27. avgust / 27th August


19.30 Ploščad pred gradom


7.30 p.m. Plateau in front of the castle


vstop prost / free entrance

Dance Communication Lab (A, HU, HR, SI)



Dance Communication Lab  -  Improvizacijski napad s hrvaško skupino Nimbus Dei in plesalci iz Avstrije, Madžarske, Hrvaške in Slovenije / Dance Communication Lab  - Improvisation Attack with the Croatian group Nimbus Dei and dancers from Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia


Dance Communication Lab / Improvizacijski napad je namenjen spoznavanju ustvarjalcev plesnih predstav skozi ples ter vpogledu občinstva v skrite dogodke plesnega ustvarjanja. Gledalci lahko v živo spremljajo rojevanje idej in prepletanje plesa. Dogajanje na odru ni predstava, ni izčiščeno in izbrano plesno gradivo, temveč živ proces komuniciranja, ki vključuje ples kot jezik – sredstvo sporazumevanja. Na odru lahko spremljamo multikulturni dialog, v njegovi najžlahtnejši obliki. Dance Communication Lab na letošnjem festivalu Front@ bo v improvizacijsko sinergijo in raziskovanje združil plesalce iz Avstrije, Madžarske, Hrvaške in Slovenije ter hrvaško skupino Nimbus Dei.


Projekt Nimbus Dei je leta 2007 ustanovil Tomislav Babić, skladatelj iz Zagreba, ki deluje na več področjih. Aranžira avtorsko glasbo za film, televizijo, gledališče, animacije in reklame. Nimbus Dei izvaja elektronsko in eksperimentalno glasbo in ker je formiran skozi svobodno formo izvajalcev, so posamezni dogodki zmeraj preplet različnih glasbenih žanrov gostujočih glasbenikov. Nimbus Dei največkrat snujejo mrakobno, psihedelično ambientalno glasbo, v katero vnašajo tudi korenine elektronike iz 70. let. Nastopi so vedno improvizirani, melodično sprotno strukturirani in brez predhodne računalniške obdelave.


The aim of Dance Communication Lab is to acquaint the public with the creators of dance performances through dance, and to provide them with a glimpse of the hidden events of dance creation. The spectators may personally witness the birth of ideas and making of a dance. The happening on the stage is not a performance, it is not a purified and selected dance “material”, but rather a live process of communication which involves dance as language, as the means of communication. On the stage, we can experience a multicultural dialogue in its noblest form. At this year’s Front@ Festival, Dance Communication Lab will join the dancers from Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia with the Croatian group Nimbus Dei into an improvisation synergy and research.


The project Nimbus Dei was founded in 2007 by Tomislav Babić, composer from Zagreb, who has been engaged in several fields of work. He has composed music for films, television, theatre, animations and advertisments. Nimbus Dei makes electronic and experimental music and because it is formulated through a free form of performers, the individual events are always a mixture of different music genres of guest musicians. Nimbus Dei mostly create murky, psychedelic ambiental music with an input of original electronics from the seventies. Their performances are always improvised, melodically structured at the spur of the moment and without a preliminary computer processing.