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Accreditation and information desk
Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Collect your badges and ask any questions about the programme or how to get around Belgrade.
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| 10:00-10:45 |
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Kolo/slet (коло/слет) morning dance
Location: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
During this active morning activity, participants will learn how to dance a traditional folk dance in a non-traditional way. The Kolo is a traditional South Slavic circle dance that also used to be performed in mass events during socialist Yugoslavia.
You will be able to experience it as part of the choreography from Group Neut's contemporary dance performance 'Kolo', taken from their research process and recontextualisation of tradition through social dance.
Facilitators
Đorđe Živadinovic Grgur, Group Neut, Serbia
Jovana Stojić, Group Neut, Serbia
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| 10:30-11:00 |
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Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Fifteen minutes of valuable information about IETM's recent and upcoming activities and advocacy work, followed by a Q&A.
Speaker
Ása Richardsdóttir, IETM, Belgium
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 11:00-12:30 |
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Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
The IETM Pitchorama is a session that creates an opportunity to present a project and look for partners by taking part in a live pitching session and Q&A during the IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting.
Applications to participate in the IETM Pitchorama closed on 8 August 2022.
Moderator
Cathie Boyd, Cryptic, United Kingdom
This session will have live captions in English
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| 12:00-13:00 |
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Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Were you unable to make it to the first Who’s there?, or haven’t had enough of it yet?
We have planned a second speed-meeting moment for those who are ready to discover who else has joined this IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting.
Moderator
Bek Berger, New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Latvia
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| 12:00-13:00 |
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Artistic Walk #2 How can we observe wilderness in the city - and why is it important?
Meeting point: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Urban ecosystems are our most prominent ecosystems. However, we have become so accustomed to only noticing the human made world that our ability to observe nature in cities has severely diminished. At the same time, the health sustainability and climate resilience of our cities depends heavily on the presence and biodiversity of nature.
How can we connect intimately and work closely with a more-than-human world? How can we step out of the anthropocentric and into the new?
Discover daily actions and habits that can help us engage and transform our perception of nature in the cities.
Attendance by pre-registration only. Maximum number of participants: 20
Reserve your spot
Guide
Milja Vuković, Environmental activist, Serbia
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| 13:00-14:30 |
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Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
What are the tools and solutions for creating better working conditions for those in the performing arts sector? What are the current trends in cultural workers’ movements and initiatives around Europe?
This session will start with an analysis of the “project-based” cultural economy and the pressures and transformations it has brought to the field of artistic production. It will also explore different strategies, alliances and articulate the struggles for better working conditions, with a special focus on feminist, self-organised and political movements in the cultural field that have potential for change.
We will also discuss the position of freelancers and independent artists in a post covid context.
Moderator
Marijana Cvetković, STATION Centre For Contemporary Dance, Serbia
Speakers
Danae Theodoridou, Performance Maker and Researcher, Belgium
Jaka Primorac, IRMO- Institute For Development and International Relations, Croatia
Rodrigo Arenas, Artist and researcher - IETM Global Connector 2021-22, Guatemala
Sepehr Sharifzadeh, NH Theater Agency, Iran
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 13:00-14:00 |
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Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
How about singing instead of talking?
During the workshop, you will have an opportunity to explore choral singing as a tool for addressing different social topics, with the emphasis on the topic of intercultural learning.
Everyone is invited to join, regardless of their singing ability. We will sing together and learn in a fun and relaxing way.
Facilitator
Maja Ćurčić, Art Aparat, Serbia
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| 13:00-15:00 |
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Towards feminist dramaturgical thinking [workshop]
Location: Maršalov Salon, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
In this workshop, Ana Dubljević invites us to view (feminist) dramaturgy - not only how it produces a meaning on stage, but also as the common practice of thinking and feeling within the process of creation, organisation, production and dissemination of a performance.
If in our relationship with the audience, we leave the authority of a central viewing point, can the feminist dramaturgical thinking help us to also leave it in the working process, both intentionally and simultaneously? How can we lead processes based on the practices of pleasure and care? How can we lead processes not with efficiency, but through co-existing in disagreement and with those that provide space for uncertainties despite the fear, because they see space as freedom? Can those different processes produce different shows, and if so how?
Participants are invited to reflect and share examples of their own artistic and cultural practices and map the problems and possibilities of this type of approach.
This session will be based texts from the book by Ana Dubljević - “The Feminist Pornscapes. On Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice”
This workshop has a limited capacity of 20 participants. Registrations are first come, first served.
The exact same session will be held on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Facilitator
Ana Dubljević, Choreographer / Dramaturge, Serbia
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| 13:00-14:30 |
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Work & disability in the arts [debate]
Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Recent research in the sector has shown that there is a shocking lack of awareness about what it means to work in the arts for professionals with disabilities.
This discussion will tackle the notions of working conditions, labour and also the idea of working with disability - including the recognition of its unique artistic quality.
Moderator
Filip Pawlak, Artist and Cultural worker - IETM Global Connector 2021-22, Poland
Speakers
Jovana Rakić, Artist and choreographer, Serbia
Mindy Drapsa, Riksteatern, Sweden
Rachel Marks, Relaxed Performance & Disability Access Consultant, Canada
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 14:00-15:00 |
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Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Meet the members of the IETM Advisory Committee in this cosy corner of the daytime meeting space, and ask anything you’ve always wanted to know about our network, its activities, strategies, governance, membership and more.
The IETM Communications and Membership team will also be present to answer any technical questions about the IETM membership and to discuss all the benefits and rights that the membership entitles. They will also be available to talk through the functionalities of the networking and promotional tools of the IETM website, as well as give our members the opportunity to discuss any issues or feedback they may have.
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| 14:30-15:30 |
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Artistic Walk #3 Street Gallery
Meeting point: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
This Artistic walk will take you on a visit to an important space in Belgrade's artistic landscape. Opened in 2012, the Street Gallery differs from classic galleries, representing a pioneer endeavour of reconstruction and revitalisation of neglected public space into an open art venue. The walk will include a brief introduction to its beginnings and maintenance, but the focus will be on management and its main challenges and approaches when it comes to the "handover" model.
Attendance by pre-registration only. Maximum number of participants: 20
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Guides
Iva Čukić, Matrijaršija collective Ministry of Space, Serbia
Milica Ivić, Matrijaršija collective Ministry of Space, Serbia
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| 14:30-16:00 |
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Connecting around the Globe
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
If you are looking for a wide range of perspectives on major topics prevalent in the performing arts sector, then this session is for you. It will take you through a series of pressing issues that have been the centre of discussion within the IETM Global Connectors group. This is an opportunity to enjoy working with a stimulating group of colleagues from different continents who have similar experiences and interests.
This will be a participatory session hosted by the IETM Global Connectors.
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 16:00-17:30 |
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Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
How do we treat archiving in the performing arts? How does this process influence the way we interpret the artwork? How does it impact the sector’s working and hiring practices and its capacity? Will it alter the professional skill sets in the sector? How can a process of digitisation be conducted within organisations with limited capacity?
Moreover, will it impact the artistic work itself and its creation process, particularly in dance?
The session explores the connection between the issue of archiving, digitisation, history and work, in post covid times.
Moderator
Rok Vevar, Nomad Dance Academy, Slovenia
Speakers
Ricardo Viviani, Bureau Ritter, Germany
Igor Koruga, Choreographer, Dancer, Pedagogue, Dramaturge and dance Advocate, Serbia
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 16:00-18:00 |
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Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
How do we charge for our work, and why are there no policies for the evaluation of artistic work in many countries? Using examples from different local contexts, this session will explore specific cases that artists have gathered through institutional or independent initiatives, in order to secure predictable and suitable financial working conditions in the arts.
Moderator
Danilo Prnjat, Artist, Serbia
Speakers
Jelena Mijović, Dramaturg and screenwriter, Serbia
Jasna Žmak, SPID - Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild, Croatia
Cancelled - Amath Sarr, Jotay Culturel - IETM Global Connector 2021-22, Senegal
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 16:00-18:00 |
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Body of work — Body diversity and the negative space of the performing act
Location: Maršalov Salon, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
This workshop will address the relationship between the disabled body, contemporary dance and negative space in the performing arts.
Is the disabled body usually seen as a negative space or figure of the performing act, and what is the artistic potential of its position?
How do our performance practices position the disabled body in order to become a figure? How can inclusive practices shift the perception of what creates the artistic form and the negative space in the performing arts?
Participants will create performance materials themselves through the exploration of their body and pushing the boundaries of their imagined, assumed or experienced ‘completeness’.
