Intercultural and Interlingual Influences on Slovenian Stage Speech

Katarina Podbevšek

Interculturalism (and the related interlingualism) is not a new concept of the globalisation age, yet in the new socio-political situation it has a wider meaning and encourages intercultural awareness, requiring a special sensibility for the other and otherness. Theatre has always responded to...

Translations and Performances of Slovenian Drama Abroad

Gašper Troha

The paper analyses the translations of Slovenian dramas from the 1980s onward. In the final decades of the former Yugoslavia, promoting Slovenian culture throughout Yugoslavia was a political priority. With the independence of Slovenia, Slovenian theatre experienced a significant narrowing of its...

The Intercultural Influences in Contemporary Dance in Slovenia

Rok Vevar

The history of contemporary dance in Slovenia shows the consequence and coexistence of three primary aesthetic-cultural influences. In the first half of the 20th century, contemporary dance in Slovenia was both indirectly and directly exposed to the influence of Ausdruckstanz or new German dance....

Migrations, Trauma and Otherness in Contemporary Slovenian Theatre

Milija Gluhovic

The paper addresses the politics of difference in the Slovenian public sphere through the prism of several Slovenian performances that address the issues of forced migrations, displacement, otherness and (historical) trauma. Performances under investigation include Janez Janša’s Slovene...

Contemporary Performing Arts Practices beyond the Status of Difference

Nenad Jelesijević

The potential hybridity of theatre expression is the starting point for a look into contemporary performing arts practices that deviate from any kind of delineations that basically reinforce classification (on the basis of culture, language, ethnicity, gender, economic criteria, etc.). Using...