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Cabaret Dawns: Among the Shadows Cabaret Dawns: Among the Shadows Mona LaDoll, The Ljilja, kat orcutt, Barbara Blok, Anđa Rupić Thursday, 5 March 2026, at 9 p.m.
Club Gromka, ACC Metelkova mesto, 1000 Ljubljana
Cabaret/performance/shibari Various languages Entrance fee: 10-15eur
After the electrifying Punx’n’kweenz (2024) and the moving Evening with the Dames, featuring guest Chiqui Love (2025), the trilogy of Cabaret Dawns is rounding off with an international selection of performers, who delve into the dark side of cabaret, piercing through pain and showing what lies beyond beauty through a kaleidoscope of tears. Mona LaDoll, between freak show and erotica, The Ljilja in a ritual of cleansing humanity’s sins, kat orcutt through pain to catharsis, and Barbara Blok from the dark side of drag, shall provide an adventure for the annals, while pathfinder Anđa Rupić will provide the guidance. Mona LaDoll, cabaret princess, the painproof dame, the staple lover, the unsettling beauty and the feverish fantasm. Very Confused, watercolored clown blending the rules of gender by creating it’s own. Mona Guyard, born in 2000, is a particularly active artist in the field of performance. Originally from Nîmes, she moved to Berlin in 2018 to initially to follow art studies. She was as quickly disapointed in front of a predominantly white, cisgendered and heteronormed art world as she simultaneously got excited and aroused by the discovery of queer and cabaret scenes. From there beginns the artist’s rules of life “without and refusing any forms of academic formation.” She is the creator of Very Confused, a water-colored clown transcendings words, genders and realities and also of Mona LaDoll a feminine illusionist, a cabaret princess, blurring the lines of pain and pleasure, of beauty and beasts… The Ljilja is a visual artist born in Croatia. She made her first debut in 2006 and since then her art has been shown in group and solo shows. Her work can be described as a transformation through creativity, connecting all over with her primal “I”. A primal body which is “breaking down areas hardened by perspective of the Ego”. “As an artist my main aim is making the subconscious conscious and bringing it to the light. I am showing those, hidden, dark, disturbing parts. By disfiguring my face, covering my eyes I am allowing my Primordial Self to step out from the darkness.” says the Ljilja. She has exhibited and performed internationally including shows at MART Gallery, Dublin (2025), Pandora Gallery, Berlin (2024), Rua Red, Dublin (2023), Alte Münze, Berlin (2022); Ebensperger Gallery, Berlin (2021); Lethal Amounts Gallery, LA (2019); and Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (2018). kat orcutt is a visual artist, performance artist, and scenographer based in Berlin. Her work as of late primarily explores a very imaginative experience of the body through both illustrations and shibari (rope bondage) practice. Barbara Blok aka Jakob Bratušek (born 20 May 2003) is a visual artist and performer who works between Koper and Ljubljana. In 2025, he graduated from the Visual Arts and Design department in Koper, where he is currently pursuing his master’s degree. In his artistic practice, he deals with conceptual art, performance, installation and body art, and explores alternative aspects of art, beauty, fashion and performance related to the body, identity and how this refers to life. His work focuses on the perspective of normative aesthetics and the comfort of the viewer in various collaborations and projects. In addition, he is developing the Barbara Blok drag project. As one of the newer drag queens in Ljubljana, in her first performances she consciously focuses on radical, direct and unadorned expression of LGBT+ identities. She uses drag as a tool of propaganda, visibility and resistance, where vulgarity, pain, discomfort and intense emotions are equal to beauty. Her work rejects mere aesthetic perfection and opens up space for sincerity, extreme, artificial and plastic, intertwined with the organic and the physical. Anđa Rupić emerged from the Tiffany cabaret incubator, under the skilled fingers of her dear mother, the now legendary Sister Emperatrizz, and the watchful eye of her dear godmother Virginija Immaculate. At Tiffany Cabaret, she developed her characters and explored different forms of expression. She was also a co-creator of the open event and rehearsal space Pri Anđi in the Rog Autonomous Factory. You can meet Rupić in the underground and above-ground areas of Ljubljana, and she sometimes ventures into the neighboring valleys. Info Organisation: 27th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Arts and Culture Association KUD Mreža) Co-production/Co-organisation: Club Gromka Design of the poster and graphic design: Janu Krohm Public Relations: Saša Nemec, rdece.zore@gmail.com Curated by: Urška Preis Proofreading: Ana Makuc Financial support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture |
MARCH 5TH 21:00
Cabaret Dawns: Among the Shadows
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