A SEMINAR OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS CRITICISM. Held by Rok Vevar (Slovenia)

14^th-16^th of September, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The contemporary performing arts are those stage practices and productions that are directly or indirectly connected to the artistic approaches, procedures, formats and notions of the modern, postmodern and different (historical, neo- and trans-) avant-garde theatre, choreographic, physical and technological stage practices etc. and which usually transgress the ways we watch classical or traditional performing arts. In order to access them in a critical way and to increase our analytical competences, we need to find our ways into them, to invent our process or strategies of watching and observe how they see us back. A three days seminar for contemporary performing arts criticism is going to offer the reading tools for those arts along with the possible writing approaches, critical tactics and strategies. The first day we’ll try to unfold some systemic elements/categories of contemporary performing arts in order to access and possibly accelerate the process of perception (reading/ watching/scanning/confronting/negotiating/participating etc.), using some useful video materials of historical examples. The second and the third day we are going to open a writing playground, introducing some playful and creative writing exercises, in order to approach with them the works seen at the PLArTFORMA 2018.

 

Rok Vevar (1973) is a writer, dramaturg, theoretician and historian of contemporary dance and theatre, living and working in Ljubljana (Slovenia). He’s been publishing articles on dance and theatre in different daily, weekly newspapers and magazines as well as in the scientific periodicals. Founder of The Slovene Temporary Dance Archives (presented at different theatre/dance festivals in Zagreb, Croatia, Sofia, Bulgaria, Skopje, Macedonia and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) that moved to Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova Ljubljana in April 2017, since 2009 member of Nomad Dance Academy, the Balkan Contemporary Dance Network, co-curator of CoFestival, international contemporary dance festival (NDA SLO, Kino Šiška Ljubljana). As dramaturg he collaborated with choreographers Sinja Ožbolt, Jana Menger, Goran Bogdanovski, Andreja Rauch Pozdravnik, Snježana Premuš, Kaja Lorenci etc. and in the recent years in Mladinsko Theatre in Ljubljana with Oliver Frljić, Ana Vujanović, Saša Aasentić etc. Between 2013-2015 he’s been assistant professor at Academy For Theatre in Ljubljana (Theatre Criticism) and Academy for Dance Ljubljana (Dance History - 20th Century, Dance Analysis, Dance Dramaturgy). Books: Deadline – Selected Articles and Essays (2011), 500 dramskih zgodb (1997), Day, Night + Human = Rhythm, Anthology of Contemporary Dance Criticism 1918-60 (comes out in September 2018).

 

Young performing art critics, journalists and/or students of these study programmes are invited to participate in the workshops. Duration 3 days x 3 hours. Seminar will be held in English. Participation is free. Participants who come from other Lithuanian or foreign cities are provided with accommodation. Number of places is limited, so pre-booking is necessary via e-mail inga@kkkc.lt until the 1^st of September / contact tel. no: +370 618 14506.