Gledališki in sodobnoplesni program Cankarjevega doma
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Programme
Contemporary dance, ballet and theatre are three of the main planks of the CD programme throughout the year, presented in the centre's main auditoriums, with the Duša Počkaj Hall, a small theatre of the "black-box" type, being reserved exclusively for new works.
Contemporary dance and circus
The international dimensions of this section of the programme are pronounced, with highlights in the latter half of the 2010s that included Bartabas and Andrés Marín (France/Spain, equestrian dance, 2015), the China National Peking Opera Company (2015), the New Circus of Vietnam (2016), the Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto Company (Spain, 2016), Sankai Juku (Japan, butoh dance, 2017), Compagnie Käfig (France/Brazil, experimental dance and visual technology, 2018), the Sydney Dance Company (2018), Grupo Corpo (Brazil, contemporary dance, 2018), the L-E-V Dance Company (Israel, 2018), Circa Contemporary Circus (Australia, 2018), Cirque Éloize (Canada, 2019), Rosas (Belgium, contemporary dance, 2019) and the Carolyn Carlson Company (USA/France, 2020).
Ballet
For a capital city of fairly modest size, Ljubljana stages an enviable number of major international ballet productions per season. These lean heavily towards contemporary ballet expression. Highlights include Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (2014), Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2014), Le Ballet National de Marseille (Bolero – Extremalism, 2016), the Ballet of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (The Glembays, 2017), Ballet Preljocaj (France, Romeo and Juliet, 2017) and CCN – Ballet de Lorraine (France, Histoires sans histoire(s), 2019).
CD also maintains a strong season-by-season association with the ballet section of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor (Balet SNG Maribor). The majority of these productions were choreographed by Edward Clug, winner of a Prešeren Foundation Award and one of contemporary ballet's biggest global names.
CD has also staged productions by other smaller Slovenian dance and ballet companies, including the Flota Institute, the En-Knap Dance Group, Fičo Balet, the Vitkar Institute and the Baobab Association.
Theatre
As Slovenia is extremely well-served by national and regional theatres, CD's drama output rests heavily on co-producing and hosting short runs and single performances in collaboration with domestic, regional and international companies, including the Anton Podbevšek Theatre from Novo Mesto, SNG Drama Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL), SNG Nova Gorica, Koper Theatre, the Slovene Permanent Theatre in Trieste, the National Theatre in Belgrade, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Belgrade), the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, and the Marin Sorescu National Theatre (Craiova, Romania).
