Udeleženci bodo raziskovali pojem subjektivnosti znotraj kolektivnega gibalnega telesa, ki lahko deluje le kot celota.

*Delavnica bo potekala v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

ČET, 27. 11., 16.00–18.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli: NINO
plesna instalacija*

nino je spekulativna simulacija in potopitvena izkušnja, ki tesnobo, povezano z umetno inteligenco, preoblikuje v prihodnost okrepljene povezanosti z našimi telesi, drug z drugim in z naravo.

*Dogodek bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

ČET, 27. 11., ob 19.00 / Plesni teater Ljubljana
Petja Golec Horvat: MOJ PRIVATNI LASTNI*
plesna predstava*

moj privatni lastni* materialne lastnosti telesa in vizualnih podob preplete s filmskim pogledom v krajino razprostrtega časa, ki učinkuje z vzdušji in melahnoličnim ritmom bivanjskih prostranosti.

*Predstava bo potekala v angleškem jeziku.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

(Vstopnica velja tudi za predstavo Equilibrium)

ČET, 27. 11., ob 20.15 / Plesni teater Ljubljana, preddverje
Nika Arhar & Jasmina Založnik (ur.): BODIES OF DANCE: Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After
predstavitev knjige*

V pogovoru z avtorji bomo predstavili knjigo Bodies of Dance, ki je nastala kot rezultat kolektivnega dela mreže NDA. Kaj prinaša zgodovinjenje sodobnoplesnih praks dvajsetega stoletja v Sloveniji, Srbiji, Severni Makedoniji in na Hrvaškem?

*Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

ČET, 27. 11., ob 21.00 / Plesni teater Ljubljana
Bor Prokofjev: EQUILIBRIUM
plesna predstava

Equilibrium je premišljena montaža kinetičnih destilatov, jasnih gibalnih akcij, ki Prokofjeva zanimajo v skrajnostih. Tam postanejo semantično goste snovi za premišljevanje o človeškem položaju v svetu in naših samopripovedih.

Predprodaja: 8 €, na dan: 10 €

(Vstopnica velja tudi za predstavo moj privatni lastni*)

PET, 28. 11., ob 10.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Igor Štromajer & Jan Rozman: Zgodovinski primeri povezovanja tehnologije s koreografskim delom II
seminar*

Z režiserjem tretje generacije in in koreografom, plesalcem in performerjem mlajše generacije bomo predstavili primere, pri katerih se performativne ali plesne prakse srečujejo s tehnološkimi orodji.

*Dogodek bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

PET, 28. 11., ob 14.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
PLES IN TEHNOLOGIJA
seminar*

V okviru seminarja bodo potekale predstavitve in razprave o rešitvah, razvitih v evropskem sodelovalnem projektu MODINA (Gibanje, digitalna inteligenca in interaktivno občinstvo).

*Dogodek bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

PET, 28. 11., ob 20.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Marko Milić & Uroš Krčadinac: BREZ KORAKA
participatorna predstava*

Kako pretentati tehnološki nadzor nad našim premikanjem? Kako se izmakniti tehnološkemu nadzoru, ki je osredotočen izključno na človeško kinetiko? Brez koraka (2025) je koreografska raziskava svojevrstne razbojniške rabote.

*Predstava bo potekala v angleškem jeziku.

Vstop prost.

Organizacija: Kino Šiška in Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija

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14th International Festival of Contemporary Dance
CoFestival 2025

TICKETS:
✦ Festival tickets are on sale: https://www.eventim.si/event/cofestival-2025-razlicna-prizorisca-20757495/
– 40 EUR
✦ Tickets for individual performances will be available soon.

From November 21 to 28, the 14th edition of CoFestival will take place. Organised by Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, this international festival of contemporary dance is supported by a number of partners.
This year’s programme highlights the notion that our bodies are always part of something greater. This encapsulates the power of dance.

