{"id":4447,"date":"2023-09-09T18:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2023\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:54:22","slug":"13-cofestival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cofestival.si\/2023\/en\/13-cofestival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"13th International Festival of Contemporary Dance – CoFestival 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"13th International Festival of Contemporary Dance<\/strong>
\nCoFestival 2024<\/strong>
\nBeings of Human Origin<\/strong>
\nFrom the 22nd until the 29th of November \/ multiple venues<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday, 22 November at 8:00 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Katedrala<\/strong>
\nSylvain Huc: Sujets<\/strong>
\ndance performance, festival opening<\/strong>
\nThere is no simpler and more complex question in the dance art than what is a body and when does a body become someone. In this way, Sylvain Huc has created a remarkable choreographic study of people.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Saturday, 23 November at 8:00 p.m. \/ The Old Power Station<\/strong>
\nMichael Turinsky: Precarious Moves<\/strong>
\nsolo dance performance<\/strong>
\nIn his 2021 solo, Michael Turinsky explores the relationship between gesture and its milieu in order to redefine the phenomenology of the body as part of a culture of disability, beyond normativity.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 24 November in intervals from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. \/ Tabor Sports Hall<\/strong>
\nJefta van Dinther: Unearth<\/strong>
\ndance performance<\/strong>
\nJefta Van Dinther\u2019s contemporary choreo-vocalist \u201cmissa solemnis\u201d creates a touch of humanity and mutual attunement in the midst of a world gone mad.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 24 November at 8:30 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Katedrala<\/strong>
\nArkadi Zaides: Necropolis<\/strong>
\nperformance<\/strong>
\nA performance about people whom Europe first turns into spectres in order to be able to integrate them into its symbolic universe. Choreographer Arkadi Zaides and his collaborators have created one of the finest examples of documentary contemporary performing arts.
\nFree entry<\/p>\n

Monday, 25 November at 7:00 p.m. \/ Cirkulacija 2<\/strong>
\nSanja Ne\u0161kovi\u0107 Per\u0161in: The Moment Before<\/strong>
\nartist intervention<\/strong>
\nThe process of choreographic depersonalization is not new in the local contemporary dance space, but Sanja Ne\u0161kovi\u0107 Per\u0161in gives it a completely new form, in which we, the spectators, are placed in front of a human Thing, to which we have to assign a name.
\nFree entry<\/p>\n

Monday, 25 November at 8:00 p.m. \/ The Old Power Station<\/strong>
\nSonja Pregrad: O<\/strong>
\ndance performance<\/strong>
\nA choreography of expanding materiality O is a new work by Sonja Pregrad, in which the choreographer\u2019s dance work reaches beyond the purely human, into the flora and the (an)organic. One of the forms of the choreographic future.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 26 November at 8:00 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Katedrala<\/strong>
\nJorge Guevara and Naoto Hieda: SFDCANBAC++<\/strong>
\nperformance<\/strong>
\nThe performance Stage for Digital, Contagious, and Networked Bodies and Code++ (SFDCANBAC++) is part of the European collaborative project Modina, which explores the relationships between choreography and the technological potentials of artificial intelligence.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 27 November at 7:00 p.m. \/ The Old Power Station<\/strong>
\nJan Rozman: (\u256f\u00b0\u25a1\u00b0)\u256f\ufe35 \u253b\u2501\u253b screamage<\/strong>
\nperformance<\/strong>
\nThe reality of the relationship between the digital and the corporeal or even the material, which Jan Rozman deals with in his latest group choreographic work, represents one of the most refreshing examples of local contemporary dance in recent years.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 27 November at 8:30 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Komuna<\/strong>
\nSimona Deaconescu and Grigore Burloiu: Collective Cadence<\/strong>
\nperformative lecture<\/strong>
\nThe performative lecture Collective Cadence is part of the European collaborative project Modina. It focuses on the role of rhythm in the transmission of collective desires and fears.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Thursday, 28 November at 7:00 p.m. \/ Katedrala<\/strong>
\nChris Ziegler and Christine Saulut: Yugen<\/strong>
\nperformance<\/strong>
\nYugen (Japanese term for mystery and depth) is a pas de deux between a dancer and an avatar in virtual reality, created as part of the European collaborative project Modina.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

Thursday, 28 November at 9:00 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Katedrala<\/strong>
\nToma\u017e Grom: Don\u2019t Think It Will Ever Pass<\/strong>
\nfilm screening and discussion<\/strong>
\nAn experimental film shot by Toma\u017e Grom with simple procedural pledges between the 25th of April 2022 and the 26th of January 2023, dates that are sacred to him, is kineasthetically brutal. An outstanding example of cinematic choreography.
\nFree entry<\/p>\n

Friday, 29 November at 10:00 a.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Komuna<\/strong>
\nRok Vevar and Jurij Krpan: Historical Examples and Curatorial Practices of Integrating Technology with Choreographic Work
\nlecture
\nThe lecture will address topics related to the European collaborative project Modina, which explores the relationships between choreography and the technological potentials of artificial intelligence.
\nFree entry<\/p>\n

Friday, 29 November at 4:00 p.m. \/ Kino \u0160i\u0161ka, Komuna<\/strong>
\nDance and Technology<\/strong>
\nseminar<\/strong>
\nThe seminar will include presentations and discussions on solutions developed in the European collaborative project Modina.
\nFree entry<\/p>\n

Friday, 29 November at 8:00 p.m. \/ The Old Power Station<\/strong>
\nPiny: .G Rito<\/strong>
\ndance performance and discussion<\/strong>
\nThe consecration of the woman\u2019s spring, created by Portuguese choreographer Piny, is a celebration of different femininities, an open space in which all pasts can fit, if we imagine the future thoroughly enough. An event of true joy.
\nPresale: 8 \u20ac, at the door: 10 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

And even more:
\nOpen studio, presentations of monographs by Jasmina Zalo\u017enik and Alexandra Baybutt, a conversation between Igor Dobri\u010di\u0107 and Rok Vevar and an unforgettable party at the opening of the festival.<\/p>\n

Organised by: Kino \u0160i\u0161ka and NDA Slovenia.
\nIn collaboration with Bunker Institute, Sports Association Tabor and
\nAssociation Cirkulacija 2.<\/p>\n