DIS-LECTURE

In spoken English with captions in English and German

A person needs to be brave in order to perform in public but this is the only way to achieve the change one wants.
Dalibor Šandor

„Something very special“ is a lecture about monsters and society’s behaviour towards disabled people. Reflecting on his rehearsal process for „We are not monsters“ Dalibor Šandor engages in a collaborative process with Marcel Bugiel (aka Dr. Acula) as dramaturg, Frosina Dimovska (aka Sylphina) as supporter and Saša Asentić (aka Dark Lord) as an outside eye. That’s all we can tell you so far. ”No spoilers.“

Dalibor Šandor is a performer and member of Per.Art. He is interested in video games, fantasy and horror genres, and in reflecting on the social reality of disabled people in Serbia.  He is the author of the idea for the performance "We are not monsters“.

In spoken Serbian with captions in English

There is contemporary dance without music, and there is contemporary dance without dance.
Natalija Vladisavljević

Natalija Vladisavljević works with different ways of creative text editing and writing. She reads, underlines, cuts out, transcribes, rewrites, copies, draws, composes. Invited to speak about herself as an artist she immediately redirects the question: Who knows her best? To those she assigned the role of talking together with her about her in public. The result is a choreography of text, movement and sound in pitch-dark based on her score and performed by her dear friends and collaborators: Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Milena Minja Bogavac, Frosina Dimovska, Dunja Crnjanski, Tatjana Tucić, Alexandre Achour and Saša Asentić.

Natalija Vladisavljević is a choreographer, writer and performer. Natalija has published two books of poems, short stories and short plays. She writes about contemporary dance, conducts choreographic workshops, devises textual and graphical scores for choreography. Since 1999 she has been member of Per.Art and is working with the group on her new performance  "Dance in the 21st Century". She would sit at a round table. She is happy.

In spoken Polish with captions in English and German

A woman, a goddess of wisdom and beauty
a woman butterfly
a woman who moves the world of Downs with her ways
A woman looks at the sky slightly
I see a star and the moon
I see my world
Woman Marilyn Monroe

In their artistic work, Maja Kowalczyk and Aleksandra Skotarek from Teatr 21 examine the gaze: how is the disabled body perceived in public and society? How does it determine the life possibilities of people with cognitive disabilities? Kowalczyk and Skotarek explore the boundaries between rigid binaries such as normal/anormal, human/non-human, male/female. They use manifestos and theatrical means to tackle taboos around disability. One of them is loneliness caused by isolation. In the lecture performance "Body-to-Body with Marilyn" the poetics of the Butterfly Woman unfolds. Viewers become confidants of this moving testimony.

Maja Kowalczyk is a dancer and actress and has been working with Teatr 21 for 15 years. She plays the saxophone, loves poetry, visual arts and music.

Aleksandra Skotarek is an actress and has been working with Teatr 21 for 15 years. She is very emotional and sensitive. She likes to read psychological and biographical books, her favorite biography is the one about Michael Jackson.

For the project “Body-to-Body with Marilyn”, Justyna Wielgus and Justyna Lipko-Konieczna took on the role as confidants of an intimate conversation.

Yes, we all had that dream.
Wanted to go into space.
We saw the stars.
In the distance.

Yes, we had that dream, that dream.
We don't get any complaint.
From the earth.

“Escape to the Model Planet” is a series Dennis Seidel has been working on with Marcel Bugiel since March 2020. Filomena Krause joined the process to support Dennis to realize this work for DIS_LECTURE series. Many girls and also young women have the desire to become models. They find out that somewhere in outer space there is a planet called Vueling. With Barbie dolls, stuffed animals, adventure stories, self-written songs and preferably female roles, Emily Lindqvist (Dennis Seidel) reports on Lara Lindström's escape to the model planet: "Everything takes place in Sweden and please don't laugh if I disguise my voices now and then."

Dennis Seidel is part of the theater company “Meine Damen und Herren” and works as a director, actor and performer. He is passionate about image editing with Photoshop, traveling to other cities, photography, drawing comics and more.
Dennis and Filomena Krause support each other's work on a regular basis and share a passion for romantic stories and keyboard music.