Since 2008 the Festival of Dance Perspectives UKREP deals with development strategies of contemporary dance in Slovenia and acts on fields that suffer due to educational, productional, promotional or other deficits on our contemporary dance scene.
Focus of this year’s festival are site-specific performative practices.The common ground of the whole programme is a metaphorical opening up towards the city and its’ citizens, that will change and disassemble the codified rules of behaviour in certain public spaces. This year’s festival programme is not waiting for its audience but is approaching it on the most unconventional spaces for art, changing the collective perception of the surroundings. The content will be brought close to the bypassing audiences by dis/re/locating on the most important hubs of the city. By randomly merging collective interventions in public spaces, we can for a moment connect in a potentially different world filled up with new rules. Putting dance art from theatres to alternative outdoor spaces demolishes the problematics that contemporary art is facing by staying enclosed and therefore misunderstood. Dance becomes an urban image of the city since movement is inspired by surrounding ambience and mutually affects the surrounding. Reciprocality of dance and urbanism becomes a movement of the city. A move towards the city becomes a move towards an audience. A move becomes a movement. Movement becomes a dance. UKREP becomes a dance of the city. The city becomes a dance partner.
This year’s urban context of the festival widens up also geographically by offering performances in Maribor and Ljubljana. The conclusion of the European project Rail2Dance coincides with the dates of the festival that is why it carries the name RAIL2DANCE4UKREP. Local and international (Austria, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain, South Korea) artists will be presented.
Catch us around and trace with us a new dance map of the city.
Production: Plesni Teater Ljubljana – festival RAIL2DANCE4UKREP in coproduction with Ana Desetnica and Festival Lent.
