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Performance "Loveme!" by Mc Fois (ITA), capturing the true spirit of Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2014

Formally organised since 1998 by the Ana Monró Theatre, Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival is the biggest festival of street theatre and improvisation arts in Slovenia. Annually held at the beginning of summer in over 10 cities across Slovenia, the festival offers different street art genres and other performances by renowned and emerging practitioners.

Ana Monró Theatre also organises two further festivals, the autumn Ana Plamenita and the winter Ana Mraz festival.

Programme

Aiming to explore the nature of street interventions and to advocate for the free use of public space, the festival runs a diversified international programme of street arts related events, ranging from theatre, circus, and dance performances, live sculptures, site-specific and site-generic performances, installations to different workshops and initiatives for international cooperation. Offering ample opportunities to young practitioners, the festival supports the development of original theatre forms and encourages experimentation within the disciplines. Of the 250 to 400 artists who participate in the festival, 60 % are international guests who travel short and long distances from their countries to perform in Slovenia in front of an audience of around 40,000 people each year. Since 1996, part of the festival's programme also appears at Lent Festival in Maribor.

Ana Desetnica regularly engages in international networking and co-production projects at the European level, through its participation in the projects Circostrada, Eunetstar, and Meridians, whose combined member organisations represent over 30 countries, thus offering opportunities to Slovene practitioners to tour abroad and share their knowledge and expertise of the field.

Ana Destnica Festival has recently launched an award for outstanding achievements in street theatre, called urbANA ljubljANA in partnership with Mirabilia Circus & Performing Arts Festival.

Ana Mraz and Ana Plamenita

Ana Monró Theatre organises performances and other street art related events also during the winter holiday season. In the frame of Ana Mraz (in English: Ana Frost) it presents its newest productions in the Ljubljana city centre just before New Year's, and also invites different domestic and international groups and authors. In 2009, the events were held at the Shoemaker's Bridge and were co-organised with the Ljubljana Tourist Board, offering performances by the dancers Jurij Konjar and Katjuša Kovačič, a circus performance by Frateli Probankini (Cro/Slo), a show by the French Benjamin Delams, and others.

In December 2009, Ana Monró Theatre launched the festival Ana Plamenita (in English: Ana Blaze), within which it organised an international workshop of fire decoration with the Belgian artists Gust Van der Krieken, in co-operation with the Slovene Voluntariat, which is part of the organisation Service Civil International (SCI). The participants from Spain, Russia, Serbia, Hungary, Finland, Germany, and Taiwan prepared fire sculptures, fire installations, and a torch procession to the Ljubljana Castle.

External links

Ana Desetnica Festival at Ana Monró Theatre website (in Slovenian)

International cooperation networks and projects

Gallery

eVenti Verticali performing Wanted on the Cankarjev dom facade. Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

eVenti Verticali performing "Wanted" on the Cankarjev dom facade as part of Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

Performance "Loveme!" by Mc Fois (ITA), capturing the true spirit of Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2014

Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2011

Czech Amanitas Fire Theatre, performing Alice as part of Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival in front of the KUD France Prešeren, 2014

A scene from the Ana Plamenita, a one day festival of fire, organised by Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

Ana Plamenita, a short festival of fire. An autumn version of Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

Ana Plamenita, a one day festival of fire, organised in autumn by Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

A scene from one day festival of fire called Ana Plamenita, organised by Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2013

The Ana Mraz (Ana Frost) festival is – in a way – the winter edition of the Ana Desetnica Street Theatre Festival. Held across Slovenia and co-organised by various producers, the House! Society takes care of it in Maribor, 2017.

