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Founded in 1990 by the director Matjaž Pograjc, Betontanc (Concrete Dance) is a versatile group which creates dance theatre performances, focusing on the physicality of the human body and meticulous dramaturgy. Already in 1991, Betontanc was awarded at the Borštnik Theatre Festival as the most perspective Slovene theatre group, while in 1997, Matjaž Pograjc received the Prešeren Foundation Award for his directions in Betontanc. Since 1999, Betontanc's performances are produced by the Ljubljana-based Bunker Institute.

Prior to 1999, when the main producer of Betontanc became the Bunker Institute, the group, comprising musicians, dancers, actors, and costume and stage designers, regularly collaborated with the Glej Theatre, which co-produced its first 6 performances. The group's unique sensibility for and approach to the performing body, often evoking infantile, ridiculous, brutal, and violent traits of human nature, became soon recognised at home and abroad. The group's third production, Every Word a Gold Coin’s Worth [Za vsako besedo cekin] (1992), co-produced by Glej Theatre won the Grand Prix de Bagnolet of 1992.

Betontanc's more recent performances include the politically engaged Everybody for Berlusconi (2004), which premièred in the Netherlands and was co-produced by Jonghollandia, Dance or Die (2007), co-produced by Mladinsko Theatre, which by evoking the images from well know fairy tales and the story by E. A. Poe posed the question whether dance might be the greatest revenge for human laziness and mass stupidity, Show Your Face (2006), created by Betontanc and the Latvian artistic collective Umka.LV and co-produced by New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Run for Love, which premièred in Festival d’Aurillac, France, which took as its starting point the reinterpretation of the famous scene on the Odessa steps from the Einstein's movie Battleship Potemkin but focused not on the scene of panic itself but on the space of transition between the past and the future, the moment when life is concentrated on one moment, the moment of extreme urgency, of danger and hope for survival, run toward life and love. The performance was co-produced by Festival Excentrique, Liexpublics, and In Situ, the European platform for the production of street arts, supported by the European Culture 2000 Programme. Betontanc's latest production Maybe We Are Mickey Mouse [Možda smo mi Miki Maus] (2009), based on the play by the Serbian playwright Maja Pelević and produced by National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia, Bunker Institute, and Sterijino pozorje Novi Sad, Serbia, innovatively contemplates an individual in the world of today, who stands perplexed in the face of absence of morality, love, tolerance, and any standard of value.

Since its inception, Betontanc has travelled extensively, to four continents and over 70 cities, among them Krakow, New York, and Lisbon.

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-| street address      = Bunker Institute, Slomškova 11, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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+| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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-Founded in [[established::1990]] by the director Matjaž Pograjc, [[Betontanc]] (Concrete Dance) is a versatile group which creates dance theatre performances, focusing on the physicality of the human body and meticulous dramaturgy. Already in 1991, Betontanc was awarded at the [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]] as the most perspective Slovene theatre group, while in 1997, Matjaž Pograjc received the [[Prešeren Award and Prešeren Foundation Awards|Prešeren Foundation Award]] for his directions in Betontanc. Since 1999, the producer of Betontanc is the Ljubljana-based [[Bunker Institute]].
+Founded in [[established::1990]] by the director Matjaž Pograjc, [[Betontanc]] (Concrete Dance) is a versatile group which creates dance theatre performances, focusing on the physicality of the human body and meticulous dramaturgy. Already in 1991, Betontanc was awarded at the [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]] as the most perspective Slovene theatre group, while in 1997, Matjaž Pograjc received the [[Prešeren Award and Prešeren Foundation Awards|Prešeren Foundation Award]] for his directions in Betontanc. Since 1999, Betontanc's performances are produced by the Ljubljana-based [[Bunker Institute]].
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-Betontanc's first production, Pesniki brez žepov ('Poets without Pockets'), was performed in the cellar corridor of Poljanska Grammar School in Ljubljana. Their second show of 1991 was Romeo and Juliet  at the [[Ljubljana Puppet Theatre]], which also won an award at the Borštnikovi dnevi Festival. Their third production, Za vsako besedo cekin ('For Every Word a Golden Coin'), was first performed in Budapest and won the Grand Prix de Bagnolet of 1992. In 1993 Betontanc prepared a new production, Who's Afraid of Betontanc, in Angiers, which later premiered as Tatovi mokrih robčkov ('The Wet Hanky Thieves') at the [[Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre]]. In 1995 Betontanc was praised for its new production Know Your Enemy! and in 1997 the production Na treh straneh neba ('On Three Sides of Heaven') was first performed at the Sarajevo Winter Festival. Skrivni seznam sončnih dni ('The Hidden List of Sunshine Days') was performed in 1999 at the [[Mladinsko Theatre]] and produced by [[Bunker Institute]], who became Betontanc's main producer (eg Midnight Meat Flight, 2002). In 2002 Maison des rendez-vous was co-produced with the Centre Choreographique National de Rennes et de Bretagne and in 2004 Wrestling Dostoyevsky was premiered at Schauspielhaus Vienna. A politically-engaged performance of Everybody for Berlusconi in collaboration with the Jonghollandia group was premiered in the Netherlands in 2004. Since its inception, Betontanc has travelled extensively, to four continents and over 70 cities, among them Krakov, New York and Lisbon.
+Prior to 1999, when the main producer of Betontanc became the [[Bunker Institute]], the group, comprising musicians, dancers, actors, and costume and stage designers, regularly collaborated with the [[Glej Theatre]], which co-produced its first 6 performances. The group's unique sensibility for and approach to the performing body, often evoking infantile, ridiculous, brutal, and violent traits of human nature, became soon recognised at home and abroad. The group's third production, ''Every Word a Gold Coin’s Worth'' [Za vsako besedo cekin] (1992), co-produced by [[Glej Theatre]] won the Grand Prix de Bagnolet of 1992.
+Betontanc's more recent performances include the politically engaged ''Everybody for Berlusconi'' (2004), which premièred in the Netherlands and was co-produced by Jonghollandia, ''Dance or Die'' (2007), co-produced by [[Mladinsko Theatre]], which by evoking the images from well know fairy tales and the story by E. A. Poe posed the question whether dance might be the greatest revenge for human laziness and mass stupidity, ''Show Your Face'' (2006), created by Betontanc and the Latvian artistic collective Umka.LV and co-produced by New Theatre Institute of Latvia, ''Run for Love'', which premièred in Festival d’Aurillac, France, which took as its starting point the reinterpretation of the famous scene on the Odessa steps from the Einstein's movie ''Battleship Potemkin'' but focused not on the scene of panic itself but on the space of transition between the past and the future, the moment when life is concentrated on one moment, the moment of extreme urgency, of danger and hope for survival, run toward life and love. The performance was co-produced by Festival Excentrique, Liexpublics, and In Situ, the European platform for the production of street arts, supported by the European Culture 2000 Programme. Betontanc's latest production ''Maybe We Are Mickey Mouse'' [Možda smo mi Miki Maus] (2009), based on the play by the Serbian playwright Maja Pelević and produced by National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia, [[Bunker Institute]], and Sterijino pozorje Novi Sad, Serbia, innovatively contemplates an individual in the world of today, who stands perplexed in the face of absence of morality, love, tolerance, and any standard of value.
+Since its inception, Betontanc has travelled extensively, to four continents and over 70 cities, among them Krakow, New York, and Lisbon.
+==See also==
+* [[Glej Theatre]]
+* [[Bunker Institute]]
 ==External links==
 * [http://www.bunker.si/eng/production/betontanc Betontanc web page]
 * [http://www.bunker.si/eng/ Bunker Institute website]
 [[Category:Theatre groups]]

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