TRIGGER 2021: We are announcing a programme, full of exciting performances that will TRIGGER your mind!
Despite the uncertainty, surrounding the present and future of performing arts, we feel it is now more important than ever to continue searching for ways to find each other and collectively think about the future of internationalization of art that we love and believe in.
We are excited to announce our TRIGGER 2021 programme. Annual Slovenian independent scene showcase platform TRIGGER will happen in Maribor and Ljubljana from May 29 to June 2, 2021. This edition of TRIGGER focuses on the future of internationalization in the midst of health, social and ecological crises. In times of searching for new forms of what it means to be together, we will offer several dozens of international programmers from throughout Europe a chance to get to know daring performances, inspiring performers, challenging workshops and intriguing conversations with artists and producers from Slovenia, for whom TRIGGER represents a starting point for international touring. We are excited to finally meet each other face to face.
Let’s get TRIGGERed by something good for a change!
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Maribor
DECENTRALIZING ART: TRIGGER conference in cooperation with Centre for Creativity and Crossings Festival 2021
conference is also a part of Stages without borders programme
Maribor, @Lutkovno gledališče Maribor
Due to the pandemic restrictions of audiences, there is a mandatory registration to attend the conference prior to the event at rezervacije@glej.si.
As it is becoming clear that festival/meeting/conference/performance hopping is neither sustainable nor possible, we look towards new forms of long term collaboration on both national and international levels. Leaning on the (post)Yugoslavian tradition of widespread cultural centres in local communities we are bringing together local and international representatives of non-urban festivals, residency centres and cultural centres. We wish to ask ourselves how to create a decentralized and sustainable art community, programming policies reflecting the reality of many centres and exchange views and experiences of working outside political, financial and hyper-producing realities, searching for genuine and longstanding relationships with different communities and audiences.
PROGRAMME
Discursive programme is in English with an option of Slovenian translation. Performances are either in English or subtitled in English.
10:00-10:45 LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER: Registration
10:45-11:00 Lyrical minutes in the city (location: Mariborska tržnica) // flash mob opera // duration: 7 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana, co-production: Ensemble Leporello
11:00-11:30 GET INTO THE GROOVE: Opening statement by TRIGGER team: Barbara Poček, Glej Theatre; Nika Bezeljak, Crossings festival; Marko Podjavoršek, Centre for Creativity
11:30-12:00 GET INSPIRED: The Common in Community: Seventy Years of Cooperative Centres as a Social Infrastructure (Asta Vrečko, Rastko Pečar, Blaž Babnik Romaniuk, Martina Malešič)
Project is presented at Pavilion of Slovenia at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
12:00-13:30 CONNECTING THE CENTRES: examples of good practices
We are bringing together exciting producers from Slovenia and abroad, who work in areas outside big centres of power. Who are these festivals, residencies and cultural centres and what lessons can we learn from their work and perseverance?
Speakers:
Kryštof Koláček: founder and Manager of Performing Arts Festival Kutná Hora, CZ
Pierre Caussin: Director, Forum Jacques Prévert, Carros, FR
Pau Estrem: Artistic director, Danseu Festival, ES
Lorenzo Facchinelli: Centrale Fies, IT
Stane Tomazin: Artistic director, FKK festival kulture Kostanjevica, SI
Matjaž Farič: Artistic director, Flota Festival, SI
Anja Bajda: Manager, Cultural center Cerknica, SI
Moderated by: Tjaša Pureber, Glej Theatre and Nika Bezeljak, Moment
13:30-14:00 BREAK
14:00-16:00 RE-CENTERING THE ART: panel discussion
Discussion on challenges of working, thinking, programing and connecting art outside the urban centres. We will focus on community and audience building and explore working/operational models outside centres of power.
Moderated by: Tjaša Pureber, Glej Theatre and Nika Bezeljak, Moment
17:00-18:30 Uroš Kaurin, Vito Weis: Hero 2.0 – The Show of All Shows // devised performance // duration: 90 minutes // production: Moment, co-production: EN-KNAP Productions Ljubljana
It might sound as if you don’t need to see anything else after this, but these two exciting performers, reaching beyond the limits of their (and your) abilities will make you want more (of them).
19:00-19:15 Lyrical minutes in the city (location: GT22) // flash mob opera // duration: 7 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana, co-production: Ensemble Leporello
19:30-20:00 Crossings Festival opening night (location: GT22) // mural exhibition opening // production: Moment
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Ljubljana
14:00-15:00 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) GET TO KNOW US: Rok Bozovičar and Pia Brezavšček, Maska Ljubljana: Whereabouts and whatabouts: Slovenian performing arts scene // presentation
A little bit of who’s who and what’s what.
16:00-17:00 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Nataša Živković: Sonny // devised performance // duration: 40 minutes // production: City of Women, co-production: Bunker Ljubljana
A tour into the depths of Balkan gender myths that will TRIGGER your survival skills in the men’s world.
15:00-21:00 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Tery Žeželj, Ivana Vogrinc Vidali: Archive of self-sufficiency // interactive installation // duration: 20 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana
Tour into the dark underground of those of us, who created the environmental crisis, the ones that feel it, and whose world it is that is coming to an end.
17:00-19:00 (location: Gledališče Glej) Leja Jurišić, Miklavž Komelj: It is impossible to Wait in Vain // devised project // duration: 120 minutes // production: Glej Theatre, Pekinpah and Leja Jurišić
When time stops, waiting begins. Once the moment arrives, we are already its masters.
19:00-20:00 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Nataša Živković: Sonny // devised performance // duration: 40 minutes // production: City of Women, co-production: Bunker Ljubljana
A tour into the depths of Balkan gender myths that will TRIGGER your survival skills in the men’s world.
22:00-23:00 (location: ŠD Tabor) Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan, Katarina Stegnar. Beton Ltd.: Ich kann nicht anders // devised performance // duration: 60 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana
In the world of post truth, is there anything that a performer can tell you and stay…true?
Monday, May 31, 2021
Ljubljana
11:00-11:30 (location: Španski borci) Simona Semenič: Picture Perfect // devised performance // duration: 30 minutes // production: City of Women and Španski borci
360 degrees of a feminist take on the concept of beauty.
17:00-19:00 (location: Nova pošta) Vito Weis: Bad Company // devised performance // duration: 90 minutes // production: The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana), Moment
Bad Company is a distillate of the spirit of the age in desperate need of an audience.
17:00-17:45 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Milica Ilić: RESHAPE the arts // presentation of a project and discussion with Teja Reba // duration: 45 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana
18:00-19:30 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Martin Schick (Blue Factory) and Petr Dlouhý (Cross Attic). Reshape the Arts: A Collective Tarot Reading // workshop // duration: 90 minutes
20:00-22:00 (location: Nova pošta) Vito Weis: Bad Company // devised performance // duration: 90 minutes // production: The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana), Moment
Bad Company is a distillate of the spirit of the age in desperate need of an audience.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Ljubljana
10:00-14:00 (location: Gledališče Glej) Martin Schick (Blue Factory) and Petr Dlouhý (Cross Attic). Reshape the Arts: individual tarot reading // workshop // duration: 45 minutes
14:00-15:30 (location: Gledališče Glej) Neja Tomšič: The Opium Clippers // a visual essay with tea ceremony // duration: 90 minutes // production: Neja Tomšič and Glej Theatre, co-production: MoTa
An intriguing tale of smugglers, privateers and birth of capitalism on the opium ships. After this one, a cup of tea will never taste the same again.
14:00-14:30 (location: Španski borci) Simona Semenič: Picture Perfect // devised performance // duration: 30 minutes // production: City of Women and Španski borci
360 degrees of a feminist take on the concept of beauty.
10:00-14:00 (location: Gledališče Glej) Martin Shick (Blue Factory) and Petr Dlouhy (Cross Attic). Reshape the Arts: individual TAROT cards reading // duration: 90 minutes
17:00-18:00 (location: Gledališče Glej) The Affluent Drag Ensemble (ADE): Rok Kravanja, Daniel Petković, Urban Belina, Ajda Tomazin: Jubilee // devised performance // duration: 50 minutes // production: Glej Theatre and Moment in cooperation with Zavod Odprti predali
No matter how hard they try, there are some sins the state can never wash away. Daring adventure into the birth of a nation through the lenses of two drag performers.
