Beautiful Souls - Del av Ankoku International Performance Festival.

Inspirerad av Hegels koncept om ”Beautiful Souls”, det tomma skalet och strävan efter perfektion, stora ord, moralisk överlägsenhet. Människans persona, skapande och destruktivitet - det vackra - det fula.

Beautiful Souls, med Giljotin Performance Lab, hade premiär 2023 och gjorde sedan succé när den spelades på Toplo Centrala Center for Contemporary Arts i Sofia, Bulgarien. 2024 är den tillbaka i Sverige och ingår i projektet Theatre in Palm via Intercult samt öppnar vår festival Ankoku International Performance Festival.

Tana Manevas ikoniska scenspråk Ankoku är en blandning av japansk butoh, performance och teater. Giljotin Performance Lab har tidigare gjort föreställningen Strange Development 2019.

AV TANA MANEVA MED TANA MANEVA, MARIA ROSTOTSKY, ELISE SJÖBERG, SIMON EDMAN, MAX LAPITSKY, DAVID MÖRNER OCH LINA LUNDBERG MUSIK RIKARD BORGGÅRD LJUS EMIL OLSSON SCENOGRAFI YOULIAN TABAKOV VIDEOANIMATION LENA RAMMI

Festivalpasset gäller för samtliga föreställningar, aktiviteter, artist talks, mingel mm 16 maj - 21 maj! 

ANKOKU INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: 

Teater Giljotin collaborate with Emergency Theater for the first limited edition of the Ankoku International Performance Festival, to promote an artistic language with a strong avant-garde and transgressive nature. "ANKOKU" stands for darkness as a reaction against too much light! 

16/5 OPENING SHOW: Beatutiful Souls (SWE) 19:00

17/5 MINGLE AND FESTIVAL BAR: Presentation of Emergency Theatre.

18/5 ARTIST TALK with international guests 19:00, 21:00: Tana Maneva (performance artist) and Rikard Borggård (electronics)

19/5 THE ROOM OF PLEASURE IS EMPTY (BULGARIA) 19:00

20/5 ARTIST TALK with international guests 19:00, 21:00 Emmanuelle June, electronica artist. BAR

21/5 SCENES AT DAWN (BULGARIA). 19:00. 21:00 CLOSING PARTY

The Room of Pleasure is Empty (Bulgaria) is based on the team’s documented life experiences and original
texts. The performance is the result of a two-year laboratory process exploring the human inner
stage in relation to the Uncanny. The capital of the unconscious becomes the object of dramatic
exploration, reinterpretation, enactment. We invite the darkest side of the soul onto the stage. We
manifest those encapsulated and rejected desires that seek their way to appear in reality through
distorted manipulative fetishized actions. There, body abuse, guilt, and self-abasement lead to the
unattainable end of the human unconscious projected into the space of the Empty Room. 

SCENES AT DAWN (Bulgaria)

Based on poetry, letters and drama texts by Tzveta Sofronieva and on fragments of personal
narratives of the actors
Scenes at Dawn is an oratorio about human helplessness, about the fear of losing the person next
to us, about longing, about illusions, about the power and the solace we find in awakening.
Between the dream and the crisis of the coming day, there is the time of daybreak- time of the truth
that emerges between the excessive fatigue and anxiety. How we endure, how we live, what
happens to us when our feelings are turned inward and reverberate in the cavity of the body? The
most important rehearsal is the one where we try to express our feelings, and more importantly,
become able to share them. We put the audience in the role of the desired partner. We give it
scenes of eroticism and death, scenes of personal shame and reverie. The stage becomes a
psychodrama laboratory. We walk the audience through the spaces between loneliness that
closes our hearts and the kind of loneliness that pushes us to a new encounter. We begin with the
scene of The Personal Hell, with monologues of helplessness, rudeness and betrayal- these are
children of fear. Then we walk through the Cultural Purgatory, where we look for answers to the
questions of love and identity. We debunk the “Catalogue feelings” with our Love conference. In
the third part we reach the Possible Paradise where we experience an insight and also realise how
valuable meeting the Other can be. We find and write down the eleventh commandment: Don’t
die, please!

Director: Juliana Saiska
Playwright: Tzveta Sofronieva
Cast: Elena Dimitrova, Yana Moroz, Juliana Saiska, Elica Alexieva, Velislav Pavlov
Costumes, set and lights: Ralitza Toneva
Music: Elica Alexieva
Audio engineer: Nino Gomes

Duration: 90 minutes
Suitable for audiences aged 16+