Difference between revisions of "Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station"

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Performance Trans-Plant by Luka Martin Škof and Nika Švab at Old Power Station, 2020. Author: Nada Žgank

Set in a former power plant, the aptly named Stara Elektrarna can be translated as the Old Power Station. One of the most important contemporary performing arts venues in Ljubljana, it is run by a non-governmental organisation, the Bunker Institute. The place is primarily used for theatre and dance performances, yet also frequently utilised as a rehearsal and residency space. Various workshops (ranging from cultural management to dance techniques), lectures, round tables, concerts and multimedia events also take place here.

Numerous Slovene festivals have been (or still are) hosted by Stara Elektrarna (in part or in their entirety), among them the Mladi levi Festival, the City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, the Gibanica (Moving Cake) Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art, MENT Ljubljana, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, and also the Lutke International Puppet Festival, etc.

Stara Elektrarna is included in the Transferzala project, a combined season ticket for 5 independent Ljubljana performing arts venues: besides Stara Elektrarna, also Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Španski borci Culture Centre, Glej Theatre and Vodnik Homestead.

The venue's foyer features a small museum displaying various pieces of now-defunct equipment from the old power station.

Audience at the Mladi levi Festival, Old Power Station. Author: Nada Žgank

The opening of the Mladi levi Festival in Old Power Station. Author: Nada Žgank

Venue

Type of venue: black-box theatre; main use: contemporary theatre, dance, music, multimedia events, rehearsal space, and workshops; seating: 300 seats total; performing area: 25m W x 15m D x 3.5m H to grid, floor suitable for dance; suspension equipment: overhead pipe grid for suspension of masking and lighting; forestage: dance floor; lighting: details on request; sound: details on request; stage equipment: details on request; backstage: 2 dressing rooms accommodating 15 persons total; climate control: air-conditioned.

Though leased to Bunker Institute, the place is still owned by Elektro Ljubljana (Enterprise for Distribution of Electric Energy, Co.).

External links

Old Power Station web page
Bunker Institute website
Transferzala website
Stara Elektrarna architecture – the history of the building from the Theatre Architecture in Central Europe web database

Gallery

Performance Trans-Plant by Luka Martin Škof and Nika Švab at Old Power Station, 2020. Author: Nada Žgank

AnimatekaPRO, Breakfast with authors at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2019.

Audiovisual Concert: Katalena Animated (Avdio-vizualni koncert: Animirana Katalena), Katalena concert at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Animateka Festival, 2009.

The Sleep (Cinema Fury 01), Caden Manson & Big Art Group, Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station during Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, 2009

Bare Naked Souls, by Dave St-Pierre at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station during Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, 2010

Press image for Bare Naked Souls, by Dave St-Pierre. Performed at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station during Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, 2010

Marcipan ali pleksi [Marzipan or plexi], contemporary dance production choreographed by Boulogne Marijs, premièring at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, produced by Emanat Institute 2009

Dark Matter by Kate Mcintosh, performed at Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2013

Lea Kukovič's project FORSALE, a conceptual artwork radicalizing the economics of theatre and providing an answer to the question of the value of theatre performances today, Old Power Station, 2021. Author: Nada Žgank

Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2006

Dance performance A Quick Story by Sanja Nešković Peršin and Branko Potočan, Bunker Institute production performed at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2004.

The Entrance to Syndicate Hall, Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2017.

The Old Power Station, Ljubljana, 2021.

The Old Power Station is one of the most important contemporary performing arts venues in Ljubljana.

The Old Power Station, Ljubljana, 2021.

The Old Power Station is one of the most important contemporary performing arts venues in Ljubljana.

