Glej,
Irena Z. Tomažin: Another Crying Game

With the project Another Crying Game, Irena Z. Tomažin continues her long-standing exploration of the voice and its sonic and physical matter, which layers between the body, movement, and space, this time in the field of original songs.

Another Crying Game is a performance of avant-schlager songs that the artist has always stubbornly kept hidden, only pulling them out of her Pandora’s box on rare occasions. Some songs, their first ideas or themes, are over 19 years old. They span the time in which the artist has moulded her voice by kneading, writing, erasing and rewriting various fragments of lyrics that eventually became a song through persistent forgetting and revisiting. In addition to the live or recorded avant-schlager songs, she will also embody the characters and themes of the songs, which are in a way a play of (extreme) emotional states and fragments of stories from daily life – little dramas that capriciously shape the funny, bizarre and fateful ways we perceive ourselves, others and the world.

Duration: 50 minutes.

Concept, music, and performance: Irena Z. Tomažin
Dramaturgical consulting: Sašo Vollmaier
Set design: Karolína Kotrbová
Costume design: Dajana Ljubičić
Music arrangements and recording: Andraž Mazi, Aldo Ivančič, Irena Z. Tomažin
Consulting: Maja Delak
Graphic design: Mina Fina / Grupa Ee
Sound design: Jure Vlahovič
Light design: Janko Oven
Make-up design: Tina Prpar
Photography: Ivian Kan Mujezinović, Nada Žgank
Video documentation: Borut Bučinel
PR: Tamara Pepelnik (Emanat), Tina Malenšek and Paulina Pia Rogač (Glej Theatre)
Executive production: Tamara Pepelnik (Emanat), Barbara Poček (Glej Theatre)

Production: Emanat

Co-production: Glej Theatre
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS and City of Ljubljana

Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer, performer, vocalist, singer and improviser who is active on the national and international scene. To date, she has created ten performances that combine voice and movement. In her explorations of the physicality and expressiveness of the body, she incorporates the voice, sounds the body and emphasises physicality as a landscape of sound and voice. Her work moves between the intimate and extimate sound space of the body and the body in voice, sound and space and has already been awarded several times at the Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art – Gibanica. She performs solo or in collaboration with choreographers, dancers, musicians and international ensembles at home and abroad. Her pedagogical work, for which she also received the Ksenija Hribar Award from the Slovenian Contemporary Dance Association in 2023, pursues an innovative approach to voice, body, movement, improvisation, speech and singing. She has been teaching workshops at home and abroad for many years. Together with her collaborator Alessi Castellacci, she runs a series of workshops entitled The World Is Sound, which focuses on the exploration of voice and improvisation.