Ivana Djilas

KNJIGA MOJIH ŽIVLJENJ (Aleksandar Hemon) / BOOK OF MY LIVES (Aleksandar Hemon)

plesno-gledališka predstava / dance and theatre performance

Režija / Direction: IVANA DJILAS

Nastopajo / Performed by: MARKO GREGORČIČ - MURAT, VERONIKA VALDÉS,

BRANKO POTOČAN, ŽELJKO BOŽIĆ

Glasovi / Voices: ŠEFIKA KURTALIĆ, MUSTAFA KURTALIĆ, CELINE MIREILLE,

GORAN VOJNOVIĆ, ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Koreografija / Choreography: VERONIKA VALDÉS, BRANKO POTOČAN, ŽELJKO BOŽIĆ

Oblikovanje videa / Video design: VESNA VEGA

Scenografija / Set Design: SARA SLIVNIK

Kostumografija / Costume Design: JELENA PROKOVIĆ

Asistentka kostumografije / Assistant to Costume Designer: SAŠA DRAGAŠ

Glasba in oblikovanje zvoka / Music and Sound Design: BETI STRGAR

Oblikovanje luči in tehnične rešitve / Light design and Technical solutions: JANKO OVEN

Dramaturgija in besedilo songa "U mojoj zemlji" / Dramaturgy and Authorship of Song "U mojoj zemlji": GORAN VOJNOVIĆ

Dramaturgija in besedilo songa "Morning Moon" / Dramaturgy and Authorship of Song "Morning Moon": ALEKSANDAR HEMON

PRODUKCIJSKA EKIPA APT / PRODUCTION TEAM APT

PRODUCENTKA PTL / PRODUCER PTL KATJA SOMRAK

Soprodukcija / Co-production: ANTON PODBEVŠEK TEATER IN PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA

About project:

“The expat experience of the American-Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon, which he describes in his autobiographical essays collected in the book The Book of My Lives, may have a happy ending, but that doesn't say much about it. In his new American life, Hemon too had to face the loss of his world, his own invisibility in a big, foreign city, the consequent devaluation and dehumanization of all his own. In the painful process of building a new self, he, too, often felt humiliated, scared, lonely and angry, and above all, misunderstood. He eventually succeeded, and in his new life, Aleksandar Hemon is a successful American writer, and Chicago is his home, but his story is still easily recognisable to many whose expat experiences do not have a happy ending.

Ivana Djilas is one of those who can recognize herself in Hemon’s story, so the performance The Book of My Lives is also a personal confession of the director, who, with the help of the writer’s emigration stories, tells her own.”

Goran Vojnović

O projektu:

“Izseljenska izkušnja ameriško-bosanskega pisatelja Aleksandra Hemona, ki jo opisuje v avtobiografskih esejih, zbranih v knjigi Knjiga mojih življenj, ima morda srečen konec, a to o njej ne pove veliko. Tudi Hemon se je namreč moral v svojem novem, ameriškem življenju soočiti z izgubo svojega sveta, z lastno nevidnostjo v velikem, tujem mestu, s posledičnim razvrednotenjem in razčlovečenjem vsega svojega. V mučnem procesu izgradnje novega sebe se je tudi on pogosto počutil ponižanega, bil je prestrašen, osamljen in jezen, predvsem pa nerazumljen. Naposled mu je uspelo in v novem življenju je Aleksandar Hemon uspešen ameriški pisatelj, Chicago pa njegov dom, a se v njegovi zgodbi kljub temu zlahka prepoznajo mnogi, katerih izseljenske izkušnje nimajo srečnega konca.

Ena teh, ki se prepoznavajo v Hemonovi zgodbi, je tudi Ivana Djilas, zato je predstava Knjiga mojih življenj tudi osebna izpoved režiserke, ki s pomočjo pisateljevih izseljenskih zgodb pripoveduje svojo.”

Goran Vojnović

F: Barbara Čeferin

“At the end of 2022, there were 108.4 million displaced people in the world. Every month, there are more and more hotspots in the world due to conflict or poverty. More and more people are leaving their homes due to climate change. We are currently relocating entire villages in Slovenia due to floods and landslides. In almost every school we have Russian and Ukrainian children, as well as children from the Balkans, from the former Yugoslav countries. An ageing population and labour shortages will lead to increased migration. The topic of migration and the integration of displaced persons into a new environment is a topic that we will encounter more and more often. And that's my theme. I know what it's like to be invisible. I know what it's like when it doesn't matter whether you get out of bed in the morning or not, because nobody notices. I know what it's like to wonder if you did the right thing to leave your city, your country, wandering the streets without money or context. It's time for me to make a performance about these feelings. And Alexander Hemon wrote a book that I wanted to write, but I didn't know how to write. The book of my lives.”

Ivana Djilas

“Konec leta 2022 je bilo na svetu 108,4 milijona razseljenih ljudi. Iz meseca v mesec je na svetu več kriznih žarišč zaradi konfliktov ali revščine. Vse več je življenjsko ogroženih ljudi, ki zapuščajo svoje domove zaradi podnebnih sprememb. Trenutno v Sloveniji preseljujemo cele vasi zaradi poplav in plazov. Skoraj v vsaki šoli imamo ruske in ukrajinske otroke, pa tudi otroke z Balkana, iz bivših jugoslovanskih držav. Staranje prebivalstva in pomanjkanje delovne sile bo pripeljalo do povečanih migracij. Tema migracij in vključevanja razseljenih oseb v novo okolje je tema, s katero se bomo vse bolj pogosto srečevali. In to je moja tema. Jaz vem, kako je biti neviden. Vem, kako je, ko je vseeno, če zjutraj vstaneš iz postelje ali ne, ker tega nihče ne opazi. Vem, kako je, ko se sprašuješ, če si prav naredil, da si šel iz svojega mesta, države, ko blodiš po cestah brez denarja in konteksta. Čas je, da naredim predstavo o teh občutkih. In Aleksander Hemon je napisal knjigo, ki bi jo rada jaz napisala, pa nisem znala. Knjigo mojih življenj. “

Ivana Djilas

About author:

Ivana Djilas was born on June 25, 1976, in Belgrade. Between 1995 and 1999, she attended the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where she graduated as a theater and radio director under the mentorship of Nikola Jevtić. In Serbia, she directed only one play – The Zoo Story by Edward Albee, which remained on the program of Atelje 212 for seven years. She pursued postgraduate studies at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and completed her Master's degree under the mentorship of Dušan Jovanović in 2007, with a thesis titled "Visualization of a Novel – An Alternative Approach to Staging a Novel in Theatre." She now lives in Ljubljana as a self-employed person in the cultural sector. Ivana Djilas has dedicated most of her theatrical career to working in Slovenian theatre. She has directed in many professional theaters and theatre groups, and in 2004, she also became the head and producer of the theatre group Familija. Over more than twenty years of work in Slovenia, she has directed around eighty productions, which have been created in a variety of production conditions, mostly in collaboration with dramaturg Tatjana Doma, but always with the distinctive poetic style of a director whose signature is clearly recognizable. She has directed plays based on a wide range of materials, from modern and classical drama, novels, short stories, poems, picture books, comics, newspaper columns, to even scientific texts. These genre-diverse productions are full of intertwining with puppetry techniques, video, and live music. As evidenced by her Master's thesis, she is interested in the adaptation and visualization of novels, and several of her works in the repertoire have been based on this approach: Fužinski Bluz by Andrej Skubic and adapter Ana Lasić, Mr. Chance by Jerzy Kosinski and adapter Tatjana Doma, The Notebook by Agota Kristof, Candidate or Optimism, adapted in collaboration with Tatjana Doma, and the dramatization of the novel in letters Sahib – Impressions from Depression by Nenad Veličković.

She was enrolled in a doctoral program at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, in the field of Educational Sciences, writes articles, and participates in scientific conferences. She explores the possibilities of collaboration between the field of theater and education. She is interested in everything from the accessibility of theater for children, experiencing theater, transmitting cultural and social patterns through art, to the concepts of integrating theater into the process of education. She also edited a collection of essays titled Growing Audience – Eight Essays on the Role of Theater for Children and Youth in Contemporary Society. In 2017, she published a novel titled The House with the publisher Mladinska knjiga.

O avtorici:

Režiserka Ivana Djilas se je rodila 25. junija 1976 v Beogradu. Med letoma 1995 in 1999 je obiskovala Fakulteto dramskih umetnosti v Beogradu in pod mentorskim vodstvom Nikole Jevtića diplomirala kot gledališka in radijska režiserka. V Srbiji je režirala samo eno predstavo – Zakonsko igro Edwarda Albeeja, ki pa je na programu Ateljeja 212 ostala sedem let. Podiplomski študij je vpisala na AGRFT v Ljubljani in opravila magisterij pod mentorskim vodstvom Dušana Jovanovića leta 2007 na temo Vizualizacija romana – alternativni pristop k uprizarjanju romana v gledališču. Danes živi v Ljubljani kot samozaposlena v kulturi. Večji del svoje gledališke kariere je Ivana Djilas posvetila delu v slovenskem gledališču. Režirala je v mnogih profesionalnih gledališčih in gledaliških skupinah, obenem pa je leta 2004 postala tudi vodja in producentka gledališke skupine Familija. V več kot dvajsetih letih svojega dela v Sloveniji je zrežirala okrog osemdeset predstav, ki so nastajale v zelo raznolikih produkcijskih pogojih, v veliki večini ob sodelovanju dramaturginje Tatjane Doma, a vedno z značilno poetiko režiserke, katere rokopis je jasno prepoznaven. Režirala je predstave na osnovah zelo raznolikih predlog, od sodobnih in klasičnih dramskih del, romanov, kratkih zgodb, pesmi, slikanic, stripov, kolumn iz časopisov, celo znanstvenih tekstov. Žanrsko različne predstave so polne prepletanj z lutkovnimi tehnikami, videom in živo glasbo. Kakor je razvidno že iz njene magistrske naloge, jo zanima adaptacija romana in njegova vizualizacija, in tako najdemo v njenem repertoarju kar nekaj uprizoritev, ki so nastale na tej osnovi: Fužinski bluz avtorja Andreja Skubica in prirejevalke Ane Lasić, Gospod Chance Jerzyja Kosinskega in prirejevalke Tatjane Doma, Šolski zvezek Agote Kristof, Kandid ali optimizem, ki ga je priredila v sodelovanju s Tatjano Doma, dramatizacija romana v pismih Nenada Veličkovića Sahib - Impresije iz depresije ...
Vpisana je bila na doktorat na Pedagoški fakulteti v Ljubljani, smer Edukacijske vede, piše članke in sodeluje na znanstvenih konferencah. Raziskuje možnosti sodelovanja gledališkega polja in polja edukacije. Zanima jo vse od dostopnosti gledališča za otroke, doživljanja gledališča, prenašanja kulturnih in socialnih vzorcev prek umetniškega dela, do konceptov vključevanja gledališča v proces vzgoje in izobraževanja. Uredila je tudi zbirko esejev Odraščajoča publika - osem esejev o vlogi gledališča za otroke in mladino v sodobni družbi. Leta 2017 je pri založbi Mladinska knjiga izdala roman Hiša.

Program Plesnega Teatra Ljubljana sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in Mestna občina Ljubljana, Oddelek za kulturo / The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture