13th International Festival of Contemporary Dance – CoFestival 2024
13th International Festival of Contemporary Dance
CoFestival 2024
Beings of Human Origin
From the 22nd until the 29th of November / multiple venues
Friday, 22 November at 8:00 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Sylvain Huc: Sujets
dance performance, festival opening
There 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Saturday, 23 November at 8:00 p.m. / The Old Power Station
Michael Turinsky: Precarious Moves
solo dance performance
In 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Sunday, 24 November in intervals from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. / Tabor Sports Hall
Jefta van Dinther: Unearth
dance performance
Jefta Van Dinther’s contemporary choreo-vocalist “missa solemnis” creates a touch of humanity and mutual attunement in the midst of a world gone mad.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Sunday, 24 November at 8:30 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Arkadi Zaides: Necropolis
performance
A 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.
Free entry
Monday, 25 November at 7:00 p.m. / Cirkulacija 2
Sanja Nešković Peršin: The Moment Before
artist intervention
The process of choreographic depersonalization is not new in the local contemporary dance space, but Sanja Nešković Peršin 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.
Free entry
Monday, 25 November at 8:00 p.m. / The Old Power Station
Sonja Pregrad: O
dance performance
A choreography of expanding materiality O is a new work by Sonja Pregrad, in which the choreographer’s dance work reaches beyond the purely human, into the flora and the (an)organic. One of the forms of the choreographic future.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Tuesday, 26 November at 8:00 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Jorge Guevara and Naoto Hieda: SFDCANBAC++
performance
The 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Wednesday, 27 November at 7:00 p.m. / The Old Power Station
Jan Rozman: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ screamage
performance
The 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Wednesday, 27 November at 8:30 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Simona Deaconescu and Grigore Burloiu: Collective Cadence
performative lecture
The 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Thursday, 28 November at 7:00 p.m. / Katedrala
Chris Ziegler and Christine Saulut: Yugen
performance
Yugen (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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
Thursday, 28 November at 9:00 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Tomaž Grom: Don’t Think It Will Ever Pass
film screening and discussion
An experimental film shot by Tomaž 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.
Free entry
Friday, 29 November at 10:00 a.m. / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Rok Vevar and Jurij Krpan: Historical Examples and Curatorial Practices of Integrating Technology with Choreographic Work
lecture
The lecture will address topics related to the European collaborative project Modina, which explores the relationships between choreography and the technological potentials of artificial intelligence.
Free entry
Friday, 29 November at 4:00 p.m. / Kino Šiška, Komuna
Dance and Technology
seminar
The seminar will include presentations and discussions on solutions developed in the European collaborative project Modina.
Free entry
Friday, 29 November at 8:00 p.m. / The Old Power Station
Piny: .G Rito
dance performance and discussion
The consecration of the woman’s 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.
Presale: 8 €, at the door: 10 €.
And even more:
Open studio, presentations of monographs by Jasmina Založnik and Alexandra Baybutt, a conversation between Igor Dobričić and Rok Vevar and an unforgettable party at the opening of the festival.
Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia.
In collaboration with Bunker Institute, Sports Association Tabor and
Association Cirkulacija 2.