Young flock (2025)

Concept, mentorship and direction: Ajda Tomazin, Rok Kravanja
Creative facilitator: Lovro Ivančić
Creators: Roza Andolšek, Mak Avdić, Ajda Isa Bučevec, Gita Gizdavčić, Luna Govekar, Mina Jelkić, Zala Savnik, Čarna Šalamun, Ruj Šalamun
Sound design: Iztok Drabik Jug
Outside eye: Saša Lončar
Visual identity: Ajda Tomazin
Production: Kolektiv Tomazin Kravanja in Odprti predali with support of Ministrstvo za kulturo
Co-production: Zavod Carnica, KD Qulenium Kranj, KUD Qulenium Ljubljana, Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladih Ljubljana
Support: Creative FLIP – Learning Labs – co-financed by European Union

Performance is accompanied by the creative intervention of students from Primary School Janez Puhar

Young Flock builds on previous projects—Flock of Experienced Birds Kranj, Flock of the Experienced Škofja Loka, and Flock of Books Celje—which enabled older adults to co-create contemporary artistic events within safe, temporary, and supportive communities. This time, a new itinerant performance took flight across Kranj, co-created by young dancers. Drawing on the methodology of previous flocks, they developed movement material and text that anchor in new experiences—creating a space for transmitting intangible cultural heritage and shaping new urban rhythms. In line with Andrew Hewitt’s idea that choreography is also a social practice that embodies ideologies and relationships, Young Flock positions youth as active co-creators of coexistence: through movement, they not only inherit the knowledge of past generations but also reshape it collaboratively—with the rhythm, dynamics, and perspective of the present time.