Slovene Performing Arts

The students learn about Slovenian performing arts. The students will be able to contextualise this topics and draw parallels between Slovenian and foreign performing arts.They will be able to research in this field. With the help of seminars and lectures they will learn about performing arts and their social impacts. They will develop the critical relationship toward the institution of theatre and get acquinted with the research of theatre from the perspective of
social complexity.

There are no enrolment or degree requirements for the course.

The course Slovene Performing arts opens the question of performing and social dimension of the theater creation. It touches upon specifics of theatre history (world and Slovenian) and includes the
epistemological approaches in research of the performing arts and culture. The students get familiar with the most important events in the history of the Slovenian theatre in the context of the
European practices. The subjects includes the findings of the modern studies in the fields of theatre history, sociology of theatre, cultural history and sociology of culture. In the seminars the students are aquinted with the contemporary theatre production and actively participate in the discussion. They also get familiar with the profession of the proofreader and dramaturg in the theatre.

The students learn about the history of Slovenian theatre in connection with the world and European theatre tradition, the learn the terminology and are able to write an essay about performance.

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Written assessement 60 %,

essay about one theatre performance and active participation in the seminar discussions 40 %.

Dr. Katja Mihurko is s Full Professor in Literature at the School of Humanitis of the University of Nova Gorica. Her research interests include: new approaches in literary sciences (predominantly gender studies), intercultural contacts, literary geography, Slovenian drama. In the field of Slovenian literature research, her attention is devoted to the works of women writers.

Selected articles:

• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. Labirinti ljubezni v slovenski književnosti od romantike do II. Svetovne vojne, (Zbirka Sodobna družba, 2008, 20). Ljubljana: Sophia, 2008. V, 254 str. ISBN 978-961-6294- 93-5.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. Nation and gender in the writings of Slovene women writers : 1848-1918. Aspasia, 2008, vol. 2, str. 28-43.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. Skriti prelomi s tradicijo: besedila prvih slovenskih dramatičark. Amfiteater, 2010, let. 2, št. 1, str. 48-70.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. Nadzorovanje in kaznovanje v nekaterih besedilih z lepovidskim motivom. Ann, Ser. hist. sociol., letn. 19, št. 1, str. 239-246.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. El primero al Sol reina, al otro la oscuridad : la dialogicidad como principio fundamental de la creación en Scheherezade de Ivo Svetina. V: SVETINA, Ivo. Scheherezade : una ópera occidental-oriental, 1988, (Litterae Slovenicae, 2009, 5). Ljubljana: Slovene Writers' Association: = Društvo slovenskih pisateljev: = Asociación de Escritores Eslovenos, 2009, str. 59-68.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. Uprizarjanje feminizmov. Amfiteater, 2008, letn. 1, št. 2, str. 178-186.
• MIHURKO PONIŽ, Katja. "Jabolko si vrgel stran, nocoj boš žrl ananas z lupino in bodicami" ali O ljubezni v dramskem opusu Gregorja Strniše. V: REPINA KRAMBERGER, Ksenija (ur.). [Almanah 43. Borštnikovega srečanja]. Maribor: Borštnikovo srečanje, SNG, 2008, str. 71-74.