Dodgeball

Nataša Živković
Dodgeball

Performance
Free entrance (1k€)

In Slovenian

“I’d hate to be that apple that didn’t fall far from the tree.” 

The video Dodgeball is the final part of the trilogy, staging family constellations daughter–mother, daughter–father, and daughter (as mother)–child. After the performances For Father’s Sake and First Love’s Second Chance (Getting Over Heintje), the protagonist now steps into the role of mother, (ex)partner and artist. Dodgeball is an intimate story, a woman’s monologue, split into two voices that each in their own way experience the deep cut into the biography of a family, namely its disintegration. It is a reflection on the idea and the real troubles of the “typical family” displaying the stereotypes of a heterosexual partnership along with related womanhood, manhood and parental roles.

Idea: Nataša Živković
Concept: Nataša Živković, in collaboration with Tomaž Grom, Tjaša Črnigoj and Špela Trošt
Dramaturgical consultant: Tjaša Črnigoj
Text: Nataša Živković and Tjaša Črnigoj
Recording: Maša Nonković, Ana Čigon
Editing: Tomaž Grom and Špela Trošt
Sound composition: Tomaž Grom
Additional music: Življenje je vrtiljak by Jure Robežnik
Performers: Ava Abramovici Reba, Bela Abramovici Reba, Mila Bezjak Stegnar, Teodora Novaković, Julija Ornik, Neli Banič, Vasja Fon, Ema Baša Poderžaj, Filip Pepelnik Čučnik, Taras Ždrale, Uma Pečarič, Nil Seliškar, Čarna Košir, Svarun Košir, Lav Janković, Frida Kapun, Irina Kapun and Nataša Živković
Producer: Špela Trošt
Production: Via Negativa, in collaboration with City of Women and Bunker – Old Power Station
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana