08 September 2018 - The second evening of the Festival of International Alternative Theatre brings two high-quality performances which will be presented by the Festival Velenje Slovenia, Tanzelarija BIH, PUBS Serbia, the Institute for contemporary dance Belgrade and the Balkan Dance Project 2017 as well as the Macedonian Association Ciao Goodbye.
“Scandal In St. Florian Valley”, which is based on the motifs of the same name farce by Ivan Cankar, is a dance performance directed by Aleksandar Nikolić. The dance crew includes Mojca Majcen, Ema Janković, Miona Petrović, Zulejha Kećo, Branko Mitrović, Luka Živković, Nikola Pavlović and Jakša Filipovac and their coreographer is Aleksandar Ilić. This performance will be presented at the Cultural and Informative Centre “Budo Tomović” in Podgorica at 8 PM.
The dance performance “Scandal In St. Florian Valley” was described by the organisers in the following manner: “The scandal, all made up of shiny colours of life, passion, love, challenges, like the tectonic cataclysm spits out all of the self-admiration, lies, two-faced moral and greed being carefully kept under the coat of innocence and virtue. In his burlesque “Scandal in St. Florian Valley”, Ivan Cankar ridicules all the dangers of the social hypocrisy by confronting the provincials with two young vagabonds, adventurists and criminals Petar and Jacinta. Led by their honest wish to have a full-filled life, they venture through the valley and the life of its citizens like a tornado, rising the layers of dust and betraying them all at the end. The most important thing we want you to learn from our dancers is freedom. On stage, they show us how to dance together, how to give each other a chance to perform the best you can. They dance solo, then in pairs, then again in groups, all together, synchronised, powerful. They share the power, the beauty, love and passion for creation.”
The Macedonian representatives will perform a comedy called “Ciao, Goodbye!”, directed by Siniša Evtimov. The comedy is cast by Atanas Atanasovski and Valentin Kostadinovski. “Ciao Goodbye is a comedy which surfs on the edge of documentary theatre, but suddenly decides to mock the genre and transform into a theatre documentary. It is entirely based on false facts about the lives and careers of the two actors who perform in it. Horny granddad, crazy taxi driver, Jesus and after-hour parties, Othello, a strange gypsy woman, Batman, a politician, and few others, take accounts on life in general, trying to decode its meaning, while exploring the universe and everything else, through the eyes of the theatre. This is a 100 minute whirlwind of actors’ excellence, great dialogues, lots of political satire and historical/hysterical mayhem. The piece itself is a montage adaptation, compilation of great artists and writers that we strongly believe are gods. Thanks to: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, The Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Joseph Heller, Franz Kafka and all the rest in peace.” The audience will have the opportunity to see this comedy at the Garden of the Kuslev´s House at 10 PM.
