Jaka Bombač visited the 24th Drugajanje Festival and writes about the performance Nowhere Like Here by Francesco Scavetta, presented on 11th November 2025 in the Old Power Station In this short report from the Drugajanje festival, I will share my thoughts on the performance Nowhere like here , choreographed by Francesco Scavetta , after which I also moderated a public discussion in the Old Power Station . I also aim to further develop my thoughts on the topic of decentraliz

Zuzanna Berendt visited 24th Drugajanje Festival and writes about the performance Girls by Tjaša Črnigoj and Collective Igralke, presented on 10th November 2025 In one of the opening scenes, the performers of the Igralke collective explain that “cure” – the Croatian word for “girls” comes from a verb meaning “to leak” — a verbal symptom of cultural mechanism of reducing women to their biology, which for centuries served to keep them in a position of subordination and, conseq

Med sprehodom po predstavah CoFestivala, 14. mednarodnega ljubljanskega festivala sodobnega plesa (od 21. do 28. novembra 2025), smo lahko pri izvedbah opazili izstopajočo skupno lastnost: gibalne izraze eksistenčnega strahu oziroma napetosti, nevroze, tesnobe, brezizhodnosti, ki jih koreografi, avtorji in plesalci na svoje načine vnašajo v izvedbe. Tovrstni izrazi niso novost, srečujemo jih že precej dolgo na različnih sodobnoscenskih prizoriščih. Precej redke so predstave,

V četrtek, 28. 8., je v sklopu umetniškega projekta Krpanje nevidnega potekal Ples na Taboru, družabno popoldne na plesišču parka Tabor....

Mlade leve vsako leto spremljajo prostovoljci. Nekateri med njimi se vračajo vsako leto znova in med njimi je tudi Mitja Lovše, sicer...

Jaka Bombač attended the premiere of the performance Four Seasons  by Maciej Kuźmiński in Crickoteka, Krakow (February 2025) and then in the frame of Beyond School  event in the Old Power Station in Ljubljana (March 2025).   »Nature is that which we observe in perception through the senses.« Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature   Sitting on the bus leaving for Krakow, I felt like I have already seen the performance that I was about to see. It came as a glimmer of int

Prispevek Lane Krmelj je bil predstavljen na simpoziju Neodvisno gledališče devetdesetih na Slovenskem: neraziskana poglavja, novi...

A philosophically informed review of two performances seen in the context of the Drugajanje 2024 festival In his book Exhausting dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement , Andre Lepecki designates movement as »the main emblem of modernity«. He also notes, citing several scholars of political philosophy (among them Peter Sloterdijk, whom he quotes writing that we »must introduce in the diagnostic of our times, a kinetic and kinesthetic dimension «) that modernity is rel

“ Contemporary dance is too free ” − said a high school-aged audience member after the dance performance of Milan Tomášik called Treatise...

As I look back on the Drugajanje Festival and the critic’s residency, I take inspiration from the title of the larger project Beyond Front@; Bridging Peripheries . I ponder what it actually means to create connections between peripheral places, geographically and artistically. In this context, my role is the one of the critic, but since I am also an artist myself, as well as a curator, there are multiple layers to the ways in which I observe. A recurring question for me is ho

How can a city be “healed and shared”? This is the main question of Mending The Invisible , a series of public interventions and a...

During the Mladi Levi festival 2024, Valeriia Buradzhyieva met with Francesca Pennini and Angelo Pedroni of the CollettivO Cinetico...

A seven-hour performative walk "Shared Landscapes"  took place every day from 22 to 25 August as part of the Mladi Levi festival  2024...