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| local name          = Zavod Poza, produkcija in organizacija
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| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
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| founded by          = Jure Novak
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Established in [[established:: 2009]], the [[Poza Institute]] exists to co-produce the theatre and music projects of its founder, Ljubljana-based actor, director, musician and translator [[Jure Novak]]. Novak is best known as the director of a highly acclaimed trilogy of plays developed in collaboration with actor [[Katarina Stegnar]] and playwright [[Urška Brodar]]. The plays explore, respectively, depression, aggression and transgression.
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==Theatre==

The first play in the trilogy, ''Jure Novak: Zato sem srečen'' (Jure Novak: Reasons To Be Happy), premiered at [[Glej Theatre]] in December 2011, and was performed at the [[Drugajanje Festival]] in 2012 and the [[Overflight International Theatre Festival|Prelet Festival]] in 2013. Like all the plays in the trilogy, it was produced by Glej and co-produced by Poza. ''Katarina po naročilu'' (Katarina on Demand) followed in 2015, with subsequent performances at the [[Mladi levi Festival|Mladi Levi Festival]] and Prelet in the same year, at the [[Week of Slovenian Drama]] in 2016, and at the [[Trigger Festival]] in 2020.

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''Orgija'' (Orgy), the final play in the trilogy and the first to feature all three creators performing on stage together, premiered at Glej in November 2017. HNK Zajc Theatre in Rijeka, where some of the script was developed, joined Poza on the co-production team, with support also coming from the [[Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Slovenia|Slovenian Embassy in Zagreb]]. The play was subsequently revived at the 2019 [[Sex and Theatre Festival]], which was organised by the [[Mladinsko Theatre]] (SMG) and [[Maska Institute]].

Two further projects, directed by Novak but not co-produced by Poza, deserve mention here: ''Pasja procesija'' (A Dog's Procession, 2017), a children's show based on the songs of [[Svetlana Makarovič]], produced jointly by the [[Mladinsko Theatre]] and [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture|Kino Šiška]]; and ''Karaoke'' (2020), a sci-fi musical staged by the [[Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL)]].

==Music==

Novak also performs as one half of the experimental punk cabaret duo [[Natriletno kolobarjenje s praho]] with multi-instrumentalist [[Uroš Buh]]. Their second album, ''Iz konteksta'' (2018), featured executive production from Poza. The duo has also performed at the [[Maribor Theatre Festival]].

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== See also ==
* [[Glej Theatre]]


== External links ==

'''Theatre'''

* [https://veza.sigledal.org/producent/zavod-poza Zavod Poza page, Sigledal]
* [http://www.jurenovak.org Jure Novak website] (in Slovenian)
* [https://sigledal.org/geslo/Jure_Novak Jure Novak, Wiki, Sigledal (includes CV and list of works)] (in Slovenian)
* [https://www.glej.si/srecen ''Zato sem srečen'', Glej Theatre website] (in Slovenian)
* [https://www.glej.si/katarina-po-narocilu ''Katarina po naročilu'', Glej Theatre website] (in Slovenian)
* [https://www.glej.si/orgija ''Orgija'', Glej Theatre website] (in Slovenian)
* [https://www.glej.si/media/1731/glej-trilogija.pdf ''Orgija'', photographs and essays] (in Slovenian)

'''Music'''

* [https://www.facebook.com/natriletno/ Natriletno kolobarjenje s praho Facebook page]
* [https://natriletno.bandcamp.com/ Natriletno Bandcamp page]


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