KALEJDOSKOP
MANIFESTACIJA
UMETNIŠKEGA
IZRAŽANJA
18.
KALEJDOSKOP
18 _ A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
KRANJ
LJUBLJANA
18. JUNE
19. JUNE
20. JUNE
Admission is free, except for two (2) performances – check individual events for details. However, you can make a “donation for inspiration” at the location if you wish.
2
5
8
17
LOCATIONS
DAYS
VENUES
PERFORMANCES
The 18th Kalejdoskop Festival.
Coming of age—and still playful!
Each turn of a kaleidoscope reveals a different image.
Fragments of bodies, sounds, glances.
From near and far.
From what’s just arising—and what’s already fading.
The Kalejdoskop festival is not a single story. It is a constellation of tiny worlds, caught in the same light for a brief moment.
A place where art is not being explained—it just happens.
Where a movement finds a voice, a sound finds a body, and people find one another.
Softly, yet persistently, we have been here for eighteen years because such encounters matter. Small, but open; fragile, but alive—the Kalejdoskop Festival remains, to this day, the only festival of its kind in the Gorenjska region.
It is a place of encounters—by locals and visitors.
Languages mingle. Bodies speak.
And for a moment, we become a community that breathes to the same rhythm.
It might make you feel perplexed.
But perhaps it stirs a feeling.
And that’s plenty.
Thank you for being here.
Welcome to The Kalejdoskop Festival.
Aleksandra Saša Lončar
KRANJ
Friday, 5. June
Saturday, 6. June
17.00 _ Gibotron
Solo dance miniatures by dancers from Slovenian schools, associations, and institutes.
Participating: KD Qulenium, KUD Qulenium, Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture Ljubljana, and guests from Dance Studio Intakt, Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana, KID Plesonoga Cerknica, Epicenter Ljubljana, KUGA Studio, and Naomi Uma Zorman.
Stolp Škrlovec
19.00 _ The Volume of Memory (performance)
The Volume of Memory is a solo performance in which the body reveals itself as a living interface between the individual and the world. Through movement, voice, and presence, the artist is opening a space of bodily memory and the unconscious, where the solid merges with the fluid, and form dissolves into flow.
In the conversation among the body, space, and sound, a living relational structure emerges—a space that breathes, listens, and remembers.
After seven years, Tina Valentan returns to the stage with a solo she describes as a personal initiation and an invitation for the audience to enter the architecture of movement, sound, and memory.
Author and performer Tina Valentan
Sound design Tomaž Tomljanović
Lighting design Urška Vohar
Kostumografija Tomaž Tomljanović
Grafično oblikovanje Megajver
Produkcija Tina Valentan
Koprodukcija NAGIB Maribor (za NAGIB: Petra Hazabent), MKC Maribor, DUM – Društvo umetnikov
Partnerji LGM, Plesna izba Maribor
Finančna podpora Ministrstvo za kulturo RS – dvoletni avtorski projekt, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Mestna občina Maribor
Zahvale Mateja Bučar, Jasmina Križaj, Igor Dobričić, Diskolektiv, Jaka Bombač
Trainstation
20.30 _ The Slovenian Long-Distance Trail
Discussing identity, belonging, and shared values, this original performance combines a personal testimony, social reflection, and humour. Through a blend of physical, verbal, and emotional expression, the audience is invited to explore the relationship between the individual and the community.
Concept, text and performance Rok Kravanja
Performance dramaturgy Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc
Lighting design Špela Škulj
Production Via Negativa, Moment Maribor
Co-production Zavod Odprti predali Kranj
Support Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, MOL, MOM
Created within VN Lab (2023), PARL (2023)
Awards
- The Golden Lion for Original Project—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- The Golden Lion for Best Performance by Audience Choice—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- ZIZ Festival, Maribor, 2024; Performance Award
Trainstation
22.30 _ Concert ŠIROM
Arriving from Prekmurje, Tolmin, and Karst regions, the Širom trio is a tapestry of diverse musical approaches, sonic histories, and hand-crafted musical imagination. Drawing from a wide range of influences and instruments, the trio creates a distinctive, recognisable style stretching between folk resonances and contemporary acoustic meditations.
Their music is grounded yet mystical—contemplative, noisy at times, more band- than chamber-like, more street than urban.
Musicians Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin, Ana KravanjaAdmission fee 12 EUR presale, 15 EUR at doors. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
10.00 _ Interrelations (site-specific performance)
Transcending the boundaries of traditional dance, transforming public spaces into dynamic canvases of movement and artistic expression, Interrelations is an outdoor, site-specific performance, a partly improvised work that can unfold anywhere—an outdoor public space becomes a stage—seamlessly integrating the performers’ movements with their surroundings and bringing art into everyday environments.
At its core, the piece traces the subtle and shifts relationships between two bodies in motion. Movements unfold through listening—the dancers drift through cycles of connection and separation, carried by gravity, momentum, and impulse. It is a fragile architecture of trust, tension, and shared timing, where each moment dissolves into the next.
Breathing life into public spaces, transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary interplay of interwoven stories, set against the backdrop of the surrounding world, Interrelations invites the audience to witness the beauty of movement.
The Niki&Martin Duo is an artistic partnership founded in 2019 by Nikola Majtanova (SVK) and Marcin Denkiewicz (PL), established during their studies of contemporary dance at ABU in Linz. They specialise in performing and visual arts, with a strong emphasis on contemporary dance partnering.
Their work spans dance, photography, film, and theatre across Europe, Asia, and the US. Reflecting their commitment to highly physical work that merges dance and physical theatre, they have collaborated with institutions and artists such as La Galerie Choreographique, Body Architects, Wiener Staatsoper, Editta Braun Company, LajaMartin Company, Paul Blackman (Jukstapoz), and Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). Moreover, they explore the intersection of dance and film through independent choreographic works. Their project Interrelations brings performance into public and site-specific spaces, while their ongoing theatre piece Forthcoming has been developed and performed across Austria several times since 2023.
Alongside their artistic work, they teach both dancers and non-dancers, focusing on partner technique and exploring physical principles such as weight, gravity, and momentum.
https://vimeo.com/846215581?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Music Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (remix) Xavier Weydert-Heterodyne
Staro mestno jedro
10.30 _ Prelude for a fan (performance)
A “Prelude for a Fan” is a performance that questions the relationship between the natural and the artificial, revealing beauty as a product of cultural, economic, and media mechanisms. It shows the body as a site of production and perception, where a subject is confronted with their own image and its representations. The work highlights the tension between individual experience and the normative structures that shape our understanding of beauty. Here, beauty does not emerge as a harmonious whole, but as a paradoxical field where attraction and resistance, fascination and alienation intertwine. The performance thus seeks to destabilise the taken-for-granted nature of aesthetic ideals.
Author, choreography, performance Jernej Šmid
Mentor Fernando Belfiore
SNDO - School for New Dance Development Amsterdam
Plečnikove stopnice
12.00 _ A Sound Journey
This interactive musical and physical journey is not intended solely for children; it invites each visitor into a deep experiential encounter and on a sensory voyage. Intertwining sound, movement, and multisensory perception, the project establishes a space for imagination, mindfulness, and creativity.
The visitor becomes a co-creator of the event, where experience encourages emotional awareness, empathy, and personal interpretation of the artistic space.
Dance group DROBIŽI - Sara Bernik, Lena Bizovičar, Tara Kruševac
Hafnar, Anika Lončar, Živa Podlipnik, Lorena
Verčič Prado, Veronika Manca Šumrada
Dance group ŽUŽE - Živa Bizovičar, Mila Košir Hafner, Isa Svete
Černelič, Jakob Štular, Ajda Zaletel
Dance group QARS - Zarja Broder, Ajda Isa Bučevec, Mina
Lenardič, Katja Kušar Lončar, Eva Pirnat,
Pina Savnik, Zarja Tepina
Concept and dramaturgy Staša Prah
Musicians, sound-bath practitioners and magical creators Karolina Travnikar in Kris Tjansen
Guest musician Klemen Orešnik
Choreographer and dancer Ana Romih
Kostumografija Tina Pavlin
Fotografija Matija Lukić
Produkcija KUD Qulenium Ljubljana
Oblikovanje svetlobe Leon Bedjanič
Koprodukcija Pioniski teater in KD Qulenium Kranj
Sofinacirano s strani Mestne občine Ljubljana – oddelek za kulturo
Stolp Škrlovec
18.00 _ The Asymmetry of an Embrace (installation)
The artist explores the meaning of gesture, touch, and collective space through international and intergenerational collaboration. An embrace becomes a key tool for questioning relationships, presence, community, and performativity. In the author's eyes, it is a fundamental, elemental gesture deeply rooted in human experience.
The work brings together professional artists, young dancers, and a group of elderly participants, creating a unique transgenerational dialogue.
Author and choreographer Snježana Premuš
Original cast Tina Benko, Ema Križič, Anja Mejač, Snježana Premuš, Tini Rozman
Gostje Dragana Alfirević, Jaka Bombač, Nina Meško, Marjeta Kamnikar
Češnjev vrt
19.00 _ The Calendar (a synthesis performance of the trilogy Allegories)
The scenes in The Calendar are based on two principles that also form the thematic cycles of the Fontana Maggiore in the city of Perugia: the practical arts (Artes Mechanicae) and the liberal arts (Artes Liberales), complemented by astrological signs. The performance does not attempt to encompass the entire iconographic opus of the relief panels of the fountain; instead, it focuses on a perspective that captures the content from a specific point of view.
Direction and visual concept Barbara Novakovič
Zasedba Urša Vidmar
Strokovna sodelavca Helena Pivec, Marijan Rupert
Oblikovanje svetlobe Andrej Petrovčič
Glasba Gal Škrjanec Skaberne
Fotografija Andrej Lamut, Mare Mutić
Izdelava scenskega elementa Marko Udvanc
Videodokumentacija Prodok Teater TV, Tone Stojko
Produkcija Muzeum Ljubljana
Koprodukcija Kino Šiška – Center urbane kulture, DUM – Društvo umetnikov
Podpora MOL, Oddelek za kulturo
Stolp Škrlovec
20.30 _ Rumble (dance performance)
A contemporary dance ritual of transformation drawing from Slavic mythology, personal experience, and physical embodiment. The performance is opening a space between life and death, the real and the symbolic, establishing a powerful relationship among body, sound, and space. The figure of the mythical character kurent appears as a symbol of transformation.
