NAGIB ON STAGE 2014/2015
September 2014 / June 2015 – The first season of the contemporary performing art programme in Narodni dom Maribor
Established in 2005 as an international contemporary dance festival, Nagib has during the past few years moved away from the “traditional” definitions and realisations of a dance festival. Nagib was persistent in upgrading and modifying its participatory concept to open up to different authorial aesthetics and artistic processes. The realisation that artistic processes can benefit from a festival platform and that the festival can pave the way to new production forms and not only present those already created were the principles behind the festival’s search for new forms and modes of presentation and creation.
In 2014 Nagib is going on stage – thus elaborating its participatory concept in the direction of what we think is lacking in Maribor and establishing a continuous presentation of contemporary performing art performances with the art programme: Nagib on Stage.
The stage as a plaster, as a reflection of the present moment, as “first aid” for the non-institutional culture and art in Maribor. From September 2014 to June 2015, Nagib on Stage will organise in Narodni dom monthly presentations of some extremely intriguing contemporary performing art performances, thus aiming to fill the artistic and spatial lack recognised in this space.
We are announcing the beginning of the first season, with the opening performance Love’s End on 6 September 2014 at the Small stage in Narodni dom, featuring the masters of stage art Pia Zemljič and Marko Mandić and directed by Ivica Buljan (Mini Theatre).
Preparations for the first season of the new art programme in Maribor will take place from 25 August to 6 September, when a ten day incubator for young makers from Slovenia (April Veselko, Ajda Tomazin, Jan Rozman, Alja Ferjan and Katja Kosi) and abroad (Fingersix collective – Marta Navaridas/ES, Dani Brown/US and Sofia Marvagani/GR, Jess Devereux and Zaimon Vilmanis/AU and Josipa Bubaš/CRO) will take place. The incubator is guided by the logic of supporting and connecting artists of different generations through their artistic processes and presents an opportunity for concentrated and in-depth work. We will get an insight into the artists’ creative work at the concluding event with a working title Event in the City (5 September), which will be directed by a young director Simon Belak/SLO selected in collaboration with Glej Theatre. The concept of the incubator is further upgraded with the programme Nagib on Stage, which will throughout the season also present the final products of the young artists.
In the season 2014/2015 we are supporting creative processes and building the foundations for a continuous presentation of high-quality contemporary performances in Maribor. It’s time to end the romantic view on the cultural-artistic production and offer in Maribor and experience contemporary performing practices of and in the present moment. In cooperation with Narodni dom and other Slovene and international makers and producers, we are building the foundations for this to happen.
Concept and direction: Petra Hazabent – Association NAGIB (production)
Coproduction: Narodni dom Maribor
Texts:Anja Bunderla, Andreja Kopač in Špela Oberstar
Assistance and counselling: Vlasta Veselko, Katja Kosi, Marko Brumen (ND)
Visual design: Matej Jarc
PR: Anja Bunderla
Partners: SiGledal, Britt Guy (AUS – samostojna producentka), Gledališče Glej, Zavod Bunker in Festival Drugajanje, JSKD, DSPS -Festival Gibanica, Mreža sodobnega plesa, …
Support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Maribor