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Vitkar is a non-profit cultural institute, founded in 1995 by the dancer and choreographer Branko Potočan with the aim to produce and present dance performances and to organise dance workshops and other performing arts education programmes. The institute primarily produces performances of the physical theatre group Fourklor, which in its latest productions increasingly approaches the genre of contemporary circus. In December 2009 Vitkar Institute presented its most recent production of the physical theatre group Fourklor On the Other Side of a Jesting Look [Na drugi strani nagajivega pogleda], choreographed by Potočan, which attempted to investigate the place where theatre reveals and deconstructs itself.

The performances of the group Fourklor are characterised by detailed choreography with humorous details, skilful and playful use of stage props and smooth natural movement passages. The most notable productions of Vitkar to date include: Do I Dream the Memory, or Do I Remember the Dream [Sanjam spomin, a se spominjam sanj] (1996), for which Potočan received the Golden Bird Award as well as the award for best performance at the 1997 Infant Festival in Novi Sad, Melancholic Thoughts [Melanholične misli] (1998), which received a special jury award at the International Theatre Festival MESS Sarajevo 1998, The Doors [Vrata] (2000), Pedestrian Zone [Območje za pešce] (2004), and Rusty Trumpets [Zarjavele trobente] (2005), which won the audience award for best performance at the 2007 edition of Gibanica. Vitkar also produces dance, theatre, and multimedia projects by other authors, such as Tina Janežič, Gregor Luštek, Rosana Hribar, Jana Menger, etc.

Vitkar has toured Fourklor productions widely, both at home and abroad. Its shows have appeared at the Mediterranean Festival of Young Artists in Turin, the Summer Festival in Kranj, the Belgrade Summer Festival, the Junge Hunde Festival in Antwerp, the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Ljubljana, the Skopje Summer Festival, and the Primorska Summer Festival in Koper.

Since 2001 Vitkar has run educational programmes dedicated to contemporary circus art, a form almost unknown in the Slovene context, with circus workshops led by Bruno Kief (rope, tissue, trapeze), Volodia Lesluin (rope, tissue), and Mitja Samardija (acrobatics). Besides offering periodical professional training in contemporary dance, Vitkar also organised contemporary dance workshops led by Rebbeca (contact improvisation), Frey Faust (axis syllabus technique, contact improvisation), and Erik Kaeil (contact improvisation).

In 2003 Vitkar launched the annual international Red Beats! Festival [festival Rdeči revirji], which is held in a small Slovene mine town Hrastnik and offers a wide range of dance and theatre performances, presented in theatre and non-theatrical contexts.

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