Artwork

Collective Betontanc, Matjaz Pograjc: Poets Without Pockets (1990)

Poets Without Pockets
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Person(s) / Collective: Collective Betontanc, Matjaz Pograjc
Title:Poets Without Pockets
Date of Premiere:20. 5. 1990
Production: GLEJ THEATER
Venue: The Basment of the Grammar School Poljane

co-creator: Collective Betontanc
director: Matjaz Pograjc
performer: Alma Blagdanič
performer: Igor Dragar
performer: Janja Majzelj
performer: Blažka Müller
performer: Matej Recer
performer: Davor Herga
composer: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
lighting designer: Iztok Ambrož
Chair Designer: Mitja Gruden
costume designer: Tanja Zagorc
Graphic Designer: Marija Flegar
photographer: Diego Andres Gomez
photographer: Andrej Planinšec
photographer: Jane Štravs
technical director: Žarko Pak
violin: Lidija Grkman (Enzo Fabiani Quartet)
violin: Marko Kodelja (Enzo Fabiani Quartet)
viola: Sonja Vukovič (Enzo Fabiani Quartet)
cello: Pavle Rakar (Enzo Fabiani Quartet)
drums: Frederik Vargason
accordion: Marko Drpič
other instruments: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
manager: Lidija Jurjevec
artistic director: Nevenka Koprivšek

Synopsis

The inaugural piece of physical theater in Slovenia. Theater director Matjaž Pograjc gathered a collective of young theater and high-school students, introduced the new approaches of theater making and made an epochal and generational performance that changed the landscape of performing arts in Slovenia. Under heavy influence of the flamish dance wave the brutalism in choreography entered Ljubljana and let everybody know that the 1990s are going to be different.

 

Performance exploded on the international theater and dance scene and toured extensively in Europe and the US throughout the 1990s.

Media

Performance leaflet / 2 items

The Glej Theater Inventarization Paper / 3 items

Photos / Božidar Dolenc / 16 items