Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives

Contact

Festival plesnih perspektiv Ukrep

Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.ptl.si/

info@ptl.si

Phone386 (0) 1 430 8344

Organised byDance Theatre Ljubljana

Prijateljeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Frequencybiennially

Festival dates16.6.2016 - 19.6.2016

Launched in 2008 by Dance Theatre Ljubljana, the biennial Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives attempts to redefine the emancipatory potential of contemporary dance and performing arts practices by guaranteeing visibility to emerging dance makers and acting in topical areas of education, production, promotion, and other lacks in the contemporary dance scene. As part of Ukrep (in English: Taking Measures), a number of other activities (called Med-ukrep, in English: Inbetween Measures) are organised between individual editions of the festival, which include lectures and theoretical/dramaturgy/dance workshops by different philosophers, theoreticians, choreographers, and directors as well as individual interdisciplinary projects. Last, but not least, the Ukrep Festival has spurred the local integration processes in the Prule area.

In 2012 the CoFestival brought together Ukrep, PLESkavica Festival and the international Modul-dance platform to reflect on their contents, positions, and aesthetic stances. The initiative runs on, taking place at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, a member of the European Dancehouse Network, in cooperation with the ModulDance European project (the programme finished in 2014).

Supporting young makers

The festival focuses on the presentation of emerging dance makers and aims for a strategic development of contemporary dance in Slovenia. Thus far the festival has presented the work of Milan Tomašik, Irena Tomažin, Urška Vohar, Leja Jurišič, Kaja Valenti, Ajda Tomazin, Jan Rozman and Alja Ferjan, Gregor Luštek, Žigan Krajnčan, Veronika Valdes, Loup Abramovici, etc. The festival closely collaborates with the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts, organised by Maska Institute.

The 2010 edition featured five premieres of young artists who collaborated with different makers from other art fields, including dramaturgical teams, and a number of lectures/reflections on dramaturgy from different theoreticians and other makers, such as Janez Janša, Jeroen Peeters, and Una Bauer. The 2012 edition focused on addressing the wider audience by bringing the festival's performances and projects into the streets, gardens, and squares, thus touching upon the potentiality of public space and opening up the questions of mapping, social dynamic, social choreography, etc. The 2014 festival was designed as a platform of various dance initiatives by young dance makers, many of them still studying home or abroad, who upgraded their own work by working for three festival days with already established choreographers Gregor Luštek and Eduardo Torroja.

See also

• Dance Theatre Ljubljana
• CoFestival
• PLESkavica Festival
• Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
• Maska Institute

External Links

• Dance Theatre Ljubljana website
• The programme of the 2014 edition at Dance Theatre Ljubljana website (bilingual)