Filip Petkovski

Here, kitty kitty! (based on "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" By Tennessee Williams)

Curiosity killed the cat, yet not everything looks as it seems, as cats are notoriously known to have nine lives. Drawing inspiration from “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams, this dance theatre performance only utilizes the main plot of the play as a starting point but aims to further explore the stories, characters, and hidden messages that the author only briefly mentions in his dramaturgical oeuvre. In Williams’ text, Maggie the Cat, as a protagonist, threatens her husband Brick that she will jump from the roof if he continues to disregard her love for him. In this performance, however, the entire Polit family joins her at the hot tin roof, but are willing to stay and get burned, because if they jump, they will fall amongst the common people that they fear. Instead, they find pleasure in the unbearable discomfort and pain of staying at the top. Obsessed with their appearance, status, and wealth, they decide to celebrate their seemingly perfect lives by finding comfort in alcohol and drugs that help them survive the ugliness of the world in which they live. As they continuously dance to hide their pain, we observe the tangled relationships that haunt them. In Here, Kitty Kitty! our sex-crazed, borderline neurotic, and deeply disturbing characters trick the cat so she can come for them to play with her, symbolizing our society’s obsession with momentary satisfaction, constant need for dopamine, and false representation.

Directed and choreographed by: Filip Petkovski | Performers: Ana Jovanovska, Vedran Chesharek, Ilin Jovanovski, Vasil Zafirchev, Keti Borisovska, Filip Hristovski, and Sandra Tancheva | Music: Moritz Werner | Set design: Dardan Zhegrova and Filip Petkovski | Costume design: Antonija Guginska Jordanoska and Gordana Bozhinovska | Light design: Milcho Aleksandrov | Dance répétiteur: Stefanie Schaarschmidt | Photography and video: Marko Marjanović | Montage and editing: Borjan Stojkov | Visuals: Ivana Mojsovska Golovska | Production coordinator: Petar Antevski | Executive producers: Filip Petkovski, Moritz Werner, Dardan Zhegrova and Stefanie Schaarschmidt | Technical co-production: A Co-production with the Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund), Presvrt and JHK Dzinot Theatre- Veles.

The project is funded with the support of the International Coproduction Fund (Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds) of the Goethe Institute and The Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia.

©Filip Petkovski, Goethe-Institut

Veles, 2024

Manifest 2.0

"Manifest 2.0" deals with the bodily and performative transformation of some of the most famous and controversial manifestos written by authors such as Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, SPIT, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Georges Ribemont- Dessaignes, Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Richard Huelsenbeck, Andriy Zholdak, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Luigi Colombo Fillia, Claes Oldenburg, Elaine Sturtevant, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jim Jarmusch, Bruno Taut, Yvonne Rainer, and Laboria Cuboniks., that is, texts written as a reaction or protest against the artistic, economic, cultural, and social currents and problems with which the authors were faced with in their given context. The performance offers ten performative images, in which each manifesto becomes a lived experience or an embodied critique that invites the audience to engage with the basic ideas on a more intuitive and emotional level. Through the spectacle of dance and physical theater, the manifestos are not only observed but also experienced.

Directed and choreographed by: Filip Petkovski | Produced by: Reflektor Teatar
Performers: Milena Božić, Sunčica Milanović, Lazar Nikolić, Djordje Živadinović Grgur, Aleksandar Stoimenovski | Dramaturgy assistance: Minja Bogavac | Executive producers: Jovan Zdravković and Isidora Bulatović | Public relations: Lena Bogdanović | Protocol manager: Ana Stojanović

The project is supported by the Culture for Democracy program of the Swiss Government and the Hartefakt fund. The project is supported by the Culture Moves Europe fund financed by the European Union and the Goethe Institute.

