Sonny

Première: 6. 10. 2018, Stara mestna elektrarna
Running time 35 minutes.

Performance is followed by panel discussion.

Author and performer Nataša Živković
Performers Daniel Petković, Loup Abramovici, Slobodan Malić
Set designer Lenka Đorojević
Lighting designer and technical manager Špela Škulj
Photographer Nada Žgank
Consultant Teja Reba
Executive producer Eva Prodan

A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo.

Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon in performative form. It is an amazed fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or "virginas" from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of surviving in a man’s world asking us in what world we live.

Sonny! – a close relative lovingly calls me whenever I visit her in Montenegro. 

In the frame of Performing gender – Dance makes differences.
The project is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of RS and the Municipality of Ljubljana.