Hundred Toasts

Cheers to those on the left, those on the right and those stuck in the middle.

Hundred Toasts is a celebration. We toast the remarkable people, events or natural phenomena that have shaped our past and our present. Some we toast with ‘thank you’, others with ‘fuck off’, but either way it is a great pleasure. To all of us who still believe in the future, and to all of us who have long since given up on politics, art, philosophy and religion. To all those who are with us and those who are against us. To all those who are ahead of us and those who are behind us. To all those on the left and on the right and to all those stuck in the middle. To those who connect us and those who judge us. To all those who praise us; to all those who can no longer stand us; to all those who patiently endure our artistic experiments; and to all the guardians of normality who look away in disdain. Cheers to all!

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Photo: Marcandrea

Hundred Toasts

2015 • Irresolvable
Interactive performance • 50 min

Concept and text — Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec
Direction — Bojan Jablanovec
Choreography and performance — Anita Wach
Producer — Špela Trošt
Production — Via Negativa
Co-production — Festival Maat Lublin, Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne Warsaw

Music used in the performance: Glenn Miller – Moonlight Serenade, Michael Nyman – 1-100, Iggy & The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog, Glenn Miller – Adios, Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata (Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici), Alfred Schnittke – Story of an unknown actor, op. 125 – IV

For each performance, the authors write new toasts or adapt existing ones to reflect the cultural or political context of the festival, exhibition or venue to which we are toasting. So far, our sources of inspiration have included Tadeusz Kantor, France Prešeren, Dante Alighieri, George Washington, Josip Broz Tito, Jarosław Kaczyński, Covid 19, Jerzy Grotowski, etc.