Facilitator
Marko Pejović, Grupa Hajde Da…, Serbia
Attendance by pre-registration only. Maximum number of participants: 20
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| 16:30-18:30 |
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Creative Europe Workshop: Insight and In-depth
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
This session offers a general overview of Creative Europe’s objectives and priorities, the requirements to apply and how to increase your chances of success.
- The first part will begin with an overall introduction to the programme, its priorities, the application process, useful tips, common pitfalls and case examples.
- The second hour will be a hands-on opportunity to develop your own project idea and to answer the question: “Is this a Creative Europe project?”
The session is meant for organisations and professionals who have a project in the making and are considering applying for a Creative Europe grant. Those interested in just hearing general information can attend the first part only.
Moderators
Albert Meijer, Creative Europe Desk, the Netherlands
Anastasija Konkina, Creative Europe Desk, Latvia
Dimitrije Tadić, Creative Europe Desk, Serbia
Konstantinos Trakosas, Creative Europe Desk, Greece
Zuzana Duchová, Creative Europe Desk, Slovakia
Speakers
Dubravka Vujinovic, PLAVO Theatre, Serbia
Barna Petrányi, Pro Progressione, Hungary
Tamara Bračič Vidmar, Bunker, Slovenia
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Boy with a suitcase [Local showcase]
Location: Little Theatre "Duško Radović"
Address: Aberdareva St. No 1, 11000 Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
Boy with a Suitcase, written by Mike Kenny, tells the story of Naz, a 12 year old boy who is forced to leave his home and undertake a long and dangerous journey to a ‘promised land’ where his brother lives, in pursuit of a better life.
In his small suitcase, Naz carries his biggest treasure - bedtime stories told by his parents during his childhood. With the help of these stories and Krysia, a girl he meets along the way, Naz manages to meet with his brother in safety and tell a new story: his own.
Duration: 140 min
Genre: Youth theatre
Price: 10 - 12€
Credits:
- Direction: Damjan Kecojević
- Translation: Milica Naumović
- Playwright: Bojana Lazić
- Set design: Zorana Petrov
- Costume design: Maja Mirković
- Music: Vladimir Pejaković
- Cast: Mladen Lero, Jelena Ilić, Jovana Cvetković, Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica / VladislavaĐorđević, Dubravka Kovjanić, Nedim Nezirović
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase following this link.
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| 18:00-19:15 |
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Crises [Bitef main programme]
Address: Skver Mire Trailović 1, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
The performance "Crises" concludes the programme of the festival, whose mission is to promote new names. This performance is deliberately put at the end of the 56th Bitef as it expands the topical frame of the main programme: it tackles not only the social issues related to work but also the philosophical phenomenon of crisis.
Duration: 1 hour 15 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2.000 RSD (12-17€)
Credits:
- Direction: Žiga Divjak
- Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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| 18:00-21:30 |
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Solo [Bitef main programme]
Location: Luka Beograd, Old Matez
Address: Luka Beograd, Old Matez, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Slovenian with Serbian and English subtitles.
‘Solo’ consists of four performers, though its starting point truly was a solo venture; based on a personal, professional reflection by the director Nina Rajić Kranjac and her position in her line of work and theatrical circumstances in Slovenia.
Duration: 3 hour 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2000 RSD (17€
Credits:
- Idea, concept and performance: Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nataša Keser, Benjamin Krnetić, Marko Mandić
- Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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| 20:00-22:00 |
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Meet the local artists [Full]
Address: Restaurant Mezestoran, Svetogorska 46, Belgrade
A small group of IETM participants will have the opportunity to exchange with 6 artists, compare realities and discuss artistic practices over a delicious dinner.
This activity is full so we are no longer taking registrations.
Attendance by pre-registration only. Maximum number of participants: 6
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| 20:00-21:30 |
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Living room — Ersan Mondtag [Local showcase]
Location: Belgrade Drama Theatre
Address: Milesevska St. No.64a, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
An auteur project by Ersan Mondtag, one of the most promising young artists of the German and European theatre scenes. Living Room at the Belgrade Drama Theatre is a part of the eponymous project initiated in 2021 in the Belgian theatre NTGent.
The title is a word play which is untranslatable into Serbian – since it is a living room, i.e. sitting room or - literally translated from English - a room for living.
