Pre-festival event
Monday, October 19 at 6pm: Presentation of the 18th edition of the festival & conversation with artists
Location: Gornji oder (Gornji trg 13, Ljubljana)
Co-production and co-organisation: DU Narobov (projekt Ulična kritika), Radio Študent, Gornji oder, Društvo IMPRO
Dear friends of the festival, creators, and everyone interested in this year’s festival theme “to be seen”!
We invite you to a discursive pre-festival event that opens a space for reflection, conversation, and collective exploration of the questions brought to the forefront by this year’s edition.
Together with local and international artists whose works explore the festival’s theme — some through clowning, others through drag king performance, dance, or simply improvisation, acting, and directing — we will open questions such as:
Who becomes visible on stage, and who remains in the shadows, in processes where the audience often co‑creates the unfolding of the event?
When does visibility mean recognition, and when does it mean exposure, if everything in stage art is understood as fiction?
When is being visible an act of liberation, and when does it become a form of control?
Goli oder believes in community. And community is a space in which visibility is not merely the exposure of an individual, but the possibility of truly seeing one another. A space where the Other is no longer just “the Other”, but becomes someone with whom we share space, time, perspective, and responsibility.
The event is organised in collaboration with Radio Študent, which will moderate both parts of the programme.
We begin with a press-conference format, where Sara Šoukal, Artistic Director, and
Eva Jus, Executive Producer, will present this year’s programme, conceptual framework, and key highlights of the festival. The conversation will be moderated by Metod Zupan.
The second part is dedicated to a conversation with the artists. We will meet the creators of this year’s performances and representatives of participating collectives. Together, we will reflect on what it means to be visible in contemporary performing practices, in communities, and in social spaces that are constantly shifting.
The discussion will be moderated by Nika Gradišek, Zala Julija Kavčič, and Metod Zupan.
Participants from Slovenian productions:
- Dragana Alfirević, Silver Gold
- Tanja Matijašević, Dragi drago
- Peter Frankl, Iglu
- Martin Kerin, ŠILA
International artists:
- Anne Rab, DE
- Clara Jolfre, FR
- Gerit Scholz, AT
- Antoine Noirant, FR
- Morgan Brosed Ponce, FR
You are warmly invited to join us for shared reflection, conversation, and gathering.
Free entry.
Co-production and co-organisation: DU Narobov (projekt Ulična kritika), Radio Študent, Gornji oder, Društvo IMPRO
Dear friends of the festival, creators, and everyone interested in this year’s festival theme “to be seen”!
We invite you to a discursive pre-festival event that opens a space for reflection, conversation, and collective exploration of the questions brought to the forefront by this year’s edition.
Together with local and international artists whose works explore the festival’s theme — some through clowning, others through drag king performance, dance, or simply improvisation, acting, and directing — we will open questions such as:
Who becomes visible on stage, and who remains in the shadows, in processes where the audience often co‑creates the unfolding of the event?
When does visibility mean recognition, and when does it mean exposure, if everything in stage art is understood as fiction?
When is being visible an act of liberation, and when does it become a form of control?
Goli oder believes in community. And community is a space in which visibility is not merely the exposure of an individual, but the possibility of truly seeing one another. A space where the Other is no longer just “the Other”, but becomes someone with whom we share space, time, perspective, and responsibility.
The event is organised in collaboration with Radio Študent, which will moderate both parts of the programme.
We begin with a press-conference format, where Sara Šoukal, Artistic Director, and
Eva Jus, Executive Producer, will present this year’s programme, conceptual framework, and key highlights of the festival. The conversation will be moderated by Metod Zupan.
The second part is dedicated to a conversation with the artists. We will meet the creators of this year’s performances and representatives of participating collectives. Together, we will reflect on what it means to be visible in contemporary performing practices, in communities, and in social spaces that are constantly shifting.
The discussion will be moderated by Nika Gradišek, Zala Julija Kavčič, and Metod Zupan.
Participants from Slovenian productions:
- Dragana Alfirević, Silver Gold
- Tanja Matijašević, Dragi drago
- Peter Frankl, Iglu
- Martin Kerin, ŠILA
International artists:
- Anne Rab, DE
- Clara Jolfre, FR
- Gerit Scholz, AT
- Antoine Noirant, FR
- Morgan Brosed Ponce, FR
You are warmly invited to join us for shared reflection, conversation, and gathering.
