national premiere
direction: Martin Kocovski, Dean Damjanovski, Dejan Projkovski choreography: Olga Ponatext: Slobodan Šnajder project coordinator: Branko Brezovecset design: Tihomir Milovaclive music: Pizzicato Gypsy Brass Orkestar coproducers: Kampnagel - Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), MAG Culture&Experience (Bitola, Macedonia), Laboratorio Nove (Florence, Italy) and Ex Ponto, Kulturno drustvo B - 51 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) suported by EU Kultur 2000 and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa
A young generation of Macedonian directors, Martin Kocovski, Dejan Projkovski and Dean Damjanovski, collaborated with the internationally renowned Russian choreographer Olga Pona on staging a new, for this purpose commissioned play by Slobodan Šnajder which is focused primarily on the subconscious of communism rather than on its ideological sedimentations. An ensemble of 40 actors and dancers from Macedonia, Italy and Slovenia, together with a Gypsy brass orchestra, presents the episodes from Tito's life in powerful images which extract the essence of the time from 1918 to his death and onwards, until the fall of the Yugoslavian confederation. A performance with extensive scenic ideas, cubistic fractures and an extensive use of original source material, the chronology of the life of Tito is radically reordered; lyrical, tragic, epic and metaphysical phases provide a playful introduction to the status of the symbolic unity of society.Tito, Certain diagrams of desire describes the monstrous tension of historic deficits in an era when a state rises out of nothing. It describes heroic revolutionary times and the attempts and failures in reaching utopia. At the same time, the play does not shy away either from naming enormous costs to be paid for it, or from describing the revenge of the defeated ideas.
