The New Power Generation

 with the very Prince like MacKenzie

 having fun on stage with the band

and a bit of a portrait to wrap it up. 

Karpov not Kasparov

(their epic chess battles were so long ago I forgot which one I rooted for at the time), but now there is a band with this name, and they have a dancer and here she is...

and they were followed by My Baby

Sometimes even dancers

get lonely.

Damir Avdić

 He deserves to have a few photos in a single post 

 because he, with his dark, socially critical texts and powerful performance, 

 gives me faith that there are people out there who care about other people and the world we live in.

Conversation Pieces

There was a bit that had a certain Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale quality to it. 

Mark Požlep

reeled us into his Blueprint for Revolution.

Locus Pocus

 and his old school telephone handset started the evening

and Dežurni Krivci continued it (and long debates followed afterwards).

Hero 3.0

More than Words

100 years of KUD France Prešeren

Not in its original form of course, and not that I have followed it for all of the 100 years (c'mon even I am not that old), but it was a place which importantly formed my love for theatre, live music and gave me an excellent starting point for my photography... It was probably the first place I started going to see plays on my own accord (The ones I remember best are the ones by the theatre group Ana Monro in the 1980s - I really wish I would have been a photographer back then), it was probably the first place I started attending festivals (I was a regular at their one month summer free for all festival) and it was also the first place I started taking photographs on a daily basis and where my good friend Damjan and I started a blog on which Damjan and I posted photos every night after the evening performance, and which we expanded the next year into a photography 'competition' open to anyone who came to the festival (because I believed that I can't be the only one who enjoys photography this much and wanted to provide a platform for anyone else who might want to try themselves out in this wonderful endeavor... I am certain that it was because of my photography at KUD that I got my first paid photography assignment (covering a concert for Mladina).

So when they organised an anniversary concert I knew I had to go (especially as I was back in the country after a long time) and on the night I saw Lolita (the photo above)

 Leon Matek 

Marko Brecelj

 Jani Kovačič

Sakrabolt, Dolly Bad!

As they had various problems, disagreements and financial difficulties over the years (don't we all), this concert did not take place in the original building (it is now run by somebody else) and it only included a fraction of the people involved in the good old times... I must say that I really, really, I mean really missed Ana Monro at the anniversary.   

We've all been there

(at Clôture de l'amour)

and it is always hard. 

The last day of CoFestival

 brought James Batchelor's Hyperspace

and Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre's Glitch.

CoFestival day 5

 with Martin Sonderkamp and Darko Dragičević's Tonträger in Nova Pošta

and Doris Uhlich and Michael Turinsky's Ravemachine in Kino Šiška.

Continuing with CoFestival

 with Moonlight

and Monday at Nine.

Playboy bunnies

as perceived by the Image Snatchers. 

Ends of Worlds

by Michiel Vandevelde.

(And once we destroy this one, it will be hard to just walk away)

After missing out

for a couple of years as I was out of the country, I came back in time for CoFestival... You bet I will be a regular here for the next several days. This was taken at the rehearsals of Cullberg, Deborah Hay: The Match (2019) on the first day. Unfortunately I sprained my ankle two days ago while running in the park (you remember the one, the park with fresh pain signs in it - now I know what they meant), so this was the only thing I saw on the first day... But I will be back for more tomorrow and the day after and the day.... 

MeMeMeMe

as usual.

A performance

heavy on the soul in Glej

followed by a light, comedy cooking show (with late night snacks) at what used to be KUD France Prešeren

Beware

(taken during a walk in the park)

A snippet

from the opening of Martin Eccles's sound installation No. 2 'no trace'

and one from the reading of Mitja Lovše's play Hotel Room. 

From a performance

in Stara Elektrarna

to an exhibition opening in Galerija Alkatraz....

I think I'm slowly settling in on this particular Friday night. 

The Tiger Lillies

 A few years have passed since I last photographed The Tiger Lillies in concert...

and in a hall in which everybody was sitting down, my friend decided to go up to the stage and have a closer look and dance a bit... Hurrah for him! 

Psycho

in my favourite theatre even though I did feel a bit of an outsider this time.

My mum

catching up on some reading at the opening of the exhibition

and the drummer from Barking Jacqueline later on in the night...

Dance and music improvisation

at Neforma 74, with the musician Andrej Fon and dancer Anita Wach.

The first dance rehearsal upon my return

was Enya's (I know, before we were both in London and now we are both in Ljubljana - how weird is that) new performance Blue Ink with Jerca Rožnik Novak and Gabor Ivanov in PTL. 

after which I went to Maja Delak's performance Just for Today in Stara Elektrarna. 

Carina

have a new LP and thy had a concert to let us all know about it.

On the way to a dance performance

I stopped at a performance in which the artists were mining cryptocurrency by meditating.

It is absolutely wunderbar

 to be in the position

 where I can photograph them again.