Free entry.
photo: Enja Zobarič
Performances
Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm: Dear Drago: Full Monty
Concept and performance: Tanja Matijašević, Teja Bitenc, Liza Močnik, Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Špela Setničar, Suzana Tratnik, Sara Fabjan, Marja Kovanda, Veronika Razpotnik, Nika Fugina
Production: Lesbian Quarter (ŠKUC)
Light design: Antoine Noirant
Music score: Maja Pahor
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets are available here
Your beloved alpha males have stumbled into a delightful mess. These are strange times to be a man; the old tricks no longer charm the very people they long to impress. And so, in a rare moment of courage, they’ve decided to open their hearts to you. Yes—truly—prepare yourselves: they are ready to dive deep, strip down to their emotional skin, and face your questions head‑on.
They hope to enchant you, amuse you, or—why not—offer you a mirror you didn’t know you needed.
Come meet them. Come flirt with them. Come see what happens.
Dragi Drago: Collective
The Dragi Drago (Dear Drago) collective is woven from FLINTA beings* and first took shape during the tenth Lesbian Quarter Festival (ŠKUC), through an intensive workshop delving into gender roles and the social projections that cling to identity. Through a fusion of physical theatre, improvisation, and dance, the members craft an intimate shared space where they unravel and re‑stitch the normative ideas of gender, power, and representation.
In a cabaret spirit, they create original acts rooted in the textures of queer everyday life and community, offering them to the audience with unrestrained joy. Their performative skills deepen through regular collective workshops, held in a mostly non‑hierarchical atmosphere of shared learning, exploration, and simply being together.
*flinta: female, lesbian, intersex, non‑binary, trans, and asexual people.
Production: Lesbian Quarter (ŠKUC)
Light design: Antoine Noirant
Music score: Maja Pahor
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets are available here
Your beloved alpha males have stumbled into a delightful mess. These are strange times to be a man; the old tricks no longer charm the very people they long to impress. And so, in a rare moment of courage, they’ve decided to open their hearts to you. Yes—truly—prepare yourselves: they are ready to dive deep, strip down to their emotional skin, and face your questions head‑on.
They hope to enchant you, amuse you, or—why not—offer you a mirror you didn’t know you needed.
Come meet them. Come flirt with them. Come see what happens.
Dragi Drago: Collective
The Dragi Drago (Dear Drago) collective is woven from FLINTA beings* and first took shape during the tenth Lesbian Quarter Festival (ŠKUC), through an intensive workshop delving into gender roles and the social projections that cling to identity. Through a fusion of physical theatre, improvisation, and dance, the members craft an intimate shared space where they unravel and re‑stitch the normative ideas of gender, power, and representation.
In a cabaret spirit, they create original acts rooted in the textures of queer everyday life and community, offering them to the audience with unrestrained joy. Their performative skills deepen through regular collective workshops, held in a mostly non‑hierarchical atmosphere of shared learning, exploration, and simply being together.
*flinta: female, lesbian, intersex, non‑binary, trans, and asexual people.
Photo: Monika Elez / Lezbična četrt
Wednesday, October 21 at 9pm: An excellent conceited tragedie of Romeo and Juliet
Clown improvise duo of the play Romeo and Juliette
Performers: Clara Jolfre, Morgan Brosed Ponce
Music: Mojca Zupančič
Concept: Clara Jolfre, Morgan Brosed Ponce
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
There are two of them, and they’ve set themselves the goal of staging *Romeo and Juliet* in one hour. They have very limited resources and speak broken English; all they know is that they want to feel less alone and untangle fact from fiction in the tragedy—even if it means going off-script. All they know for sure is that there will be wigs, drama, politics, and maybe a little bit of stunts.
Morgan Brosed Ponce
A hybrid blend of contemporary theatre, clowning, pratfalls, wrestling, and rap. A physical actor and performer, for him, acting is about life, joy, and encounters! Primarily trained at Scène sur Saône in Lyon and by various heirs of Michel Dallaire, he is a happy explorer, dedicating himself to multiple performance disciplines.
He conceives of the stage as a ring, a place of possibilities and extremes, a place of passion and adventure,a place of struggle and love, a place of comedy and tragedy, a place to create, a place for oneself and for others!
Let's form a pack, let's make life, let's make it happen.
Clara Jolfre
Actress, performer, improviser, and drag king.
Eager for new forms and creative freedom, Clara decided to train on the job through various disciplines and challenge herself each year with a new skill.
In this quest for multidisciplinarity, she founded a company in 2018 called Les Dévorants and specializes in the cabaret form.
In 2021, after spending so much time in the queer community, she decided to become a drag king and now performs under the name Victor Huro to challenge the patriarchy. In 2022, she also explored street theatre and alternative performance formats. Because, let's face it, theatres get boring, right? In 2023, she wondered what new medium she hadn't yet tried. Let's try stand-up comedy!