Façade of the Old Power Station. Author: Nada Žgank

Old Power Station at night. Author: Nada Žgank

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-{{Wide Image|Mladi levi Festival - 04.JPG}}
+{{Wide Image|200610 TRANS-Plant 023 1foto.nada.zgank.jpg}}
-Set in a former power plant, the aptly named [[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station|Stara Elektrarna]] can be translated as "the Old Power Station". One of the most important contemporary performing arts venues in Ljubljana, it is run by a non-governmental organisation, the [[Bunker Institute]]. The place is primarily used for theatre and dance performances, yet also frequently utilised as a rehearsal and residency space. Various workshops (ranging from cultural management to dance techniques), lectures, round tables, concerts and multimedia events also take place here.
+Set in a former power plant, the aptly named Stara Elektrarna can be translated as the ''Old Power Station''. One of the most important contemporary performing arts venues in Ljubljana, it is run by a non-governmental organisation, the [[Bunker Institute]]. The place is primarily used for theatre and dance performances, yet also frequently utilised as a rehearsal and residency space. Various workshops (ranging from cultural management to dance techniques), lectures, round tables, concerts and multimedia events also take place here.
-Numerous Slovene festivals have been (or still are) hosted by Stara Elektrarna (in part or in their entirety), among them the [[Mladi levi Festival]], the [[City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts]], the [[Gibanica (Moving Cake) Festival of Slovene Dance|Gibanica Festival of Slovene Dance]], [[MENT Ljubljana]], the [[Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts]], and also the [[Lutke International Puppet Festival]], etc.
+Numerous Slovene festivals have been (or still are) hosted by Stara Elektrarna (in part or in their entirety), among them the [[Mladi levi Festival]], the [[City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts]], the [[Gibanica (Moving Cake) Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art]], [[MENT Ljubljana]], [[Animateka International Animated Film Festival]], and also the [[Lutke International Puppet Festival]], etc.
-Stara Elektrarna is included in the ''Transferzala'' project, a combined season ticket for 6 independent Ljubljana performing arts venues: besides Stara Elektrarna, also [[Dance Theatre Ljubljana]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], [[Mini Theatre]], [[Glej Theatre]]. and [[Vodnik Homestead]].
+Stara Elektrarna is included in the ''Transferzala'' project, a combined season ticket for 5 independent Ljubljana performing arts venues: besides Stara Elektrarna, also [[Dance Theatre Ljubljana]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], [[Glej Theatre]] and [[Vodnik Homestead]].
-The venue's foyer features a small museum displaying various pieces of now-defunct equipment from the old power station .
+The venue's foyer features a small museum displaying various pieces of now-defunct equipment from the old power station.
-}}
-{{TeaserSlo|Stara mestna elektrarna je eno najpomembnejših prizorišč sodobne uprizoritvene umetnosti v Ljubljani.}}
-==Background==
+{{Image|Foto Nada Žgank publika Mladi levi IvoDimchev P project 001.jpg}}
-Protected as immovable cultural heritage of Slovenia, the brick building itself was built in 1898 as Ljubljana's first power plant. When its technology became obsolete in the 1940s, it stopped its operations, but it became modernised in the 1960s and from then onwards the place still produces some of the city's electricity.
+{{Image|160819 Mladi levi otvoritev 039foto.nada.zgank.jpg}}
-However, in the mid-1980s the potential of the old industrial architecture was already being discovered by alternative artists. [[Ema Kugler|Ema Kugler's]] ''Mankurt I'' opened the space as a performance venue and during the 1990s several site-specific performances, for example, Enrique Vargas's piece, were staged here.
+}}
-During the 1990s, it came about that the city of Ljubljana lacked performing arts rehearsal spaces and the building was originally planned as a space for rehearsals. In 1998, the [[Ministry of Culture]] began the renovation works and in [[established::2004]] (together with the [[Ljubljana Urban Municipality]]) made it available for the independent performing arts scene. Following an open call for NGOs to run the space, the contract went to [[Bunker Institute]].
 ==Venue==
-Type of venue: black-box theatre; main use: contemporary theatre, dance, music, multimedia events, rehearsal space and space for workshops; seating: 300 seats total; performing area: 25m W x 15m D x 3.5m H to grid, floor suitable for dance; suspension equipment: overhead pipe grid for suspension of masking and lighting; forestage: dance floor; lighting: details on request; sound: details on request; stage equipment: details on request; backstage: 2 dressing rooms accommodating 15 persons total; climate control: air-conditioned.
+Type of venue: black-box theatre; main use: contemporary theatre, dance, music, multimedia events, rehearsal space, and workshops; seating: 300 seats total; performing area: 25m W x 15m D x 3.5m H to grid, floor suitable for dance; suspension equipment: overhead pipe grid for suspension of masking and lighting; forestage: dance floor; lighting: details on request; sound: details on request; stage equipment: details on request; backstage: 2 dressing rooms accommodating 15 persons total; climate control: air-conditioned.
-Though leased to Bunker, the place is still owned by Elektro Ljubljana (Enterprise for Distribution of Electric Energy, Co.).
-{{Wide Image|Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station - 03.JPG}}
+Though leased to [[Bunker Institute]], the place is still owned by Elektro Ljubljana (Enterprise for Distribution of Electric Energy, Co.).
 == See also ==

Difference between revisions of "Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station"

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