BABA collection
choregie project
Focus: gender, otherness, Western view, Balkan, virginity, music, Homeric storytelling
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Focus: gender, otherness, Western view, Balkan, virginity, music, Homeric storytelling
The Colossal Balkan Fiction book of stories is a portrait collection inspired by the virdžinas – the women who take on a man's name and identity, wear men's clothes, do men's work, smoke, drink rakia, play the gusle ... and join the men's world.
The stories talk about the otherness, the institution of sworn virgins, and about the dilemma whether becoming a manis an illusion, violence, or salvation.
The Catalog is a narrative journey through places and times that bend under the fruits of romantic Western imagination. Homer, the muškarača, the tobelia, the blind woman and Stana live in the region that today we call the Balkans. It creates an intuitive conceptual network between music, the Western view, sweet sorrow, hetero-romantic ideology and Adam’s rib, phallocentric gravity and virginity, the way humanity has dealt with it for centuries.
BABA (work in progress)
premiere: 23.2.2023, Z Space, San Francisco, USA
Author of the project: Karmina Šilec
Movement: Sidra Bell
Set designer: Dorian Šilec Petek
Sound design: Gregory Kuhn, Danilo Ženko
Kitka music director: Janet Kutulas
performed by: KITKA
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