The year gone by has been a very dramatic one indeed. In retrospect, it seems as if last year’s festival programme somehow anticipated the future with its restless spirit and vivid politically and socially engaged content. On one hand, it caught the wind of resistance against social and economic imbalances as it paid tribute to the working class, while on the other hand also providing a backdrop for the upcoming protests. Even though resistance still goes on living its global life in the present day, it nevertheless feels like we’ve gotten trapped in some kind of uncertain tranquillity and disbelief in the future. Trapped in an in-between space of some sort, inhabited by our efforts to rearticulate ourselves through more fluid identities in search of new premises and alliances.

And that is exactly what the forthcoming festival programme reflects: acknowledgment of the fact that there is no such thing as a simple solution and that it is therefore all the more important to look for alternatives together. To create spaces which encourage this porosity, confrontations and playfulness – not only in-between different art forms, but also in the constant erasure of borders between various actors and audiences.

Our interests lie in those specific in-between spaces that allow, for example, for the vivid interaction between music and other genres. Where exploration and play can come into being, where we can see dance flirt with light, where ordinary people can exchange roles with performers.

Nevenka Koprivšek