The art of dance is one of the very few artistic practices without an intermediary substitute. It is virtually impossible to take it home with you. No book, record, or recording is able to replace the experience of a dance performance focused on the human body. This experience is mainly available only in person, when we are not alone. The latter fact is very close to us with its communal characteristic, until dance becomes a commentary on the gazes mounted on the walls in the form of surveillance cameras, designed to recognize human kinetics and send information about our presence to control centres. This is the subject of the performance Gaitless by Marko Milić and Uroš Krčadinac, which will be featured at CoFestival as part of the European project Modina, dedicated to the relationships between choreography, technology, and artificial intelligence. Kino Šiška is a partner in this project.

However, centres of surveillance are not always solely external entities. As Maurice Merleau-Ponty once said, in the spectacle of the world, we are beings who are watched, and so the surveillance cameras in our own eyes – whether we like it or not – are often a form of self-control. The mirror image in our own eyes is a kind of surveillance camera that can occasionally detect foreign objects that it is unable to attribute to itself. The operation of self-gazing can be taken, as in the case of Sonja Pregrad’s Object of Dance, as a queer method and a way of regarding dance or the body differently.

✦ TRAILER: https://youtu.be/7P_3nlLmOzQ

The performances of the Dance On Ensemble (Making Dances, a dance evening featuring works by Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Tim Etchells and Mathilde Monnier) and Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik and Milan Tomášik (Cage Open: A Truck Passing by a Music School) are linked to a paradigmatic shift in contemporary dance, which, influenced by the views of American composer John Cage, broke with the tradition of dance choreography being created through the external authority of the choreographer’s gaze. Instead, dance is subject to its own internal mechanisms, constructed by solving choreographic problems that are not necessarily optical in nature. This vastly expanded creative participation, whereby dancers were no longer merely instruments of the choreographer’s vision but co-creators of pieces. Influenced by European constructivism and Cage’s interest in the sensory qualities of everyday life, dance established a space for a wide spectrum of what choreography could be – it no longer needed to appear good by all means.

The gaze of the other, or the second gaze, becomes ambiguous when it seeks to act as our choreographer. Contemporary dance has been involved in the art of performance for more than half a century, and this is effective primarily because it persistently undermines and problematises the authority of the choreographer. This allows us to understand the choreographer as a social norm. Harald Beharie (Batty Bwoy) and Tiran Willemse (blackmilk), however, focus their performances on the gendered aspects of this norm, grappling with what it aspires to establish. Petja Golec Horvat (my own private *) and Bor Prokofjev (Equilibrium), on the other hand, explore their relationship with these demands thoughtfully in a variety of existentialist dance landscapes.

With Deep Song (1937), now considered a classic of contemporary dance, the work of American choreographer Martha Graham will be presented to the Slovenian public for the first time. In the 1930s, dance responded to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Nazism under the Third Reich. The art of dance thus expressed its solidarity with the struggle for things that we have in common and that we must share as a human community. The pioneers of modern dance believed that through dance solos they were dancing as a community or a duet with their fellow human beings, so they never felt that they were alone in their dance solos. Isabelle Schad takes the opposite approach in Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape, intertwining a group of bodies into a multitude in which solitude ceases to exist. Sylvain Huc and Mathilde Olivares, on the other hand, create a kind of fundamental dance duet in La Vie nouvelle, which seeks to celebrate the joy of collaborative dance work.

The programmes of CoFestival, the international festival of contemporary dance, have always been motivated by the notion that bodies are interconnected, a fact that seems more relevant than ever in 2025. Our bodies are always connected to something greater than ourselves. Although this can sometimes be daunting, the power of dance lies in its connection to the community. When we experience the magic of dance together, we are filled with delight. At that moment, we realise that we are not alone.

Mark your calendars and stay tuned to the CoFestival channels — more programme details coming soon!

