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CoFestival 2016: international contemporary dance festival in Ljubljana

Isabelle Schad after collaboration with Laurent Goldring. (Photo: Jakub Wittchen)

In addition to roasted chestnuts and the beginning of decorating, November is also the month when CoFestival - an international contemporary dance festival - comes to life in Ljubljana. This time, already in its fourth edition, the festival will take place in ten days (between November 25 and December 4) in four Ljubljana venues - the Tobačna 001 Cultural Center, the Slovenian Theater Institute, the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, and most of the program will take place at the festival organizer Kinu Šiška.

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Festival ticket: €30

Kino Šiška, which festival CoFestival 2016 organizes together with Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, will host a wide variety of dance collectives and individuals, who fill the halls with their performances and leave no one indifferent. In ten days it will be on the program 21 events, of this twelve performances, three workshops, film projection, three presentations of book works in the field of contemporary dance and conversations with the authors and two exhibitions.
The organizers are announcing the performance of a Polish production as one of the highlights Collective jumps choreographers Isabelle Schad, in which more than 20 male and female dancers perform. The latter positively surprise regular visitors to dance events with their movements, immense energy and coordination.

Isabelle Schad after collaboration with Laurent Goldring. (Photo: Jakub Wittchen)
Isabelle Schad after collaboration with Laurent Goldring (Photo: Jakub Wittchen)

Among the performers we can also find Slovenian artists. The festival will be opened by a performance Goran Bogdanovski 2:0, a show based on true events, the continuation of the legendary footbalet 1 : 0, which was created in 1999. Continuing in 2016, the same selected group of performers will perform, of which only some are professional dancers, and Bogdanovski will introduce himself to the audience with a new work for the first time in eight years.

READ MORE: Concert: Fatalka Marissa Nadler at Kino Šiška

Goran Bogdanovski (Photo: Miha Fras)
Goran Bogdanovski (Photo: Miha Fras)

She will invite visitors to dinner, socializing and a performance Katja Legin with Time Out: Variations on slowness 3, and after a breakthrough year for them (an award at the prestigious Teatertreffen festival in Berlin) they will win the Schiessen stage Kolenc Bar and Atheus Tutta with an experimental performance Private thoughts.

Katja Legin (Photo: Nada Žgank)
Katja Legin (Photo: Nada Žgank)

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