June 30 – July 03, 2016.
EXISTENCE –
FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAH THEATER
The festival called "Posto(A)janje" is a theater platform where, through examples of permanent artistic collectives, in the form of dynamic discussions of plays, workshops and performances, through live meetings with artists and eminent professors from the country and abroad, ways of survival and duration of contemporary theater art are explored.
The guests are eminent artists and theoreticians from various fields of contemporary art from all over the world.
Opening
EXISTENCE
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
DAH Theater Center for Theater Research, Marulićeva 8, Belgrade
30. 6. 2016. THURSDAY
20:00 Opening ceremony of the festival
Screening of the documentary film about DAH Theater "View through duration"
Promotion of the first book about DAH Theater "DAH Theater Sourcebook" - prepared by Dennis Barnett, publisher of Lexington Books, USA Participants: Dennis Barnett (USA), Ruth Margraff (USA), Ivan Medenica (Serbia), Amy Sarno (USA)
COCKTAIL
1. 7. 2016. FRIDAY
11am-14pm Dramaturgy of Resistance
Moderator: Dijana Milošević (Serbia)
Participants: Mirjana Karanović, Milena Dragićević Šešić, Ivana Vujić, Staša Zajović (Serbia)
16-17h Dramaturgy of costumes - from Disney to DAH Theatre, presentation
Lecturer: Irina Kruzhilina (Russia / USA)
17-18h Dramaturgy of the Scenic Space
Lecturer: Miodrag Tabački (Serbia)
18-19h Film dramaturgy based on the example of the film "Enclave"
Lecturer: Goran Radovanović (Serbia)
8:00 p.m. "The Trembling of the Rose" - performance by DAH Theater
2. 7. 2016. SATURDAY
11 a.m. "Alice in the Land of the Dragon" performance by DAH Theater for children and adults
1-1:30 p.m. Dramaturgy of the Festival - INFANT Festival as a model
Lecturer: Simon Grabovac (Serbia)
1:30 p.m.-2 p.m. Birth, development and survival of the Institute for Artistic Dance - the first dance faculty in Serbia
Lecturer: Aleksandar Ilić (Serbia)
16-19h Challenges of the survival of the artistic collective
Moderator: Maja Mitić (Serbia)
Participant(s): Kathy Randels (USA) - 20 years of ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans, character dialogue "Black Ladies" with Tina Milivojević (Serbia) Siegmar Schröder (Germany) - Third decade of Teatarlabor David Diamond (USA) - The tradition of La MaMa Teatra - Continuing the vision Nenad Čolić (Serbia) - 20 years of the Blue Theater Karolina Spaić (Serbia/Netherlands) - Zid Teatar, Amsterdam
8-9:30 pm Women, theater, survival and vision
Dramaturgy of the survival of the Magdalena network - International network of women in contemporary theater
Lecturer: Jill Greenhalgh (Great Britain)
Dramaturgy of an actress / Dramaturgy of a director
Lecturer: Anna Furse (Great Britain)
FEMART – Obstacles and implementation
Lecturer: Zana Hoxha Krasniqi (Kosovo)
The plot of becoming - video address by Jadranka Anđelić (Serbia)
22 pm "25 glasses of wine" - lecture-performance by Dijana Milošević on the occasion of 25 years of DAH Theater
3. 7. 2016. SUNDAY
11-12.30 pm From the world of dreams to the world of activism - women writers in contemporary theater
Moderator: Ivana Milenović Popović (Serbia)
Participants: Christine Evans (Australia), Minja Bogavac (Serbia)
12.30-13pm Women, Art, Resistance
Participant: Zoe Gudovic (Serbia)
13:00-15:00 "Stay or leave" - Independent theater and dance scene of Serbia - discussion about the ways of survival and development of artistic vision in Serbia
Participants: Nenad Čolić, Igor Koruga, Mladen Lukešević, Boris Cakširan, Marko Pejović, Nela Antonović, Dragan Simeunović, Tanja Pajović (Serbia)
5:00 p.m. "No/Visible City" - theater action by DAH Theater on bus line no. 26
DAH Theater was founded by directors Jadranka Anđelić and Dijana Milošević in 1991 out of the need for thorough research work. Actress Maja Mitić has been joining them since the very beginning. In 1993, DAH Theater increased its activities by forming the DAH Theater Center for Theater Research with a program consisting of workshops, lectures, seminars, guest performances and festivals. In 2008, DAH Theater was joined by actress Ivana Milenović Popović, and in 2013 by Nataša Novaković, PR and organizer.
When the war in Yugoslavia began in 1991, DAH Theater faced essential questions: "What is the responsibility and duty of an artist in dark times, in times of violence and human suffering?" "Will there be singing in dark times? Yes, there will be singing about dark times." – B. Brecht
Being an NGO in this country has been a big challenge in recent years. The members of DAH Theater strongly oppose war and violence with their work and behavior.
DAH Theater believes that theater has the power to communicate interculturally and is a unique tool that allows different voices to be heard. Theater establishes communication between different nations, people and histories.
"Destruction and violence in the modern world can only be opposed by creating meaning" - is the motto of DAH Theater even today.
IMPLEMENTATION WAS SUPPORTED BY THE RECONSTRUCTION WOMEN'S FUND AND THE JELENA ŠANTIĆ FOUNDATION