📍Programme highlights:
Cage Open: A Truck Passing by a Music School (Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik & Milan Tomášik)
Batty Bwoy (Harald Beharie)
blackmilk (Tiran Willemse)
Equilibrium (Bor Prokofjev)
Deep Song (Martha Graham)
Gaitless (Marko Milić & Uroš Krčadinac, Modina project)
Object of Dance (Sonja Pregrad)
Making Dances – Dance On Ensemble (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Tim Etchells, Mathilde Monnier)
my own private* (Petja Golec Horvat)
Studies on Infinity #2 – Nudity and Landscape (Isabelle Schad)
La Vie nouvelle / New Life (Sylvain Huc & Mathilde Olivares)

21–28 November 2025, multiple venues

www.cofestival.si

Pre-festival event:

THU, 20. 11., 16.00–20.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Political Participation for All – For a Europe of Equals
assembly

The assembly will take the form of a structured discussion aimed at developing recommendations and proposals to support the inclusion of migrants in society. The recommendations will be forwarded to the relevant institutions.

Free entry.

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FRI, 21. 11., 19.00–22.00 / Kino Šiška, upper foyer
Slovenian Theatre Publishers at CoFestival
presentation/fair

Printed editions from the network of Slovenian theatre publishers – Emanat, the MGL Library, Maska Ljubljana, and SLOGI – will be available for purchase at special prices.

Free entry.

FRI, 21. 11., at 20.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala Hall
Sylvain Huc & Mathilde Olivares: LA VIE NOUVELLE
dance performance I festival opening

La Vie Nouvelle by Sylvain Huc and Mathilde Olivares is a dance duet rooted in the radical nature of the present moment and in the exploration of togetherness. It contemplates life in a time when politics are staging the end of the world.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

SAT, 22. 11., at 18.00 / Viba Film, Small studio
Tiran Willemse: BLACKMILK
dance performance*

The dance solo intertwines the gestures of uniformed drumming majorettes, white female starlets, and Black masculine rap stars, exploring how movement defines the culturally coded postures of different social groups and the manifestations of masculinity.

*The performance will be held in English.

Free entry.

SAT, 22. 11., at 20.00 / The Old Power Station
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik & Milan Tomášik: CAGE OPEN. TRUCK PASSING BY A MUSIC SCHOOL
dance performance with live music I premiere

In Cage Open, dancers and choreographers Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik and Milan Tomášik weave connections between the “responsive body” and live performances of compositions by John Cage, one of the central figures of 20th-century avant-garde music. A rare and remarkable collaboration.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

SUN, 23. 11., at 19.00 / Španski borci, upper foyer
Slavcho Dimitrov: ANARCHIC BODIES: Corporeal Materialism, Affects and the Political
book presentation*

In close relation to corporeality and affect, Dimitrov reflects on how we might imagine and enact the “political” as radical difference – an unpredictable moment that simultaneously enables and dismantles societal foundations.

*The talk will be held in English.

Free entry.

SUN, 23. 11., at 20.00 / Španski borci, Main Hall
Sonja Pregrad: OBJECT OF DANCE
dance performance

“What can a drag persona named Object of Dance tell us?” asks Sonja Pregrad with her unconventional, intimate, and at the same time socially charged choreographic proposition.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

MON, 24. 11., at 18.00 / The Old Power Station
Harald Beharie: BATTY BWOY
dance performance and after-talk�*

With his solo Batty Bwoy, Harald Beharie shook up the international dance scene. Through an ambivalent presence oscillating between liberated strength, joy, and violence, he subverts the myths surrounding the Black queer body.

*The talk will be held in English.

*The performance contains nudity.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

MON, 24. 11., at 21.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik: FOLD
artistic performance event in three parts

In Fold, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik creates a series of spatial, material, light, and sound parallels to the dance and movement sequences, expanding the choreography into other media.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

TUE, 25. 11., at 19.00 / Ljubljana Puppet Theatre
Dance On Ensemble: MAKING DANCES (with works of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Tim Etchells and Mathilde Monnier)
dance performances, lecture and discussion*

Making Dances is a nourishing meal of dance history, seasoned with the dance of the present. The Dance On Ensemble has invited Mathilde Monnier and Tim Etchells to create their artistic response to two iconic works: Merce Cunningham’s open choreographic piece Story (1963) and Martha Graham’s solo Dark Meadow (1938), created in response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism in Europe. Historical introduction/lecture to the performance at 18.30.

