Slovenia: OVERVIEW: Performing arts documentation

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OVERVIEW:

Introduction

Theatre

Puppetry

Modern and contemporary dance

Ballet and opera

Folkloric music and dance

Classical music

Jazz

Popular music

Performing arts training

Performing arts documentation

Sources used in this section

Performing arts documentation

Delak Performing Arts Research Centre has launched some website projects with accompanying CD-ROMs highlighting radical historical points of Slovene theatre. Its publication Kastracijski stroji ('Castration Machines') by Jana Pavlič and Boris Pintar is the only overview of NGO sector production.

A database of 40 independent theatre groups was published in the form of a calendar, and basic information on 50 non-institutional venues around Slovenia was collected by the Muzeum Institute within the Mobile Theatre Network pilot project. The project included the international conference 'Strategies for Establishing Distribution Networks for Independent Performing Arts in Central and Eastern Europe', and a book with reports from 17 countries was published in English.

In 2003 research for the White Book of independent theatre production was launched by the Association of Independent Arts and Culture NGOs and Freelancers with the support of the Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana.

Texts about the performing arts have been translated for years in the MGL Library Book Collection series, which, as of 2004, includesd 133 titles. AGRFT has a collection of around 31,500 books and 142,500 audio visual items. Some publications on the history of Slovene theatre as well as the Theatre Annual Survey have been published by the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. Finally, the Maska Institute publishes Maska Magazine and a range of books, which feature mostly contemporary performing arts theory by Slovene and foreign authors.

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