NOW IN KRUŠČE

New dates for the performance A House A Home by Katja Legin are:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5TH AT 8PM – CANCLED!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH AT 8PM

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14TH AT 8PM

As always one needs to reserve the “seat” for the performance through our email info@krusce.si. We are already accepting the reservations. You can read an excerpt from the article by Maša Radi Buh about the performance below or follow the link and read the whole text (https://www.neodvisni.art/refleksija/2024/06/dvojnosti-umetelne-prisotnosti/).

Katja’s current choreographic interest or language in the performance A House A Home from previous appearances has transformed in such a way that this time it has extracted and condensed certain interests that we could already perceive there, as she leans heavily on performativity and mise en scene, which is close to theatre arts. But this is by no means an emergency solution, or a seeking refuge in representational models that are more accessible to the spectator or more readily understandable because of their rich signing; no, on the contrary, the artifice of the theatrical or cinematic seems to give her the freedom to explore or make sense of movement practice and interests, and to establish a visual and, not least, an affective contrast that most successfully produces a problem, a problem that is transformed into a choreographic language. In the end, what distinguishes the performance A House A Home is that Katja brings us close, but not only close, to her intimacy, a practice that is not alien to the performing arts, and is often even a safe tool for the production of content and material. Katja lets us in close because she shares with us her unknowing, her uncertainty, because at the end of the performance it does not seem that all these questions are answered or that Katja can draw clear and relieving conclusions that would relieve her of her burdens. After all, at the end of the performance, we leave the theatre through the door and find ourselves in the kitchen/dining room of the family house, the children arrive from upstairs and the end of the event consumes the life of this house, which is a life that crosses the boundaries of work and home.

There will for sure be some changes, nice surprises and exciting add ons in the program.

TUESDAY, AUG 13TH 9h-10H Arrival 10.30h-13h. Psychodrama group (Tomi Janežič, psychodrama psychotherapist) 13h-15h lunch at Gostilnica Cajnarje  15h- 18h Psychodrama/Art therapy(Ana Rokvić Pinterič, psychodrama psychotherapist) 18.00h- 19.30h Dinner from Mrs. Lili 19.30h Concert Samo Kutin

WEDNESDAY, AUG 14TH 8h -9.30h morning workout for enthusiasts (Denes Döbrei/Katja Legin, dancers) 9.30h- 10.30h Breakfast 10.30h-13h Psychodrama group (Tomi Janežič, psychodrama psychotherapist) 13h-15h  lunch at Gostilnica Cajnarje 15h- 16.30h Photography workshop(Guido Mencari, photographer) 17h- 18.30h Creativity workshop 18.30h- 20.00h Dinner from Mrs.Lili 20.00h theatre performance Final act (Lucija Barišić)

THURSDAY, AUG 15TH 8h -9.30h morning workout for enthusiasts (Denes Döbrei/Katja Legin, dancers) 9.30h- 10.30h Breakfast 10h-13h Psychodrama group (Tomi Janežič & Vladimir Milošević, psychodrama psychotherapists) 13h-15h lunch at Gostilnica Cajnarje  15h- 18h Psychodrama workshop (Maja Šorli & Eva Škofic Maurer, psychodrama psychotherapists) 18.30h- 19.30h Dinner from Mrs.Lili 19.30h evening event dedicated to Manca Košir

FRIDAY, AUG 16TH 8h -9h morning workout for enthusiasts (Denes Döbrei,  dancer) 9h- 10h Breakfast 10h-13h Psychodrama group (Tomi Janežič, psychodrama psychotherapist) 13h-15h lunch at Gostilnica Cajnarje 15h- 18h Psychodrama workshop (Vladimir Milošević, psychodrama psychotherapist) 18h- 20h Dinner from Mrs.Lili 20h film projection of the film in the making by Metod Pevec I’m worried about you, son (working title) and a talk with Vladimir Milošević

SATURDAY, AUG 17TH 8h -9.30h morning workout for enthusiasts (Denes Döbrei/Katja Legin, dancers) 9h- 10h Breakfast 10h-13h Psychodrama group (Tomi Janežič, psychodrama psychotherapist) 13h-15h lunch at Gostilnica Cajnarje 15h- 18h Psychodrama workshop (Vladimir Milošević, psychodrama psychoterapist) 18.30h- 19.30h Dinner from Mrs.Lili 19.30h instant composition (Denes Döbrei, Katja Legin and others)

PARTICIPATION FEE

Early bird participation fee until July 15th. Bank transfer of the participation fee counts as an application (bank details bellow).

