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The Nomads of Beauty
Agreement number – 2012 – 1174/ 001 – 001
The agreement ref nu. of the ongoing project The Nomads of beauty is:
»Agreement number – 2012 – 1174/ 001 - 001«
Period of time of the project:
01. 05. 2012- 30. 04. 2013 (12 month duration of the project)
Partners on the The Nomads of Beauty project:
1. Coordinator:
2. Co-organiser:
3. Co-organiser:
4. Co-organiser:
5. Co-organiser:
6.Coorganizer
UO Novo Kazalište: Zagreb, HR (Croatia)
Mini Teater: Ljubljana, SI (Slovenia)
Teátro Neline: Košice, SK (Slovakia)
Estonian State Puppet Theatre: Talinn, EE (Estonia)
MALADYPE SZINHAZ: Budapest, HU (Hungary)
Open universitet, Subotic, SERBIA
Short description of the project: (as in the last corrected application form)
The Nomads of Beauty Project is implemented by Novo kazalište Zagreb (Zagreb New Theatre), an
independent theatre founded with the intention of transforming an outdated organizational structure of the
Croatian theatre. In the nine years the theater has made ten co-productions with independent organizations
in Croatia, Slovenia, France, Belgium, Ivory Coast etc. The New Theatre has taken up a different stance from
other Croatian theatre companies towards current and engaging issues (social isolation, peace dialogue,
gender issues) and mobility (we have performed across the region and in twenty countries around the
world), and is dedicated to engaging young artists for whom collaboration with the New Theatre is their first
professional experience. The aesthetic and ethical principle of the New Theatre is for the experienced actors,
directors and stage designers to share their knowledge with young people through workshops and seminars.
We have found that, in Croatian contemporary theatre as well as in most countries of the Central and
Eastern Europe, stage design and visual creativity have been seriously neglected as theatrical components.
Once we used to have influential schools of theatre design and strong personalities in the field, but after the
change of social system the study of stage design has been relegated to the Faculty of Architecture and
School of Design. This marked a break between university education and the contemporary practice which
requires a complete artist. In this sense the Zagreb New Theatre is unique in the region. Our projects bring
together exceptional visual artists who have significantly contributed to the conceptual and technical
development of stage design. Theatre companies taking part in the Nomads of Beauty Project (New Theatre,
Mini Theatre, Maladype Theatre, Subotica Culture Center etc.) come from smaller European countries
(Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Belgium, Serbia), where very different practices are in use. We want to share the
exceptional Croatian experience of the visual artists’ work on theatre design with partners, and thus put into
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action the idea of a nomadic art school. The name Nomads of Beauty was adopted from the historical avantgardes of the twentieth century. In it visual artists from Croatia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Serbia and France will
create stage design / installations / videos /site specific / light installations.
Young artists invited to participate in the creation of the project will work with the leading artist-mentors,
who will then be required to present the end result in all partner theaters.
1. WORK PLAN
2. Activity finished in 2012 and till February 2013
Activity No.1. Kick of meeting
Activity No.2: Dalibor Martinis does a video installation and WS with student
Date of Activity: 01.05.2012 - 31.05.2012 (11.05.2012, Ljubljana)
Partner in charge: Mini tetaer Slovenia, Novo kazalište Croatia
On May 11th 2012 the performance of a Croatian visual artist Dalibor Martinis Simultaneous speech was
staged. We have drawn to participation numerous native speakers that have each in their own language
importantly contributed to the success of the unique performance. One of the speakers in the
performance was also the receiver of the 2012 Slovene Zupančič’s Life Work’s Award - the renowned
Slovenian actress Olga Kacjan.
Dalibor Martinis, one of the most successful conceptual artists in this part of Europe, also designed the
conceived the scenography for the The Noble Glembays that Ivica Buljan directed in the Slovene
National Theatre Drama Ljubljana. Including in the process also the students, the increasing scenography
of every act conceisely reflecting the decreasing and diminishing power of the elites and their power.
Activity No. 3: Aleksandar Denič and Ana Savić Gecan will build stage and light design for the play
“Goodbye Cowboy”
Date of Activity: 01.07.2012 - 31.08.2012 (08/08.2012 - 11.08.2012, Split)
Partner in charge: Mini tetaer Slovenia, Novo kazalište Croatia, Gradsko kazalište mladih Split
At the 58th festival Splitsko ljeto in Split in Croatia on 8th, 9th, 10thand 11thAugust 2012 new performance
of director and art leader of post drama theater in Mini teater Ivica Buljan called Goodbye Cowboy by
Olja Savičević will be staged. For the set design of the performance in which as performers participate:
Zoja Odak, Nataša Janjić, Darko Rundek, Sergej Trifunović, Nenad Srdelić, Arijana Čulina, Nives Ivanković,
Dara Vukić, Andrijana Vicković, Tajana Jovanović, Vicko Bilandžić, Goran Marković, Andrea Mladinić, Mijo
Jurišić, Anastasija Jankovska, Milutin Milošević, Stipe Kostanić, Marko Cindrić, Ana Gruica, Marko Petrić,
Nikša Arčanin, Lukrecija Tudor, Marjan Nejašmić Banić, Domagoj Janković and Velimir Foretić, is
responsible Aleksandar Denić, costume design by Ana Savić Gecan, dramaturgy Olja Savičević Ivančević
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and music by Darko Rundek. The stage was set creating a movie resembling atmosphere. Wide and dusty
it was set as an open-air scene, with that giving it an even more powerful impact on the audience.
Creating an impact and energy in a widely open space was achieved also by the corresponding and
creative stage and light-design. Combining the elements of nature and theatre it was a unique
experience for the viewers and audience.
Activity No.4 : WS with students - Aleksandar Denić
Date of Activity: 01.07.2012 - 31.08.2012 (05.09.2012, WS from 09.09.2012 - 21.09.2012, Split)
Partner in charge: Mini tetaer Slovenia, Novo kazalište Croatia, Gradsko kazalište mladih Split
Aleksandar Denić is a prominent stage and production designer whose work has comprised of theatre,
feature films, exhibits, interior design, architecture and television commercials. His passing the
knowledge on to young students was of an immense value. Giving them concrete advice about setting
the stage (on a concrete example of the performance Goodbye Cowboy) based on his rich previous
experience, teaching them how to adjust to different situations and settings. Goodbye Cowboy, a
performance stage-wise combining theatre and movie elements, enabled young students to also think
outside of the box, guiding them how to incorporate the seemingly uncontrollable or unpredictable
elements in the way that advantages the performance.
Activity No.5: Contemporary visual artist group son:DA will create a site specific computer instalation
Date of Activity: 01.09.2012 - 31.10.2012, Ptuj
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Nuku Estonia
Working site-specific / being site-specific / living site-specific workshops with son:DA
One year workshop in three parts (Activities No. 5, 6 and 13), in three different locations and times, on
two different theater projects aka two real project situation plus one classroom exchange situation is
about spending time, eating, working and living with son:DA. It is all about working together, presenting,
discussing and understanding site-specific as a term, as a method, a concept, way of living, functioning,
creating.
Architectural space of a big and old factory was a stage for the group of theater makers together with
students in a process of staging, directing and working on a site-specific theater performance. Students
were part of the team and not only observers. Part of the workshop were Paula Bučar, Eve Ormisson and
Matis Mäesalu.
