Participants
Nataša Živković
Nataša Živković is an independent versatile Slovenian artist who has been working in various fields of performing arts: theatre, contemporary dance and film. She is an actress, a choreographer and a dancer on both institutional and alternative scenes, as well as a mentor and a professor of ballet and contemporary dance.
Synopsis
SONNY | Nataša Živković
Performance
“SONNY”
Nataša Živković
in collaboration with the International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women, Ljubljana and МОТ+
Performed by Nataša Živković, Daniel Petković, Loup Abramovici and Slobodan Malić
Space design and scenography: Lenka Đorojević
Lighting design and technical direction: Špela Škulj
Photography: Nada Žgank
Advising: Teja Reba
Executive Production: Eva Prodan
Production: City of Women
Co-production: Bunker – Old Power Station
Special thanks to Maska and Mladinsko Theatre
In the framework of Performing gender - Dance makes differences.
The project is supported by Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture and the City of Ljubljana.
“Sonny! – calls me a relative when I visit her in Montenegro”
Sonny is an interdisciplinary undertaking that is interested in women’s images in cultures, that includes anthropological research of specific phenomena in a form of performance. It expresses a fascination with the pictures and the stories of the sworn virgins (or virginas) from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. Unwanted is actually “a common girl’s name in (our) Montenegro” - it is said in the Women’s Right Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice in 2017. Additionally, "a woman is a sack made to endure”, is written in Lekë Dukagjini’s Kunan from the Middle Ages, practised in North Albania and Kosovo.
Also, “Montenegro’s last virgina has died. Her last wish was for her family-grave epitaph to describe her as her father’s only surviving son.” - was written in Blic, 2016. It is why the artist analyses these stories in relation to the question of women’s survival in men’s world, asking us in what kind of а society we live in. Her performance consists of an emotional capture of the system’s hole which maintains that same system through a gender performance (or with а Performing Gender), in which framework dancing generates essential changes.
Nataša Živković is an independent versatile Slovenian artist who has been working in various fields of performing arts: theatre, contemporary dance and film. She is an actress, a choreographer and a dancer on both institutional and alternative scenes, as well as a mentor and a professor of ballet and contemporary dance.