Mladi levi Festival: Shared Landscapes
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Shared Landscapes is the theatre’s invitation to the crossroads between forest, meadows and fields. It is a gentle and respectful entry into nature, but also a reflection on the role of humans, who appropriate and shape landscapes in our own way, while at the same time being completely dependent on them.
The day-long experience starts by equipping us with raincoats, camping chairs, repellents and headphones, and sending us on a trail from one performance to the next, where we encounter seven diverse performance experiences, combined with relaxed chit-chatting, socialising and a picnic in between. And it doesn’t matter if it rains – that’s what theatre in nature is all about!
The project, which links European cities from Avignon and Lausanne to Berlin and Lisbon, was conceived by Stefan Kaegi (who has already performed at the Mladi Levi Festival as a member of the Rimini Protokoll collective with Cargo Sofia – Ljubljana, Mnemopark and Radio Muezzin, as well as the Parallel Cities project) and Caroline Barneaud, artistic director of the Swiss Théâtre Vidy. They have invited to collaboration also other artists with diverse practices, forms and themes adapted to the local reality.
Stefan Kaegi, in collaboration with Slovenian director Tjaša Črnigoj, proposes the audience to lie down on the forest floor, look up at the treetops, and listen to a conversation between a meteorologist, a girl, a forester, a musician, and a psychoanalyst – about the forest, of course!
Chiara Bersani (who visited the Mladi Levi Festival last year with the performance Sottobosco and before that performed at the City of Women Festival) and Marco D’Agostin, in collaboration with local performer Urša Urbančič, question accessibility and the idealisation of nature through the prism of physical disability.
Émilie Rousset, in collaboration with two local performers and a farmer, addresses the pressing issue of agricultural policies and our relationship with nature, which quite literally creeps up on us during the performance until we are only a few metres away from it.
The duo El Conde de Torrefiel use the most spectacular and at the same time the most humble setting -– a forest edge – as the site of nature’s address to us, the spectators – to us, the people.
In their work, Begüm Erciyas and Daniel Kötter focus on distances – what is the range of our eyes and what is the range of our actions. How far do we get on our own and how far does technology take us?
In this sound-choreographic work, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz lead us into a play that evolves into a personal meditation of questioning one’s own relationship to one’s surroundings and a collective experience of the surrealist ritual.
Composer Ari Benjamin Meyers dedicated scores for a woodwind-brass ensemble to nature, hiding it in invisible corners of forests and meadows. Live music thus unexpectedly emerges as a companion along the paths of the Shared Landscapes.
Pieces:
Shared Landscapes: Chiara Bersani, Marco D’Agostin
Shared Landscapes: El Conde de Torrefiel
Shared Landscapes: Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz
Shared Landscapes: Begüm Erciyas, Daniel Kötter
Shared Landscapes: Stefan Kaegi
Shared Landscapes: Ari Benjamin Meyers
Shared Landscapes: Émilie Rousse
More about the SHARED LANDSCAPES.
Concept and curation: Caroline Barneaud, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
With pieces by: Chiara Bersani & Marco D’Agostin (IT), El Conde de Torrefiel (ES), Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz (PT) / Klemen Markovčič (SI), Begüm Erciyas & Daniel Kötter (TR, BE, DE), Stefan Kaegi (DE, CH) / Tjaša Črnigoj (SI), Ari Benjamin Meyers (US, DE), Émilie Rousset (FR)
Production and coordination: Isabelle Campiche, Aline Fuchs (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne)
Coordination of Performing Landscape project: Chloé Ferro, Monica Ferrari, Lara Fischer (Rimini Protokoll)
Artistic assistants: Giulia Rumasuglia, Magali Tosato
Stage manager: Guillaume Zemor
Video technician: Liza Ravelomanantsoa
Slovenian iteration:
Executive producer: Maja Vižin
Public relations: Tamara Bračič Vidmar, Klara Drnovšek Solina
Local producers: Ajda Koloini, Alma R. Selimović, Špela Kopitar, Anja Vrhovšek
Technical director: Martin Lovšin
Technical crew: Luka Berden, Borut Cajnko, Ažbe Kelenc, Luka Ložar, Janko Oven, Aleksander Plut, Anže Potokar, Bert Prelec, Jan Simončič
Organisation of ushers: Ajda Koloini
Ushers: Žana Bašelj, Lučka Centa, Nina Marta Komel, Vesna Markič, Lara Nia Matos, Ajda Pirtovšek, Eva Karolina Soršak
Production: Rimini Apparat (DE), Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (CH)
Co-production: Performing Landscape, European consortium: Bunker & Festival Mladi levi (SI), Culturgest (PT), Festival d’Avignon (FR), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur (AT), Temporada Alta (ES), Zona K & Piccolo Teatro di Milano − Teatro d’Europa (IT); Berliner Festspiele (DE)
Co-funded by: Evropska unija: program Ustvarjalna Evropa – Kultura, Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Ministrstvo za javno upravo RS
Creative concept supported by: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
With the support for the virtual reality headsets: INVR Berlin
Sponsors: Zeliščno posestvo Cvetka, Bubble Bite
Thanks to: Maja Simoneti, Andrej Verlič, Jakob Novak
