HOPSCOTCH performance

A Persian musician reveals as a master magician a poem to a puppet, which is “absorbed” in its universe, creating a surrealist journey of the spoken/written word.

Virtuoso Iranian player of kamancheh (the ancient Persian spiked fiddle, the ancestor of violin)and composer, nominated for Grammy Awards, Kayhan Kalhor, the Turkish/Austrian dancer of international acclaim, Ziya Azazi whose original contemporary choreographies are based on the whirling rituals of Sufi dervishes, the innovative puppeteer Barbara Bulatović known for the new approaches in puppetry and its interaction with other media, visual artist and designer Peter Košir whose works are based on 3D virtual spaces, video and architecture, are creating as performers the sense of the traveling of a being towards its “center” (in)to the hopscotch game.

The texts used in the performance are surrealist poetry of the Romanian writer Iulian Tanase, translated into Slovenian language by the poet Ales Mustar, and “becoming alive” through the voice, as the storyteller, of the renowned actor Igor Samobor.