Premiere: 28 February 2023, 20.00, Cultural centre Španski borci
Project Creative Bodies in Movement is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union under the European Social Fund.
Premiere: 28 February at 20.00, in Španski borci
The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union under the European Social Fund.
Projekt Kreativna telesa v gibanju sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije ter Evropska unija iz Evropskega socialnega sklada.
In November 2021, the Pekinpah team started Creative Bodies in Movement, the project designed to engage migrants to act productively and creatively, building up their skills and increasing opportunities for employment in Slovenia, in the field of performing arts. With this project, we encourage the creative potential of migrants and intercultural and intergenerational dialogue.
Over 60 migrants from 31 countries got engaged in our educational programs in costume design, scenography, dance and music, over 15 of them engaging in onstage performance called Creative Bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable Performance.
Vulnerable performance is created with and by the migrants participating in the educational programs within the Creative Bodies in Movement project, facilitated by renowned artists and mentors Elvis Homan (Music), Leja Jurišić & Matej Kejžar (Dance and performance), Barbara Stupica (Costume design) and Atej Tutta (Scenography).
You are cordially invited to Španski borci on 28 February at 20.00 to witness the results of their work, newly acquired skills and artistic expression around the topic of vulnerability, crossroads, exclusion and inclusion.
Entrance is free.
About the performance
The flow of thoughts and actions that allow the articulation of a particular idea, both in the workshops and in the final stage production, was based on different processes, carried out with reference to the individual mentors' own experiences or artistic practices. The final performance is seen by both the project organisers and the performers as a kind of crossroads of the proposed artistic and creative directions. The environment of the "stage", as a crossroads of sometimes even parallel worlds, presents us with a safe environment where even the most unfavourable circumstances or conditions work in the opposite direction, namely in the direction of creativity, unburdened of conventional demands. A crossroads, like a house, can be a place or an act of passage between the visible and the non-visible, or a crossroads, like the skin on the body, can be a landmark between the inner and the outer world, between the hidden interior and the outer façade. And since the Creative Bodies in Movement project is conceived as a set of different and distinct individuals and mentors, each participating with their own specific artistic expression, we can say that the performance Creative Bodies, Movements and Live - Vulnerable Performance is a project that lays itself bare as a landscape of different intersections, where instead of a sewing thread there is a piece of tape, and where, with the help of rhythmic settings, dictation and the measurement of time, the individual immerses themself in a timeless landscape. The safe environment, where the orientation is primarily horizontal, is not only for the key individuals involved in the project, but for any visitor who finds themself in a vulnerable situation.
Credits
Dance: Alla Abramova (Ukraine), Larissa Braatz (Slovenia), Ayla Heier (Netherlands), Alina Kovalova (Ukraine), Marja Kovanda (Slovenia), Ema Križič (Slovenia), Dijana Pavljašević (Croatia), Anna Pogačnik (Russia), Jelena Racić (Serbia), Neja Rakušček (Slovenia), Ana Vrhovnik (Slovenia), Juan Zuleta (Colombia)
Scenography: Dea Beatovikj (North Macedonia), Suzana Čolić (Croatia), Dinçer Oruçoğlu (Turkey), Mahtab Singh (India), Anila Spahiu (Kosovo), Edin Suljić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Costumes: Alevtina Ainutdinova (Russia), Danijel Čeč (Slovenia), Sabina Huskić (Slovenia), Jacqueline Louise Marshall (Australia), Anila Spahiu (Kosovo)
Music: Can Olguner (Turkey), Marta Plasencia (Spain), Oleksandr Plotnikov (Ukraine)
Music mentor: Elvis Homan
Dance mentor: Matej Kejžar
Costume design mentor: Barbara Stupica
Scenography mentor: Atej Tutta
Production: Pekinpah
Producer: Žiga Predan
Coordinator: Zana Oručević Mehulj
Assisstant coordinator: Jasmina Klančar
Partner: Public Institute Cene Štupar CILJ
The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union under the European Social Fund.
