ART ECO

2019-08-13 22:00

Liberty Park

 
Tuesday, August 13 
Liberty Park, 10. p.m.
ART ECO
 
Performance on instruments made of recycled materials from the bay, created as part of the ART ECO activities
 
Voditelji radionica: 
PETER KUS (Germany)
MARKO ŠEVALJEVIĆ (Montenegro)
ANDREA ŠEVALJEVIĆ (Montenegro)
UROŠKA CVETKO (Slovenia)
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Peter Kus, composer, puppet theatre director, instrument maker, and educator, has explored with his latest projects, puppet musicals such as Black Kitchen (2004), The Voice (2005), Tristan Vox (2006), A King Listens (2007), The Lost Tone (2010), The Forest of Songs (2012), and Bumm, krach, peng (2017), the field where music and theatre meet. He also experiments with other techniques and expressive possibilities in puppet theatre such as video (The Singing Castle, 2011), shadows, (Wolfheart, 2015) and drama theater (Forget Me not, 2018).  Audiences of numerous festival have embraced these unique performances, while juries have awarded them for their music and originality at  festivals such as the Pozorište Zvezdarište [Zvezdara Theater for Children] (Belgrade, 2018), the International Festival of Children’s Theater (Subotica, 2018), Lut Fest [Puppet Festival] (East Sarajevo, 2017), SLUK [Meeting of Puppeteers and Puppet Theaters of Croatia] (Osijek, 2013), among others. As an instrument maker, in 2008, Peter Kus created and arranged a series of interactive exhibitions in various towns in Slovenia titled Euphonia. From 2012 to 2015, his exhibition The Garden of Sound was presented in France, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Montenegro. In 2010, he published The Singing Castle, a guide book for making original instruments.

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The Meštar and Furešta [Craftsman and Foreigner] non-governmental organization has formally existed since 2013, and informally since 2010, when Andrea and Marko Ševaljević presented themselves to the public for the first time with a single figure at the Bokeljska noć [Boka Night]. Then, they began to create figures for the Traditional Kotor Winter Carnival. In 2013, they presented themselves with three figures and at the Bokeljska noć with even twenty one of them. They have realized several projects: Dodir mašte [The Touch of Imagination] with ten workshops for the protégés of the Dr Peruta Ivanović Resource Center, then Razigraj se [Heat Up] with a series of educational workshops through which they have presented alternative leisure time arrangements for the youngest population, as well as the project Nisi sama [You are not Alone] of the ANIMA Center for Women and Peace Education in Kotor through which they have carried out decoupage workshops with women with malignant diseases. They have also become part of the Technical Team of the Kotor Festival of Theater for Children for which they created art installations Pippi Longstocking and a giant bench, which marked the Old Town of Kotor in the summer period, while the figure Osveta Peraškog kokota [Revenge of the Perast Rooster] won first prize at the Bokeljska noć.
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Urška Cvetko entered the world of music at the age of five. She studied under Professor Jasenko Jelačić in Ljubljana and participated in numerous national competitions, while a very important place in her education as well occupied Professor David Bellugi. At the age of thirteen, Urška passed the entrance exam at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz a special young talent (2003), where she studied for three years under renowned pedagogues Robert Unger and Yvonne Luisi-Weichsel. In 2006 she started studying at the Conservatory for Music and Ballet in Ljubljana under Professor Mateja Bajt, and in 2010 she continued at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with the same professor. Urška completed Master program at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Firenze. She intensely explores different styles in music in various performing formations. She has has played with the Chicas del David Ensemble everything from medieval music to jazz. She began her teaching career at the ProArte private music school in Ljubljana, and has continued it at the State Music School in Kranj and at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Firenze as Professor Bellugi’s Assistant.