cav_a – Catalan & Balearic Artists Visiting Slovenian Artists -info: cat/esp/eng/fr
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Produced by: Download Promotional Brochure Glej theatre from Ljubljana and Antic theatre from Barcelona are two independent theatres of similar formats and tradition, fighting similar problems in their environments. Both organizations are committed to research new concepts and new languages of performing arts and giving space to new and fresh ideas and artists. The idea of cooperation came from these similarities between both organizations. Since both theaters have a well established audience which is interested in the fresh, new and bold theatre the idea of collaboration seemed almost logical. We both wish to establish a long term relationship which would result in artistic co-productions and residences. The first stage of this collaboration, as we see it, is the exchange of the existing performances from both theatres. What is cav_a ? It will allow Catalan and Balearic artists to show their work and their creative processes to the different communities that welcome them, sharing knowledge and interests with local artists and audiences, while opening the way for artists from our host countries to make the reciprocal journey to Barcelona, nourishing local contemporary performing arts with international programming, meetings and debates. Ultimately our goal is to facilitate opportunities for artists of all nationalities to show their work to a wider audience, and to help them develop their relationship with the audience, making it a two-way process with a free flow of opinions that can lead to the creation of new languages of expression and the development of new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary performing arts. Why? |
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Who is it for? Ultimately our goal is to facilitate opportunities for artists of all nationalities to show their work to a wider audience, and to help them develop their relationship with the audience, making it a two-way process with a free flow of opinions that can lead to the creation of new languages of expression and the development of new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary stage arts. Where? |
[+] ABOUT GLEJ THEATRE
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Glej Theatre is Slovenia’s oldest independent theatre. Founded back in 1970, this experimental venue and production house has hosted through the decades numerous young theatre creators, many of who are now Slovenia’s most renowned theatre practitioners; among others: Dušan Jovanović, Janez Pipan, Eduard Miller, Nevenka Koprivšek, Matjaž Pograjc, Bojan Jablanovec, Tomi Janežič, Sebastijan Horvat, Diego DeBrea. Glej produces and hosts research theatre projects of up-and-coming directors, who can apply to Glej’s open call. Glej offers a stepping-stone to young directors with professional working conditions, enabling quick and effective personal artistic growth and providing an entry point to a successful theatre career. Current artistic director Marko Bulc’s vision is to keep Glej a daring urban theatre, dedicated to theatre research and promoting the new and marginal. Glej brings audiences an unusual theatre experience, while offering creators a space of uncensored freedom of creation. |
[+] ABOUT ANTIC TEATRE
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Antic Teatre – Espai de Creació is an independent Cultural and Social Centre based in a national heritage listed building, dating from 1650, in central Barcelona. It has a multifunctional hall, bar, terrace and garden. It also boasts a hall for artistic residencies, AdriAntic, on the outskirts of the city. Antic Teatre is one of the reference points for the contemporary stage. It is a resource centre for multidisciplinary arts dedicated to exhibiting and supporting the research, creation, production, promotion and dissemination of performing and visual arts. It is committed to the search for new languages of the body, new technologies and new drama; to new developments in music, visual arts and literature; and to the themes of society, culture, politics and contemporary thought. It supports young, up-and-coming talents; experienced independent creators who lack structural backing; and established artists with a recognised and extensive career in the field. |
[+] ABOUT INSTITUT RAMON LLULL
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The Institut Ramon LLull is a public consortium created by the governments of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, charged with disseminating Catalan culture and the Catalan language abroad. One of their areas of activity is the internationalisation of contemporary performing arts creation, manifest in this collaboration with Antic Teatre in Barcelona, which will begin with the presentation of the cav_a programme at the Glej Theatre in Ljubljana, and will be continued over the coming years in other European cities. |
| ★ TUESDAY 20th of DECEMBER | |||
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10:00 – 14:00 |
EL CONDE DE TORREFIEL
The visiting artists will share their current strategies, practices and creation methods with the participants. The aim of the workshop is to explore the possibilities of staging the conflict between thought and action, between the life taking place inside us and the life taking place in front of our eyes. We will be using two different tools: text and performance. Through these we will construct possible representations of the complex and incoherent realities that we all experience. Pablo Gisbert Donat, 1982, He studied philosophy and has a dramaturgy degree from the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona. Since 2005 he presents his work under the name of El Conde de Torrefiel. He is also the dramaturge of the dance company La Veronal. He has been rewarded for his texts and has also had composed several soundtracks for different shows. Tanya Beyeler, 1980, She has a Drama degree and works in the framework of the new languages in the Performing Arts by means of movement, dance and performance. In 2009 she join the collective group El Conde de Torrefiel. Since 2005 she regularly works also as a performer for the choreographer Marcos Morau in the dance company La Veronal. The workshops are free of charge, we accept applications until December 15th at info@glej.si. The number of participants is limited to 10. |
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14:00 – 17:00 |
A time for Catalan artists and local Slovenian artists to eat together and show an appetite for getting to know each other. Open to all. |
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TASTING FACES |
Informal presentation of both organisers, and an opportunity to get to know the Catalan artists. |
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20:00 |
GUILLEM MONT DE PALOL AND JORGE DUTOR “Y por qué John Cage?” “And why John Cage?” new language of the body +info: www.anticteatre.com And why John Cage? Is a study on sound and meaning in a given speech. The power of the sound of words; sound as structure, as a travelling dynamic. Sensorial rather than meaningful speech. We don’t want to be meaningful; on the contrary, we want to be meaningless in order to penetrate the realms of the senses, of relationships, of perceptions and materialisations. The speech itself can be anything. What we say isn’t important, but how we say it, what musical and choreographic tools we use to break down the text and dive into the performance, insinuating and surfing on the waves of the imagination. Guillem Mont de Palol graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam in 2006. His work falls somewhere between dance, installation, event and performance. As a performer he has worked with various choreographers, including: Mette Ingvartsen, Vincent Dunoyer, Andrea Bozic, Min Tanaka and Masu Fajardo. Jorge Dutor studied stage and theatre design at RESAD in Madrid. After a period working in film and television, he ended up in the world of dance and scenic arts. He has worked as designer and performer with other artists such as Sara Manente, Pere Faura and Aitana Cordero. Jorge and Guillem have been working together since 2009, first on “Ooh, I was a teenage werewolf making things up something dreadful” and most recently on “And why John Cage?” |
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21:00 |
Presentation of both organising bodies, Glej Theatre and Antic Teatre, followed by a discussion with the audience on “And Why John Cage?” moderated by Katarina Stegnar, an actress, dancer, and a performer working with Via Negativa. |
| ★ WEDNESDAY 21th of DECEMBER | |||
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10:00 – 14:00 |
GUILLEM MONT DE PALOL AND JORGE DUTOR
The visiting artists will share their current strategies, INCORPORATING PRACTICE Our Idea involves a physical workout that can also be seen as theatrical theory. We will work with guided Improvisation in order to reach new and unexpected dramatic situations. How do we manage the present while not knowing where we’re headed? Using repetition and organic transformation as tools to help us look for this no-place, we will investigate how to go from a body in movement to the spoken word and back again; from text to semiotics passing through the absurd and the musical. The workshops are free of charge, we accept applications until December 15th at info@glej.si. The number of participants is limited to 10. |
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14:00-17:00 |
A time for Catalan artists and local Slovenian artists to eat together and show an appetite for getting to know each other. Open to all. |
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CAKE TO FACE |
Sit with the artist and talk face to face for a limited time. Are you up for it? |
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20:00 |
SOCIETAT DOCTOR ALONSO “Volumen II” new drama performance +info: http://www.doctoralonso.org To inhabit the stage in a different way each time is the aim of this company, headed by Tomàs Aragay and Sofía Asencio. On this occasion they present a dance floor where a peculiar DJ, a dancing woman and various poetic accidents are combined to show something completely unspectacular: the poetry of the pathetic. Volumen II is the meeting between a dancer, Sofía Asencio, and a musician and performer, Nilo Gallego. The dancer wants to recapture the desire and the meaning of dancing in front of an audience. She wants to recover the simple, straightforward relationship where the body’s movement is driven by the age-old and basic engine that is music. A musician accustomed to work with improvisation, the mix of languages and the experimental, finds himself in the more conventional position of deejaying for a dancer. He has to be more clear and concise than ever; he needs to create music so the dancer will move. The audience observe a performance where the pathetic is taken to its limit; they are subtly questioned on their capacity to accept pathos as one more reality of the human condition. La Societat Doctor Alonso (SDA): Tomás Aragay, theatrical director and Sofia Asencio, dancer and dramaturge, are joint directors of the company. Every show or project is taken as starting from zero, so that they can reconsider their artistic language each time. They mix genres and theatrical devices and use different people, creating their own way of inhabiting the stage. They like to throw the perspective of the audience out of line by placing on stage – where the spectacular is expected – something as unspectacular as possible. La Societat Doctor Alonso is based in the countryside, in Pontós, in order to be far from the ‘noise’ and ‘uniformity’ that surrounds contemporary creation and the artistic world in a big city like Barcelona. It allows them to turn their gaze inwards in the search for a voice. By creating in a rural and local environment, they anchor themselves firmly in their own cultural tradition and from this peripheral observatory create a universal discourse. |
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21:00 |
On “Volumen II”.
Presentation of both organising bodies (Glej Theatre and Antic Teatre), followed by a discussion with the audience on “Volumen II” moderated by Marko Bulc, Artistic Director of Glej Theatre and theatre director. |
| ★ THURSDAY 21th of DECEMBER | |||
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10:00 – 14:00 |
SOCIETAT DOCTOR ALONSO
The visiting artists will share their current strategies, Traditionally, theatrical narrative has been based on the idea of conflict. That is to say, A and B have different objectives and fight each other, each using different strategies, to achieve their aims. We will work on other ways of creating a dramatic discourse without resorting to this contraposition or tension of opposing views. We will search for oblique strategies that will allow A and B to coexist, generating a new poetic sphere of action. The workshops are free of charge, we accept applications until December 15th at info@glej.si. The number of participants is limited to 10. |
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14:00-17:00 |
A time for Catalan artists and local Slovenian artists to eat together and show an appetite for getting to know each other. Open to all. |
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TOASTING THOUGHTS |
While we eat we will try to understand what is happening in the practice of scenic creativity in Catalonia and Slovenia with the help of Pablo Gisbert, creator, dramaturge and writer, Tanya Beyeler, peformer and creator Marko Bulc, theatre director and art director of Glej theatre. |
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EL CONDE DE TORREFIEL “Observe how tiredness defeats thought” physical theatre +info: http://www.elcondedetorrefiel.com One day I discovered that the truth of things appears after a whole night without sleeping. So then I spent a whole year awake, because I wanted to know it all. Today is exactly one year since the day I decided never to sleep again. After all this time I have seen a bleak landscape, close to incorruptible, slowly disintegrating from a lack of intellectual stimulus. El Conde de Torrefiel are a group of artists who got together in Barcelona to devise theatre. The group’s creations are based on plastic arts, contemporary literature and performance. Their aim is to face realities and transcend the parameters of the spoken word, transmuting the constants of the community into visual and scenic poetry. Between 2005 and 2009 El Conde de Torrefiel presented various short pieces at festivals and competitions in Spain. In 2010, all these pieces were brought together in “The story of the King overcome by boredom”, performed at the Antic Teatre in Barcelona. In 2011, dance company La Porta commissioned the video “Never Die”, which was shown at several video-creation festivals. “Observe how tiredness defeats thought” was premiered at the SISMO Festival in Madrid. The new work in progress is “Scenes for a conversation after viewing a Michael Haneke film”. |
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Presentation of both organising bodies, Glej Theatre and Antic Teatre, followed by a discussion with the audience on “Observe how tiredness defeats thought” moderated by Andreja Kopač a dramaturge, researcher, writer and performer of a younger generation who has collaborated with many Slovene and International projects. |
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  Gooya IT, Super Catering, DPG, Radio Student, Triglav |
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