Program 2013

Cie Jozsef Treffeli    “JINX 103” Switzerland

  8 October in  Alexander Moisiu Theater of Durres                                   at 7:30 pm

  9 October in  Pedestrian street near National Theater of Tirana            at 7 pm

10 October in  Mother Tereza Cathedral of Pristina                                   at 7 pm

 Duration: 25 min

choreography József Trefeli, Gábor Varga
dance József Trefeli, Gábor Varga ou Gyula Cserepes
music Fred Jarabo

Jozsef Trefeli and Gabor Varga take a dance performance to a public space, exploring together the rhythms and rituals of life in a high energy, captivating performance.
This meeting of two male dancers connected by being from the Hungarian Diaspora, one born in Australia and the other in the USSR, brings them shoulder to shoulder as they delve into their common heritage. They come together in dance, the art form they share, even though it was learnt on opposite sides of the globe.
Through their common vocabulary of vibrant body percussion where even the most basic rhythms are extremely complex, with clapping and slapping, clicking and stamping, they create a breathtakingly energetic dance of lightning fast footwork, leg twisting and weaving, high kicks and turning jumps.
Why JINX 103? In many languages when two people accidentally say the same thing simultaneously, there is a word that must be quickly said to ward off bad luck: the French say “chips”, the English say “jinx” and the Hungarians say “103”.

Supportet by PROHelvetia and in collaboration with CULTURESCAPES.

Hodworks          “The way my father imagined it all ”                       Hungary

  8   October in Alexander Moisiu of Durres                                                      at 8 pm

 HODWORKS: The way my father imagined it all

(Duration: 55 minutes)

A bare space, hardly visible light changes, music fragments floating into the silence for mere seconds. Four bodies and we, the viewers, all illuminated. All watch and are being watched at the same time.

Aerowaves' Priority Company in 2012 and winner of the 2012 Rudolf Laban Award for artistic excellence, the Budapest-based dance ensemble is proud to announce its newest performance, initiated by Workshop Foundation's Jardin d'Europe programme.

Three makers joined to create the choreography together in the new piece. Marco Torrice from Italy, Csaba Molnár from Slovakia and company leader Adrienn Hód set out to interrogate in their own ways the frames of dance, body and space.

The result of their mutual work is a living environment which is born in the front of our very eyes - with an intensive inner experience but without the trace of any didactics. The display of psycho-sexuality, the disposition of the body in space and time, and the modelling of the worlds of silence and music, systematically transpose the gestural language and dramaturgy of traditional theater into the infinity of 'here and now'. What emerges is a unique and unrepeatable deconstruction of reality, which we inescapably absorb in its entirety. The multifaceted disassembly/unleashing of movement creates a new and abstract meta-language which, sometimes playfully, sometimes alienated, nonetheless with highly impressive artistry, guides us to our innermost and pristine experience: To live reality in a rearranged and revived form. The latest production of HODWORKS manifests the poetry of life and the invisible alchemy of re-creation — perceptibly but in a cunning way, inaccessible to the intellect until the last moment.

Choreography: Adrienn Hód, Csaba Molnár, Marco Torrice

Dancers: Emese Cuhorka, Júlia Garai, Csaba Molnár, Márcio Canabarro

Music: Zoltán Mizsei

Costume: Artista Studio

Light design: Wil Frikken

Co-produced by: Workshop Foundation/Jardin d'Europe (H/EU)

Centre de Développement Chorégraphique/Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne (FR)

Hebbel am Ufer (D)

Grand Theatre Groningen (NL)

Supported by: National Cultural Fund (H)

New Performing Arts Foundation (H)

Off Foundation (H)

SÍN Cultural Centre (H)

Bordeline Danza   “ Brainstorming- studio n 2 ” Italy

13 October in Alexander Moisiu of Durres                                                      at 8pm

 In an undefined space and time two dancers travel in an unstable balance between brightness and darkness, movement and quiet, sound and silence, presence and absence. Two dancers in unison, not simply synchronous, but able to weave endless variations on the same movement, to break and always find the symmetries again, to appear as one and his double, to lose oneself in the other through competition and sensuality.

