Gibanica, Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art is considered the most important contemporary dance platform in Slovenia. It offers a curated selection of performances, which are always selected for the festival by a three member international selection team, and the selected performances of the competition programme compete for the Gibanica Audience Award and Jury Award for Best Performance. At the 11th Gibanica, 8 performances will compete for both awards.The Gibanica 2023 selection team – composed of Pia Krämer, Germany (with more than 35 years of experience in managing organizations and projects in the field of performing arts), Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, North Macedonia (curator, researcher and cultural producer, co-founder of the Nomad Dance Academy (NDA) platform and the project space Kino Kultura (KK), and programming director of the Skopje based NGO Lokomotiva), and Maja Kalafatić, Slovenia (dancer, choreographer, dance educator and yoga teacher who lives and works between Ljubljana, Belgrade and Helsinki) – wrote in the justification of the selection: “As the selection team, we were faced with the very difficult task of choosing between very diverse and high-quality performances, which would represent a certain selection of Slovenian production of the last two years. Therefore, we decided to present works that…

The first year of the Multispecies Landscape by artist Teri Žeželj explores four methodologies for practicing a different relationship with the landscapes in which we live. The central methodology of the second chapter is imagination, I which we are mainly interested as a space of crossroads – a space of multiple worlds and an important space for practicing interspecies relations and synchronizing with different rhythms of life. How can we coexist and maintain relationships with the unknown, invisible, potential or immaterial? How to host a space where different perspectives can coexist?In various traditions and lore, the summer solstice and Midsummer Night (June 23) have magical powers, and one of the well-known ancient religious wisdoms is that on Midsummer's Night, fern seeds enable the understanding of the languages of other living beings with whom we share the world.For this reason, we opened Chapter Two on the summer solstice, 21st June 2022 at 5 p.m. with a two-day workshop with Mala Kline, choreographer, performer, writer and expert in individual and collective dreaming. During two two-hour meetings, we experienced and learned about working with imagination, which opens up different ways of knowing and teaches "to read the signs and symbols of the dream…

performative walkHave you ever been to the woods?Now, I can imagine, you're smiling gently, but not without a hint of sarcasm.“Of course” you say to yourself. “What kind of question is that?!”But have you really? Have you been to a real forest? The one that makes you pay the price for entering it?Walking is never innocent. It shapes the landscape as we go. It indulges the gaze.Walking is political. It creates realities, depending on where we go, with whom, when, on the weather, clothes, thoughts, feelings, health conditions, terrains, shapes, plants, types of the ground, moisture of the soil and any other element that you can think of.I lost myself in the woods. Come walk through me!Participation in the walk was free, but reservations were required at info@bunker.si.Necessary equipment: smartphone or mp3 player and headphones.We send a link to an audio file, which was downloaded to smartphone or mp3 player and which was used during the walk.AUDIO FILEThe walk was in English.The performative walk is the 3rd chapter of the research art project MULTISPECIES LANDSCAPE by the artist Tery Žeželj.Conceived and executed by: Tery Žeželj & Maria Magdalena KozlowskaSound design and music: Blaž PavlicaProducer: Maja VižinPublic relations: Tamara Bračič VidmarProduced…

The first chapter of Multispecies Landscapes places observation at the centre of searching and understanding ways of living in and with multispecies landscapes. In early January 2022, Tery set her first goal: observation as a method of learning about the landscape. She began with the daily practice of observing, photographing, and describing a small fragment of the Beatrixpark in Utrecht as a way to explore her own gaze, perception, attention, attitude toward the observed fragment, and to observe the change of all of the above. Over time, the question that became increasingly important was: What influences and shapes the view?By regularly describing a small fragment of the park, it became clear that language and vocabulary strongly influence the perception of the elements that are creating the landscape, which established “landscape literacy” and various practices and approaches to “reading” the landscape as the main topics of the research. The working hypothesis that “landscape literacy” strongly influences our relationship with the environment brings to the debate the importance of learning and unlearning the gaze and ways of observation, and the topic of attention as historically and culturally shaped.The first event of Multispecies Landscapes will be a reading group in which we will…

SHOWS in Stara mestna elektrarna:Wednesday, November 10th, at 7 pmAndreja Rauch Podrzavnik: SPECIAL EDITION​Wednesday, november 10th, at 9 pmLuka Piletič, Sara Šoukal: US TWO BETWEEN US: IMPROVISER’S CUT​Thursday, November 11th, at 7 pmVOICESThursday, November 11th, at 9 pmBilly Kissa, Elvira Lingris: CHOOSE YOUR SHOESFriday, November 12th, at 7 pmZa crknt: BACKSTAGE PIECESFriday, November, at 9 pmKasia Chmara, Órla Mc Govern: TUNESunday, November 14th, at 5 pmIMPROVOCATION S2E4​

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, 2021MariborDECENTRALIZING ART: TRIGGER conference in cooperation with Centre for Creativity and Crossings Festival 2021conference is also…

Development project by Snježana Premuš Physical Manifestations returns to the Old Power Plant with the development of the next segment of the project entitled Time in View: Seeds, Etudes 2.This time in the process we monitor the complexity of the interaction - the relationship to one's own body, to space, to another, to a new body and to the community. Also at this stage, the author is interested in the perceptions of the viewer and the performer.The viewer remains an active witness to the process of evolution that begins deep in the body, beyond assumed body codes and forms.March 22nd – 27thConcept and direction: Snježana PremušDancers and co-creators: Anja Bornšek, Ivan Mijačević, Snježana Premuš, Tina ValentanMusic: Boštjan PerovšekLight: Špela ŠkuljCostume design: Barbara KapeljVideo: Masha NonkovicPhoto: MarcandreaProduction: Zavod Federacija LjubljanaThe project was created within Creative Crossroads (LLB - Creative Europe) in cooperation with NDA SloveniaCo-production: Bunker LjubljanaThe project was supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana