WORKS
Music theatre/staged concerts/ (selected)
- BABA choregie project - collection, 2021 - 2023
- THRENOS for the Throat (New music theatre Choregie), 2020
- VOGP Music for Survival (Vocal orchestra VOGP), 2018
- Evergreen or who would not weep (Opera and ballet Ljubljana, SI), 2016
- Fauvel (Theater Basel, CH), 2016
- Fortuna wont be Fauvels’s match! (SNG Maribor, SI), 2015
- Toxic Psalms /Ultimate collective experience (St. Ann’s Warehouse, NY), 2015
- Scivias (Palao de la musica Catalana, Barcelona, E), 2015
- Spixody (festival Predihano Ljubljana, SI), 2006
- It is a story about you, E 78 (Pecs, HU), 2015
- Slovenian Sounds (Cankarjev dom, SI), 2001
- Na juriš in the mood! (Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, SI), 2009
- Adiemus (Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, SI), 2005
- Vampirabile (Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, SI), 2000
- Scent of Ancestors (Radial System Berlin, DE), 2013
- What have you got against peasants, lady? (Choregie festival), 2013
- Placebo or Is There One Who Would Not Weep (Choregie festival), 2012
- Rusalke (Španski borci Ljubljana, SI), 2010
- From Time Immemorial … (Opera and ballet Slovenian National Theatre Maribor SI), 2002
- CS LIGHT (Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, SI), 2007
- Stripsody (National theatre Maribor, SI) 2005
- Perspective East (festival Choregie, SI), 2011
- Die Ursonate, (Art Gallery Maribor, SI) 2009
- Scivias (Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, SI), 2001
- Who'd Have Thought That Snow Falls (festival Choregie, SI), 2012
- Vertical Thoughts (National theatre Maribor, SI), 2010
- When the Mountain changed its clothing (Ruhrtrienalle, DE), 2012
- Miracles (festival Choregie, SI), 2011
- Pleading for words (Slovenian Music Days, SI), 2011
For many years Karmina Šilec has had an intense focus on performing mostly new music in the context of stage productions. She has developed the artistic concept Choregie. Choregie focuses on the creation process that brings the musical notion of composing to the theatrical aspects of performing and staging. In Choregie a 'meta composition' is created by positioning different music materials into a bigger composition. Different elements in the performance merge into one (movement, singing, word, visual), all means are used either in a balance or in favour of one; the fusion of all this gives very different semantic directions.
The word choregie has got roots in the Greek language where choregs were supposed to be patrons of art, and the idea about developing the Choregie concept draws largely from Greek tragedy, particularly the role of the choir in it. The term 'new music', however, refers to the music which represents the very base and the major part of all projects - the music of our times, as well as to the music which is not commonly heard on stages and is thus considered new, such as medieval music, ethnic music or music taken from certain contexts, e.g. sociological or historical.
With 'Choregie - new music theatre' Vocal Theatre or Theatre of Voices' Karmina started to open up new spaces to multi-form music events, and to wider spaces to expression, intensity of experience, communication. It was not about breaking down boundaries between disciplines, it was about putting them next to each other, about coexistence.
In most of Choregie projects Karmina Šilec is also the stage director, set designer, choreographer.
Choregie/thematic concerts (selected)
DERT - endemic songs (2021), Stabat Mater - Letters to Son (2019), Intono (2018), Balkanika 2 (2017), Lajtl (2017), G. Bryars: Laude cortonese (2016), elegance a la francese (2016), Za dobro letino (2016), Zvoki Azije (2010), Balkanika (2014), Words and music (2014), Dveri (2013), Tehilim (2013), Brez kiklce (2009), Americas (2008), Slovenian Sounds 2 (2008), Drum café (2006), O Succesoress (2005) , From the Stone in the Water (2005), O, Deus (2005), Balkanika (2005), Miraculum (2004), Musica Inaudita (2002), Nolite tacere (2001), Songbridge (2000), Fallen Women (1999), Aurora (1997), More a tale than reality (1995), Messe in d-minor by Peter Cornelius (1992), This time a bit different (1991). Invocations (2016), etc..Intono (2018), D. Lang: Little Girls Matches (2018), VOGP Music for Survival (2018)