SONNY
SONNY
City of Women (Ljubljana/SLO)
Performance
Day: Saturday, 6 September 2025
Time: 21.15
Venue: SYNERGEIO Culture Space
Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon in a performative form. It is an amazed fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or “virginas” from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of surviving in a man’s world asking us in what world we live.
Nataša Živković (1981) is a versatile artist creative in different fields of performing arts, from contemporary dance, theatre to performance. After finishing ballet school, she got dedicated to contemporary dance and collaborated with a number of choreographers. Despite being a graduate in comparative literature and French,
today she is a self-employed dancer, actress, choreographer and a mentor.
Recently, she has been active in theatre both in national theatre houses as well as independent production. Živković has participated in Via Negativa projects since 2006. Her debut as an author First Love’s Second Chance (Getting Over Heintje) and her dance and theatre achievements led to her being awarded the Golden Bird Award in 2009. Her last author work entitled For Father’s Sake (Via Negativa/City of Women, 2014) is dedicated to her father. In 2014/2015 she was employed at Zavod Bunker as a movement and artistic mentor collaborating with various primary schools across Slovenia. In 2016 she co-authored and performed in If You’re Happy (Bunker), In the Back of Time (Ljubljana Puppet Theatre) and Just in appearance sometimes as everyone else (Emanat). She was part of developing a new work Moved by voice (Emanat) with choreographer/musician Irena Tomažin in 2017. She was one of five selected dancers in the European project Performing gender – Dance makes differences.
In 2018 she received Ksenija Hribar Award for her work as a dancer. Award is given for outstanding achievements in contemporary dance. Her last author work entitled Sonny (2018, City of Women) has had a number of successful reprises in Slovenia and abroad. On the ACT Festival in Bilbao, she won the main prize The
ACT Award 2019. The members of the jury wrote: “For the impressive interpretative work in different records, both physical and textual, and the strength that history transmits us.”
In 2020 she concluded a trilogy, staging family constellations daughter–mother, daughter–father, and daughter (as mother)–child with the performance Dodgeball (Via Negativa). In 2021 she was the author, director and choreographer of the performance Everything is Alright, a big production co-authored by 11 students from different high schools from Slovenia and produced by City of Women and Ljubljana Puppet Theatre.