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TEN MINUTES: EAST

Published: 04.11.2009


Opening night: 25.11.2009 Španski borci, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2 nd opening night: 3.12. 2009 APT, Novo mesto

repetition: 26.11., 27.11., 10.12., 11.12. Španski borci, Ljubljana

                4.12. 2009 APT, Novo mesto

-authors: Snježana Abramović-Milković ( Croatia ), Matjaž Berger ( Slovenia ), Edward Clug ( Slovenia ), Laszlo Hudi  ( Hungary )and Iztok Kovač ( Slovenia )
-dancers: Gyula Cserepes, Luke Dunne, Katja Legin, Lada Petrovski, Ana Štefanec and Renan Oliveira
-music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar, Drago Ivanuša
-costumes: Alan Hranitelj
-light: Jaka Šimenc
-light design for Matjaž Berger: Simon Žižek
-dramataurge for Snježana Abramović -Milković: Saša Božić
-author of the text for the booklet: Saša Božić
-production: EN-KNAP
-coproduction: ZPA Zagreb, SNG Maribor, APT Novo mesto, Workshop Fundation Budapest
-The project is financially suported by the Ministery of culture of Slovenia, City council of Ljubljana

Only ghosts
The piece 10 minutes: East represents the cycle of choreographic vignettes based on the idea of time. 10 minutes: East builds its originality through the overall artistic proposal which reacts to the ever-changing geographical contexts, and the logic of its exchange and collaboration.
In this international coproduction under the frame of EN KNAP, 5 emminent authors creating in the medium of contemporary dance and theater: Csaba Horvath, Snježana Abramović-Milković, Edward Clug, Matjaž Berger and Iztok Kovač, with the help of the dancers of EnKnapGroup: Gyula Cserepes, Luke Dunne, Katja Legin, Lada Petrovski, Ana Štefanec with Renan Oliveira as guest are meditating, from their personal experience, on the dimension of time.
The idea of the show is inspired by the movie project 10 minutes older, which represents an omnibus of short movies by prominent world film directors.  Coming from the same source, but using the procedures of theatre, 5 different authors, with different cognitive approach, different gheographies and different dance practises  offer their personal imagery on the nature of time in no longer nor shorter than 10 minutes pieces of the fullfleged production. It is a way to develop certain fresh ideas by creating the work according to variable forms and formats but in the same time and work frame. The final production could as well be seen as a mirror of the meeting between the authors and the team of performers of the En Knapp Company.
These uniqe and personal perspectives are unifed by the original response of the Slovenian composer Drago Ivanuš, light designer Jaka Šimenc and costume desigener Alan Hranitelj, giving a specific dramturgical thread to the landscape of different time aproaches and visions.
 
Coming back to the connection between the topic and form, let us be reminded that vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a trenchant impression about a detail, single idea, or uniqe setting. This type of work  is more common in recent, postdramatic  theater, where adherence to the conventions of theatrical structures and story development are extremley jettisoned. Centered on the phenomenon of the images of time the authors are trying to activate or materialize different definitions of time or simply develop time images in the specific framework of the theatre space. This structure affirms the potentiality of the transformations of the bodies and it changes our idea of space and time of the performance. The result of which points to the subtle transformations of our perception: we move out from our habitual perception, we push ourselves forward, towards the space of dreams and personal imagery.
There is nothing new to say about the nature of time, but this project invites us to rethink again the medium of theater by using the represented time concepts. Especially specific kind of theatre (dance) in relation to the specific idea or ideology of time and this ideology belongs to the Mid-European context. It is not unimportant to mention that the socio-geographical context of all 5 authors is the one of the so called European East, or Middle Europe where the time-space context once represented the discursive and ideological unity, and which, through the strategies of neoliberal economy is rapidly vanishing in front of our eyes.