*The discussion will be held in English.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

WED, 26. 11., at 17.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Liis Vares & Taavet Jansen: STILL MOVING
VR installation*

Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen ask how we live in a world where technology expands and mediates the human experience. Visitors are invited into an experience that merges physical space with virtual reality.

*The presentation will be held in English.

Free entry.

WED, 26. 11., at 19.30 / The Old Power Station
Isabelle Schad: STUDIES OF INFINITY #2 – Nudity and Landscape
dance performance

Studies of Infinity #2 are a choreographic installation in which skin becomes a field of relations and community, a mirror that reflects and draws in what unfolds around it. A sensory introduction to the performance will take place beforehand (at 19.00).

*The performance contains nudity.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10

THU, 27. 11., 11.00–15.00 / The Old Power Station
ISABELLE SCHAD: Masterclass
masterclass for dancers*

In the workshop, Isabelle Schad will draw on somatic principles and choreographic practices that she also develops in her own group performances. Participants will explore the notion of subjectivity within a collective moving body that can function only as a whole.

*The workshop will be held in English.

Free entry.

THU, 27. 11., 16.00–18.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli: NINO
dance installation*

Nino is a speculative simulation and immersive experience that transforms the anxiety surrounding artificial intelligence into a future of strengthened connection with our bodies, with one another, and with nature.

*The event will be held in English.

Free entry.

THU, 27. 11., at 19.00 / Dance Theatre Ljubljana
Petja Golec Horvat: MY OWN PRIVATE*
dance performance*

my own private* weaves the material qualities of the body and visual imagery with a cinematic gaze into a landscape of expanded time, evoking atmospheres and a melancholic rhythm of existential vastness.

*The performance will be held in English.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10
(The ticket includes admission to the performance Equilibrium)

THU, 27. 11., at 20.15 / Dance Theatre Ljubljana, foyer
Nika Arhar & Jasmina Založnik (eds.): BODIES OF DANCE: Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After
book presentation*

In a conversation with the authors, we will present the book Bodies of Dance, created as a result of the collective work of the NDA network. What does the historicisation of 20th-century contemporary dance practices in Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Croatia yield?

*The presentation will be held in English.

Free entry.

THU, 27. 11., at 21.00 / Dance Theatre Ljubljana
Bor Prokofjev: EQUILIBRIUM
dance performance

Equilibrium is a carefully composed montage of kinetic distillates, clear movement actions that fascinate Prokofjev in their extremes. There, they become semantically dense materials for reflecting on the human condition and the stories we tell ourselves.

Presale: €8, at the door: €10
(The ticket includes admission to the performance my own private*)

FRI, 28. 11., at 10.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Igor Štromajer & Jan Rozman: Historical Examples Linking Technology with Choreographic Work II
seminar*

Together with a third-generation director and a younger-generation choreographer, dancer, and performer, we will present cases where performative or dance practices intersect with technological tools.

*The event will be held in English.

Free entry.

FRI, 28. 11., at 14.00 / Kino Šiška, Komuna
DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY
seminar*

The seminar will feature presentations and discussions on the solutions developed within the European collaborative project MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience).

*The event will be held in English.

Free entry.

FRI, 28. 11., at 20.00 / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Marko Milić & Uroš Krčadinac: GAITLESS
participatory performance*

How can we outsmart technological surveillance of our movements? How can we evade technological control focused solely on human kinetics? Gaitless (2025) is a choreographic exploration of a peculiar kind of outlaw labour.

*The performance will be held in English.

Free entry.

Organization: Kino Šiška and Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija