Intercultural Dialogue in and through the Performing Arts in Southeast Europe

Milena Dragičević Šešić

Crossing briefly through the history of the collaborative projects and exchanges in the former Yugoslav cultural space, the paper focuses on the period from 1990 till today, a period when the dialogue has been challenged by wars, new frontiers, migrations of artists and intellectuals and the...

An On-Going Affair: The presence of Slovenian theatre at BITEF and their mutual influence

Katarina Pejović

From its very onset in 1967, the Belgrade International Theatre Festival – BITEF –established a manifold relationship with Slovenian theatre: as one of the main platforms for verifying the latter’s relevance in the international context, as a source of influence on certain Slovenian theatre...

Ristić in Slovenia

Blaž Lukan

A key author in the Slovenian theatre "boom” of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ljubiša Ristić directed his first production in Slovenia in 1974, with another nine productions following until 1985. The paper attempts to define the meaning of Ristić’s guest presence for Slovenian theatre of...

The East-West Map: The perception of Slovenian post-dramatic theatre in the East and the West

Tomaž Toporišič

The paper maps the specificity of the reception of Slovenian post-dramatic theatre production in the East (especially in the republics of Yugoslavia) and in the West (especially in Western Europe) and examines how these practices broke through the national frameworks and embedded themselves in...

Intracultural Theatre and Performing Slovenian National Identity

Barbara Orel

The paper examines the relationship between the politics and aesthetics of performing Slovenian national identity on the celebrations that annually (since the country’s founding in 1991) commemorate Slovenian Statehood Day. The cultural-artistic programme on the governmental stage is considered...