JUNE 23 – 27, 2021.
CONNECTING THE CENTURIES
30 YEARS OF DAH THEATER
As part of the program, DAH Theater will show all the plays it currently has in its repertoire, as well as exclusively, the last Odin Theater production with Roberto Carreri. The program includes meetings, talks, performative lectures and concerts.
DAH Theater's thirty years 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, made connections between artists and audiences from all over the world, between people of different nationalities, professional, political, racial, sexual and all other orientations, between generations and artistic directions.
Dorćol Platz, UK Parobrod,
Small theater "Duško Radović", National Theater in Belgrade and the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia
The opening on June 23 in Dorćol Platz will begin with a concert by the hip-hop group Pretty Loud, followed by a performative conversation between members of the DAH Theater, 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 performances of this theater.
During the four days, there will be performances: "For your own good" which deals with children's rights; "The Riddle of Revolution" which deals with the meaning of revolution and civic engagement; performance "Terra" which draws a parallel between transplanting plants and "transplanting" people, i.e. the issue of modern migrations; "Women of DADA" a play performed for museum spaces, which deals with female artists of Dadaism and the position of women in art;
On the last day of the festival, June 27, Odin Theater's play " Flowers for Torgerdirected and performed by Roberta Carrera. The performance is a tribute to the actor Torger Vettal, one of the founders of the famous Odin Theater, and asks the question "Can sadness become the light that illuminates one's path in life?" It talks about the meaning of life after the loss of a loved one and an artist, which has two dimensions: sadness and gratitude.
Invited experts, artists and theorists will talk about avant-garde art movements
such as "Zenitism", which this year marks 100 years since its creation and was concerned with celebrating the new art and the new man. The meaning of life in art, the importance of believing in an artistic vision, which is related to civic engagement, as well as the reasons for the duration of artistic movements and collectives, will be discussed.
"Connecting the Centuries" will celebrate the meaning and necessity of art and theater as a way of resisting meaninglessness and destruction by celebrating the duration of an artistic collective - a theater troupe.