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-==Programme and locations==
+==Programme==
-The festival takes place in Ljubljana but also presents individual works in other Slovene cities including Kranj, Nova Gorica, Celje, Vrhnika, Novo mesto, Kamnik, Grosuplje. Since 1996, part of the festival's programme also appears at [[Lent Festival]] in Maribor. The programme seeks to present various genres, styles, forms and contents of street theatre art, and includes everything from small individual acts to large-scale performances, from programmes for children to provocative shows for adults, from pantomime to illusions, from street music to contemporary dance, from visual acts to narratives, from drama to humour, and from circus skills to pyrotechnics, which attract a wide range of audience groups. Of the 250 to 400 artists who participate in the festival, 60 % are international guests who travel short and long distances from their countries to perform in Slovenia.
+Aiming to explore the nature of street interventions and to advocate for the free use of public space, the festival runs a diversified international programme of street arts related events, ranging from theatre, circus, and dance performances, live sculptures, site-specific and site-generic performances, installations to different workshops and initiatives for international cooperation. Offering ample opportunities to young practitioners, the festival supports the development of original theatre forms and encourages experimentation within the disciplines. Of the 250 to 400 artists who participate in the festival, 60 % are international guests who travel short and long distances from their countries to perform in Slovenia in front of an audience of around 40,000 people each year. Since 1996, part of the festival's programme also appears at [[Lent Festival]] in Maribor.
+Ana Desetnica regularly engages in international networking and co-production projects at the European level, through its participation in the projects ''Circostrada'', ''Eunetstar'', and ''Meridians'', whose combined member organisations represent over 30 countries, thus offering opportunities to Slovene practitioners to tour abroad and share their knowledge and expertise of the field.
+Ana Destnica Festival has recently launched an award for outstanding achievements in street theatre, called urbANA ljubljANA in partnership with Mirabilia Circus & Performing Arts Festival.
-The 2009 festival presented over 70 performances at various venues in the Ljubljana city centre. The programme hosted several domestic and foreign street theatre groups and artists. The opening day presented a performance by ''Circus Kansky'' at Park Argentina, where a tent was set up where a number of workshops, performances, and a bazaar were held. The programme included also a magnificent procession of the French group ''Malabar'', a pyrotechnic/water show by the German ''Baengditos'', several productions of [[Ana Monró Theatre]], the French ''Les Goulus'', the international project H2O by the German ''Antagon'', a performance by the Bulgarian Plovdiv Drama Theatre, an event organised by the [[Association of Puppeteers]], and a miniature by Jaap Slagman. The MachinA programme, an education programme led by Ana Monró Theatre, presented a selection of the youngest Slovene street theatre groups, some of the shows were premières. The festival also offered performances from Kyrgyzstan, India, Italy, Argentina, and the Netherlands. It concluded with a ''Feast Poljane'' that included street art performances, presentations of the local community, and an international procession ''Light-Luce''.
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 In December 2009, [[Ana Monró Theatre]] launched the festival Ana Plamenita (in English: Ana Blaze), within which it organised an international workshop of fire decoration with the Belgian artists Gust Van der Krieken, in co-operation with the Slovene ''Voluntariat'', which is part of the organisation Service Civil International (SCI). The participants from Spain, Russia, Serbia, Hungary, Finland, Germany, and Taiwan prepared fire sculptures, fire installations, and a torch procession to the [[Ljubljana Castle]].
-==International cooperation==
-Ana Desetnica has been involved in several international networking and co-production projects at the European level, through its participation in the projects ''Eunetstar'' (European Network Street Arts Project 2003-2006), ''Circostrada'' and ''Meridians'', whose combined member organisations represent over 20 countries.
-Through Ana Desetnica Festival, numerous street theatre productions have had the opportunity to tour abroad, including the Slovene groups [[Grejpfrut]] (UK), [[The Stroj]] (UK), [[Ana Monró Theatre]] (AT, BE, DE, IT, NL, PL, UK) and other groups like Mr. Pejo's Wandering Dolls from Russia (IT, BE), Senmaru from Japan (UK), Makadam Piano from France (HR), Makadam Kanibal from France (HR), Bike Boy from Australia (AT), Teater Kvelb from Czech Republic (NL)).
-The Artistic Director of Ana Desetnica Festival, [[Goro Osojnik]], is regularly invited to represent the festival throughout Europe by serving on artistic juries, lecturing at events, and sharing his knowledge and expertise of the field and the artistic genre of street theatre.
 ==See also==

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Ana Mraz and Ana Plamenita

See also

External links

International cooperation networks and projects

Gallery

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