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Vitkar Institute
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Vitkar Institute is a non-profit cultural institute, founded in 1995 by the dancer and choreographer Branko Potočan, which produces and presents dance performances, organises dance workshops and runs other performing arts education programmes. The institute primarily works for the physical theatre group Fourklor, a collective that regularly approaches the genre of contemporary circus.
Since 2003 Vitkar is setting up the annual spring festival Rdeči revirji!, and is also co-organising the biennial Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance. It produces solo shows of Branko Potočan, and occasional dance, theatre, and multimedia projects by other authors, such as Tina Janežič, Gregor Luštek, Rosana Hribar, Jana Menger, etc.
Fourklor
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Established in 1994 by the dancer and choreographer Branko Potočan, Fourklor is a physical theatre group, which has created a number of resounding performances marked with immediacy of physicality, fresh humour, recognisable dramaturgy, and a skilful use of stage props. Though active for almost a quarter of a century, the group still retains a better part of its original cast, but interspersed with new and occasional members.
In its expression, it often approaches the genre of contemporary circus. They favour the air disciplines (like aerial silk) in particular, systematically dealing with them also in a pedagogic context.
Museum of Slovenian Independence
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National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia
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The National Museum of Contemporary History is a state museum for the 20th-century Slovene history. It houses a fine art and documentation department, a photographic department containing more than a million original photographs, a conservation–restoration workshop, and a library.
Its collections range from World Wars I and II, as well as from the period between the wars, the era of socialism, and the later formation of the new Slovene state in the 1990s. It has a branch in Brestanica in the Rajhenburg Castle. In 2017 the Open Depot exhibition of the three national museums opened in the Park of Military History Pivka.
EU funding
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European funding programmes have played a key role in the international development of Slovenia’s cultural, creative, film and audiovisual sectors. This interactive visualisation presents data on EU funding secured by Slovenian organisations since 2002. It covers three generations of EU framework support programmes: Culture 2000 and MEDIA Plus (2000–2006), Culture and MEDIA (2007–2013), and Creative Europe (2014–2027).
Creative Europe in Slovenia: Glej Theatre as a Space for Experimentation, Participatory Practices, and Devised Theatre by Young People
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We spoke with Barbara Poček and Inga Remeta about Glej Theatre as a space for experimentation, participatory practices, and devised theatre by young people, and the way in which European projects have influenced Glej’s artistic, production, and strategic orientation and development.
Creative Europe in Slovenia: Bunker – Co-shaping the International Performing Arts Scene
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In her contribution, Alma R. Selimović reflects on Bunker Institute’s long-term involvement in international projects and networks, as well as the co-creation of international festivals and co-productions, while also raising broader questions about the conditions under which the cultural sector operates today.