Bitef

BELGRADE AT A SECOND GLANCE

This year Bitef will present three theatre projects showing Belgrade as seen by foreigners. These are Frogs in Hot Water directed by Susanna Chrudina from Germany; presentation of the project entitled Belgrade based on a play by the Spanish author Angelica Liddel and directed by the young French director Julien Fisera and a series of three site-specific performances of the artistic group Unlisted. These project share the questioning of the recent post-Yugoslav history and dramatic events which caused sensation in West European media, which have not yet been properly addresses in the domestic theatre. It will be interesting to see Belgrade through the foreign eyes and the events they address from a different (more objective?) perspective from the one we are used to.

Anja Suša

Instituta Cervantes

Angelica Liddell and Julien Fisera

Presentation of the project

Belgrade is a play by Spanish playwright and performer of international stature Angélica Liddell. Directed by French director Julien Fisera it will open in March 2013 in SaintÉtienne, France, Belgrade is an artistic rendition of life in Serbia in 2006 seen through the eyes of an author playing the role of a modern Candide. The show will make great use of video images, in live interaction with the actors Julian Fisera and Jérémie Scheidler, video artist and firn director, will be offering a presentation of the work to come.

is a French and English stage

director born in 1978. Founder in 2004 of the Espace Commun Theatre Company, he is now based in Paris. He has studied directing in France, in England (Royal Holloway University of London) and in Austin (University of Texas), and has completed a Master of Arts Degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris. As a stage director Julien has shown his work in France, Mexico, Brasil and also in Morocco at the Arts in Marrakech International Biennale in 2009.

Chrudina

Susanne Chrudina

Concept and video support:

Branka Pavlovič

Janina Janke

Tatjana Radišič

Verena Harzer

Ehrliche Arbeit - Freies Kulturbüro

Josefina Bajer

Hauptstadtkulturfonds,

Robert Bosch Stiftung and Augstein Stiftung.

of the theatre company

Spreeagenten in Berlin in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Kultural Centre REX/ Fond 892, Belgrade, in cooperation with ehrliche arbeit - Freies Kulturbüro.

Belgrade Palace (“Beogradjanka"), IV floor

Charlotte Roos and Filip Vujošević

Directed by: Susanne Chrudina

In the spring od 2012 interviews were conducted in Belgrade and Berlin with people in their midthirties. In these interviews the respondents reminisced about the spring of 1999. These are sketches about the daily life in Berlin and Belgrade at the turn of the millennium reflecting the differences in plans for the future, night life, euforia and dilemmas arising under completely different conditions: the attitude to life of this generation in one city is characteristic of the fatigue caused by good living conditions, and in the other one by NATO bombing

This endless war. At some point I lost the wish to understand who is fighting whom. (Berlin)

You're only 25 and your life suddenly came to a halt as it somebody pressed 'pause'. (Belgrade)

In 1999 I went through a major crisis. A disgusting period. (Berlin)

The best time in our life. (Belgrade)

Frogs in Hot Water directed by the German author and director Susanne Chrudina is a product of the cooperation established between the German author Charlotte Roos and the Serbian writer Filip Vujošević based on these interviews. The action takes place during one night when a group of friends meets in each of these two cities and goes out together. The production will be presented in the same place as the story, i.e. in Berlin and Belgrade clubs on the uppermost floors of skyscrapers, commanding a view of the whole city.

Isabelle Barth, Jelena Bosanac, Andrija Daničić, Tinja Dosen, Ana Markovič, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Anjorka Strechel, Johannes Richard Voelkel

from Belgrade and Berlin

Charlotte Roos, Filip Vujošević, Susanne

Unlisted

Site specific performative actions

is an unconventional performance

series highlighting un(der)used public spaces in Belgrade. Its thesis is simple: A small change in awareness or perception can create a ripple effect, nudging the aesthetic and emotional life of a whole city in a new direction.

Terrace of "Srbijateks" Building (30-32, Terazije Street)

Performance

Ana Letunić (Croatia)

On the top of the unused terrace of the mall known as ex Srbijateks, performance tries to articulate a goodbye party of unknown youngsters emigrating from Belgrade. Our dramaturgical approach has the aim to reveal the soon-to-be missing subjects and the conditions that made those subjects leave

Dino Pešut (Croatia), Julia

tina/Serbia), Stolle Šimić (Serbia)

Inner yard of the building (42, Kneginje Zorke Street)

Curator:

Christina Kruise (USA)

The project will transform the physical space via the working body,while transforming the world of the space via performance and storytelling.

Cory Tamler (USA), Tijana

Kondič (Serbia), Milica Stefanovič (Serbia), Tanja Sljivar (B&H)

Inner yard of the building (39, Kosovska Street)

OR: HOW I REMEMBERED TO LISTEN, SEE, TOUCH, SENSE AND SMELL

Workshop

Monika Ponjavić (B&H)

The project is intended as a form of workshop that will produce a dance/movement piece on spot. Following the idea that buildings are extension of our bodies and mind, the focal point of this project would therefor be the space and the body and the mutual impact they have on one another, body on space, space on body and body on another body.

Aparna Nambiar (India /

Singapore), Colin Lalonde (Canada), Juan Aldape (Mexico / USA), Marina Radulj (B&H / Serbia), Tatjana Vukelič (Serbia)

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