Hvala! Thanks for helping us celebrate 25 years of Aerowaves!
1 July 2021On Midsummer 2021 the celebrations of Aerowaves’ 25 years kicked off with Summer ReCollection, a flash festival in Ljubljana from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June 2021. Ljubljana is a very significant place for Aerowaves since we celebrated the first Spring Forward festival here ten years ago. The centre of the event was with our partners EN-KNAP Productions at Španski Borci Cultural Centre with five other venues, indoors and out.
A big round of applause and thanks to the artists, our wonderful partners EN-KNAP Productions, our team and the guests for making the journey to Ljubljana to help us celebrate 25 years of Aerowaves. And a special mention to the fans who watched Be There with Springback Social, a series of video snippets to follow the jam-packed action of the festival, presented by Springback writer Beatrix Joyce.
Summer ReCollection gathered eleven Aerowaves Artists from the years 2020 and 2021 and presented their work live, we launched internationally the pioneering project Springback Ringside with three dance works in virtual reality, and invited the people in Ljubljana to dance tailor-made mini-choreographies by former and current Aerowaves artists at Cinderella’s Bal Moderne.
We also presented the print edition of Springback Magazine’s Annual with an ‘Aerowaves at 25’ supplement and a video installation that recollected a quarter of a century of dance across europe curated by Enya Belak. You can also read Springback Academy writers’ reviews of the works presented at the festival.
We will be marking our anniversary in various ways for the next 11 months, culminating with Spring Forward in Elefsina in May 2022. Stay tuned!
Live Perfomances
Eleven artists from the Twenty20 and Twenty21 selections presented their performances in Ljubljana: Alessandro Carboni with ‘The Angular Distance of a Celestial Body’, Viktor Černický with ‘PLI’, Tereza Lenerová with ‘Don’t Stop’, Masako Matsushita with ‘UN/DRESS | moving painting’, Anne-Mareike Hess with ‘Warrior’, Anastasia Valsamaki with ‘Body Monologue’, Alexandros Stavropoulos with ‘Cinderella’s’, Máté Mészáros with ‘Mechanics of Distance’, Moritz Ostruschnjak with ‘Tanzanweisungen (it won’t be like this forever)’, Emese Cuhorka & Csaba Molnár with ‘MASTERWORK’ and Poliana Lima with ‘Things Move but they do not say anything’.
Watch Springback Social videos of Summer ReCollection
For our friends and dance enthusiasts who were not in Ljubljana for Summer ReCollection, we devised a series of video snippets to follow the jam-packed action of the festival. Presented by Beatrix Joyce, Springback Social (on Springback Magazine’s Facebook and Instagram) we brought to your screens, behind the scenes interviews, convivial walks, rehearsals and a delicious taste of Ljubljana.
Check them out!At the Cinderellla’s Bal Moderne
‘Codesa’ by George Mxolisi Khumalo’, ‘Coeur d’Artichaut’ by Frédéric Werlé, Jurij Konjar’s ‘Algo De Mi’ and Alexandros Stavropoulos’ Cinderella’s.
Springback Ringside VR recordings
‘Ruins’ by Rhys Dennis & Waddah Sinada / FUBUNATION, ‘Babae’ by Joy Alpuerto Ritter and ‘BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’ by Collective Dope – Jenna Jalonen.