The project Pre-Premiere – evening of young dancers of the Pre-School Education and Grammar School Ljubljana, module contemporary dance – is an event that takes place every year since 2003 in the frame of school activities and presents the final presentation of students and graduates of the school.

Taking up the various meanings of the word, the performance sketch Marzipan or Plexi by Marijs Boulogne tells of the friendship of a pregnant girl with a mermaid, of the life of sea creatures in a gigantic deep-sea aquarium and of desires, symbiosis and sexuality.

Performance researches, investigates and formulates a language of two authors with different formal backgrounds and experiences. The process and the product centre on the intimacy created in this particular encounter.

In his solo performance Sad Sam Almost 6 Matija Ferlin wants to investigate a mind of a child that is not conditioned by anything, not even by his own existence. While growing up, the conscience of the existence creates numerous “terrorizing” facts that are results of social conditions and constraints.

The Republic or Bon Voyage Greta Garbo is a testing ground of desire. The body follows its own interests, tailors its identities, solves the consequences of rejections and searches for a space to express the repressed.

The starting points of the performance are expressionist piano compositions, full of fragments and complex dynamics, entitled Bagatelles, by Slovene composer Marij Kogoj. Besides Kogoj, the performance is informed by another avantgarde creator, the theatre director Ferdo Delak and his project Serata artistica giovanile, which he understood as »the chorographical sketch of a life on stage«.

The project Pre-Premiere – evening of young dancers of the Pre-School Education and Grammar School Ljubljana, module contemporary dance – is an event that takes place every year since 2003 in the frame of school activities and presents the final presentation of students and graduates of the school.

The main story is focusing on the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood and its interpretation of Bruno Betlehaim. Political and sexual aspects are the main research venues in the project.

A dance piece based on the pleasure of the physical and moving is conditioned by the quasi-institutional status of contemporary dance in Slovenia. Seven pperformers participate in the process of exploring the coexistence of various types of personal engagement, as well as various kinds of aspiration of the contemporary dance corpus.