23 – 27. JUNE 2021
BRIDGING CENTURIES
30 YEARS OF DAH TEATAR
As part of the program, DAH Teatar will present all the performances currently on its repertoire, as well as, exclusively, the latest production of Odin Teatret with Roberta Carreri. The program also includes meetings, discussions, performative lectures, and concerts.
Thirty years of DAH Teatar span from the last decade of the 20th century to the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, during which DAH, through its creative activities, has built bridges between artists and audiences from all over the world, between people of different nationalities,
professional, political, racial, gender, and all other affiliations, between generations and artistic movements.
Dorćol Platz, UK Parobrod,
Malo pozorište „Duško Radović“, National Theater in Belgrade and Museum of Yugoslav History
The opening on June 23 at Dorćol Platz begins with a concert by the hip-hop group Pretty Loud, followed by a performative conversation between members of DAH Teatar, who will ask each other unexpected questions about life “in one breath“.
The first evening ends with an event in which VJ and DJ will use fragments of music and videos from the theater’s performances.
During the four days, the following performances will be played:
“For Your Own Good”, which deals with children’s rights;
“The Enigma of Revolution”, which deals with the meaning of revolution and civic engagement; the performance
“Earth”, which draws a parallel between transplanting plants and “transplanting” people, i.e., the issue of contemporary migrations;
“Women of DADA”, a performance that is played for museum spaces and deals with Dadaist artists and the position of women in art;
On the last day of the festival, June 27, the Odin Teatret performance ”
Flowers for Torgeir” will be performed, directed and performed by Roberta Carreri. The play is an homage to the actor Torgeir Wethal, one of the founders of the famous Odin Teatret, and asks the question “Can sorrow become a light that illuminates someone’s
path in life?” It speaks of the meaning of life after the loss of a loved one and artist, which has two dimensions: sorrow and gratitude.
Invited experts, artists, and theorists will talk about avant-garde artistic movements
such as “Zenitism”, which this year marks 100 years since its creation and dealt with the celebration of new art and the new man. The meaning of life in art, the importance of believing in an artistic vision that is related to civic
engagement, as well as the reasons for the duration of artistic movements and collectives, will be considered.
“Bridging Centuries” will celebrate the meaning and necessity of art and theater as a way of resisting meaninglessness and destruction through the celebration of the duration of one artistic collective – a theater troupe.
