Improspections at the Perform-d-ance in Varaždin 

Improvised by / Sonja Pregrad (HR), Iva Hladnik (HR), Weronika Pelczynska (POL), Jule Flierl (D), Peter Juhasz (HUN)- dance, Dada Horvat (HR)- voice, EKOS Varaždin- sweets

Series of impro-culinary performances entitled ‘Edible Idea!’ offer free access to gastronomic delights performed in real time, an interactive approach to the visitor whose role of the simple consumer is replaced by the role of the participant in this unusual yet delicious experiment. This event brings together skilled hands of master confectioners and light feet of five internationally renowned dancers from Zagreb, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest.

The starting point of each activity is the ‘measure of a man’. The man, the inhabitant of the ‘neighourhood’ who, in his present life, contains the history of the place. His everyday life contributes to the identity of the places and indicates those changes. Changes that have already taken place, just as the ones we long for.

Programme:

21 January 2012, 12 pm

Nursing home Maksimir, Hegedušićeva 20

Performers:

Ante Krpan

Bruno Isaković

Chris Martineau

Iva Hladnik

Nives Sertić

Sylvain Meret

Tomislav Feller

Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović

22 January 2012, 12 pm

Culture and Information Centre Maksimir, Švarcova 18

Participants: Ante Krpan, Bruno Isaković, Chris Martineau, Iva Hladnik, Nives Sertić, Svebor Szekely, Sylvain Meret, Tomislav Feller, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović

Nano Gallery, Gajeva 26

…to try not to look through the window, to try to hear through the window, to try to hide behind the window.

Dancers: Petra Hrašćanec, Silvia Marchig, Sonja Pregrad; Zli trio (music): Vedran Peternel, Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz

Dance picnic on the lawn –  Edible idea!

Improspections at the Perform-d-ance in Varaždin

in the Pictures gallery courtyard, Stančić Square, Varaždin

Performing: Petra Hrašćanec, Rina Kotur, Nino Bokan, Sonja Pregrad – dance; Svebor Szekely – music; Zlatne Ruke – gastronomy

„…about watermelons and their artistry, grotesque, weight, roundness, playfulness and eadibility.“

Five watermelons, five dancers, a cello and a fruit bar performed by the fanstastic restaurant Zlatne Ruke and managed by the legendary chef Dražen Jambriški perform a set of joyful, sad, musical, ritual and poetic scenes… Which you can later eat.

Barrel Gallery, Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Trg žrtava fašizma

Sculptor Denis Tricot and musician Neven Krajačić continue the collaboration initiated at the Festival Improspections2007. During their performance, which brings together (de)contstructing of a scrulpture and a concert, without any pre-set material and relying exclusively on their own ‘artistic expression’, these two performers try to test their receptivity and through communicating in different languages (sculpture/space-sound/time), trying to find a ‘common ground’.

Denis Tricot is a French sculptor and improvisor. Loyal to the idea of interdisciplinarity, his work has always been connected to live perfomances. Since 1994 he has been improvising with wooden arches, creating dynamic contstructions in the same space and at the same time with dancers, musicians and actors. He also creates sculptures connected to specific piece of architecture or public space. Since 2001 he has been collaborating with the contemporary dancer Zrinka Šimičić, musician Vania Dombrovszkym, Chris Martineau, Éric Cordier, Pascal Battusom, writer Rémi Checchettom, actors Claire Truche and Patricia Capdevielle, and coreographer Julie Desprairies.

Neven Krajačić has a BSC from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Electroacoustics. Since 1996 he has actively been doing free-improvised music. As a percussionist he developped a set of specific playing techniques. He performs inidividually as well as a member of Duo Brio. Neven regularly plays at international festivals (Earwing festival, Festival Žedno uho (Thirsty ear), NO jazz Festival). He is a co-author and a perfomer of the structured improvisation ‘Short Programme No.1 Cymbal Sonata’. He is also s a co-founder and the president of the CRTA Association.