Wom@rts Meet the Masters: Mateja Bučar
Wom@rts Meet the Masters: Mateja Bučar
Festival Hall Ljubljana
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 18:00
Maribor Art Gallery invites you to a talk with dancer and choreographer Mateja Bučar as part of the Wom@rts project. The artist will discuss her long-standing dance and choreographic practice, her connection to visual arts, and the hurdles she has experienced as a woman on her artistic path in conversation with critic Maša Radi Buh.
The discussion will take place on the occasion of a repeat performance of Parquet Ball, which begins at 8 p.m. The literal manifestation of the piece's title, a parquet ball, is at the heart of the performance, moving through the area of the ballroom in reliance on the two dancers—a ballerina and a modern dancer—via a remote-controlled choreography. Read more here.
Following the performance, we will invite five visitors to take a deeper look at Bučar's choreography and participate in an exploration of the creative procedures she utilised to create Parquet Ball. The participants that are chosen will also have the opportunity to try their hand at choreographing the parquet balls. Those interested can send their applications to info@ugm.si.
Mateja Bučar (1957, Novo mesto) finished her studies in classical and contemporary ballet techniques at the Centre de Danse International Rosella Hightower in Cannes (France) in 1978/79 after graduating from the ballet school in Ljubljana in 1974. She completed her PhD in choreography on Aesthetic Negativity and Choreographic Practice at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, City University London, in 2015. From 1980 through 2004, she was a member of the Slovene National Opera and Ballet's ballet ensemble in Ljubljana, where she appeared in almost every performance. She joined the Ljubljana Dance Theatre in 1986, two years after it was established by Ksenija Hribar. She danced in the majority of the company's performances as well as in a number of pieces produced by the Dance Theatre Ljubljana, collaborated with the Egon March Institute, and worked as a choreographer and protagonist in Slovenia and abroad. She founded DUM in 1999, an artists' association in the frame of which she collaborates closely with visual artist Vadim Fiskin. Next to Ljubljana and Slovenia, her works and performances, which she has been creating since 1992, have been shown in Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, Moscow, Milan, Florence, Warsaw, Budapest, Zagreb, Rijeka, Stockholm, Rotterdam, and other cities. Her works are performed on stages, in galleries, and frequently in public urban and city places. She is currently teaching choreography at the Alma Mater Europaea Dance Academy. Bučar earned the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana in 2005, the Ann Sayers Award at the Laban Dance Centre in London in 2014, and the Ksenija Hribar Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia in 2015.
The discussion will take place in real time, and you will be able to watch it on a live stream. The recordings will be available on the Maribor Art Gallery's YouTube channel.
The event is being held under the auspices of the European project Wom@rts, funded by the Creative Europe Programme.
Event partners: DUM, Maska, Kultivarnica
