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Ballerina, Ballerina (Festival LUTKE)
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The puppet performance based on Marko Sošić’s novel Ballerina, Ballerina will be directed by the young award-winning Lithuanian director Jūratė Trimakaitė. The performance is being crafted as part of the French production, while the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre will co-produce its Slovenian version, which will be premièred at the 17th International Biennial Festival of Contemporary Puppetry Art Lutke.
During the performance, the audience will be equipped with headphones through which the sound and text of the performance will be delivered employing a special sound technique. Members of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre ensemble will lend their voices to the characters that will be silently animated by the French animators on the stage. The Slovenian voice-over will be recorded during the rehearsals at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre in June 2024.
The narrative follows a young Slovenian woman from a town near Trieste, as she observes the everyday life of her humble family in Italy during the 1960s. The main character is a mentally challenged child who does not speak. Instead, her thoughts are expressed by the novel’s author and the emerging performance.
Ballerina, Ballerina is a performance that will harness the poetic language of the protagonist, Ballerina, to provide an unusual view of the world around us. Her view of the world around her is imbued with simplicity, yet it leaves a profound impact on the reader (for example: significant events such as the landing of man on the Moon are equally as important to her as her birthday). Through her eyes we delve into the lives of the people close to her, their views of her, their love for her, and her world. Ballerina does not judge, she merely feels, often wonders and listens to what others have to say.
Premiere: 25 September 2024, Šentjakob Stage LGL
Marko Sosič (1958–2021) was a director and writer from Trieste. He directed in various Slovenian and Italian theatres, as well as on television. He published his first short stories in Sodobnost and Mladje magazines. He served as the art director of the Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica and held roles as both the art director and director of the Slovenian Repertory Theatre in Trieste. Additionally, he was involved in selecting works for the Maribor Theatre Festival and the Week of Slovenian Drama festival. He authored and directed radio dramas, which he recorded for Slovenian radio in Trieste. He is also renowned for his prose. He published a collection of novelettes Dew on Glass, the autobiographical theatre chronicle A Thousand Days, Two Hundred Nights, the short novel Ballerina, Ballerina,short-listed for the Kresnik Award, and the novel Tito, amor mijo. The latter brought him a nomination for the Prešeren Fund Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. His collection of short storiesFrom Earth and Dreams was nominated book of the year and shortlisted for the Fabula 2012 Award. He also received two Golden Stick Awards for directing children’s performances, the Resurrection Award for the short novel Ballerina, Ballerina, which was also awarded the Umberto Saba special recognition and first award of the 2005 Città di Salò Award. In 2007, the Slovenian Pen Club nominated his novel Ballerina, Ballerina for the Strega Europeo international award.
Jūratė Trimakaitė is a puppetry artist from Lithuania, renowned for her versatility. She studied puppetry at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, earning her Bachelor's degree in 2010 followed by her Master's degree in 2013. During the period from 2011 to 2014, she studied at the National School for Higher Education in Puppetry Art (École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières in France. Since 2015, she has worked as an independent puppet artist and director collaborating with theatre groups such as Les Enfants Sauvages, Eun Young Kim Pernelle & Co, Collectif 23H50, Compagnie ZA, Collectif MA-THEA, and performing in Centre de créations pour l 'enfance performances. Since 2016, she has taught puppetry at the Theatre and Film Faculty of the University of Picardy Jules Verne in France. Recently, her direction of the Duck, Death and the Tulip performance at the Lele Theatre in Vilnius has garnered widespread acclaim and a number of awards. In 2018, Jūratė Trimakaitė became associate artist at the Tas de Sable – Ches Panses Vertes. She also started working on a new French-Lithuanian creation entitled Pièges.
Source: https://www.lgl.si/en/performances/repertory/1218-Ballerina-Ballerina-Festival-LUTKE
During the performance, the audience will be equipped with headphones through which the sound and text of the performance will be delivered employing a special sound technique. Members of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre ensemble will lend their voices to the characters that will be silently animated by the French animators on the stage. The Slovenian voice-over will be recorded during the rehearsals at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre in June 2024.
The narrative follows a young Slovenian woman from a town near Trieste, as she observes the everyday life of her humble family in Italy during the 1960s. The main character is a mentally challenged child who does not speak. Instead, her thoughts are expressed by the novel’s author and the emerging performance.
Ballerina, Ballerina is a performance that will harness the poetic language of the protagonist, Ballerina, to provide an unusual view of the world around us. Her view of the world around her is imbued with simplicity, yet it leaves a profound impact on the reader (for example: significant events such as the landing of man on the Moon are equally as important to her as her birthday). Through her eyes we delve into the lives of the people close to her, their views of her, their love for her, and her world. Ballerina does not judge, she merely feels, often wonders and listens to what others have to say.
Premiere: 25 September 2024, Šentjakob Stage LGL
Marko Sosič (1958–2021) was a director and writer from Trieste. He directed in various Slovenian and Italian theatres, as well as on television. He published his first short stories in Sodobnost and Mladje magazines. He served as the art director of the Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica and held roles as both the art director and director of the Slovenian Repertory Theatre in Trieste. Additionally, he was involved in selecting works for the Maribor Theatre Festival and the Week of Slovenian Drama festival. He authored and directed radio dramas, which he recorded for Slovenian radio in Trieste. He is also renowned for his prose. He published a collection of novelettes Dew on Glass, the autobiographical theatre chronicle A Thousand Days, Two Hundred Nights, the short novel Ballerina, Ballerina,short-listed for the Kresnik Award, and the novel Tito, amor mijo. The latter brought him a nomination for the Prešeren Fund Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. His collection of short storiesFrom Earth and Dreams was nominated book of the year and shortlisted for the Fabula 2012 Award. He also received two Golden Stick Awards for directing children’s performances, the Resurrection Award for the short novel Ballerina, Ballerina, which was also awarded the Umberto Saba special recognition and first award of the 2005 Città di Salò Award. In 2007, the Slovenian Pen Club nominated his novel Ballerina, Ballerina for the Strega Europeo international award.
Jūratė Trimakaitė is a puppetry artist from Lithuania, renowned for her versatility. She studied puppetry at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, earning her Bachelor's degree in 2010 followed by her Master's degree in 2013. During the period from 2011 to 2014, she studied at the National School for Higher Education in Puppetry Art (École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières in France. Since 2015, she has worked as an independent puppet artist and director collaborating with theatre groups such as Les Enfants Sauvages, Eun Young Kim Pernelle & Co, Collectif 23H50, Compagnie ZA, Collectif MA-THEA, and performing in Centre de créations pour l 'enfance performances. Since 2016, she has taught puppetry at the Theatre and Film Faculty of the University of Picardy Jules Verne in France. Recently, her direction of the Duck, Death and the Tulip performance at the Lele Theatre in Vilnius has garnered widespread acclaim and a number of awards. In 2018, Jūratė Trimakaitė became associate artist at the Tas de Sable – Ches Panses Vertes. She also started working on a new French-Lithuanian creation entitled Pièges.
Source: https://www.lgl.si/en/performances/repertory/1218-Ballerina-Ballerina-Festival-LUTKE
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