Author, choreographer, performer Beno Novak
Co-authors Urša Adamič (Dramaturgy), Elvis Homan (Music design), Borut Bučinel (Lighting design), Tina Pavlin (Costume design), Kristýna Peldová (Outside eye)
Production Dance Theatre Ljubljana
Trainstation
22.00 _ A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (music and visual performance)
The strongest emotions are not the ones we feel.
They are the ones we fail to recognise.
Emotions are not always expressed directly. At times, they settle in the body, the gaze, the voice, shaping our relationships long before we manage to understand them.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is an international performance that uses mask, music, and movement to explore unconscious emotional mechanisms—defence, control, fear of closeness, and the longing to belong. The mask does not conceal; it reveals, transforming a personal experience into a common one. A special energy emerges through the collaboration with Orchestre Jigeen Ñi from Senegal, the country’s first all-female instrumental ensemble, famous for blending West African rhythms with contemporary-stage expression.
Led by artist Inti Šraj, the project connects creators from Senegal and Europe, bringing up the question: how does society shape the way we feel—and the way we show it?
What if “the wolf” is not hiding at all, but simply trying to survive in a world it cannot recognise?
Author Inti Šraj
Performers & musicians Jigeen Ni orchestra ( Senegal)
Music Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design Borut Bučinel
Costume design Ixone Ormaeche Gabilondo in collaboration with the CFPO tailoring school in Dakar
Producer Nataša Zavolovšek
Production Exodos Ljubljana
Co‑production Exodos Ljubljana & Druga godba
Project partners Grand Théâtre Dakar, Mcu Dakar, The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Kuga studio.
www.exodosljubljana.si
Admission fee 10 EUR. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
KALEJDOSKOP
A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
18.
All information and support is available every day between 10h and 14h.
Festival Management
Festival Director and Artistic Director Aleksandra Saša Lončar
Executive Producer Beno Novak
Festival Coordination
Festival Coordinators Ana Romih, Tina Pavlin
Technical Production
Technical Director Darči Kruševac
Technical Team Mitja Kovačič
Programme
Programme Host Daniel Petković
Media Companion Zala Julija Kavčič, Nika Gradišek
PR and Marketing
Social Media Katja Kušar Lončar
Digital Marketing Numo, digital agency
Visual Identity of Kaleidoscope Denis Lončar
Photography
Andreja Lamut, Borut Bučinel, David Orešič, Mark Požep, Matija Lukić, Mila Fatut Škof, Nada Žganka, Rafael Bojar, Snežana Marcandrea, Sunčan Stone
The name "Festivals Kaleidoscope" is a protected trademark and intellectual property of the KD QULENIUM organization, therefore its use without the prior consent of the owner is prohibited.
Text Editing and Translation Lučka Lučovnik
Production and Logistics
Production KD Qulenium
Production Support
Catering Jalen s.p.
Partners and Support
Media Partner Gorenjski glas
Partners SUB Art; Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture; Carnica; ŠDKR
Co‑financing
Kalejdoskop is co‑financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Kranj.
Acknowledgements Krice krace
E-mail info@qulenium.org
Saša 041 273 482
Ana 031 003 098
Information and support
kalejdoskop18.qulenium.org
Kolofon
Kalejdoskop
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Detailed program
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KALEJDOSKOP
MANIFESTACIJA
UMETNIŠKEGA
IZRAŽANJA
18.
KALEJDOSKOP
18 _ A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
KRANJ
LJUBLJANA
18. JUNE
19. JUNE
20. JUNE
Admission is free, except for two (2) performances – check individual events for details. However, you can make a “donation for inspiration” at the location if you wish.
2
5
8
17
LOCATIONS
DAYS
VENUES
PERFORMANCES
The 18th Kalejdoskop Festival.
Coming of age—and still playful!
Each turn of a kaleidoscope reveals a different image.
Fragments of bodies, sounds, glances.
From near and far.
From what’s just arising—and what’s already fading.
The Kalejdoskop festival is not a single story. It is a constellation of tiny worlds, caught in the same light for a brief moment.
A place where art is not being explained—it just happens.
Where a movement finds a voice, a sound finds a body, and people find one another.
Softly, yet persistently, we have been here for eighteen years because such encounters matter. Small, but open; fragile, but alive—the Kalejdoskop Festival remains, to this day, the only festival of its kind in the Gorenjska region.
It is a place of encounters—by locals and visitors.
Languages mingle. Bodies speak.
And for a moment, we become a community that breathes to the same rhythm.
It might make you feel perplexed.
But perhaps it stirs a feeling.
And that’s plenty.
Thank you for being here.
Welcome to The Kalejdoskop Festival.
Aleksandra Saša Lončar
KRANJ
Friday, 5. June
Saturday, 6. June
17.00 _ Gibotron
Solo dance miniatures by dancers from Slovenian schools, associations, and institutes.