The masterpiece of the 80’s, stylishly complete work of art from the end of the last millennium, the
dialogue between the Dealer and Buyer in an extremely precise yet sophisticated way writes the history
of our time. The history built upon trade, libidinal economy. When we do not know what the cause for
the deal is, what is being traded with, we are not deprived of beauty, passion, sorrow and happiness at
retrieval of the wanted thing or person. One of the peeks of cult dramatic Bernard-Marie Koltès who has
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fundamentally marked French and World’s theater of the last decades of the 20thcentury was later on in
Kidričevo staged 4 more times (22nd, 23rd, 29thand 30thJune).
son:DA belongs to that area of art characterised by the linking of various technologies and media, as well
as a new approach to group work. They are active in the areas of installations, computer drawing,
theater space design and audiovisual performance. son:DA creates art with partners who change
according to the needs of the project and are replacing traditional authorship with various forms of
participation. More about son:DA on http://sonda.kibla.org/ More about FUNDATION SONDA
http://sonda.kibla.org/fundacija.html
Activity No.7: Meeting of project coordinator
Date of Activity: 27the of February 2012, Ljubljana - 01.02.2013 - 28.02.2013
Partner in charge: all partners
Activity No. 8: Designer group Numen will realize a design project Schwarzes Tier traurigkeit at the
Ljubljana City theatre
Date of Activity: 01.10.2012 -31.12.2012 – carried out 26th of January to 1st of Februar 2013.
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Nuku Estonia, Maladype Hungary
As a part of the performance Black Beast Sorrow in City Theatre Ljubljana (MGL), directed by Ivica Buljan
and in cooperation with Croatian designer group Numen, Novo Kazalište Zagreb and Mini teater carried
out workshops. A part of the workshop were Nina Bric, Zsófia Gereszdi, Viktória Hári, Ami Kadribašić,
Piroska É. Kiss, Mateja Lukežič, Vesna Mitrović, Eve Ormisson, Polona Pirnat, Ajda Primožič, Keili Ritter,
Boštjan Štorman and Marko Turkuš - students from Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia and Hungary. The
workshop took place between26th of January 2013 and 1st of February 2013 in City Theatre Ljubljana
(MGL). The leader of the workshop was the designer group Numen.
The play is set up as a triptych - the picnic (1), the cataclysm(2), the city (3) - and scenography will follow
its tripartite structure entirely. The material we decided to use as a leitmotif in solving the story visually
is transparent plastic water soluble film (Polyvinyl alcohol film, PVA).
1. In the first part, the PVA film is strapped on frames that enclose the 'innocent' looking picnic area,
serving as an actual and metaphorical membrane - a thin layer of order and denial protecting the reality
of the protagonists from the constant proximity of horror. The space behind the membrane is
continually filled with smoke ensuring that the film appears solid and white throughout the first act. At
the onset of the cataclysmic event, the film is gradually dissolved under showers of 'acid' rain, in a
manner reminiscent of the blistering, rippling and peeling of burnt skin.
2. The growing perforations in the membrane permit the accumulated smoke to penetrate the 'ground
zero' of the former picnic area and allow the actors to retreat into the dark primordial soup beyond
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limits. During the unfolding of the second act, we will use video projections and light effects such as
stroboscope, UV-light and lasers to suggest the dramatic, almost (al)chemical transmutation of the
characters brought to their psycho-physical melting point by the sheer forces of horror, and to conjure
up the 'repressed beast' of natural chaos that suddenly rose from within and without.
3. In the third and last act, which is preceded by a short technical break, the scene returns to the strictly
delineated, sanitized and safely structured world of the solid white cube interior.
Serving as a clinic, hospital or an art gallery, this environment is a hard and empty protective shell - a
limited sector of civilized survival.
Its specific state of heavily conditioned limbo can perhaps be redeemed through the saving power of
sublimation through art. The artist, Oscar, wrapped in the liquefying, placenta-like remains of the PVA
film will become a token of potential consolidation and rebirth.
Activity No 9.: WS with students organized by Hungarian and Estonian artists in cooperation with
Teatro Neline
Date of Activity: 01.01.2013 - 28.02.2013
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Nuku Estonia, Maladype Hungary
As a part of the Nomads of the beauty a theatre puppet show Knight Bajaja of Teátro Neline is coming to
Ljubljana. On 28th of February it will be staged in The National Museum of Slovenija - Metelkova as a
part of their exhibition A knight, a lady and a dragon. The Heritage of Medieval Warriors. The staging will
also be accompanied with workshops and debate about the puppet show scenography and puppet
history. The workshop was carried out by two masters of the proffesion Robert Waltl and Petronela
Dušova, who explained the way puppets are made, and also the delicate way they should be handled
and controled, while the children also had the opportunity to experience the managing of puppets first
hand.
Activity No.10: Arte Povera Installation for the project Comedy of Women at the Ljubljana City theatre
– Slaven Tolj
Date of Activity: 01.01.2013 - 28.02.2013, (5.11.2012 - 12.11.2012, Ljubljana)
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Open universitet Serbia
As a part of the preparations for the left wing of the diptih Comedy of Women-Black Beast Sorrow
directed by Ivica Buljan an Arte Povera Installation for the Comedy of Women was set. Although the
installation is notable for its use of simple, artisanal materials, the installation did not use these to the
exclusion of all else. And although deriving from the "poor art" or "impoverished art" idea it was far from
poor in its communicativeness.
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As a part of the project The Nomads of the Beauty and in preparations for the Comedy of Women in
November 2012 in the City Theatre Ljubljana (MGL) modern scenography workshops were held by
renowned croatian artist Slaven Tolj. In these workshops and the ones held for the other part of the
Buljan’s diptih (The Black Best Sorrow) more than 20 artists, architects and young scenographers from
Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Estonia and Hungary along with their mentors become acquainted with the
contemporary theatre scenography.
The workshop consisted of participants from Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Participants were young
artists of different artistic profiles. Part of the workshops were David Orešić, Nina Bric, Veronika Ule,
Tina Mohorović, Ami Kadribašić, Adriana Furlan, Mateja Lukežič, Boštjan Štorman, Vesna Mitorvič and
Matic Gselman from Slovenia, Milica Ivković and Nebojša Antešević from Serbia and Paula Bučar, Luka
Kedžo, Andrea Miletić and Liberta Mišan from Croatia. The leader of the workshop was the Croatian
visual and multimedia artist Slaven Tolj.
The workshop was aimed at the elaboration of the stage design, which included development of the
established concept. It was necessary to develop all segments of stage space and decor: define the use,
purpose and changing of decor; make the selection of appropriate materials for the decor; solve how to
mount all segments of decor and its change; find all the appropriate props.
All participants have worked together on all parts of the stage set. Every day in the first part of the daily
schedule we stood proposals, developed solutions, discuss the final solution.
It was necessary to: determine the exact position and movement of cranes, hoists within (the pedestal)
to solve men's room or office on the construction site; solve women's room, and in the rotation to get
the canteen, the way to solve the construction pit and set elements in the background of the scene (the
scaffolding).
For each of these segments are given the proposed ways of making and the type of material. After
forming projecting parts of the set and define all spatial segments, it was necessary to find appropriate
examples of materialization and props from the former DDR. I worked on this research by relevant
examples. After which we talked about them, and together formed the final decision and selection of
materials, equipment and methods of implementation. In a smaller group, in which I participated, we
worked on developing models that we've solved the way of forming part of the scene that takes up
construction pit.
As a part of the project we are also preparing workshops with the visual tandem son:DA in Tallinn and
with one of the greatest conceptual and visual artist Dalibor Martinis in Belgrade, Serbia.
Activity No.12: Painting/puppet installation for the play little Shoemaker at the Split City theatre ;
Date of Activity: 01.09.2012 - 30.09.2012, Split
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Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, NUKU Estonia
Premiere: 21.09.2012
As a part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the release of the novel of one of the most
popular children’s novel, The Fabulous Adventures of the Apprentice Hlapich by Ivana Brlić - Mažuranić,
an directing of Robert Waltl and dramaturgy of Olja Savičević Ivančević and Ivica Buljan was combined
with pop-art scenography and puppet design of Siniša Ilić. While the music of Vojko Vrućina, , the
costumes of Ana Savić Gecan and the choreography of Gyula Cserepes additionaly underlining the
innovative painting/puppet installation.
