Authors and performers in these works are fourteen emerging artists from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Israel, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland, who have been living and working together in a four-month long process within the frame of the NOMAD Dance Academy education program.
Domen Šega (SLO), Inti Šraj (SLO), Esta Matković (CRO), Martina Rukavina (CRO), Kliment Poposki (MK), Viktorija Ilioska (MK), Katelina Vladimirova Kancheva (BUL), Krasimira Yossifova Bakardijeva (BUL), Jana Jevtović (SER), Jovana Rakić (SER), Eléonore Richard (CH), Pierre Yves Diacon (CH), Maya Levy (ISR), Florian Wessels (D) traveled through and met the artistic scenes in Skopje, Sofia, Kanjiža, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ptuj and Ljubljana, having shared lectures, classes, workshops, meetings with other artists as well as spaces for their personal artistic explorations.
With the help of mentors and a local technical team, the Nomads will create a series of short performances, installations and events (5-30 minutes) and will perform and exhibit them in different locations in Ljubljana. Light, sound and video for the Short Cuts 3 will be done in collaboration with young Slovene stage technicians, involved in the Bunker technical workshops, which traditionally accompany the realization of Short Cuts for the third time. More than 20 participants are attending the workshop this year and undergoing an educational process for lighting, sound and video design.
Programme of the Short Cuts 3
A Mind Cut - Jovana Rakić (SRB)
dance performance
A story constantly reframed, entangled, cut and edited. A story about a man, or a woman or two women, or maybe someone else. Surely a story about something.
Co-creators and performers: Florian Wessels, Martina Rukavina, Krasimira Y. Bakardijeva, Jana Jevtović, Kliment Poposki
Music: “Devils Haircut” by Beck
Bio: Contemporary dancer and anthropologist, with a residency in Belgrade. Worked with choreographers, directors, musicians and visual artists from Serbia and abroad. Currently attending Nomad Dance Academy, creating, living and working with a great group of artists. Jovana Rakić
Dice Decided - Florian Wessels (D)
a chance device
Come/the dice is waiting//throw it//an empty table at the wall//throw it//choose a square/fill it/fill the table/set the frame//return//gather around/let it/see it/happen
Performed by: Jovana Rakić, Esta Matković, Eléonore Richard, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Domen Šega, Florian Wessels
Thanks to: European Cultural Foundation/STEP beyond, Henning Jann, Markus Lohmann, Patrycja Szczeniowska, Piotr Szczeniowski, Laertes Sickert, Andy Zondag, Martin Hansen, my heart and my family
Bio: A vast multiplicity of themes running through my life along a long and winding road leading me from science to arts, from the south of the border to Norwegian woods however nonetheless encountering chances with this year’s Nomad dance academy.
I am always watching you! - Viktorija Ilioska (MK)
performance
“I am always watching you!” is performance about the feeling of being constantly observe. How do you feel when you are under surveillance? Five performers put you in an uncomfortable situation. It depends on you how much you will allow this to affect you.
Performed by: Esta Matković, Martina Rukavina, Domen Šega, Kliment Poposki, Viktorija Ilioska
Bio: Vikorija is a young Macedonian dancer and performer. She lives, works and study in Skopje. Viktorija Ilioska
It All Leads to a Smile - Inti Šraj (SLO)
solo performance
Through a very personal language a very personal story. Exploring presence and sincerity on stage.
Performed by: Inti Šraj, Domen Šega, Florian Wessels, Pierre-Yves Diacon
Choreographer: Jovana Rakić
Music: Antoine Barrau
Bio: Intimacy, Intimidate,Inti Šraj 1.9.1980 Ljubljana, Integrate, Intellectual, Intense, Interact, Intercept, Intercourse, Interest, Interpose, Internal,International, Interpreter, Interrogation, Interruption, Interstice.
Watch Me Love; Is It Enough? - Domen Šega (SLO)
performance
What a man is capable of while being obsessively in love.
