[concert/performance] Svetlana Makarovič and Zvezdana Novaković - Lovec na ljudi (The Manhunter)

The young instrumentalist and, above all, a vocal experimentator and profound singer, Zvezdana Novaković, was here more than a worthy counterpart to Svetlana Makarovič and her unrivaled interpretation skills. The performance hall was, alas, too small to comfortably host many times too much people - and thus Svetlana did not have the space necessary on stage to gain a proper mystic distance to the crowd and her energy was somehow abolished or at least diminished. Luckily, her poems were intertwined by (but not in a way of background music, but as solo parts inbetween) Zvezdana's harp playing and singing of various ethnic or performative origins - from Bulgarian folk singing to almost experimental voice metal. Her energy on stage is fresh, vibrantly positive, yet very sharp and self-confident, which was a very intriguing company for Svetlana's eerie poetry of vile hallucinations and allegories of death. Hopefully on the next repeat performances they will give her enough space so she would be able to (at least) breathe, because this obvious energy-stopper of the closest spectators almost ruined the performance alltogether.