Activity No. 13: WS with student from Tallinn and Slovenia
Date of Activity: 23.03.2013 - 24.03.2013, Ljubljana
Participants: son:DA, Robert Waltl, Matej Primec, David Cerar and Hotmir Knific
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, NUKU Estonia
Workshops for the performance Little Sleepy Star. In a way already premiered and done, made theater
and puppet play became a space-time-body which was changed and in the question of lighting design remade during the two day course, workshop on it. Part of the workshop were Robert Waltl, Matej Primec,
David Cerar and Hotmir Knific.
3. Plan for 2013
Activity No.6: WS with visual group son:DA
Date of Activity: 03.04.2013 - 06.04.2013, Tallinn
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Nuku Estonia
What does it mean to work site-specific? What does it mean to live, be, communicate site-specific or to
react to things site-specific? All this the questions where the starting point of a classroom exchange
between students and son:DA, between what are we doing and how are we reacing to things. three
concentrated days were moments of contemplation on the past situations of this project aka on the past
situations all of us were working, living and being in. Workshop does not end only in the times and
space of the school.
Activity No. 11: Workshops with students - WS with student , Subotica
Date of Activity: 01.11.2012 - 30.11.2012, 01.04.2013
Do 30/04/2013
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, Open univerzitet Serbia, NUKU Estonia
The Jubilee 20th International Festival of Children’s Theatre being held from 19th to 25th of May 2013 has
on the 13th of April 2013 carried out a Scenography Workshop for Children as an announcement of the
festival. A talented young scenographer from Croatia, Ljerka Hribar, acquainted ten Elementary School
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students with the basis od the scenography skills. Thru this workshop children got an insight how a
theatre scenographer thinks on his mind path from the text to the idea for the solution. The workshop
was accompanied also by the process of making a model and a scenography for the play Slavuj was
created.
Activity No. 14: International WS on the art of creating soud and music
Date of Activity: 02.04.2013 - 03.04.2013, Ljubljana
Partner in charge: Novo kazalište Croatia, Mini teater Slovenia, NUKU Estonia, Teatro Neline Slovakia
As a part of the international European project Nomads of beauty 2nd and 3rd April in Mini teater
hosted sound designer and musician from Belgrade - we prepared extremely interesting sound
workshops and experimental concert of the young serbian musician, improviser and DJ – Luka Ivanović Lukatoyboy.
On Wednesday, April the 3rd 2013 Mini teater at Križevniška 1 hosted young sound designer, DJ and
musician from Belgrade, Luka Ivanović - Lukatoyboy. After the performance Bartleby, the scrivener for
which Mini teater with Luka Ivanović received Borštnik’s award for sound design, Luka Ivanović prepared
a solo DJ performance.
The day before, on April the 2nd 2013, in Mini teater at Križevniška Street 1 sound workshops for
children from age 5 to 12 in smaller groups with Luka Ivanović were carried out. Small sounds for little
people in great action. Voice improvisation, sound effects, listening to sounds in the room and
discovering their usage and manipulation of them.
Musician and soundartist Luka Ivanović has in 2012 performed and led workshops for children at
renowned festivals UNSOUND in Krakov and Clubtransmediale in Berlin and Serbian Dis-Patch and RingRing Festival. At festival KidsPatch he has cooperated from the beginning when he in 2008 in terms of
the Dis-patch program to children, parents and audience presented a unique and unconventional
approach to work and play. Experiences and innovativeness will be grand. Lukatoyboy is mostly
recognized in sphere of electro-acoustical improvisation music which he creates with voice sampling,
sounds of the surrounding devices and toys. Not only in Belgrade, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Lukaboytoy also participates in numerous programs abroad, organizes workshops and
performs from Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Turkey Hungary, Portugal
and he US. In terms of the Blind Tapes project from 2011 he also publishes audio tapes with recordings
of different participants of the Blind Tape Quartets project.
Ivica Buljan
Project manager
Zagreb, May 2013
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