Participating: KD Qulenium, KUD Qulenium, Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture Ljubljana, and guests from Dance Studio Intakt, Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana, KID Plesonoga Cerknica, Epicenter Ljubljana, KUGA Studio, and Naomi Uma Zorman.
Stolp Škrlovec
19.00 _ The Volume of Memory (performance)
The Volume of Memory is a solo performance in which the body reveals itself as a living interface between the individual and the world. Through movement, voice, and presence, the artist is opening a space of bodily memory and the unconscious, where the solid merges with the fluid, and form dissolves into flow.
In the conversation among the body, space, and sound, a living relational structure emerges—a space that breathes, listens, and remembers.
After seven years, Tina Valentan returns to the stage with a solo she describes as a personal initiation and an invitation for the audience to enter the architecture of movement, sound, and memory.
Author and performer Tina Valentan
Sound design Tomaž Tomljanović
Lighting design Urška Vohar
Kostumografija Tomaž Tomljanović
Grafično oblikovanje Megajver
Produkcija Tina Valentan
Koprodukcija NAGIB Maribor (za NAGIB: Petra Hazabent), MKC Maribor, DUM – Društvo umetnikov
Partnerji LGM, Plesna izba Maribor
Finančna podpora Ministrstvo za kulturo RS – dvoletni avtorski projekt, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Mestna občina Maribor
Zahvale Mateja Bučar, Jasmina Križaj, Igor Dobričić, Diskolektiv, Jaka Bombač
Trainstation
20.30 _ The Slovenian Long-Distance Trail
Discussing identity, belonging, and shared values, this original performance combines a personal testimony, social reflection, and humour. Through a blend of physical, verbal, and emotional expression, the audience is invited to explore the relationship between the individual and the community.
Concept, text and performance Rok Kravanja
Performance dramaturgy Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc
Lighting design Špela Škulj
Production Via Negativa, Moment Maribor
Co-production Zavod Odprti predali Kranj
Support Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, MOL, MOM
Created within VN Lab (2023), PARL (2023)
Awards
- The Golden Lion for Original Project—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- The Golden Lion for Best Performance by Audience Choice—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- ZIZ Festival, Maribor, 2024; Performance Award
Trainstation
22.30 _ Concert ŠIROM
Arriving from Prekmurje, Tolmin, and Karst regions, the Širom trio is a tapestry of diverse musical approaches, sonic histories, and hand-crafted musical imagination. Drawing from a wide range of influences and instruments, the trio creates a distinctive, recognisable style stretching between folk resonances and contemporary acoustic meditations.
Their music is grounded yet mystical—contemplative, noisy at times, more band- than chamber-like, more street than urban.
Musicians Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin, Ana KravanjaAdmission fee 12 EUR presale, 15 EUR at doors. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
10.00 _ Interrelations (site-specific performance)
Transcending the boundaries of traditional dance, transforming public spaces into dynamic canvases of movement and artistic expression, Interrelations is an outdoor, site-specific performance, a partly improvised work that can unfold anywhere—an outdoor public space becomes a stage—seamlessly integrating the performers’ movements with their surroundings and bringing art into everyday environments.
At its core, the piece traces the subtle and shifts relationships between two bodies in motion. Movements unfold through listening—the dancers drift through cycles of connection and separation, carried by gravity, momentum, and impulse. It is a fragile architecture of trust, tension, and shared timing, where each moment dissolves into the next.
Breathing life into public spaces, transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary interplay of interwoven stories, set against the backdrop of the surrounding world, Interrelations invites the audience to witness the beauty of movement.
The Niki&Martin Duo is an artistic partnership founded in 2019 by Nikola Majtanova (SVK) and Marcin Denkiewicz (PL), established during their studies of contemporary dance at ABU in Linz. They specialise in performing and visual arts, with a strong emphasis on contemporary dance partnering.
Their work spans dance, photography, film, and theatre across Europe, Asia, and the US. Reflecting their commitment to highly physical work that merges dance and physical theatre, they have collaborated with institutions and artists such as La Galerie Choreographique, Body Architects, Wiener Staatsoper, Editta Braun Company, LajaMartin Company, Paul Blackman (Jukstapoz), and Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). Moreover, they explore the intersection of dance and film through independent choreographic works. Their project Interrelations brings performance into public and site-specific spaces, while their ongoing theatre piece Forthcoming has been developed and performed across Austria several times since 2023.
Alongside their artistic work, they teach both dancers and non-dancers, focusing on partner technique and exploring physical principles such as weight, gravity, and momentum.
https://vimeo.com/846215581?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Music Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (remix) Xavier Weydert-Heterodyne
Staro mestno jedro
10.30 _ Prelude for a fan (performance)
A “Prelude for a Fan” is a performance that questions the relationship between the natural and the artificial, revealing beauty as a product of cultural, economic, and media mechanisms. It shows the body as a site of production and perception, where a subject is confronted with their own image and its representations. The work highlights the tension between individual experience and the normative structures that shape our understanding of beauty. Here, beauty does not emerge as a harmonious whole, but as a paradoxical field where attraction and resistance, fascination and alienation intertwine. The performance thus seeks to destabilise the taken-for-granted nature of aesthetic ideals.
