Glej,
A thread without end, Act IV

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About the performance

A thread without end, Act IV is the latest performance in Čavić’s ever evolving and potentially never-ending performance storytelling cycle A thread without end, in which a mythopoetic creation story about two archetypal characters, a woman and an anthropomorphic fox, unravels across four discrete performances to date (Act I-IV), like a thread without an end. A thread without end, Act IV will premiere at Glej Theatre, alongside the entire cycle to date, on 13^th of December 2023, with repeat presentations on the 14^th and 15^th of December 2023.

Čavić’s “visual performance storytelling” is a contemporary interpretation of cantastoria, a traditional theatrical storytelling style in which the performer tells a story while pointing to a visual aid that both illustrates the narrative and prompts the performance by serving as a mnemonic device – a ‘story map’. In each act of A thread without end Čavić similarly uses visual aids to guide the audience through four different story maps: an analogue large-format hand-painted scroll (Act I), a digitally enhanced graphite drawing in the shape of a large, tiled map (Act II), a digitally augmented paper-cut theatre (Act III), and a set of folding hand fans (Act IV). At the same time, Čavić turns towards new, digitally augmented storytelling possibilities. In Act II and Act III, she re-images digital technologies as an extension and enhancement of her performances by introducing digital soundscapes triggered by touch and gesture.

Through “theatrical poeticization”[i] Čavić conjures sumptuous visual scenes alongside her verse stories, to immerse audiences in her theatrical audio-visual storytelling performances.

 

[i] Zumthor, P. (1990) Oral Poetry: An Introduction, trans. K. Murphy-Judy, intro. W. J. Ong, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 39.

Credits

Act I
Author: Ana Čavić

Act II
Author: Ana Čavić
Software and Sound Design: Tychonas Michailidis
Support: SARDAM, International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival

Act III
Author: Ana Čavić
Software and Sound Design: Tychonas Michailidis
Producer: Sektor Institute
Co-producer: DUM Association
Support: City of Ljubljana

Act IV
Author: Ana Čavić
Technical support: Žan Rantaša
Production support: Barbara Poček
Producer: Sektor Institute
Co-producer: Glej Theatre
Support: City of Ljubljana