Q & A - Very private, very public!

Q & A – Very private, very public!, 2001
By Emila Hrvatina

PREMIERE & PERFORMANCES

LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 14. 10. 2001
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 11. 01. 2002
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 12. 01. 2002
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 13. 01. 2002
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 14. 01. 2002
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 22. 03. 2002
LJUBLJANA, CANKARJEV DOM, SLOVENIA, 23. 03. 2002
ZAGREB, DANCE WEEK FESTIVAL, CROATIA, 06. 06. 2002
ZAGREB, DANCE WEEK FESTIVAL,, CROATIA, 06. 06. 2002
LJUBLJANA, MOVING CAKE 03 – SLOVENE DANCE FESTIVAL, SLOVENIA 02. 03. 2003
PRAGUE, TANEC PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 02. 06. 2004
PRAGUE, TANEC PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC, 03. 06. 2004

ABOUT ...

BORDERS OF MY SKIN ARE BORDERS OF MY WORLD
Q & A. Very private, very public! is an intimate story of a dancer whose body cannot be gapped asunder but can make him/ her sink deeper into it. His/ her skin is a border that cannot be overstepped but can make him/ her yearning to be spread out, to be revealed. He/ she desperately seeking some sort of contact with an Other as every human being does, as every artist does, as every artistic work does, as every theater goer does. A dancer puts his/ her instrument up for public auction of questions to be cried out: the only chance for his body to be established as an instrument is an answer from the other side. Since she/ he's been driven by unbearable grief of solitude, a dancer does not hide his/ her narcissism and exibitionism.

CAST & CREW

Concept and directing by: Emil Hrvatin
Performed by: Jana Menger, Ivan Peternelj
Choreography: Ann Adamović
Set design: Emil Hrvatin
Costume design: Elena Fajt Velikonja
Lighting design: Miran Šušteršič
Produced by: Nataša Zavolovšek for Maska Productions
Co-produced by: Cankarjev dom

BIOS

Emil Hrvatin has studied sociology and theatre directing at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and performance theory at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

He is author and director of several theatre performances. His piece CAMILLO - MEMO 1.0: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEATRE has been directed by himself at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Italy (May 1998). DRIVE IN CAMILLO has openned Manifesta 3, European biennale of contemporary arts (2000). He has been nominated for European Theatre Prize “New Realities” in 1999. His latest piece is interactive performance MISS MOBILE, recently performed at La Mama (New York, april 2002) and Centre Pompidou (Paris, September 2002).

Hrvatin’s work includes also visual, multimedia and performance art works. Among latest are THE CABINET OF MEMORIES, a tear donnor session, and the CD-ROM Ferdo Delak, Avantgarde Artist. He curated several interdisciplinary workshops arround Europe.

He has published numerous essays on contemporary theatre and art including the book on Flemish artist and theatre maker Jan Fabre (JAN FABRE - La Discipline du chaos, le chaos de la discipline, Armand Colin, Paris 1994; published in Dutch, Italian and Slovene as well). He is the editor in chief of the performing arts journal MASKA and has edited a reader of contemporary theatre theories (PRESENCE, REPRESENTATION, THEATRICALITY, Maska, Ljubljana 1996), and a reader of contemporary dance theories (THEORIES OF CONTEMORARY DANCE, Maska, Ljubljana, 2001) and several other titles.

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