 Aug 22 - Aug 31

 Ljubljana

Mladi Levi, a international festival of contemporary performing arts, will be split into two parts this year, opening with a project set in a forest before returning to its main venue at the Old Ljubljana Power Station.

The festival will open on 22 August with the international project Shared Landscapes where artists from various countries have been invited to create in-site projects in nature.

Projects in seven formats will be performed for four days in the Koseze forest (Koseški boršt), an area between the Koseze Pond, the section of the circular path where Ljubljana was locked out by barbed wire during WWII and the road that runs past Ljubljana Zoo.

Shared Landscapes is a project by Caroline Barneaud and Stefan Kaegi, a Berlin-based artist who has presented several of his projects at Mladi Levi before.

Kaegi and director Tjaša Črnigoj created one of the seven performances on show in the Koseze forest where visitors will be able to listen to a weather forecaster, a forester, a girl, a musician and a psychoanalyst talk about the forest.

Between 26 and 31 August, the festival will see various dance shows, performances and installations at the Old Power Station, the Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL) and Tabor Park.

One of them, Third Dialogue: In a Landscape, is a dance production by Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni and the art collective ColletivO CineticO that has been inspired by John Cage's song.

Another dance production on the programme is Pardon, Petals by Norwegian-Bulgarian artist Fredrik Petrov.

The Norwegian theatre collective Susie Wang will stage The Hum, the first part of a trilogy about human nature, which the festival describes as a chilling, strange and disturbing thriller of the summer.

Haribo Kimchi by the Belgian-based South Korean artist Jaha Koo will offer insights into contemporary societies and the relationships between and within them through food, while the Slovenian-Estonian co-production Fun Fact will look into political and historical reality of the two countries through a fun quiz.

For more details about the festival click here.