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july 2010
call for application
good questions club

a new clubbing cycle has arrived! hop.la! is inviting local youth to apply for
"good questions club" - programme of participative art for those who likes
to (be) ask(ed), and want to discover how the questions can be posed
through various art forms. programme will begin in 15th of september,
and it will be organized every saturday till 5th of december 2010.

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june 2010
appetite
in the palace

"appetite" by irena ristic has been selected for the international short film festival "in the palace", balchik, bulgaria. it will be presented in 24th of june at 7 p.m.
as a part of official festival selection.

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april 2010
award for experimental film
appetite

"appetite" by irena ristic has awarded the golden medal for best experimental film at 57th documentary and short film festival in belgrade. we received the award in 3rd of april 2010. in terazije theatre within final festival evening.

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march 2010
hop.la! premiera
appetite

"appetite" is a short experimental film conceived as a continuation cross media project
"room of the little fears". it will be premiered in 31st of march 2010, at 5 p.m.
within 57th documentary and short film festival in belgrade.
main roles: milos paunovic & magda popovic, music signs ah.ahilej.

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march 2010
rex, belgrade
room of the little fears

a new cross media project "room of the little fears" by irena ristic will be repeated in 3rd of march in rex, belgrade. "room" has made as a result of specific experiment, in which the drama approach was combined with elements of sound installation and video duel.
be welcome to make reservation by e-mail hopla@hop-la.org.

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february 2010
new research results at eip XVI
process k

second part of the research project "process k" was presented at the scientific conference: empirical researches in psychology XVI, which was held in 5-6th february, at the faculty of philosophy in belgrade. "process k" is dedicated to examining the creative process in various artistic disciplines, and focused on the effect of extrinsic factors of control
in work of performing artists...

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december 2009
annual presentation
good questions club

annual presentation of participative art programme "good questions club" happened in december, the 5th 2009, in 6.30 p.m. in cultural centre "stari grad", belgrade. young people
from seven local high schools had opportunity to present the new artistic concepts that will be realized in selected public spaces, and also to perform their works which were arised
from drama and creative writing workshops.

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november 2009
hop.la! in slovenia
about violence

hop.la! production "about violence" after  titus andronicus, directed by Andjelka Nikolic,
was performed three times in slovenia from 28th of november to 3rd of december 2009,
on the stages of national theaters in celje, koper and nova gorica.

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october 2009
new hop.la! premiere
room of the little fears

hop.la! is happy to announce belgrade premiere of a new crossmedia project by irena ristic. "room of the little fears" happened in 22nd and 23rd of october in rex, belgrade, as a result of experiment in which drama approach was combined with elements of sound
installation and video duel. on the occasion of the premiere, hop.la! organized
an open discussion on the principles of crossmedia intersection
in contemporary art practice.

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august 2009
hop.la! & igft published
theater in times of war

the documentation of the symposium a third space - theater in times of war,
that took place in brunnen:passage, vienna, was published by hop.la! and the igft
in august 2009. at this conference gathering artists and theater experts from different parts of europe and the middle east held open discussions about the subject of `theatre in times
of war` and shared opinions and experiences, clarified matters from different perspectives and took aesthetic choices and approaches into consideration. the articles, reports,
and commentaries contained within this edition represent the reflections and
responses of artists, and theorists, to this meeting. >>

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july 2009
call for participation
good questions club

within hop.act programme, hop.la! launched "good questions club" for local youth who likes to (be) ask(ed), and want to discover how the questions can be posed through various art forms. programme will be organized in cultural centre "stari grad", every saturday from september the 15th till december the 5th 2009.

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june 2009
first research results at "psi#15" u zagreb
process k

hop.la! launched a research project of creative process in different art disciplines.
„process k“  has focused on the role of context onto development of artistic ideas,
especially on the effects of extrinsic control factors. results of first experiment were presented at the conference "psi#15" (performance studies international)
which was held from 24th to 28th of june 2009.

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february 2009
about violence
at 54th sterijino pozorje festival

last hop.la! production "about violence" has selected for 54th sterijino pozorje festival
the selectors v. kopicl and igor buric emphisized that "esseistically modified with the title,
but exemplarily dramatic, titus andronicus seems powerful, pure, clear, topical, not losing anything from its shakespearean internal potential/controversies and managing to overcome them, take them apart, balance them without reconciliation, and topically sharpen them by means of minimalist focusing on the significant. the young and uncompromising director with a big d in mind reduced it to a seeming theatrical poverty, tucked the cruelly stripped stage into a horror vacuum, into a web of actions and significations where the gestures of total-design, embryonic/expressive acting, musical voices calibrated to mimicry and everything from titus andronicus that has to be uttered are brilliantly bewitched into a unique silhouette of the very same mechanism of cruelty playing with us to this date, no matter how much it has technologically and otherwise developed throughout the centuries.  sharp, youthfully courageous and political, with an evidently dedicated collective effort of the entire ensemble to which this is the most impressive creative accomplishment in the current decade."