Mojca Zupančič is a pianist, composer, conductor, and intermedia artist. She leads the international collective Tututu Orchestra, with which she develops her own methodology of conducted improvisation, and performs in numerous other ensembles (Miss Amanita Fly, VIRA, Karmakoma …), where she primarily uses keyboard instruments, synthesizers, and voice as her medium.In her artistic practice, she explores sonic textures, relationships between instruments, improvisation, and composition. She is fascinated by the interplay between image and sound, which she investigates through the development of generative audio‑reactive visuals.
As a musician, she also works in improvisational theatre, and at Radio Študent she co‑hosts the show Muzikal. She graduated in Multimedia from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana in 2018, and in 2023 completed her studies in jazz piano in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Performers: Clara Jolfre, Morgan Brosed Ponce
Music: Mojca Zupančič
Concept: Clara Jolfre, Morgan Brosed Ponce
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
There are two of them, and they’ve set themselves the goal of staging *Romeo and Juliet* in one hour. They have very limited resources and speak broken English; all they know is that they want to feel less alone and untangle fact from fiction in the tragedy—even if it means going off-script. All they know for sure is that there will be wigs, drama, politics, and maybe a little bit of stunts.
Morgan Brosed Ponce
A hybrid blend of contemporary theatre, clowning, pratfalls, wrestling, and rap. A physical actor and performer, for him, acting is about life, joy, and encounters! Primarily trained at Scène sur Saône in Lyon and by various heirs of Michel Dallaire, he is a happy explorer, dedicating himself to multiple performance disciplines.
He conceives of the stage as a ring, a place of possibilities and extremes, a place of passion and adventure,a place of struggle and love, a place of comedy and tragedy, a place to create, a place for oneself and for others!
Let's form a pack, let's make life, let's make it happen.
Clara Jolfre
Actress, performer, improviser, and drag king.
Eager for new forms and creative freedom, Clara decided to train on the job through various disciplines and challenge herself each year with a new skill.
In this quest for multidisciplinarity, she founded a company in 2018 called Les Dévorants and specializes in the cabaret form.
In 2021, after spending so much time in the queer community, she decided to become a drag king and now performs under the name Victor Huro to challenge the patriarchy. In 2022, she also explored street theatre and alternative performance formats. Because, let's face it, theatres get boring, right? In 2023, she wondered what new medium she hadn't yet tried. Let's try stand-up comedy!
Mojca Zupančič is a pianist, composer, conductor, and intermedia artist. She leads the international collective Tututu Orchestra, with which she develops her own methodology of conducted improvisation, and performs in numerous other ensembles (Miss Amanita Fly, VIRA, Karmakoma …), where she primarily uses keyboard instruments, synthesizers, and voice as her medium.In her artistic practice, she explores sonic textures, relationships between instruments, improvisation, and composition. She is fascinated by the interplay between image and sound, which she investigates through the development of generative audio‑reactive visuals.
As a musician, she also works in improvisational theatre, and at Radio Študent she co‑hosts the show Muzikal. She graduated in Multimedia from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana in 2018, and in 2023 completed her studies in jazz piano in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Thursday, October 22 at 7pm: Black Box
premiere
Concept and directing: Juš Milčinski
Performers: Juš Milčinski, Peter Frankl in Vid SodnikConcept: IGLU & Jim Libby
Artistic consulting: Jim Libby
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
In science, computing, and engineering, the term black box refers to a model of a system whose internal mechanisms are not directly accessible to the observer. The organism of a black box cannot (or perhaps should not) be understood by looking inside it, but rather by observing the stimuli, data, or impulses that enter the system, and the responses, actions, and consequences that emerge from it. The most well‑known example is probably the black box in aircraft (which, since the 1960s, is actually bright orange so it can be located more easily). It records flight data and cockpit audio, enabling investigators to reconstruct events after an aviation accident. What interests us are the input data — the plane’s speed, angle, the condition of the pilots — and the output responses of the accident investigators.
This time, the improvisers of IGLU — Improv Theatre Ljubljana — will bring to light the black boxes of vivid, spontaneous stories. Through personal narratives, physical impressions, music‑inspired storytelling, scenes, and reflections, they will dismantle the system of sealed containers and offer themselves and the audience an authentic exploration of human behaviour, communication, and emotion. Why did we really do or say something? What lies beneath the surface? The black boxes will become transparent, and the hidden — visible.
IGLU – Improv Theatre Ljubljana is one of the most active improv theatres in Slovenia. The ensemble performs regularly at the Pionirski Teater in Ljubljana and across the country, and is active internationally at festivals and guest appearances. IGLU improvisers are members of Ohana, an international network of European improvisers, and the theatre is also a member of ITI, the International Theatresports Institute. For this project, they have invited one of Europe’s most renowned improvisers (though originally American) — Jim Libby — to join as director. Jim is a performer, director, teacher, and artistic consultant based in Vienna. He is the artistic director and improviser in numerous projects and a regular guest at major European improv festivals.
Concept and directing: Juš Milčinski
Performers: Juš Milčinski, Peter Frankl in Vid SodnikConcept: IGLU & Jim Libby
Artistic consulting: Jim Libby
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
In science, computing, and engineering, the term black box refers to a model of a system whose internal mechanisms are not directly accessible to the observer. The organism of a black box cannot (or perhaps should not) be understood by looking inside it, but rather by observing the stimuli, data, or impulses that enter the system, and the responses, actions, and consequences that emerge from it. The most well‑known example is probably the black box in aircraft (which, since the 1960s, is actually bright orange so it can be located more easily). It records flight data and cockpit audio, enabling investigators to reconstruct events after an aviation accident. What interests us are the input data — the plane’s speed, angle, the condition of the pilots — and the output responses of the accident investigators.
This time, the improvisers of IGLU — Improv Theatre Ljubljana — will bring to light the black boxes of vivid, spontaneous stories. Through personal narratives, physical impressions, music‑inspired storytelling, scenes, and reflections, they will dismantle the system of sealed containers and offer themselves and the audience an authentic exploration of human behaviour, communication, and emotion. Why did we really do or say something? What lies beneath the surface? The black boxes will become transparent, and the hidden — visible.
IGLU – Improv Theatre Ljubljana is one of the most active improv theatres in Slovenia. The ensemble performs regularly at the Pionirski Teater in Ljubljana and across the country, and is active internationally at festivals and guest appearances. IGLU improvisers are members of Ohana, an international network of European improvisers, and the theatre is also a member of ITI, the International Theatresports Institute. For this project, they have invited one of Europe’s most renowned improvisers (though originally American) — Jim Libby — to join as director. Jim is a performer, director, teacher, and artistic consultant based in Vienna. He is the artistic director and improviser in numerous projects and a regular guest at major European improv festivals.
Photo: Uroš Žuraj
Thursday, October 22 at 9pm: (Im)perception
Performers: Anne Rab, Gerit Scholz
Musician: Goran Završnik
Concept: Anne Rab, Gerit Scholz
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
Who am I in the eyes of others? Who do I want them to see? And what remains when we look beyond perception? Between the image we present to the world and our inner experience lies a space filled with contradictions, longings, and surprises.
(Im)perception explores the different layers of a character: their outward presence, their self-perception, and the many versions of themselves that emerge in their relationships with others, and with themselves.
The audience experiences, what characters reveal, what they feel, and what remains unspoken between them and within them. Between self-image and the image reflected back by others, between inner experience and outward expression, a multifaceted portrait emerges of the relationships that shape us, with others and with ourselves.
(Im)perception invites us to look beyond the surface and discover the many versions of a person. And perhaps, in doing so, we won't just recognize the characters on stage, but a part of ourselves as well.
Gerit Scholz (Tulln, Austria) is an actress and teacher in the fields of improvisational theatre and hospital clowning. Since 2008, she has been travelling throughout Europe in various constellations she co-founded or by herself, with self-developed formats and workshop offers. She also won the Austrian Theatre Sports Championships four times in a row (2022-2025), with her group “Die Dritten”. By co-organizing the Vienna Improfestival 2015-2017 and working on the workshop series “Quintessenz OASE”, Gerit was actively involved in the development of the local improv scene. Since 2017, she has been working as a hospital clown for CliniClowns Austria in various healthcare facilities and as a trainer for new clowns.
What she loves about improv is that it can lure people out of their comfort zone playfully, often resulting in shared emotions which can lead to more trust in oneself, the group and the moment. In her workshops she always looks for open playfulness and curiosity in the participants.
Anne Rab lived and worked as an actor, director, and theatre educator since 2010 in Leipzig, Germany. She is part of the leading team for 'Momenta', the international festival for improvisation in Leipzig, and is a long-standing member of the Theaterturbine.
2017 Anne moved to Vienna, Austria, where she continues her work teaching, directing and performing regularly with the Viennese improv community. Anne also works internationally teaching and performing, as well as developing improvised formats and shows.Her interest for improvisation started over 15 years ago in an ensemble of clowns that made up stories without words, and this work drives and fascinates her to this day: exploring non-verbal improvisation and teaching bodywork to actors, improvisers, and anyone that wants to discover and learn.
She also loves to perform with her duo-partners, including: Sarah Arndtz (Heroes), Ursula Anna Baumgartner (Bemme&Melange), and Jim Libby (The Messengers), and is a passionate advocate for community awareness in the world of improv.
Goran Završnik: after three years of learning the piano he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he’s playing with some amazing improv people, accompanying some crazy events, trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, trying not to interrupt too much the almighty improv action on the stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes improv musicians need to be loud and sometimes they want to be number one in the show, wanting to play fast and hot as hell. From punk singer and keyboard player in a Yugoslavian Army Highschool band to the strongest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre music maker. Also playing organ in Andrej Rozman Roza religion movement Zaničniki.
Musician: Goran Završnik
Concept: Anne Rab, Gerit Scholz
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
Who am I in the eyes of others? Who do I want them to see? And what remains when we look beyond perception? Between the image we present to the world and our inner experience lies a space filled with contradictions, longings, and surprises.
(Im)perception explores the different layers of a character: their outward presence, their self-perception, and the many versions of themselves that emerge in their relationships with others, and with themselves.
The audience experiences, what characters reveal, what they feel, and what remains unspoken between them and within them. Between self-image and the image reflected back by others, between inner experience and outward expression, a multifaceted portrait emerges of the relationships that shape us, with others and with ourselves.
(Im)perception invites us to look beyond the surface and discover the many versions of a person. And perhaps, in doing so, we won't just recognize the characters on stage, but a part of ourselves as well.
Gerit Scholz (Tulln, Austria) is an actress and teacher in the fields of improvisational theatre and hospital clowning. Since 2008, she has been travelling throughout Europe in various constellations she co-founded or by herself, with self-developed formats and workshop offers. She also won the Austrian Theatre Sports Championships four times in a row (2022-2025), with her group “Die Dritten”. By co-organizing the Vienna Improfestival 2015-2017 and working on the workshop series “Quintessenz OASE”, Gerit was actively involved in the development of the local improv scene. Since 2017, she has been working as a hospital clown for CliniClowns Austria in various healthcare facilities and as a trainer for new clowns.
What she loves about improv is that it can lure people out of their comfort zone playfully, often resulting in shared emotions which can lead to more trust in oneself, the group and the moment. In her workshops she always looks for open playfulness and curiosity in the participants.
Anne Rab lived and worked as an actor, director, and theatre educator since 2010 in Leipzig, Germany. She is part of the leading team for 'Momenta', the international festival for improvisation in Leipzig, and is a long-standing member of the Theaterturbine.
2017 Anne moved to Vienna, Austria, where she continues her work teaching, directing and performing regularly with the Viennese improv community. Anne also works internationally teaching and performing, as well as developing improvised formats and shows.Her interest for improvisation started over 15 years ago in an ensemble of clowns that made up stories without words, and this work drives and fascinates her to this day: exploring non-verbal improvisation and teaching bodywork to actors, improvisers, and anyone that wants to discover and learn.
She also loves to perform with her duo-partners, including: Sarah Arndtz (Heroes), Ursula Anna Baumgartner (Bemme&Melange), and Jim Libby (The Messengers), and is a passionate advocate for community awareness in the world of improv.
Goran Završnik: after three years of learning the piano he ran from music school and never came back. Then he discovered the synthesizer with lots of buttons and everything became fun again. Now, after thirty years, he’s playing with some amazing improv people, accompanying some crazy events, trying to push the right button or key at the right moment, trying not to interrupt too much the almighty improv action on the stage. The best accompanying music, they say, is music you don’t hear. But sometimes improv musicians need to be loud and sometimes they want to be number one in the show, wanting to play fast and hot as hell. From punk singer and keyboard player in a Yugoslavian Army Highschool band to the strongest (110 kg) Slovenian impro theatre music maker. Also playing organ in Andrej Rozman Roza religion movement Zaničniki.
Friday, October 23 at 5pm: What Do I Need?
Mentoring: Martin Kerin, Katarina Klemenčič, Nina Koritnik, Tereza Kolbezen
Light design: Antoine Noirant
Production: ŠILA – High School Impro League, IMPRO Association
The performance is in Slovene.
Free entrance, to see the show pick up your free ticket at the box office at the Old Power Station.
Le kaj rabim? (What Do I Need?) is a long-form improvised performance created by high-school improvisers who participate throughout the year in the ŠILA (School Impro League) program run by the IMPRO Association. Under the guidance of young mentors, they developed the show during a summer camp.The performance explores the needs, pressures, and wishes of young people living in local communities. It stages these themes through three initially separate storylines that gradually intertwine as the show unfolds. The onstage action is directly connected to local youth: a few hours before each performance, the ensemble leads a workshop with young people from the area. Their stories, impressions, and reflections shape the performance, weaving together what they appreciate about their hometown, what they wish could be improved, and which initiatives might be valuable to pursue in the future.