5 DAYS: 500 EUR (450 EUR) 

4 DAYS: 420 EUR (380 EUR) 

3 DAYS: 330 EUR (300 EUR). 

2 DAYS: 230 EUR (210 EUR) 

1 DAY: 120 EUR (110 EUR). 

Lower contribution for students, psychotherapy trainees, freelance artists, retirees and members of Krušče psychodrama groups.

Higher contribution for others.

ACCOMODATION:
The accommodation at Krušče Creative Center is paid separately. The contribution per night is 30 eur per person in the houses and 15 eur per person for camping. Beds are mostly already occupied.

FOOD:

During the festival we will offer organised lunch and dinner. Participants can order lunch or dinner, both or they can prepare the food themselves.

Lunch will be served in Gostilnica Cajnarje (7 min walk from CC Krušče). The price for lunch which includes soup, main dish and a salad is 15 eur. 

Mrs. Lili will be delivering dinner to Krušče. The price for dinner is 13 eur.

Both meals will be vegetarian.

In CC Krušče all the houses include a kitchen where one can store and prepare food.

EMAIL:  

info@krusce.si

The date for the first spring reprise is Saturday, April 13th at 7pm. You can already reserve your place at info@krusce.si. There is only 25 places available.

We are planning reprises also on Friday, May 10th and 31st. (but rather come already in April)

“Perhaps the best key to entering the multi-layered performance is provided by the element that at first seems the most arbitrary in its inclusion, an excerpt from Opening Night (1977) projected on the screen. Nowhere in the film is it explicitly explained, but the judiciously chosen excerpt quickly clarifies Legin’s interest. Director John Cassavetes, with his partner and actress Gena Rowlands, made films that were more attentive to women’s experience of the world than his contemporaries. Rowlands herself, however, never glossed over the latter – tragic as they were – in her approach to creating and embodying her characters. Instead of playing them as victims, she imbued them all with the dignity that unenviable situations deserve. Like Legin, she found strength in powerlessness.”
(Dancing behind the bars of expectations, Metod Zupan, Kritika, 15.1. 2024)

little festival of psychodrama will also be happening this year! And we know when. As always in August. 13th to 17th. Tuesday to Saturday.

We will be sharing more info about the program, guests and applications when the real spring arrives. We are looking forward to the summer time in Krušče with everyone who will be returning and all the people who might join this season for the first time.

ARTISTIC GROUP RESIDENCY is intended for groups of artists who work together, artistic groups or collectives who would like to dedicate their time solely to the artistic work they are pursuing. Krušče Creative Center provides an inspiring space where a group of artists can live and work together surrounded by nature and in good working condition.
We invite groups and collectives who are in the beginning of the process, in the phase of brainstorming or research as well as those who are already deep into the work and need some focused time to finalise it.
The spaces we can offer are the most suitable for performative arts, but can also be of use for any other art mediums.
We do not expect any forms of presentation or sharing of the work in the time of the residency, though that can be arranged if the artists desires so.

SPRING GROUP RESIDENCIES can happen from April 21st to June 21st 2024, they can last from minimum 4 days to up to 3 weeks.

For info and application: info@krusce.si

You can find more about it here: https://resartis.org/open-call/artistic-group-residency/

New performance by Katja Legin, with collaborators Tomi Janežič, Branko Hojnik, Marina Sremac and Tomaž Grom was premiered on December 15th 2023 in Krušče Creative Center.

A House A Home is set at home, in the house where the author lives. It steals from film, uses pop and does everything it can to make the theatre happen. 

It jugles themes of womanhood and life juices, home, family and absence. Inspiration for the work on the performance were short stories of female authors that deal with these themes.     

Photos by Marcandrea:

1978 is a performance by the Hungarian State Theater Csiky Gergely from Timişoara, part of the theater dodecalogy (12 performances), which director Tomi Janežič in collaboration with playwright Simona Semenič, set designer Branko Hojnik, costume designer Marina Sremac, music composer Samo Kutin, video author Carlo Zoratti and a number of other artists is preparing for the European Capital of Culture 2025 GO25!