“My international career was launched several years ago, at the 51st Bitef festival, which makes my relationship with Belgrade quite unique and I’m glad to be back. Living Room, the second part of the trilogy The Living, is a story about life. We see an elderly woman who is getting ready for work in her living room. Once the stage rotates, we see a young woman in the same situation. That’s practically the same life over the course of 40 years.”
- Ersan Mondtag
Duration: 90 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: RSD 1.500 (around 13€)
Credits:
- Authorship, Direction, Set Design and Lighting Design: Ersan Mondtag
- Co-Author: Tijana Grumić
- Costume Design: Josa Marx
- Sound Design: Jonas Grundner-Culemann
- Consecutive Interpretation: Dušan Nikolić
- Assistant Director: Jug Đorđević, Jonas Grundner-Culemann
- Artistic Assistant: Simon Lesemann
- Cast: Vesna Čipčić, Aleksandra Anja Alač / Iva Ilinčić, Ljubomir Bulajić, Aleksandar Jovanović
- Organization: Bojana Mišić Drnda
- Stage Manager and Prompt: Jovana Matić
- Works of art used in the performance by: „Osvajanje Beograda“, Katarina Ivanović (National Museum in Belgrade), „Moj život po Vazariju“, Olja Ivanjicki (“Olga Olja Ivanjicki” Fund)
- Our gratitude to Mr. Dejan Đurović
- Photography: Dragana Udovičić
- Co-production: Belgrade Drama Theatre and Bitef Theatre
How to book?
Tickets are already available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here.
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| 21:00-21:50 |
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Dancing Trees [Local showcase]
Location: Studentski trg/ Student square
Address: Studentski trg 16, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map
Performance in Serbian with an English synopsis distributed beforehand.
Dancing Trees is a site-specific dance theatre show by the independent theatre troupe and artistic collective DAH Theatre, created in collaboration with the Belgrade Dance Institute. The performance explores the importance of tree preservation. The show consists of seven performers with the original music, and it aims to sensitise the audience and encourage initiatives in defence against excessive tree felling. In addition to the performances in the parks, the project includes talks and a digital platform, webinar and video, as well as other activities that connect art and ecology.
Duration: 50 min
Genre: Site-specific performance
Price: Free
Credits:
- Direction and Dramaturgy: Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Anđelić
- Performers: Vladimir Čubrilo, Đurđija Jelenković, Ivana Milovanović/Đorđe Kocić, Ivan Nikolić, Miona Petrović, Ivana Milenović Popović, Zoran Vasiljević
- Texts and sources: Peter Wohlleben „The Hidden Life of Trees“; Diana Beresford Kroeger „To Speak for the Trees“; Hermann Hesse „About Trees“; Manoel Penna “Street Tress”; Affonso Romano Sant’Anna “Arboreal Love”; Miona Petrović “Message to the Trees”; material from internet
- Music: Ivana Stefanović
- Electronic: Dragan Mitrić
- Voices: Ivana Milenović Popović, Ivan Nikolić, Neša Paripović, Miona Petrović, Milan Popović, Vid Popović, Aleksandar Vasiljević, Andrija Vasiljević, Zoran Vasiljević
- Vocals: Ljubica Damčević
- Sound design: Zoran Jerković
- Video, projections, mapping: Jelena Rubil
- Costume: Ivana Samolov
- Object doll: Snežana Arnautović
- Light design: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov
- Organisation and Production: Nataša Novaković, Milica Petrović
- Director’s assistants: Rumena Šopova, Ana Bošković
- Technical Production: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov
- Technical support: Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
- Text recording and technical support: Zoran Vasiljević
- Translation from Portuguese: Jovan Tatić and Jadranka Andjelić
- Finance: Dragana Živanović
- Marketing: Ivana Milenović Popović
- PR: Tanja Rapp
- Social Networks: Aleksandra Atanacković
- IT support: Miloš Jovanov (Green Friends)
- Photography: Djordje Tomić
- Graphic design: škart Film
Realised in collaboration with: Belgrade Dance Institute
Supported by: ITAC – Climate Impact, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, International Relief Fund of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute, City of Belgrade – Secretary for Culture
How to book?
This performance has free access. No pre-booking needed.
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| 21:00-22:30 |
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Love [Bitef main programme]
Location: Luka Beograd, Blue hall
Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2 250 RSD (around 19€)
Credits:
- Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin
- Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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| 22:00-01:00 |
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Location: Lisabon bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
An informal moment to come back together, network, relax with colleagues and friends, and meet new faces.
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