WORKSHOP “LENIN IS MINE”
Project of Company Semolina Tomic, Barcelona, Spain.
This is a work of investigation realized by the company’s team in order to compile material from the life experience of artists from different countries of central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia about ‘that step in the last fifteen years from the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the death of Communism and the ethnic war of the Balkan to the entry of the capitalism.’
The first part of the ‘Lenin is mine’ Project is a workshop.
The idea is to work with the group of artist that have come out of the post communist culture and mix with others who belong to western culture (actors, dancers, singers, musicians, multimedia creators, photographers, etc…)
The second part of the Project is final performance, which will be create with the different artist we choose from those workshops which will be presented in the end of the 2006 in Mercat de les Flors (one of the main public theatre in Barcelona, Spain)
The collaborative work for this play intends to develop a space for reflection, which will allow the presence of different voices and visions related to textures and visual imagery; to identity and physical expression. A temporary zone that recognizes and accepts diversity as a value for artistic and creative expression.
Semolina Tomic, resident company of L’Antic Teatre – L’Espai de Creació, Barcelona, Spain
http://semolina.lanticteatre.com
Julijana Tomić Fajdetić, artistically known as Semolina Tomic, trained as a dancer and actor in Osijek (Croatia). This Croatian creator is a Barcelona resident since 1985 and counts with a Spanish nationality. Her longing to look for new lines of theatrical research drive her to travel to India, Italy and Holland. She immediately joined the world of music and performance always working with new creators who search for new forms of expression.
Her eight year work experience with the Catalan theatre company La Fura del Baus, where the actor is also the creator, lead her to produce her own work in a style that merges different artistic disciplines that she has had access to.
In her own creations like: ‘Body Safe(er)’,’Dónde Estamos’, ‘Géminis’, ‘Oxígeno’, ‘Coto de Casa’, ‘Rottent’, ‘Raw’ the most important factor was to send the public a sensitive message of lived reality. The worry for aesthetic innovation in her stage performances meets music and the energy used by the actor.
She is also directing and programming L’Antic Teatre - Space of creation, organization without profit spirit, with the objective to turn it a promotion space and showcase for all those experimental creators of quality who do not find exit and that they wish to present his work.
http://www.lanticteatre.com