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Bojan Jablanovec

A theatre director, founder and artistic director of the Via Negativa project . He graduated at Ljubljana Academy of Theater. From 1993 to 1999, he directed in most Slovenian theatres. From 1997 to 1999, he lectured as an assistant/trainee at Academy of Theatre Ljubljana. In 1999, he stopped directing in Slovenian repertory theatres and dedicated himself to theatre research. He mainly focuses on formation of a process, which effectively brings a performer to his authorial creation – so as to become a performing artist, who stands on stage with his own declaration, with his own body in meaning. In 2002 he founded Via Negativa, an international contemporary performing arts project. From 2002 until 2008, every year he and his co-creators focused on one of the seven deadly sins (wrath, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, envy, and pride), as a basic trigger for actions on stage and relationship to the audience. Jablanovec is above all interested in theatre as a medium of communication rather than aestheticization. Using a reduction as working method, he focuses on the relationship between the performer and the viewer, and on the question of the real in this relationship.

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