Concept, choreography and direction: Claudio Malangone

Dancers : Vincenzo Capasso, Claudio Malangone

Music: Dario Casillo, J.S. Bach

Video: Ugo Petillo

Lighting design: Francesco Ferrigno

Organization manager: Maria Teresa Scarpa

Production: Borderline Danza, MIBAC, Regione Campania

Duration: 30 min

ASMED Balleto di Sardegna  - Adarte  “Elsa” Italy

16 October in Alexander Moisiu of Durres                                                      at 8pm  

Subject, direction and choreography

Francesca Lettieri, Paola Vezzosi

Dancers:

Luca Campanella, Gloria Dorliguzzo, Francesca Lettieri, Ulisse Romanò, Paola Vezzosi

Costume design:

Alessandra Mura

Production assistant:

Giada Volpi             

Coproduction:

ADARTE, ASMED

Sponsored by the Ministry  of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Autonomous Region of Sardinia,  Region of Tuscany

More than ten years after the show based on Frida Kahlo, Francesca Lettieri and Paola Vezzosi deal with another important female figure, this time an Italian one: Elsa Schiaparelli. In Paris of the 30’s she revolutionized  history of fashion and costume and distinguished herself by Coco Chanel with her audacious choice of colours and styles. 

Born an aristocratic, the Italian stylist saw in fashion an artistic means to express her original and extravagant ideas. She created fancy and daring collections for independent, self confident women who wanted to be finally free from social constraints. 

A smart businesswoman, Elsa Schiaparelli opened her own boutique first in Paris then in London, drawing inspiration from Cubism, Surrealism and great artists such as Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalì who she often associated with.  

By completely reversing deep-rooted ideas about clothes, Elsa invented evening raincoats, dresses made of glass, the famous tattoo-sweaters and bizarre accessories. She shook high society with the shocking pink colour and made the pioneering choice of artificial fibres turning every fashion show into a new exciting experience.  

The show pays homage to this great woman, master of provocation and sophistication, and is meant to reveal the audience the complicity that over the years has established among dance, fashion and figurative arts. The topic will be made more and more involving by the choice of costumes and the prearrangement of a video installation in the foyer of the theatre.   

In the two parts the show is made up of, Francesca Lettieri and Paola Vezzosi will highlight their skills accompanied by music of that time.  

  “A dress can’t simply be hung up on a wall like a painting or survive intact and well preserved like a book. A dress lives only if you wear it and, as soon as this happens, another personality animates it, brings it out,  destroys it and turns it into a beauty song”. (Elsa Schiaparelli)

Albanian DanceTheater Company  “Extreme Makeover-Culture Clash II” Albania

(World Premiere)

16 November in A.Z.Cajupi Theater of Korca                                              at 6pm

18 November in Aleksader Moisiu Theater of Durres                                 at 7pm

19 November in University of Arts of Tirana                                                 at 7pm         

  6 December in Qendra Multimedia of Pristina                                          at 8pm

After the success of "Extreme Makeover - Culture Clash" come back with a new episode of the series Extreme Makeover.
As in the American television program of the same name we give people the opportunity to undergo a total transformation process.
Our mission this year was directed couples in crisis.
Have you ever wished them adjust your expectations partner?
We make this possible!
We want to help you to overcome problems and offer you the perfect partner with whom you can
to share your life in harmony and passion.
This year we invited a multicultural couple, Katarina, a German woman, and Labinot, an Albanian man.
Their family relationships and different cultures, from which derived, was causing many problems. Different education, conflicting ideas about the division of roles between men and women and social obligations become because of strong debates and policy discussions continued.
Would you allow them to overcome their problems?
Shall we go and Labinot Katarina help pass the crisis?
Come as you do, when you say - Extreme Makeover II.
A collaboration Maschenka Katharina Horn (Germany), Gjergj Prevazi (Albania) and Labinot Rexhepi