Author, choreography, performance Jernej Šmid
Mentor Fernando Belfiore
SNDO - School for New Dance Development Amsterdam
Plečnikove stopnice
12.00 _ A Sound Journey
This interactive musical and physical journey is not intended solely for children; it invites each visitor into a deep experiential encounter and on a sensory voyage. Intertwining sound, movement, and multisensory perception, the project establishes a space for imagination, mindfulness, and creativity.
The visitor becomes a co-creator of the event, where experience encourages emotional awareness, empathy, and personal interpretation of the artistic space.
Dance group DROBIŽI - Sara Bernik, Lena Bizovičar, Tara Kruševac
Hafnar, Anika Lončar, Živa Podlipnik, Lorena
Verčič Prado, Veronika Manca Šumrada
Dance group ŽUŽE - Živa Bizovičar, Mila Košir Hafner, Isa Svete
Černelič, Jakob Štular, Ajda Zaletel
Dance group QARS - Zarja Broder, Ajda Isa Bučevec, Mina
Lenardič, Katja Kušar Lončar, Eva Pirnat,
Pina Savnik, Zarja Tepina
Concept and dramaturgy Staša Prah
Musicians, sound-bath practitioners and magical creators Karolina Travnikar in Kris Tjansen
Guest musician Klemen Orešnik
Choreographer and dancer Ana Romih
Kostumografija Tina Pavlin
Fotografija Matija Lukić
Produkcija KUD Qulenium Ljubljana
Oblikovanje svetlobe Leon Bedjanič
Koprodukcija Pioniski teater in KD Qulenium Kranj
Sofinacirano s strani Mestne občine Ljubljana – oddelek za kulturo
Stolp Škrlovec
18.00 _ The Asymmetry of an Embrace (installation)
The artist explores the meaning of gesture, touch, and collective space through international and intergenerational collaboration. An embrace becomes a key tool for questioning relationships, presence, community, and performativity. In the author's eyes, it is a fundamental, elemental gesture deeply rooted in human experience.
The work brings together professional artists, young dancers, and a group of elderly participants, creating a unique transgenerational dialogue.
Author and choreographer Snježana Premuš
Original cast Tina Benko, Ema Križič, Anja Mejač, Snježana Premuš, Tini Rozman
Gostje Dragana Alfirević, Jaka Bombač, Nina Meško, Marjeta Kamnikar
Češnjev vrt
19.00 _ The Calendar (a synthesis performance of the trilogy Allegories)
The scenes in The Calendar are based on two principles that also form the thematic cycles of the Fontana Maggiore in the city of Perugia: the practical arts (Artes Mechanicae) and the liberal arts (Artes Liberales), complemented by astrological signs. The performance does not attempt to encompass the entire iconographic opus of the relief panels of the fountain; instead, it focuses on a perspective that captures the content from a specific point of view.
Direction and visual concept Barbara Novakovič
Zasedba Urša Vidmar
Strokovna sodelavca Helena Pivec, Marijan Rupert
Oblikovanje svetlobe Andrej Petrovčič
Glasba Gal Škrjanec Skaberne
Fotografija Andrej Lamut, Mare Mutić
Izdelava scenskega elementa Marko Udvanc
Videodokumentacija Prodok Teater TV, Tone Stojko
Produkcija Muzeum Ljubljana
Koprodukcija Kino Šiška – Center urbane kulture, DUM – Društvo umetnikov
Podpora MOL, Oddelek za kulturo
Stolp Škrlovec
20.30 _ Rumble (dance performance)
A contemporary dance ritual of transformation drawing from Slavic mythology, personal experience, and physical embodiment. The performance is opening a space between life and death, the real and the symbolic, establishing a powerful relationship among body, sound, and space. The figure of the mythical character kurent appears as a symbol of transformation.
Author, choreographer, performer Beno Novak
Co-authors Urša Adamič (Dramaturgy), Elvis Homan (Music design), Borut Bučinel (Lighting design), Tina Pavlin (Costume design), Kristýna Peldová (Outside eye)
Production Dance Theatre Ljubljana
Trainstation
22.00 _ A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (music and visual performance)
The strongest emotions are not the ones we feel.
They are the ones we fail to recognise.
Emotions are not always expressed directly. At times, they settle in the body, the gaze, the voice, shaping our relationships long before we manage to understand them.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is an international performance that uses mask, music, and movement to explore unconscious emotional mechanisms—defence, control, fear of closeness, and the longing to belong. The mask does not conceal; it reveals, transforming a personal experience into a common one. A special energy emerges through the collaboration with Orchestre Jigeen Ñi from Senegal, the country’s first all-female instrumental ensemble, famous for blending West African rhythms with contemporary-stage expression.
Led by artist Inti Šraj, the project connects creators from Senegal and Europe, bringing up the question: how does society shape the way we feel—and the way we show it?
What if “the wolf” is not hiding at all, but simply trying to survive in a world it cannot recognise?
Author Inti Šraj
Performers & musicians Jigeen Ni orchestra ( Senegal)
Music Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design Borut Bučinel
Costume design Ixone Ormaeche Gabilondo in collaboration with the CFPO tailoring school in Dakar
Producer Nataša Zavolovšek
Production Exodos Ljubljana
Co‑production Exodos Ljubljana & Druga godba
Project partners Grand Théâtre Dakar, Mcu Dakar, The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Kuga studio.
www.exodosljubljana.si
Admission fee 10 EUR. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
KALEJDOSKOP
A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
18.
All information and support is available every day between 10h and 14h.
Festival Management
Festival Director and Artistic Director Aleksandra Saša Lončar
Executive Producer Beno Novak
Festival Coordination
Festival Coordinators Ana Romih, Tina Pavlin
Technical Production
Technical Director Darči Kruševac
Technical Team Mitja Kovačič
Programme
Programme Host Daniel Petković
Media Companion Zala Julija Kavčič, Nika Gradišek
PR and Marketing
Social Media Katja Kušar Lončar
Digital Marketing Numo, digital agency
Visual Identity of Kaleidoscope Denis Lončar
Photography
Andreja Lamut, Borut Bučinel, David Orešič, Mark Požep, Matija Lukić, Mila Fatut Škof, Nada Žganka, Rafael Bojar, Snežana Marcandrea, Sunčan Stone
The name "Festivals Kaleidoscope" is a protected trademark and intellectual property of the KD QULENIUM organization, therefore its use without the prior consent of the owner is prohibited.
Text Editing and Translation Lučka Lučovnik
Production and Logistics
Production KD Qulenium
Production Support
Catering Jalen s.p.
Partners and Support
Media Partner Gorenjski glas
Partners SUB Art; Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture; Carnica; ŠDKR
Co‑financing
Kalejdoskop is co‑financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Kranj.
Acknowledgements Krice krace
E-mail info@qulenium.org
Saša 041 273 482
Ana 031 003 098
Information and support
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KALEJDOSKOP
MANIFESTACIJA
UMETNIŠKEGA
IZRAŽANJA
18.
KALEJDOSKOP
18 _ A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
KRANJ
LJUBLJANA
18. JUNE
19. JUNE
20. JUNE
Admission is free, except for two (2) performances – check individual events for details. However, you can make a “donation for inspiration” at the location if you wish.
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The 18th Kalejdoskop Festival.
Coming of age—and still playful!
Each turn of a kaleidoscope reveals a different image.
Fragments of bodies, sounds, glances.
From near and far.
From what’s just arising—and what’s already fading.
The Kalejdoskop festival is not a single story. It is a constellation of tiny worlds, caught in the same light for a brief moment.
A place where art is not being explained—it just happens.
Where a movement finds a voice, a sound finds a body, and people find one another.
Softly, yet persistently, we have been here for eighteen years because such encounters matter. Small, but open; fragile, but alive—the Kalejdoskop Festival remains, to this day, the only festival of its kind in the Gorenjska region.
It is a place of encounters—by locals and visitors.
Languages mingle. Bodies speak.
And for a moment, we become a community that breathes to the same rhythm.
It might make you feel perplexed.
But perhaps it stirs a feeling.
And that’s plenty.
Thank you for being here.
Welcome to The Kalejdoskop Festival.
Aleksandra Saša Lončar
KRANJ
Friday, 5. June
Saturday, 6. June
17.00 _ Gibotron
Solo dance miniatures by dancers from Slovenian schools, associations, and institutes.
Participating: KD Qulenium, KUD Qulenium, Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture Ljubljana, and guests from Dance Studio Intakt, Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana, KID Plesonoga Cerknica, Epicenter Ljubljana, KUGA Studio, and Naomi Uma Zorman.
Stolp Škrlovec
19.00 _ The Volume of Memory (performance)
The Volume of Memory is a solo performance in which the body reveals itself as a living interface between the individual and the world. Through movement, voice, and presence, the artist is opening a space of bodily memory and the unconscious, where the solid merges with the fluid, and form dissolves into flow.
In the conversation among the body, space, and sound, a living relational structure emerges—a space that breathes, listens, and remembers.
After seven years, Tina Valentan returns to the stage with a solo she describes as a personal initiation and an invitation for the audience to enter the architecture of movement, sound, and memory.
Author and performer Tina Valentan
Sound design Tomaž Tomljanović
Lighting design Urška Vohar
Costume design Tomaž Tomljanović
Graphic design Megajver
Production Tina Valentan
Co-production NAGIB Maribor (za NAGIB: Petra Hazabent), MKC Maribor, DUM – Društvo umetnikov
Partners LGM, Plesna izba Maribor
Financial support Ministrstvo za kulturo RS – dvoletni avtorski projekt, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Mestna občina Maribor
Acknowledgements Mateja Bučar, Jasmina Križaj, Igor Dobričić, Diskolektiv, Jaka Bombač
Trainstation
20.30 _ The Slovenian Long-Distance Trail
Discussing identity, belonging, and shared values, this original performance combines a personal testimony, social reflection, and humour. Through a blend of physical, verbal, and emotional expression, the audience is invited to explore the relationship between the individual and the community.
