2009 Silent Performance
Dean Damjanovski is a young Macedonian director who has already created over twenty projects in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia and the United Kingdom. He also directed a documentary film which was screened at the Balkan Black Box Festival in Germany. Silent Performance is based on his research on the border between reality and performance, as well as between everyday behaviour and behaviour on stage. The basic question it poses is about whether we are certain that what goes on around us is reality or whether it could just as easily be a part of a performance. The author tries to redefine the place of performance in society, pointing towards a different aspect which surpasses the purely artistic dimension and challenges social roles, behaviours and relations. Silent Performance is a distant successor of the theater of mystery, if we characterise it based on the atmosphere and rituals. And it is a continuation of the director’s research of the relations between “performance” and “behaviour”.
Dean Damjanovski, mladi makedonski redatelj, do sada je sudjelovao u preko dvadeset kazališnih projekata u Makedoniji, Bugarskoj, Hrvatskoj i Velikoj Britaniji. Koautor je dokumentarnog filma Kabadaya predstavljenog na Balkan Black Box festivalu u Berlinu. Predstava Silent Performance temelji se na istraživanju granice između stvarnosti i predstave, kao i između ponašanja u svakodnevnom životu i na sceni. Temeljno pitanje koje otvara jest jesmo li sigurni da je ono što se oko nas događa stvarnost ili bismo jednako tako mogli biti i dio predstave? Kroz ovaj rad autor pokušava redefinirati poziciju izvedbe u društvu ukazujući na potpuno drugačiji aspekt koji prelazi samo umjetničku dimenziju i zadire u strukturu društvenih uloga, ponašanja i odnosa. Silent Performance daleki je sljedbenik kazališta misterija po svojoj atmosferi i ritualnosti, predstavlja nastavak niza autorovih istraživanja odnosa između izvedbe i ponašanja započet projektima Playing with the rules of the game u Splitu i Gorky’s The Lower Depths u Skopju.