The show serves as a kind of indicator of how welcoming and supportive a place is for its young residents—and what we, as a community, might do to help them navigate life more easily and find a sense of home where they feel good, safe, and accepted.
ŠILA – the School Impro League is a nationwide program of the IMPRO Association, involving around 30 secondary schools across Slovenia and running continuously since 1997. Through weekly sessions with their mentor, students learn the skills of improvisational theatre, develop critical thinking and creativity, and spend part of their free time in a meaningful, collaborative way. Throughout the year, they also participate in several performances, creating primarily short-form improvised scenes and competing in friendly matches with teams from other schools.
Light design: Antoine Noirant
Production: ŠILA – High School Impro League, IMPRO Association
The performance is in Slovene.
Free entrance, to see the show pick up your free ticket at the box office at the Old Power Station.
Le kaj rabim? (What Do I Need?) is a long-form improvised performance created by high-school improvisers who participate throughout the year in the ŠILA (School Impro League) program run by the IMPRO Association. Under the guidance of young mentors, they developed the show during a summer camp.The performance explores the needs, pressures, and wishes of young people living in local communities. It stages these themes through three initially separate storylines that gradually intertwine as the show unfolds. The onstage action is directly connected to local youth: a few hours before each performance, the ensemble leads a workshop with young people from the area. Their stories, impressions, and reflections shape the performance, weaving together what they appreciate about their hometown, what they wish could be improved, and which initiatives might be valuable to pursue in the future.
The show serves as a kind of indicator of how welcoming and supportive a place is for its young residents—and what we, as a community, might do to help them navigate life more easily and find a sense of home where they feel good, safe, and accepted.
ŠILA – the School Impro League is a nationwide program of the IMPRO Association, involving around 30 secondary schools across Slovenia and running continuously since 1997. Through weekly sessions with their mentor, students learn the skills of improvisational theatre, develop critical thinking and creativity, and spend part of their free time in a meaningful, collaborative way. Throughout the year, they also participate in several performances, creating primarily short-form improvised scenes and competing in friendly matches with teams from other schools.
Friday, October 23 at 7pm: Silver Gold
Creative team/ ensemble: Ajda Tomazin, Dimitra Alfirević Srhoj, DISKOlektiv, Djordje Balmazović, Dragana Alfirević, Jana Jevtović, Liana Kalčina Srhoj, Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Marjeta Kamnikar
Artistic coordination and production: Dragana Alfirević
Lighting design and technical support: Antoine Noirant
Production: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia in collaboration with Nova pošta (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče and Maska Ljubljana), DUM – Društvo umetnikov, Studio Jambor, and Studio Moj korak
Support: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the European Commission (Dance On, Pass On, Dream On project)
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets are available here
Srebrno zlato (Silver Gold) s a performative practice where multiple generations of dancers meet and move together. It is a space where memory is co‑created and summoned into presence. And often, in this act of summoning, the line between remembering and creating blurs: a moment born in the here and now inscribes itself into the body, into movement, into dance, into choreography. Srebrno zlato is an intergenerational exchange of knowledge, experience, and memory—and at the same time, the creation of new shared memories. It is a dance that contemplates time and transience, what remains, the layered nature of relationships, and the spectacular hidden within the everyday.
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia is an association focused primarily on the developmental and research dimensions of contemporary dance in Slovenia, across the former Yugoslav region, and within the broader international field. Rooted in an expanded understanding of contemporary dance, it works across authorial production, festival, exhibition, and program curation, theorization, archiving and historicizing, publishing, advocacy, and active co‑creation of cultural policies. The association is committed to collective work, relational creation, and the production of art and culture that strengthens local connections and nurtures social responsibility.
Artistic coordination and production: Dragana Alfirević
Lighting design and technical support: Antoine Noirant
Production: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia in collaboration with Nova pošta (Slovensko mladinsko gledališče and Maska Ljubljana), DUM – Društvo umetnikov, Studio Jambor, and Studio Moj korak
Support: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the European Commission (Dance On, Pass On, Dream On project)
The performance is in Slovene.
Tickets are available here
Srebrno zlato (Silver Gold) s a performative practice where multiple generations of dancers meet and move together. It is a space where memory is co‑created and summoned into presence. And often, in this act of summoning, the line between remembering and creating blurs: a moment born in the here and now inscribes itself into the body, into movement, into dance, into choreography. Srebrno zlato is an intergenerational exchange of knowledge, experience, and memory—and at the same time, the creation of new shared memories. It is a dance that contemplates time and transience, what remains, the layered nature of relationships, and the spectacular hidden within the everyday.
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia is an association focused primarily on the developmental and research dimensions of contemporary dance in Slovenia, across the former Yugoslav region, and within the broader international field. Rooted in an expanded understanding of contemporary dance, it works across authorial production, festival, exhibition, and program curation, theorization, archiving and historicizing, publishing, advocacy, and active co‑creation of cultural policies. The association is committed to collective work, relational creation, and the production of art and culture that strengthens local connections and nurtures social responsibility.
Photo: Sunčan Stone
Friday, October 23 at 9pm: Moment
Performer: Kataryzna “Kasia” Chmara
Musician: Justin Durel
Concept: Katarzyna “Kasia” Chmara
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
In a world where lives constantly intertwine, each of us carries our own moments — small, fragile, or transformative. These moments shape us and shift the way we see the world. On stage, however, they gain a new dimension: they become visible, tangible, alive; they become a story unfolding here and now.
In Moment, Kasia dives into these subtle reflections of human experience. From simple statements she extracts hidden layers — emotional, physical, and memory‑based — and breaks them open into voice, movement, and silence. A sentence becomes a scene, a feeling becomes a conflict, a thought becomes a world that the audience co‑creates through its presence.
Katarzyna Chmara, PhD in Arts, an actress working at the script Chamber Theatre in Bydgoszcz, as well as at the Academy of Music. She is a co-organizer of the International Theatre Improvisation Festival “Improdrom” in Bydgoszcz.She performs in numerous improv projects in Poland and abroad. Curious about people and the world, she is full of energy and open to new experiences. She loves learning, as it constantly helps her grow as a person.
Justin Durel is an independent theater artist living and working in Slovenia. He has worked as an author, director, teacher, and actor in numerous projects in Europe and North America over the past 30 years. He has a degree from the Baltimore School for the arts in Acting, DePaul University in Playwriting, and the Helikos International School of Physical Theater in… Physical Theater. He has always played music, and now he does it in front of people at impro shows.
Musician: Justin Durel
Concept: Katarzyna “Kasia” Chmara
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
In a world where lives constantly intertwine, each of us carries our own moments — small, fragile, or transformative. These moments shape us and shift the way we see the world. On stage, however, they gain a new dimension: they become visible, tangible, alive; they become a story unfolding here and now.
In Moment, Kasia dives into these subtle reflections of human experience. From simple statements she extracts hidden layers — emotional, physical, and memory‑based — and breaks them open into voice, movement, and silence. A sentence becomes a scene, a feeling becomes a conflict, a thought becomes a world that the audience co‑creates through its presence.
Katarzyna Chmara, PhD in Arts, an actress working at the script Chamber Theatre in Bydgoszcz, as well as at the Academy of Music. She is a co-organizer of the International Theatre Improvisation Festival “Improdrom” in Bydgoszcz.She performs in numerous improv projects in Poland and abroad. Curious about people and the world, she is full of energy and open to new experiences. She loves learning, as it constantly helps her grow as a person.
Justin Durel is an independent theater artist living and working in Slovenia. He has worked as an author, director, teacher, and actor in numerous projects in Europe and North America over the past 30 years. He has a degree from the Baltimore School for the arts in Acting, DePaul University in Playwriting, and the Helikos International School of Physical Theater in… Physical Theater. He has always played music, and now he does it in front of people at impro shows.
Saturday, October 24 at 7pm: Lying is a Job
Performer: Armand Joubert
Concept: Armand Joubert
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
A lie is just another reality that is constructed, and behind every reality, there’s a creator, a tale teller.
What’s more captivating ? The way the alternative reality is made ? Or the lie itself ? Armand JOUBERT (South-Africa), is proposing a scan on alternative realities and their fundamentals. We invite you to dive into thick haze, and embrace the lie flow.
Thanks to the local tech crew, sparkles will spring and colors will rain stage. Maybe.
Armand Joubert grew up in Johannesburg (South Africa), and has been fed with stories and tales from this land. After a graduation in visual art, he decided to work on keeping the heritage of his mother, a tale teller. Not just to keep it alive, but to make it evolve. Armand was always more interested in the tale teller, than the tale itself. And that's his point of entry into improvisation, focusing the attention on the process, on the tool of tale telling. Armand is now proposing fake tales without consistency, inviting to read another tale, spoken by the tool itself.
Concept: Armand Joubert
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
A lie is just another reality that is constructed, and behind every reality, there’s a creator, a tale teller.
What’s more captivating ? The way the alternative reality is made ? Or the lie itself ? Armand JOUBERT (South-Africa), is proposing a scan on alternative realities and their fundamentals. We invite you to dive into thick haze, and embrace the lie flow.
Thanks to the local tech crew, sparkles will spring and colors will rain stage. Maybe.