Creation and performed by: Maya Levi, Domen Šega
Thanks to: Ivana Ivković, Rok Vevar as part of Nomad Dance Academy 2010
So You're a Philosopher? Yes. - Esta Matković (HRV)
physical theatre
I’ve got a plan in my hands which is perfect for you! Brilliant and unique idea, all its habits and obeying traces of society. I will deliver it to you as soon as possible. I didn’t put the guarantee inside now because I’ve already closed the letter. Just trust me. Yours.
Performed by: Viktorija Ilioska, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Martina Rukavina, Esta Matković
Bio: I’m between 19 and 34 years old. I sit. There´s no chair. I don’t have legs, nor a hear, my arms are not there. I´m controlling my breath, following my thoughts with a movement of the eyes. I´m the improviser. The best I can do. It´s better not to start talking about my skills, they could disappear. It could be really awkward to not know whom you are talking with. Esta Matković
Step Within - Katelina Kancheva (BULG)
experiment
"Step Within" seeks in opening boundaries between dance, theatre, interview, video, film and life improvisation. This is the story of all us who are searching a path towards the other. We are usually looking for a place somewhere outside, but the step is usually very small and happens inside us if we have eyes to see it.
“ I feel my eyes tearing up. What should I do with my eyes? What should I watch? You ask what you should watch. I ask how I should live. It's the same thing.”
Performed by: Katelina Kancheva, Krasimira Bakardijeva, Pierre-Yves Diacon, Florian Wessels, Viktorija Ilioska , Martina Rukavina, Esta Matković, Inti Šraj
in video: all NOMADS 2010
Bio: Katelina Kancheva is Bulgarian free-lancer performer. Coming from a background in Directing, Acting, Visual arts and Writing. She has earned her degree in Department of Theatre Acting (2009) from New Bulgarian University, she had one year class of directing for movies and television inNATFA The National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (2004) and 3 months scholarship specialization in Utrecht School of the ARTS (HKU)(2008) Borissova-About global warming (2009) Sofia. Katelina perform in many independent art projects and she keep researching “what is act, dance, theatre and film in every art fields “.
"1891" - Martina Rukavina (HRV)
performance
A woman is waiting; her husband is at war, the son trains for a competition that doesn't exist. They are lost in time. The connections between them fade. They struggle to hold on to the memories.
Performed by: Inti Šraj, Kliment Poposki, Pierre-Yves Diacon
Music: "Ahccai" by Mari Boine
Bio: Martina Rukavina was born 2nd august 1987 in Rijeka,Croatia. When she was five years old she attended the Rhythmic course under the Tereza Dubrovic. She began studies in classical ballet at the Ivan Pl. Zajc Theatre in Rijeka,Croatia. After graduation from elementary school she was admitted into the professional high school of Contemporary Dance" Ana Maletic" in Zagreb,Croatia. In 2006 Martina entered the professional program at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). In 2009 she graduated, successfully completing the professional program of University calibre at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD).
Atomic Bomb From the Left - Maya Levi (ISR)
A group performance
Fourteen performers from different countries and nationalities are researching a group behaviour. Though short moving pictures they experience situations of violence, competition, joy and hysteria. They ask questions about the collective and its patterns, the stupidity of the mob, and the choices we have as individuals despite the circumstances.
Co-creators and performers: Domen Šega, Inti Šraj, Esta Matković, Martina Rukavina, Kliment Poposki, Viktorija Ilioska, Katelina Vladimirova Kancheva, Krasimira Yossifova Bakardijeva, Jana Jevtović, Jovana Rakić, Eléonore Richard, Pierre Yves Diacon, Maya Levi, Florian Wessels
Music: Layla Layla, Natan Alterman, Mordechai Zeira, Harry Belafonte
Bio: May was born and lives in Israel. She was educated in the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Since 2003 she has been working as an independent choreographer and her work has been performed in Israel and abroad. Between 2007-2009 Maya was the artistic director of the dance department in the Hazira Theater for performance art in Jerusalem. Her new piece KINGFISHER- a duet on a trampoline, premiered in April 2010 in Dresden Tanzwoche, Germany, and will be performed in Israel this September.
