There is nothing bad in here for me

 The director and performer warming up before the dress rehearsal. 

I was not the only one documenting the dress rehearsal. 

Irena mid rehearsal. 

Irena Preda

Went to see a rehearsal of Vlado Repnik's new performance featuring Irena Preda on voice and body. Of course, I took a few photos and guess what, here is one of them.   

Poetry

 We started off with some poetry in various (mainly Slavic) languages...

and continued with a semi-clowning performance very loosely based on two poets (or rather two poems by two poets.

The pavilion of hugs

Something we all need. 

 

Life Refabricated - the long edition

 

They were entertaining us for 6 hours straight, three days in a row, and the energy was there. 

The Intimacy of Otherness

 

a very personal performance. 

Another one

 

in the Martina Abramović series. 

Ana Desetnica

It is always nice when the performers get the audience involved. 

And the second show was not so inclusive, but we had fun, regardless of the siege. 

 

Started with...

 

David dancing in nature (a part where nature is reclaiming the city)

continued with a stroll through another part where nature is reclaiming the city and a bit of a talk on invasive species

and ended in a gallery reclaimed by a mono-play.

Mapping the city

the main entertainment were two dogs. But there was a lot of things happening I was told. 

 

Revisiting stuff

 

Arhivox after a long time

and we waited for Martina Abramović, again to no avail. 

1st day of the Soteska 2025 festival

 

46% performance, 32% concert, 22% drinking game. 

To our delight

 We build our lives, just so others can tear it down. I cannot truly describe the change in my mood when I suddenly realised where all this is leading to and linked it to the current situation (mind you, there is always a situation like this somewhere in the world)

Nira

 a futuristic performance. 

Garden

still in the development process. 

Martina Abramović: The artist isn't present

 but the cat woman was. 

Mapping the city

 

with Dejan Srhoj.

Mapping the city

Today's team. 

 

Broken elbow

I broke my elbow a few weeks ago, cycling. Slipped on a patch of ice. So you can't hire me for photography at the moment. But, I did go to see a sort of poetry evening (poems by Tomaž Šalamun) made into a performance/theatre piece and I thought, I know, I will take my little camera with a fixed 40mm lens and see if I can take any reasonable photos with one hand and a fixed lens. Of course, the results were not quite as good as I would have wanted. but I managed to take a few photos without my arm falling off. Looking forward to my elbow getting better and picking up my proper camera. 

Day 2 of the mini tour

During which we had an accident (nobody got hurt), went to look for a new car (but didn't buy it), had more fast food than is good for one, had fun and called it rock'n'roll.