Bunker » Betontanc: RUN FOR LOVE

Starting point of this project is reinterpretation of very famous scene on the Odessa steps in the movie “Battleship Potemkin” of S. Einstein, filmed in 1925. The movie discusses Russian revolution and the rebellion of marines on the Battleship Potemkin in 1905. The famous scene on the Odessa steps, long time forbidden in Russia, shows a terrible massacre of the people on the Odessa steps. The sequence that represents the starting point of the project is the one with the baby carriage that runs down the stairs after the baby’s mother has been shot.

The project wants to preserve the symbolic force of the scene and wants to pose a new question: can a man survive in the mass and hysteria in the run for life and love.
Project takes this scene as a starting idea, but it transforms and reinterprets it with different means of artistic expression (theatre, visual art, music…).

What interests us is not the scene of panic itself but the space of transition, passage between the past and the future, the moment, when life is concentrated on one moment, the moment of extreme urgency, of danger and hope for survival, run toward life and toward love.

Credits

Director: MATJAŽ POGRAJC
Visual artist: MATEJ ANDRAŽ VOGRINČIČ
Music: EZ3KIEL (Joan Guillon, Matthieu Fays, Stephane Babiaud, Yann Nguema)
Co-authors and performers: BETONTANC (Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak, Branko Potočan)
Text: BETONTANC (Branko Jordan)
Set design: ESTRIHI&OMETI, MATEJ ANDRAŽ VOGRINČIČ
Video: JASMIN TALUNDŽIĆ
Costumes: MATEJA BENEDETTI
Light design: TOMAŽ ŠTRUCL
Sound design: DIMITRI MERCIER, JURE VLAHOVIČ
Technical director: LUKA CURK
Technical assistence: OMAR ISMAIL, SAŠA ŠERBAN
Design: SAŠA KLADNIK
Executive producer: MAJA VIŽIN
Production: BUNKER, LJUBLJANA
Co-production: FESTIVAL EXCENTRIQUE (tbc), LIEUXPUBLICS (tbc), IN SITU, the European platform for the production of street arts (IN SITU has been financed with the support of the European Commission (Culture 2000 Programme 2000))
Partners: CULTURESFRANCE, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS CHARLES NODIER
With help of: LE PARAPLUIE (Centre International de Création Artistique) – Aurillac
With support of: MINISTRSTVO ZA KULTURO RS, MESTNA OBČINA LJUBLJANA, MINISTRSTVO ZA ZUNANJE ZADEVE, ZAVOD ZA TURIZEM LJUBLJANA, IN SITU, the European platform for the production of street arts (IN SITU has been financed with the support of the European Commission (Culture 2000 Programme 2000)), ŽELEZNIŠKI MUZEJ

Performances

Premiere:
Festival d’Aurillac (France), 20th August 2008

Revivals:
Festival d’Aurillac (France), 21st, 22nd and 23rd August 2008
Ljubljana, 3rd and 4th September 2008 at 8.30 and 9.30 pm
Marseille, 23rd and 24th October 2008