Nov
27
2009
La La La Human Steps is one of those companies that always left me speechless… Powerful and strong… I find Edouard Locke’s aesthetic and choreography from the 80’s unsurpassed in many ways even today… From time to time when I’m really down and tired, I simply go to You Tube and watch excerpts from Infante c’est destroy (excerpt 1 and 2), Human Sex and New Demons with Louise Lecavalier, simply stunning dancer…
Amelia by La La La Human Steps (c)
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Nov
3
2009
Sun-A Lee, young Korean dancer and choreographer has presented at the Platform of Young Choreographers her solo piece ‘Out There’… she’s considered as new force at the international dance scene today…
From ‘Out There’ by sun-A-dance
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Sep
16
2009
Dancer and choreographer Maja Drobac could be with certainty described as multi-talented artist… she expresses herself, parallel with dance, in the fields of photography and writing, too…
Portrait of Maja Drobac by Srikanth Kolari (c)
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Aug
22
2009
Marija Scekic is a contemporary dancer from Croatia who can be characterized as ‘performer with guts’. Her strong and authentic concentration on the stage is a result of heavy bodily education and physical predisposition.
Photo: Sandra Vitaljic (c)
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Jul
15
2009
I wanted to post this on my blog for a long time… Tashamira was a Croatian dancer and choreographer whose real name was Vera Milcinovic. When I first time saw her photos from 1930’s at the exhibition ‘Avant Garde Tendencies in Croatian Art’ few years ago, I was completely thrilled…
First, her name sounds even today very hype and cool… But Tashamira’s ‘image’ was crucial, just take a look at her costume and hair cut… She was also one of those faces that were far ahead of their time…
Tashamira, taken from the catalog by Klovicevi dvori
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