Nov 27 2009

Body cinema: Amelia by La La La Human Steps

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_lalala_human_steps.jpgAmelia by La La La Human Steps (c)

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Nov 3 2009

Sun-A Lee dancing calligraphy

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…

sun-a-leeFrom ‘Out There’ by sun-A-dance

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Sep 16 2009

Interview with Maja Drobac: Dancing between East and West

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…

maja_drobac1.jpgPortrait of Maja Drobac by Srikanth Kolari (c)

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Aug 22 2009

Marija Scekic’s butoh labyrinths

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.

marija_scekic_shadow_1.jpgPhoto: Sandra Vitaljic (c)

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Jul 15 2009

Cool people from past: Tashamira

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_1.jpgTashamira, taken from the catalog by Klovicevi dvori

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