Concept, text and performance Rok Kravanja
Performance dramaturgy Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc
Lighting design Špela Škulj
Production Via Negativa, Moment Maribor
Co-production Zavod Odprti predali Kranj
Support Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, MOL, MOM
Created within VN Lab (2023), PARL (2023)
Awards
- The Golden Lion for Original Project—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- The Golden Lion for Best Performance by Audience Choice—2025, The Golden Lion International Chamber Theatre Festival, Umag, Croatia
- ZIZ Festival, Maribor, 2024; Performance Award
Trainstation
22.30 _ Concert ŠIROM
Arriving from Prekmurje, Tolmin, and Karst regions, the Širom trio is a tapestry of diverse musical approaches, sonic histories, and hand-crafted musical imagination. Drawing from a wide range of influences and instruments, the trio creates a distinctive, recognisable style stretching between folk resonances and contemporary acoustic meditations.
Their music is grounded yet mystical—contemplative, noisy at times, more band- than chamber-like, more street than urban.
Musicians Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin, Ana KravanjaAdmission fee 12 EUR presale, 15 EUR at doors. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
10.00 _ Interrelations (site-specific performance)
Transcending the boundaries of traditional dance, transforming public spaces into dynamic canvases of movement and artistic expression, Interrelations is an outdoor, site-specific performance, a partly improvised work that can unfold anywhere—an outdoor public space becomes a stage—seamlessly integrating the performers’ movements with their surroundings and bringing art into everyday environments.
At its core, the piece traces the subtle and shifts relationships between two bodies in motion. Movements unfold through listening—the dancers drift through cycles of connection and separation, carried by gravity, momentum, and impulse. It is a fragile architecture of trust, tension, and shared timing, where each moment dissolves into the next.
Breathing life into public spaces, transforming the ordinary into an extraordinary interplay of interwoven stories, set against the backdrop of the surrounding world, Interrelations invites the audience to witness the beauty of movement.
The Niki&Martin Duo is an artistic partnership founded in 2019 by Nikola Majtanova (SVK) and Marcin Denkiewicz (PL), established during their studies of contemporary dance at ABU in Linz. They specialise in performing and visual arts, with a strong emphasis on contemporary dance partnering.
Their work spans dance, photography, film, and theatre across Europe, Asia, and the US. Reflecting their commitment to highly physical work that merges dance and physical theatre, they have collaborated with institutions and artists such as La Galerie Choreographique, Body Architects, Wiener Staatsoper, Editta Braun Company, LajaMartin Company, Paul Blackman (Jukstapoz), and Jan Lauwers (Needcompany). Moreover, they explore the intersection of dance and film through independent choreographic works. Their project Interrelations brings performance into public and site-specific spaces, while their ongoing theatre piece Forthcoming has been developed and performed across Austria several times since 2023.
Alongside their artistic work, they teach both dancers and non-dancers, focusing on partner technique and exploring physical principles such as weight, gravity, and momentum.
https://vimeo.com/846215581?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Music Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (remix) Xavier Weydert-Heterodyne
Staro mestno jedro
10.30 _ Prelude for a fan (performance)
A “Prelude for a Fan” is a performance that questions the relationship between the natural and the artificial, revealing beauty as a product of cultural, economic, and media mechanisms. It shows the body as a site of production and perception, where a subject is confronted with their own image and its representations. The work highlights the tension between individual experience and the normative structures that shape our understanding of beauty. Here, beauty does not emerge as a harmonious whole, but as a paradoxical field where attraction and resistance, fascination and alienation intertwine. The performance thus seeks to destabilise the taken-for-granted nature of aesthetic ideals.
Author, choreography, performance Jernej Šmid
Mentor Fernando Belfiore
SNDO - School for New Dance Development Amsterdam
Plečnikove stopnice
12.00 _ A Sound Journey
This interactive musical and physical journey is not intended solely for children; it invites each visitor into a deep experiential encounter and on a sensory voyage. Intertwining sound, movement, and multisensory perception, the project establishes a space for imagination, mindfulness, and creativity.
The visitor becomes a co-creator of the event, where experience encourages emotional awareness, empathy, and personal interpretation of the artistic space.
Dance group DROBIŽI - Sara Bernik, Lena Bizovičar, Tara Kruševac
Hafnar, Anika Lončar, Živa Podlipnik, Lorena
Verčič Prado, Veronika Manca Šumrada
Dance group ŽUŽE - Živa Bizovičar, Mila Košir Hafner, Isa Svete
Černelič, Jakob Štular, Ajda Zaletel
Dance group QARS - Zarja Broder, Ajda Isa Bučevec, Mina
Lenardič, Katja Kušar Lončar, Eva Pirnat,
Pina Savnik, Zarja Tepina
Concept and dramaturgy Staša Prah
Musicians, sound-bath practitioners and magical creators Karolina Travnikar in Kris Tjansen
Guest musician Klemen Orešnik
Choreographer and dancer Ana Romih
Costume designer Tina Pavlin
Photography Matija Lukić
Production KUD Qulenium Ljubljana
Lighting design Leon Bedjanič
Co-production Pioniski teater and KD Qulenium Kranj
Co-financed by The City Municipality of Ljubljana–The Department of Culture, and JSKD
Stolp Škrlovec
18.00 _ The Asymmetry of an Embrace (installation)
The artist explores the meaning of gesture, touch, and collective space through international and intergenerational collaboration. An embrace becomes a key tool for questioning relationships, presence, community, and performativity. In the author's eyes, it is a fundamental, elemental gesture deeply rooted in human experience.