Armand Joubert grew up in Johannesburg (South Africa), and has been fed with stories and tales from this land. After a graduation in visual art, he decided to work on keeping the heritage of his mother, a tale teller. Not just to keep it alive, but to make it evolve. Armand was always more interested in the tale teller, than the tale itself. And that's his point of entry into improvisation, focusing the attention on the process, on the tool of tale telling. Armand is now proposing fake tales without consistency, inviting to read another tale, spoken by the tool itself.
Saturday, October 24 at 9pm: Ensemble Show: To be Seen
Performers: Katarzyna "Kasia" Chmara, Jan Cunja, Olivija Grafenauer, Peter Frankl, Jošt Jesenovec, Clara Jolfre, Jaka Korošec, Morgan Brosed Ponce, Anne Rab, Gerit Scholz, Teodora Švet, Maja Trampuš
Music: Izidor Erazem Grafenauer
Concept and directing: Katarzyna "Kasia" Chmara
Light design: Antoine Noirant
The performance is in English.
Tickets are available here
To Be Seen is an improvisational format that explores perspective, unspoken desires, and everything that lives between the lines. It focuses on one pivotal moment — a moment everyone witnesses, yet each character experiences differently. On stage, this moment unfolds and transforms through different eyes, bodies, and inner states.
Performers step into the same scene multiple times, each from a new point of view. With every shift in perspective, new layers emerge — emotional, physical, hidden — reshaping how we understand what is happening. Lines, glances, and silences gain new meaning when revisited from another angle.
Katarzyna Chmara, PhD in Arts, an actress working at the script Chamber Theatre in Bydgoszcz, as well as at the Academy of Music. She is a co-organizer of the International Theatre Improvisation Festival “Improdrom” in Bydgoszcz. She performs in numerous improv projects in Poland and abroad. Curious about people and the world, she is full of energy and open to new experiences. She loves learning, as it constantly helps her grow as a person.
Erazem Grafenauer is a Slovenian musician, performer, and educator active in the fields of early and contemporary music. He works as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with various orchestras, performing at festivals across Europe as well as in North and South America. At the centre of his artistic interest are plucked string instruments—from the lute to the modern guitar—which he connects with other artistic worlds of expression. He is an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, the artistic director of the concert series Rasgueado Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Guitar Festival, and the Kit-Ara series. His discography includes the releases Preludio (2018), Works by Slovenian Composers (2019), XyloCorda (2022), and Ventana abierta (2023).
Photo: Sara Šoukal
Sunday, October 25 at 7pm: Presentation of the workshop "Did You Say Cabaret?"
Performers: participants of the workshop “Did You Say Cabaret?”, led by Clara Jolfre
Lights and sound: Antoine Noirant
Co‑organised by: Club Tiffany
Entrance: voluntary contributions
Hello, dear creature of the night; welcome to this unique, one‑night‑only event. Welcome to the cabaret.
Your master of ceremonies, Victor Huro, presents the showcase from his drag workshop, featuring a whole constellation of beginners. Gender lines blur, the music is loud, and the personal becomes political.
After two days of exploration, sweat, laughter and bold discoveries, we invite you to an evening of showcase performances by the participants of Clara’s workshop! This is their moment to step into the light, reveal new skills, new personas, courage and imagination.
The evening will take place at Klub Tiffany, where the stage will transform into a space of playfulness, surprises, vulnerability and collective energy.
At the forefront are the workshop participants and their pieces, created through Clara’s cabaret methodology.
And when the stage is fully warmed up, the final act of the night arrives: Victor Huro. His presence and his charm will round off the evening in a way only he can.
Come, support, and shine with us.
A showcase at Tiffany always carries a touch of magic.
Lights and sound: Antoine Noirant
Co‑organised by: Club Tiffany
Entrance: voluntary contributions
Hello, dear creature of the night; welcome to this unique, one‑night‑only event. Welcome to the cabaret.
Your master of ceremonies, Victor Huro, presents the showcase from his drag workshop, featuring a whole constellation of beginners. Gender lines blur, the music is loud, and the personal becomes political.
After two days of exploration, sweat, laughter and bold discoveries, we invite you to an evening of showcase performances by the participants of Clara’s workshop! This is their moment to step into the light, reveal new skills, new personas, courage and imagination.
The evening will take place at Klub Tiffany, where the stage will transform into a space of playfulness, surprises, vulnerability and collective energy.
At the forefront are the workshop participants and their pieces, created through Clara’s cabaret methodology.
And when the stage is fully warmed up, the final act of the night arrives: Victor Huro. His presence and his charm will round off the evening in a way only he can.
Come, support, and shine with us.
A showcase at Tiffany always carries a touch of magic.