Belgrade, 2024

The Beautiful Angelina

by Blagoja Risteski Platnar

Directed by: Ljupcho Gjorgjievski | Choreographed by: Filip Petkovski | Produced by: Theatre "J.H. Dzinot- Veles | Assistant director: Eleonora Teova | Dramaturgy: Katerina Momeva | Set design: Valentin Svetozarev | Costumes by: Andrej Gjorgjievski | Music Composer: Sashko Kostov | Video Mapping: Borche Konzulov | Vocals: Orhideja Dukova and Sashko Kostov | Actors: Talija Nastova, Zharko Spasovski, Maja Ljutkov, Blagojcho Stojanov, Faik Mefalovski, Kire Acevski, Jordan Vitanov, Keti Borisovska, Simona Dimkovska, Kristina Zafirova, Sandra Tancheva

Veles, 2023

An Elegy in Five Breaths

"An elegy in five breaths" is a dance theater based on motifs from verses of poetry by Radovan Pavlovski, Petre M. Andreevski, Mihail Rendzhov, Aco Shopov, and Nikola Madzirov. The performance contains five pieces (five breaths) that aim to create a universally understandable stage language, captured through a multidisciplinary approach to preparation and performance through a combination of multiple media of stage expression such as dance, narration, and physical theater.

Reviews:
Zvonko Dimoski: https://umno.mk/elegija-vo-pet-zdiva-tanc-teatar/
Elena Jebelean: https://www.eurothalia.ro/en/blog/cele-cinci-r%C4%83sufl%C4%83ri-ale-elegiei-%C3%AEn-traducere-imaginar%C4%83/

Directed and choreographed by: Filip Petkovski | Produced by: Theater J.H. Dzinot- Veles | Performers: Vasil Zafirchev, Simona Dimkovska, Natalija Teodosieva and Adrijana Danchevska | Costumes by: Antonija Guginska Jordanoska, Maja Gjureska and Gordana Bozhinovska | Music by: Filip Petkovski | Light design: Milcho Aleksandrov | Camera: Borjan Stojkov | Photography: Ivana Mojsovska.

Veles, 2022

Helen

by Euripides

Directed by: Michael Hackett | Assistant director: Filip Petkovski | Scenic design: Irena Adzic | Costume design: Gabrielle Levion | Lightning design: Dan Corrigan | Sound design: Colin Postley | Dramaturgy: Anna Krajewska- Wieczorek, Christopher Sanders, and Richard Ellis | Ensemble: Brett Calo, Ashley Cleveland, Taylor Dean, John Dellaporta, Oscar Emanuel Fabela, Samuel Kay, Beth Lane, Lea Madda, Ryan Miller, Isabella Olivas, Kendra Perez, Brandon Root, Vivian Rubio, Maia Rychlik, Davia Schenedel, Daniel Abraham Steves, Tara Turnbull, Yiji Zhao.

Produced by UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television

Los Angeles, 2017

Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov

Directed by: J. Ed Araiza | Assistant director: Filip Petkovski | Scenic design: Tatiana Kulianoff | Costume design: Kumie Asai | Lightning design: Neil Peter Jampolis | Projection design: Dan Corrigan | Sound design: Katie Jost| Dramaturgy: Sara Ruhl | Ensemble: Brett Calo, Ashley Cleveland, Taylor Dean, John Dellaporta, Oscar Emanuel Fabela, Samuel Kay, Beth Lane, Lea Madda, Ryan Miller, Isabella Olivas, Kendra Perez, Brandon Root, Vivian Rubio, Maia Rychlik, Davia Schenedel, Daniel Abraham Steves, Tara Turnbull, Yiji Zhao.

Produced by UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television

Los Angeles, 2016

Closer

by Patrick Marber

Trondheim, 2014

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

Directed by: Filip Petkovski | Assistant director: Dragana Gunin | Produced by: Theatra | Producer: Marija Zafirova| Performers: Irena Ilievska, Vasko Kostovski, Ivana Atanasova, Marko Bogdanovski, Sema Murteza, Stole Micov, Yetkin Sezair, Talija Nastova, Viktor Arsov, Kiril Andonov and Vladanka Dimkovska | Band: Biljana Stojkoska (vocal), Blažen Nastevski (piano), Dragan Teodosiev (percussions), Filip Petrevski (saxophone) | Translation and adaptation: Filip Petkovski and Varja Kutleshovska | Costumes: Antonija Guginska | Footage by: Jon Bioskop | Photography: Miladin Papković.

Skopje, 2013