Pink Sketches of blue - Éléonore Richard (CH)
choregraphism
Pink sketches of blue explores the thought of movement, neither in time, nor in the space, but to move the spectator in a perfect bubble where everything is mixed, where nothing is important, where the absurd is next to the reality. Bubbles of imagination, chaos of choreographies where the fundamental rules of time and of the gravitation do not exist anymore.
performed by: Éléonore Richard
Music: Christophe Studer
Bio: Eléonore Richard is a Swiss artist born in 1982. She benefits from two trainings which bring her to practice professionally two professions to equal part: graphic designer and dancer-choreographer. Eléonore develops consequently these two disciplines in an auxiliary, additional way, experiments to the everyday life the visual strength of the art as much in front of a computer as on a stage. Since 2009 she is the founder and director of her company: www.leoki.ch.
The Wishing Floor - Jana Jevtović (SRB)
a trio
How close is the closest touch? What is the minimum distance between two people? And if we reach it, will it hurt? Three performers survive intimacy and loneliness in a world where nothing quite fits, their bodies collapsing, failing, exhausted. As situations shift from the extremely absurd to the painfully real and back again, who will survive the consequences of desire? What is the logic of disgust?
Collaborators and performers: Maya Levy, Esta Matković and Jovana Rakić
Music: “Perfect Day” Lou Reed
Text: David Gutierrez-Campeau
Bio: Jana is a choreographer and performer born in Belgrade and living in Montréal. Since the completion of her studies in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in 2006 she has continued to perform in the works of several local choreographers as well as Transition Opera in London, U.K. Her collaborations with experimental film-maker Csérnak-Risko produced a number of works which continue to be screened at festivals such as Screendance Basel Film Festival and LOIKKA Dance Film Festival.
‘The rite of passage’ - Kliment Poposki (MAK)
physical theatre
This show is about an outsider searching for a way in. Struggling to belong without losing identity and facing the hurdles of that journey.
Creation and performed by: Florian Wessels, Domen Šega , Jovana Rakić, Kliment Poposki, Pierre-Yves Diacon
Music: part from ‘The Crossing’ - Lisa Gerrard
Thanks to: my companions Nomad 2010, Nomad Dance Academy and Lokomotiva in Skopje
Bio: Kliment Poposki who currently lives in Skopje-Macedonia, graduated at the Melbourne National Theatre in 2005. With diploma of arts – Acting. His works include dance, stage, film and TV in Australia and Europe. /www.myspace.com/klimentpoposki/
Tu as oublié le sel ma chérie - Krassimira Bakardjieva
Contemporary dance performance
Story about motivating series of meeting with yourself, with friend, with people. It is aromatic, tasty, colourful and sound dinner with unexpected ending.
Sugar+ Flour + Eggs +Olive oil + Soda +Baking powder +Cinnamon + Raisin + Carrots + Walnuts + Pineapple + Orange + Cheese + Salt = A Meeting
Creation and performed by: NOMADS 2010
Bio: Krassimira Bakardjieva is an optimistic Bulgarian free-lancer performer. Krassimira Bakardjieva
Interstices - Pierre-Yves Diacon
Occupation of empty gabs
"Interstrices" is using the small gaps existing in between performances in order to replay extinguishing fragments of memory and resonance from these performances, and as well to leave, around the venues, other type of traces. This proposal borrows the thematic from another performance project, named "empty shell" (www.protopae/pyd_nda_2010), which was elaborated during NDA 2010, but which couldn’t be realized for the Short Cut festival. The "empty shell" project seeks for the temporal state of desertion of a place: the remains left behind by an event that had just happened; remains which are about to be covered or overwritten by a new happening; the sedimentary layers of memory accumulated in a place.
Concept: Pierre-Yves Diacon / Mondes Transversax Co.
Trace makers: Inti Šraj, performers, technicians, audience
Brainstorming team: Pierre-Yves Diacon, Inti Šraj, Rok Vevar, Christophe Studer, Tomaz Štrucl, Goran Bogdanovski, Boštjan Benčič, Rožle Palcar
Bio: Pierre-Yves Diacon studied choreography at the SNDO (Amsterdam). He works professionally as dance-maker and contemporary dancer since 2005. He also practices break-dance in a high level since the middle of the 90’s. In July 2008, he started the Mondes Transversaux dance company (www.mondestransversaux.ch) based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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