The work brings together professional artists, young dancers, and a group of elderly participants, creating a unique transgenerational dialogue.
Author and choreographer Snježana Premuš
Original cast Tina Benko, Ema Križič, Anja Mejač, Snježana Premuš, Tini Rozman
Guests Dragana Alfirević, Jaka Bombač, Nina Meško, Marjeta Kamnikar
Češnjev vrt
19.00 _ The Calendar (a synthesis performance of the trilogy Allegories)
The scenes in The Calendar are based on two principles that also form the thematic cycles of the Fontana Maggiore in the city of Perugia: the practical arts (Artes Mechanicae) and the liberal arts (Artes Liberales), complemented by astrological signs. The performance does not attempt to encompass the entire iconographic opus of the relief panels of the fountain; instead, it focuses on a perspective that captures the content from a specific point of view.
Direction and visual concept Barbara Novakovič
Cast Urša Vidmar
Expert collaborators Helena Pivec, Marijan Rupert
Lighting design Andrej Petrovčič
Music Gal Škrjanec Skaberne
Photography Andrej Lamut, Mare Mutić
Scenic design Marko Udvanc
Video documentation Prodok Teater TV, Tone Stojko
Production Muzeum Ljubljana
Co-production Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture; DUM–Association of Artists
Support The City Municipality of Ljubljana, The Department of Culture
Stolp Škrlovec
20.30 _ Rumble (dance performance)
A contemporary dance ritual of transformation drawing from Slavic mythology, personal experience, and physical embodiment. The performance is opening a space between life and death, the real and the symbolic, establishing a powerful relationship among body, sound, and space. The figure of the mythical character kurent appears as a symbol of transformation.
Author, choreographer, performer Beno Novak
Co-authors Urša Adamič (Dramaturgy), Elvis Homan (Music design), Borut Bučinel (Lighting design), Tina Pavlin (Costume design), Kristýna Peldová (Outside eye)
Production Dance Theatre Ljubljana
Trainstation
22.00 _ A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (music and visual performance)
The strongest emotions are not the ones we feel.
They are the ones we fail to recognise.
Emotions are not always expressed directly. At times, they settle in the body, the gaze, the voice, shaping our relationships long before we manage to understand them.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is an international performance that uses mask, music, and movement to explore unconscious emotional mechanisms—defence, control, fear of closeness, and the longing to belong. The mask does not conceal; it reveals, transforming a personal experience into a common one. A special energy emerges through the collaboration with Orchestre Jigeen Ñi from Senegal, the country’s first all-female instrumental ensemble, famous for blending West African rhythms with contemporary-stage expression.
Led by artist Inti Šraj, the project connects creators from Senegal and Europe, bringing up the question: how does society shape the way we feel—and the way we show it?
What if “the wolf” is not hiding at all, but simply trying to survive in a world it cannot recognise?
Author Inti Šraj
Performers & musicians Jigeen Ni orchestra ( Senegal)
Music Jure Vlahovič
Lighting design Borut Bučinel
Costume design Ixone Ormaeche Gabilondo in collaboration with the CFPO tailoring school in Dakar
Producer Nataša Zavolovšek
Production Exodos Ljubljana
Co‑production Exodos Ljubljana & Druga godba
Project partners Grand Théâtre Dakar, Mcu Dakar, The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Kuga studio.
www.exodosljubljana.si
Admission fee 10 EUR. Free admission for members of KD Qulenium and KUD Qulenium
Trainstation
KALEJDOSKOP
A Manifestation of Artistic Expression
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Festival Management
Festival Director and Artistic Director Aleksandra Saša Lončar
Executive Producer Beno Novak
Festival Coordination
Festival Coordinators Ana Romih, Tina Pavlin
Technical Production
Technical Director Darči Kruševac
Technical Team Mitja Kovačič
Programme
Programme Host Daniel Petković
Media Companion Zala Julija Kavčič, Nika Gradišek
PR and Marketing
Social Media Katja Kušar Lončar
Digital Marketing Numo, digital agency
Visual Identity of Kaleidoscope Denis Lončar
Photography
Andreja Lamut, Borut Bučinel, David Orešič, Mark Požep, Matija Lukić, Mila Fatut Škof, Nada Žganka, Rafael Bojar, Snežana Marcandrea, Sunčan Stone
The name "Festivals Kaleidoscope" is a protected trademark and intellectual property of the KD QULENIUM organization, therefore its use without the prior consent of the owner is prohibited.
Text Editing and Translation Lučka Lučovnik
Production and Logistics
Production KD Qulenium
Production Support
Catering Jalen s.p.
Partners and Support
Media Partner Gorenjski glas
Partners SUB Art; Pionirski dom–Center for Youth Culture; Carnica; ŠDKR
Co‑financing
Kalejdoskop is co‑financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Kranj.
Acknowledgements Krice krace
E-mail info@qulenium.org
Saša 041 273 482
Ana 031 003 098
Information and support
kalejdoskop18.qulenium.org
Colophon
Kalejdoskop
© 2008-2026 Kalejdoskop. All rights reserved.
Detailed program
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