"about violence" will be performed in june 2nd 2009 in snp novi sad.

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december 2008
final presentation of hop.la! programme
pride and prejudices

final presentation of participative art programme "pride and prejudices" happened in december the 27th 2008 in 12 a.m. in cultural centre stari grad, belgrade. young people
from local high schools presented new artistic projects about different forms of prejudices which were arised from thematic laboratory.

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november 2008
belgrade premiere of new hop.la! production
about violence

hop.la! is happy to announce a belgrade premiere of new theatre performance "about violence" produced in cooperation with national theatre kikinda. the performance directed by andjelka nikolic and inspired of “titus andronicus” by william shakespeare, is planned for november the 1st 2008 in belgrade drama theatre.

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october 2008
cooperation of hop.la! and national theatre kikinda
about violence

for the first time, hop.la! established cooperation with national theatre kikinda. opening night of new theatre co-production "about violence" in kikinda, happened in october the 4th 2008.

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september 2008
hop.la! starts new youth programme
pride and prejudices

hop.la! initiates a new programme of participative art in collaboration with five high schools from belgrade. "pride and prejudices" targets the problem of prejudgement and radicalization of life manners of young people in belgrade, and consists of
thematic laboratory and new artistic initiatives within the schools.

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july 2008
opening night in slovenia
you haven`t forgotten, you just don`t remember anymore

opening night of the performance "you didn`t  forget, just don`t remember anymore" by simona semenič happened in july, the 11th in ajdovscina, slovenia, directed by andjelka nikolic. idea about new artistic project emerged in november 2007, as the result of
creative collaboration of glej theatre and hop.la! within
the festival »preglej na glas« in ljubljani.

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november 2007
hop.la! on the festival
pre glej na glas

festival of new drama “preglej na glas”, settled in ljubljana from november 25th to december 8th, included public readings of new plays written by young dramatists from ex-yu states, workshops and discussions relevant to the contemporary dramaturghy. during the
festival, andjelka nikolic directed public reading of play “nisi pozabila
samo ne spomniš se več” by simona semenič.

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september 2007
new hop.la! programme
me & you + something in between

me & you + something in between is experimental artistic programme which was realized from 24th to 28th of september within bitef poliphony 2007. it gathered nineteen participating artists from nine european countries and it was focused on artistic analysis of encounter in the context of actual social controversy... >>

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july 07
new hop.la! production
about violence

hop.la! started with preparation for new theatre production after “titus andronicus”
by william shakespeare. performance is directed by andjelka nikolic and
premiere is planned for season 2008/09 >>

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june 07
me and you+something in between
september 24-28, 2007, belgrade, serbia

hop.la! is pleased to announce call for applications to the new interactive program
which will take place in belgrade, serbia  from 24th to 28th september  2007. 
as part of  bitef polifonija 2007. for full instruction, click here.

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may 2007
eon meeting in brescia. italy

second eon meeting (european off network) was organized from 9th to 13th may 2007. in
brescia, italy with participation of almost 130 members organizations. due to support of
ikos festival, hop.la! had opportunity to attend the meeting.

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january 2007. 
new hop.la! production
i am my own wife

new hop.la! production i am my own wife is based on the play of doug wright, winner of the
pulitzer and tony award for 2004. premiere happened in january 18th 2007
in gallery progress, belgrade. performed by slobodan bestic,
directed by andjelka nikolic.

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september 2006.
opening night of saga in center for cultural decontamination belgrade

premier of performance saga directed by irena ristic happened in september the
1st 2006. in 8 p.m. with janos bus, milos timotijevic and ljiljana tasic in main roles.
cameo ah.ahilej

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june 2006.
stefan demming visited hop.la!

a working visit of visual artist stefan demming /berlin, germany/ is arranged within the
preparations for the realization of the performance i am my own wife. stefan stayed in
belgrade for seven days, during july 2006. the visit has supported by stepbeyond
programme of european cultural foundation and hop.la!

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may 2006.
collaboration of hop.la! and festival refract

the guest-performance of obdukcija.rigor mortis in the national theater
"tosa jovanovic" in zrenjanin took place as a part of official programme of the festival
of alternative culture. refract 06. this was the seventh repetition of obdukcija, and
the first collaboration of hop.la! with refract festival.

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february 2006.
hop.la! on the festival in alexandria

performance obdukcija.rigor mortis participated in the official sellection of third
creative forum of independant theater groups in alexandria, egypt (www.iact-eg.org) .

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