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25 th SEPTEMBER, 17.00 Circus tent in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade Cirkorama, Zagreb, Croatia. Cirkusfera, Belgrade. Serbia and Le Cirk’Oblique, Carcassonne, France ★ OLDNESS Production of Cirkobalkana project Duration: 120’ (including discussion with authors) Second and third showing: 26 th and 27 lh September, 20.00 Created and performed by: Arnaud Essertel, Domagoj Šoić, Jadranka Žinić Mijatović, Marie Mercadal, Milan Manić Light and sound design: Julie Lesas View from outside: Ivana Koraksić and Nikola Mijatović Set design: Hristina Šormaz Costume design: H&Z Photography: Slavica Dolašević Alone in her world - the world of reminiscences, madness, hallucinations and occasional undesirable-desirable visitor - an old woman relives her youth, happy moments and big tragedies in her life. How she deals with all this is shown by six artists from three circus companies. Clown improvisations combined with circus techniques were used to create scenes showing the tragi-comical situation of the old woman toward the end of her life. We are drawn deeper into her world by elements of circus techniques (air acrobatics, object manipulation, magic...) and props used in the performance. These are everyday objects, things we take for granted today and which some day might awaken in us memories we flee from and perhaps encourage us to relive the most emotional moments in our life...

26 ND SEPTEMBER, 13.00 Garden of Vuk and Dositej Museum Teatar Farmakopea, Belgrade, Serbia ★ POISONS OF CAPULET’S GARDEN Interactive presentation of a school project Duration: 120’ Project author: Jelena Stojiljković Consultants: Jasna Savič, Marijana Milosavljevič, Aleksandra Rakičevič Kovačevič Performed by pupils: Katarina Gilić, Nevena Đorđević, Aleksandra Jeftič, Jelena Jojič, Tatjana Karadžič, Saša Komazec, Milica Kulić, Sandra Maksimovič, Darko Manjenčič, Marija Miletič, Selma Miftari, Dejana Nađ, Tamara Nedeljkovič, Katarina Panič, Maja Petrovič, Milica Radojičič, Aldin Selmani, Milana Stevanovič, Ana Stupar and Nemanja Čorič Photo: Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children

The production is a result of Cirkobalkara Project, a French-Serbian-Croatian coproduction initiated and realised with the help of the French Institute in Belgrade with the Theatroscope project. Its principal idea is, in addition to setting up the circus tent as an autonomous educational, creative and performing space, to train local circus organisations and artists in the functioning, creation and sustenance of both ‘travelling’ performances and a circus tent and to establish contact with local audiences and regional circus artists through performances, workshops and Open Stage programme. This year’s novelty is a big creative party in Belgrade to take place before Bitef Polyphony in September. Supported by the French Institute, the Embassy of France in Belgrade, the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade

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