Tjaša Črnigoj, Lina Akif, Sendi Bakotić, Nika Rozman, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović, Barbara Kapelj, Tea Vidmar, Lene Lekše
Sex Education II: Diagnosis + Consentire + Ability + Play + Fight
Maska Ljubljana, Mladinsko Theatre, City of Women
Schedule
| 28.03.2024 | at 16:00 | The New Post Office (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska), Ljubljana |
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Crew
Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj
Set designers: Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Art and costume designer: Tijana Todorović
Performers: Lina Akif, Sendi Bakotić, Nika Rozman, Vanda Velagić
Author of music and sound performer: Tea Vidmar
Additional performers: Tjaša Črnigoj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše
Music selectors: Tjaša Črnigoj, Lina Akif, Tijana Todorović, Barbara Kapelj
Expert collaborators: dr. Gabrijela Simetinger, dr. Maja Vehar, Alja Lobnik
Anonymous interviewees
Speech advisor: Mateja Dermelj
Editing audio recordings and sound designers: Klara Otorepec, Marijan Sajovic, Jure Vlahovič, Silvo Zupančič
Web editor: Tery Žeželj
Producers: Tina Dobnik, Polona Dolžan
Photographer: Nada Žgank
Video creator and editor: Hana Vodeb
Technical directors of the performance: Klemen Švikart, Manca Vukelič, Igor Remeta
Lighting designers: Tjaša Črnigoj, Barbara Kapelj, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše, Manca Vukelič, Igor Remeta
Cast
Lina Akif
Sendi Bakotić
Nika Rozman
Vanda Velagić
About the performance
The premières of the individual lecture-performances took place throughout the entire 2022/2023 season at Nova pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska). In the autumn of 2023, the artists performed them one after the other on the same day and linked them into a whole.
Duration: approximately 5 hours and 45 minutes with three breaks, including a longer one, during which a stew will be available.
Sex Education II is a series of five lecture-performances (Diagnosis, Consentire, Ability, Play, Fight) that shed light on the right to sexual pleasure as the fundamental sexual right in the context of human rights from different perspectives and through diverse performance practices. They are based on conversations with women who shared their personal stories, experiences, and difficulties and on interviews with experts in different fields.
Diagnosis addresses vaginismus** and painful sexual intercourse, which, according to some studies, is experienced by up to 40% of women. Consentire opens up a space for reflection on what consensual sex actually means and what consensual practices look like. Ability is based on the stories of four women with disabilities about their sexual maturation, their relationship with their own bodies, their sexuality and their relationships with their partners. Play ventures into the realm of unconventional sexual practices, what urban slang calls "kink". In Fight, the artists reconstruct the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, which only implicitly touched upon sexual rights but paved the way for the right to sexual pleasure to be spoken of today.
*By women, we mean all women (trans, intersex and cis).
**Vaginismus is considered the most difficult sexual dysfunction in women. Vaginismus causes the pelvic floor muscles to spasm, which completely disables vaginal penetration even when a woman desires it.
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