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Cinematic modes of choreography - notes on the spaces and intervals

Plato’s cave is a comfortable and a disturbing place at the same time. The comfort of the projection, which is both fiction and imagination, stays always dark. The one who talks about the world outside the cave endangers the comfort within the cave. But what if - following Diderot - the one who left the cave would not report what he had seen but just be silent on his return? According to Goran Sergej Pristaš Diderot considers this possibility. In his "notes on the spaces and intervals" Pristaš enquires the prerequisites of Diderot’s cinematic viewing. Slavoj Zizek would take much pleasure in this and – maybe dancing - present his own analysis in the faked stage. Besides one really wonders what the cinemating viewing can see – epecially on a stage. We are looking forward to a stimulated discussion.

Goran Sergej Pristaš can be unhesitatingly called an authority within the European dance, theatre and performance scene. He has been professor at the “Academy of Drama and Art” at the University of Zagreb since 1993. Before that he worked as director, dramatic advisor and performer with the performance collective BADco (among others) and was the artistic director of the theatre ŠKUC in Ljubljana. Till 1999 he also worked as producer and dramatic advisor of the company of Borut Separovic and produced the performance “Confession”. Since 2000 he has been the director of the “Centre of Drama Art” in Zagreb. Till 2007 he was the editor in chief of the theatre and performance magazine “Frakcija” which he had founded in 1996. Since 2003 he has been one of the initiators of "Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000" ("ZCK 3000") which is a series of regional and international projects dealing with new group dynamics, collective strategies and working methods for the cultural production. He and Ivana Ivković will conduct a workshop themed "Stratagames: A Theatre of Operations" at the Steirischer Herbst 2009.

 

Lecture
by Goran Sergej Pristaš

 

Past Dates

  • 2009-10-08, DISKURS 09 , Alte Stadtbibliothek Giessen, Eingang Lonystrasse