The River 2
By Public in Private / Jasna L. Vinovrski
«The River II» by Jasna L. Vinovrški is a work that has the format of a parkour. The audience is invited to three different spaces in which they can experience room installation, live performance and video projection. Each of these spaces zooms into the transitional period between life and death, by looking at personal space and objects after someone passing, as well as the ceremonial, and organisational aspect of a funeral: “What remains?” After the moment of passing, the private situation of grief and loss, suddenly becomes public and institutionalised; hospital staff and funeral homes are involved. For Jasna, this transformation places the idea of funerals in proximity to theatre spaces as a gathering of strangers, underlining the melancholic, humorous, absurdity and sometimes ungraspability of one’s passing.
«The River II» navigates these four components to address an issue that is both personal and social. In the process, the theatre becomes a place of transformation where human reason is stretched to its limits in the unifying co-presence of strangers.
«The River II» is the second part of a dyptich on the theme of mourning and loss, which began in summer of 2022 with regular boat performances by Aimé C. Songe (aka Clément Layes).
Premiere at Tanzfabrik Berlin, February 2023.
Choreography & concept: Jasna L. Vinovrški
Performance: Litó Walkey / Jasna L. Vinovrški, Dora Đurkesac / Cécile Bally, Koraljka Begović and Darko Dragičević
Space: Clément Layes, Dora Đurkesac
Sound: Steve Heather
Light: Ruth Waldeyer
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavičević
Video: Chris Hewit
Costume: Malena Modeer
Press: Aïsha Mia Lethen
Production: Tiphaine Carrere, Tammo Walter (Cie Public in Private)
THE RIVER project is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR and supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. In co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Cie. Public in Private is supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR
«The River II» navigates these four components to address an issue that is both personal and social. In the process, the theatre becomes a place of transformation where human reason is stretched to its limits in the unifying co-presence of strangers.
«The River II» is the second part of a dyptich on the theme of mourning and loss, which began in summer of 2022 with regular boat performances by Aimé C. Songe (aka Clément Layes).
Premiere at Tanzfabrik Berlin, February 2023.
Choreography & concept: Jasna L. Vinovrški
Performance: Litó Walkey / Jasna L. Vinovrški, Dora Đurkesac / Cécile Bally, Koraljka Begović and Darko Dragičević
Space: Clément Layes, Dora Đurkesac
Sound: Steve Heather
Light: Ruth Waldeyer
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavičević
Video: Chris Hewit
Costume: Malena Modeer
Press: Aïsha Mia Lethen
Production: Tiphaine Carrere, Tammo Walter (Cie Public in Private)
THE RIVER project is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR and supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. In co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Cie. Public in Private is supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR