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Performance by Irena Toma¾in Performance as part of Solo Situations Sun 9 February 2014, 7pm Laboratory Theatre Space Tickets: 15 PLNBookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Performance in English In her newest project Irena Toma¾in once again uses the medium of voice and body as her tool(s) to tackle themes of tradition, heritage and the status of voice(s) and images that voice, as a medium of oral tradition, carries on from one generation to the next. In the first part of the process (2011), Irena Toma¾in, Sabina Ðogiæ and Andrej Kocan filmed five encounters with selected interpreters/authors and performers of folk music: Ljoba Jenèe, Hermana Bogdan and Boštjan Narat (Slovenia), Natalia Polovynka (Ukraine) and Svetlana Spajiæ (Serbia). “It sometimes happens that the sheer beauty of a song tends to throw me into a state confusion… as if I was being inflated with hot air... the air growls inside my chest and chokes me until I explode and then it is expelled, way out there, into the silence. and sometimes I manage to shriek, quietly. very quietly and only very briefly...” Irena Toma¾in  Concept, directed and performed by: Irena Toma¾in Dramaturgy: Barbara Korun Sound: Aldo Ivanèiè Light design and technical support: Igor Remeta Costumes: Tina Pavloviæ Video: Sabina Ðogiæ Sound design: Andrej Kocan, Jure Vlahoviè Executive producer: Barbara Hribar Production: Emanat Co-production: Cankarjev dom, Maska Duration: 45 minutes Irena Toma¾in is a dancer and singer. She is a postgraduate student of philosophy. She has developed five performance pieces and collaborated with many Slovenian directors, choreographers and musicians. Her dance theatre and voice educational background included programmes such as Laboratorij (EN-KNAP) and Agon (EMANAT), as well as seminars on contemporary performing arts (Maska Ljubljana) and many workshops and seminars in Slovenia and abroad. In 2004 she received a scholarship under the Dance Web programme run by the ImPulzTanz Festival, and in 2007 she was selected to join the “Source Techniques – Sources of Techniques” Atelier in Wroc³aw, held by the Grotowski Institute. She created an original piece for voice and Dictaphones entitled iT, which she performed at many festivals at home and abroad. She collaborated with Bast Kolektiv of Aldo Ivanèiè on a CD entitled Retinal Circus, and with many other musicians. Toma¾in participates in experimental improvised music workshops organized by Toma¾ Grom and gives voice workshops. Her performances Caprice and Caprice (Re)lapsed earned her the Golden Bird Award from the Liberal Arts Academy. The performance will be followed by a screening of the film A Meeting with Natalka Polowynka and a conversation with its author. Producer: Irena Toma¾in Collaborator, camera: Sabina Ðogiæ Editing: Andreja Rauch Sound technician: Andrej Kocan, Luka Kuhar Production: Emanat Premiere: Slovenia 2013 Duration: 30 minutes Film in English Natalia Polovynka is a singer, pedagogue and artistic director of the “Word and Voice” Theatre Centre (Lviv, Ukraine). Drawing on theatre and music, she creates a unique artistic territory of song as a spiritual category of life. Polovynka represents all genres of traditional singing: ancient sacred songs of Ukraine, traditional Ukrainian songs, psalms and classical romances. She is a performer of contemporary and improvised music as well as the author of a unique voice work methodology. A series of events presented as part of the “Co-Voicings” project, run in conjunction with the Emanat Institute, Slovenia.  Under the auspices of:   Financially supported by:    |