10., 11., 12. 1. 2025 ob /at 20.00

PTL PREMIERA / PREMIERE

Ivana Djilas

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

plesna predstava / dance performance

Režija in adaptacija besedila / Direction and Text adaptation: IVANA DJILAS

Dramaturgija in avtorstvo adaptacije besedila / Dramaturgy and Authorship of Text adaptation: GORAN VOJNOVIĆ

Nastopajo / Performed by: MARKO GREGORČIČ - MURAT, VERONIKA VALDÉS, BRANKO POTOČAN, ŽELJKO BOŽIČ

Oblikovanje videa / Video design: VESNA VEGA

Kostumografija / Costume: JELENA PROKOVIĆ

Scenografija / Scenography: SARA SLIVNIK

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

Glasba, video snemanje in oblikovanje zvoka / Music, Video Recording and Sound Design: BETI STRGAR

So-produkcija / Co-produced by: ANTON PODBEVŠEK TEATER, 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

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Vstopnice / Tickets: 12/8€ (dijaki, študenti, upokojenci / scholars, students, seniors) predhodna rezervacija ali uro pred predstavo v našem gledališču / booking in advance or an hour before the performance at our theatre

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