Opening of The 8th Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art GIBANICA: Wednesday, 8 March 2017, at 7 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Maistrova 3
Performance: Wednesday, 8 March 2017, from 4 to 7 p.m. and Thursday, 9 March 2017, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Admission free! Entry anytime between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. or between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. respectively
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Maistrova 3
ONGOING MOVING SCULPTURE
Every line always knows how it came to be. To generate or maintain a line there is always a preordained level of intersection justifying it, a partition through the world, mental or physical. However as the powerful “divine” cuts have been exhausted, why don’t we go now straight on to the simple challenging cuts begging to be made, through the nose or through the face … We never know whether the start of a line is a continuation of a previous one or the beginning of a new one. Lines are Arabesques of chaotic fissures in primary surfaces, ones which are not possible in every world. There are conceivably worlds in which there are no lines and no Arabesques either… As soon as we draw a line, we are compelled to create arguments — to 'argue', we have to be fast to justify the line and interpret it in a particular manner. The line promises a voyage to the interior “to the centre of the world” However teasing itself out and unifying again, it does not fulfil this promise. Or does it? And each of the lines we draw could be the very line which damns the world to end.
Idea: Mateja Bučar
Co-authors (space, movement, sound, dance): Vadim Fishkin, Maja Kalafatić, Katja Legin, Evin Hadžialjević, Borut Savski
Production: DUM Association
Coproduction: Cankarjev dom, MG + MSUM
Producer: Sanja Kuveljić
Thanks to: Professor Dejan Križaj (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana), Aleša Valič & zavod ZET.
Support: Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
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Mateja Bučar (1957, Novo mesto) completed ballet school in 1974 and continued her studies in classical and contemporary ballet techniques at the Centre de Danse International Rosella Hightower in Cannes (France) in 1978/79. She got employed in the SNG Opera in ballet in Ljubljana in 1980 and for 24 years danced in nearly all performances. In 1986 she joined Dance Theatre Ljubljana, founded two years before by Ksenija Hribar. She danced in her performances Alpine Daydreaming (1986), Nostalgia (1987), The Return of Odysseus (1988) and Komemoracija-Posušene solze (1996). In addition, she danced in a number of Dance Theatre Ljubljana productions as well as Matjaž Farič performances. Between 1986 and 1992 Bučar, among other things, participated in projects and workshops conducted by choreographers Arthur Rosenfeld (Rotterdam), Donna Uchizono (New York), John Jaspers (New York), Fatou Traore (Brussels), and the William Forsythe Company (Frankfurt). In the 1980's and 90's she collaborated with the Egon March Institute as a choreographer and protagonist of a series of performances both in Slovenia and abroad. In 1999 she founded DUM, the association of artists where she has been together with Vadim Fishkin and Tevž Logar (before Gregor Podnar) active to this day.
GIBANICA 2017
8th Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art
Ljubljana, 8 to 11 March 2017
Gibanica has provided a biennial selection of the best contemporary dance productions of local artists and is considered the most relevant contemporary dance platform in Slovenia since 2003. The biennial will present local dance productions from 8 to 11 March 2017.
The programme of the 8th Gibanica has been selected by a three-member international committee composed of Angela Glechner (Austria), Artistic and Financial Director of SZENE Salzburg and Sommerszene festival, Suzana Koncut (Slovenia), a dancer and translator, and Eddie Nixon (UK), Director of Theatre and Artist Development at The Place, London.
Among 44 applications, the committee has selected nine performances that will compete to win both a jury and audience awards.
This comprehensive overview of dance art production in Slovenia will be valuable information for both the invited foreign selectors as well as interested local audience.
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