Below are excerpts of responses to the latest performance…

“no title yet, The Death of Ivan Iljiča, The Seagull, these are the performances that made a large part of the theatre scene in Timisoara develop a real cult of director Tomi Janežič. In March, Sfantu Gheorghe hosted another Janežič: Uncle Vanja. So Tomi came to Timi*, not only as a guest of the festival, but as a director and co-author of the latest premiere 1978, ambitious, large-scale, complex and demanding performance that honors the 2023 Capital of culture. The ensemble of the Hungarian State Theater Csiky Gergely is at its peak and confirms its rise in recent years.

(from the text by Mihai Brezeanu: I was and I was not – 1978)

“I have already seen several performances by the Slovenian director Tomi Janežič, I am a big fan of his, because every time he created something impressive. The last time I watched his almost ten-hour performance no title yet where time stopped and the play absorbed, now he has created another unforgettable performance with the actors of the Csiky Gergely State Hungarian Theater from Timisoara, that is 1978. …

Janežič is a master of creating atmophere, and this with incredible ease. Playing, you might say, isn’t even acting, because they tell a story, that is, many small stories, bypassing the traditional character portraying, like civilians, and yet every little detail comes to life in front of us, thereby triggering our imagination. They sneak in here and there, “acted characters” for just a few sentences. Multigenerational stories of family members are slowly and imperceptibly connected. …

The third part of the performance is different from the first two, and the director illuminates it with two or three spotlights, which conjure up such magical lights on the stage that the scenes played in it create a completely cinematic effect. The water poured on the cold concrete turns into a sea, a sea of blood and turquoise waters. And the water slowly trickling from the slag turns into a stream of ice-cold water flowing from the mountains of Romania. …

We know that we are in a theater, and this awareness is reinforced by all the alienating effects, or the fact that the director repeatedly walks into the picture, blows smoke or speaks into the scene, but the magic still works. We have the feeling that we are there on the battlefield or in the family living room, at other times in school or in the middle of a revolution. …

Janežič and the team of the Csiky Gergely Theater created a wonderful, inspiring show, five hours pass, we watch this family novel, the light plays with the greatest attention, and the cold in the hall takes us to the unheated rooms of the darkest period of Romania.”

(from the text of Szerda Zsófia: And then the phone rang)

Photos of the performance 1978 by the outstanding photographer Guido Mencari (https://www.guidomencari.com):

From 2021, Studio for the Research on the Art of Acting is part of the international project “The Ways of the Heroes”, which explores the question of the power of the individual in relation to the environmental crisis through various artistic practices such as theater, film, literature and visual art. The project aims to encourage individual environmental activism and create ecologically aware communities.

The main partner of the project is the Macedonian National Theater from Skopje, in cooperation with partners from Italy (La Dramaturgie), Greece (Loop), Slovenia (Studio for the Research on the Art of Acting), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Studio Teatar), Serbia (Eho Animato) and North Macedonia (Gavroche Books). The project is co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. 

On Wednesday, 19th of April starting at 6pm the documentary film “The Ways of the Heroes” will be screened at the Krušče Creative Center. The film reveals the stories of twelve people from six European countries, who challenge the belief that the change can be achieved only by extreme steps and encourage us to think about our own contribution to the environment.

(…)Dragana Katic from Serbia initiates and organizes large clean-ups in and around Belgrade, Hristina Karaleka from Greece collects old varieties of seeds, Elmedina Abdulahi together with citizens of Tetovo stopped the major factory from polluting, Tea Nikolić organizes forestation in cities in Serbia, Salvatore Fosci cleaned the ancient Etruscan pyramid in Italy using only hand tools, designer Maja Modrijan from Slovenia reveals how we can dress responsibly, Silvo Rozman maintains a biodynamics farm in Slovenia(…).

Omnibus “Ways of the Heroes” was produced by the Eho Animato art collective and creative team includes Ana Konstantinović (director), Tamara Baračkov (screenwriter), Milovan Ilić (director of photography), Marija Kovačina (editor) and Željko Maksimović (assistant director).

You can watch the trailer at the link: https://youtu.be/5a1GQjEefH4

On the same occasion, the illustrated book for children The Wind’s Tale written by Nika Gavrovska and illustrated by Nataša Andonova from North Macedonia will be presented. The narrative of the book and the illustrations that will be exhibited, represent the process of transformation of twelve documentary characters mentioned above through a fictional mirror. 

You can read more about the international project “Ways of Heroes” at: www.thewaysoftheheroes.com

The project is co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union as well as by the Ministry of Public Administration of Slovenia.