UMETNIK KAO POKLON // ARTIST AS A PRESENT

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With and by
Igor Koruga_SER_Ana Schnabl_SLO
Aleksandar Georgiev_MK Céline Larrère_FR Martina Nevistić_CRO


Support: Jardin d’Europe network, European Cultural Foundation, Nomad Dance Academy network, Station - service
for contemporary dance / Belgrade, Ministry for Culture of Serbia, Zagreb Dance Ensemble, O.N.E.
Art Company / Zagreb, Dance Theatre Ljubljana / Ljubljana, JSKD / Ljubljana, Cultural centre REX / Belgrade.

The performance questions Showmanship, the skill of making an artistic performance distinctive, effective and appealing to an audience. The term may also reffer to competitions involving people showing their animals, such as horse or dog showmanships. The project resolves on a mechanism, which supports showmanship: attention. It challenges content that in a theatrical context is always already there, by making it primary focus. It explores tool and materials that help keeping, directing and challenging attention. Since it is showmanship, it demands the problem of the audience, it demands you!

An artistic collaboration of these five emerging dance artists had been previously established at Nomad Dance Academy 2009 educational programme within projects "…This figuration in Cminor…", "Treshol (in process “D”)", "Look at me", "Wannabe" and "Papalacinke".