international improvisation festival, 10th edition
23rd-26th November 2016
Zagreb Student Center, &TD Theatre, Savska 25
The tenth edition of the festival Improspections brings a rear view look – a memory of the beginnings of this initiative, a reunion of the associates who participated in its development, looking back at the past experience; however, this edition also offers a look ahead – towards new collaborations, partnerships and topics, towards its new decade.
Program:
23rd November 2016, &TD Theatre, Big Hall
8 pm
Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović: Disappearances
somatic encounter of performers and the audience
concept: Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović
dancers: Tamara Curić, Lana Hosni, Roberta Milevoj, Ivana Pavlović, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović, Nastasja Štefanić
sound: Roko Crnić
light design: Tomisav Maglečić
witness and researcher of the process: Ivana Slunjski
9 pm
Roundtable discussion – introduction to the festival
24th November 2016
11 am – 11 pm, &TD Theater, Semicircular Hall
Madalina Dan: The Agency of Touch
one-on-one tactile performance
space and costume design: Ana Botezatu
sound design: Natalia Bustamante
production: HZT (Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin)
6 pm, &TD Theater, Big Hall
Maja Đurinović: Creative Insanity in the Shadow of the Big Brother
lecture
7 pm, &TD Theater, Big Hall
Improvisation in the region: Rijeka
Gordana Svetopetrić: Komorebi
music & dance improvisation performance
concept: Gordana Svetopetrić
dance, creation and performance: Senka Baruška, Zvonimir Kvesić, Irena Mikec, Martina Rukavina
music, creation and performance: Mladen Ilić (percussion), Alen Svetopatrić (bas guitar)
8 pm, &TD Theater, Big Hall
IMPROretroSPEKCIJE10
performative dialogue with participators, collaborators and audience of Improspections in the past decade
concept: Sonja Pregrad, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović
25th November 2016
11 am – 5 pm, November 2016, &TD Theater, Semicircular Hall
Madalina Dan: Agency of Touch
6 pm, &TD Theater, Semicircular Hall
Conversation with Madalina Dan about the creation of the project Agency of Touch, which will include a presentation of the documentation (http://cargocollective.com/theAgencyofTouch), and a comment of the specific experience of performing in Zagreb.
7 pm, &TD Theater, Big Hall
Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld/Iva Nerina Sibila/IMRC: Nukleon
artistic directors: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Iva Nerina Sibila
creation and performance: Josipa Lukinović, Helvecia Tomić, Irma Unušić, Iva Nerina Sibila, Leon Goličnik, Nikola Orešković
8.30 pm, &TD Theater, Big Hall
Andrew Morrish: Oh Well, Part 11
Oh Well is a 26-part project of extended solo improvisations that Andrew will complete in 2015-17 in 12 cities in 9 different countries.
26th November 2016, &TD Theater, Semicircular Hall
6 pm
Karmen Ratković: Ecofeminism and improspections: on the constant inclusion of the excluded as a political agenda
lecture
7 pm
Improvisation in the region
an interview with artists from Rijeka, Zadar, Osijek, Karlovac, Split, … on the present condition and possibilities for the development of local improvisation scenes, as well as the development of regional collaboration.
8 pm
Improvisation in the region: Zadar
Stošija Zrinski and Martina Šver: Cloud Deluxe
choreographer and dancer: Stošija Zrinski
composer and musician: Martina Šver
costume designer: Ljiljana Babić
light designer: Juraj Aras
9.30 pm
Zrinka Užbinec, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović and Sonja Pregrad: Movement Thought Turn
fifth performative station
authors and performers: Zrinka Užbinec, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović, Sonja Pregrad
special guest performers: Vid Adam Hribar (keyboard), Lujo Parežanin (saxophone), Filip Runjić (drums), Viktor Slamnig (bass guitar)
with a jazz/funk impro session in the continuation of the performance
26th and 27th November 2016, 11 am – 5 pm, Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb, Frankopanska 22
Andrew Morrish: Solo Performance Improvisation with Body and Voice
workshop
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artistic direction: Sonja Pregrad and Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović
technical director: Tomislav Maglečić
graphic design: Dora Đurkesac
production: Multimedijalna koliba
co-production: Student Centre, University of Zagreb, Culture of Change – &TD Theatre
supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
Multimedia Hut is supported by ”Kultura nova” Foundation.