19:00-20:30 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Uroš Kaurin, Vito Weis: Hero 3.0 – More than words // devised performance // duration: 80 minutes // production: Moment, co-production PTL, II. gimnazija Maribor Secondary School, Bunker Ljubljana, Desirée Central Station
It might sound as if you don’t need to see or say anything else after this, but these two exciting performers, reaching beyond the limits of their (and your) abilities will make you want more (of them).
18:00-21:30 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Tery Žeželj, Ivana Vogrinc Vidali: Archive of self-sufficiency // interactive installation // duration: 20 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana
Tour into the dark underground of those of us, who created the environmental crisis, the ones that feel it, and whose world it is that is coming to an end.
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Ljubljana
12:00-13:30 (location: Gledališče Glej) Neja Tomšič: The Opium Clippers // a visual essay with tea ceremony // duration: 90 minutes // production: Neja Tomšič and Glej Theatre, co-production: MoTa
An intriguing tale of smugglers, privateers and birth of capitalism on the opium ships. After this one, a cup of tea will never taste the same again.
18:00-19:00 (location: Gledališče Glej) The Affluent Drag Ensemble (ADE): Rok Kravanja, Daniel Petković, Urban Belina, Ajda Tomazin: Jubilee // devised performance // duration: 50 minutes // production: Glej Theatre and Moment in cooperation with Zavod Odprti predali
No matter how hard they try, there are some sins the state can never wash away. Daring adventure into the birth of a nation through the lenses of two drag performers.
18:00-00:00 (location: in front of Športna dvorana Tabor) Leja Jurišić, Marko Mandić: Together // devised performance // duration: 360 minutes // production: Pekinpah and Via Negativa, co-production: Kino Šiška
Six hours. Two performers. Hundreds of situations beyond the boundaries of possible.
20:00-21:00 (location: Stara mestna elektrarna) Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan, Katarina Stegnar: Große Erwartungen | Great Expectations // devised performance // duration: 60 minutes // production: Bunker Ljubljana
After ecology, transitional/growing‑up loss of illusions, the impotency of resistance, generational angst, time has come for great expectations and the future of those, who have everything. To lose.
About TRIGGER platform
TRIGGER is a platform for contemporary performative arts. Glej Theatre is developing it with Centre for Creativity, Moment, Bunker Ljubljana, Pekinpah, Mladinsko Theatre and Maska (The New Post Office programme) and City of Women. The main purpose of the platform is to strengthen competences of independent producers and artists, especially in the field of internationalization and international connections.
Platform combines a showcase of performances with potential for the international market, series of discussions, lectures and workshops with curators from international festivals, agents, and specialists for distribution and international cooperation.
Purpose of the platform is therefore to gain specialized knowledge of developing strategies and methodology to distribute, network and internationalize contemporary performative arts.
Platform’s objectives:
• improving competitive options for Slovenian artists in the international market
• improving the situation for Slovenian producers of independent performative arts
• improving opportunities for distribution of independent performances on national and international level
• creating a space for skill exchange on fields, that do not have formal or informal opportunities for education and development (professions in production, management and technical support)
• creating and maintaining connections with important European festivals and producers
• promoting Slovenian performers and performances
• long-term influence on diversity of domestic production in relation to exchange of examples of good practice and experiences from abroad
• greater stability of Slovenian producers
Participating producers:
Co-producer:
Centre for Creativity
Strategic development:
Glej Theatre
Moment
Bunker Ljubljana
Pekinpah
City of Women
Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana (The New Post Office programme)
TRIGGER 2021 is a part of a partnership network Platform Center for Creativity. Platform Center for Creativity is co-financed by European Union from European Regional Development Fund and by the Republic of Slovenia.
TRIGGER platform is also supported by the Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Culture and Municipality of Ljubljana.
