Compagnie S20 (Japan) | choreographer: Hiroaki Umeda
A multidisciplinary artist or a one-man show? It’s up to you to decide…After a scholarship with Philippe Decouflé, Hiroaki Umeda and his projects have become in these past couple of years absolute hits at dance festivals around the world, while critics describe his work as a feast for all senses….Find out why!
Croatian Choreographic Platform | INK Gradsko kazalište Pula | choreographer: Andrea Gotovina
Andrea Gotovina, performer and choreographer, who replaced her Amsterdam habitat with her native one in Pula and inspired by a quote of Victor Hugo “Melancholy is the beauty of sadness”, in her “Blue Friday” investigates and examines different forms of melancholy, its beauty and the atmosphere it brings about.
DUM (Slovenia) | choreographer: Mateja Bučar
Today, most of our consumer objects are in fact Chinese, but China has presented us with far more radical changes in social and family organizations. In the field of Yuri Leiderman’s geopoetics, this project explores a strange new brotherhood “Made in China” emerging today.
Croatian Choreographic Platform | OOUR (Croatia) | author: Selma Banich
„Chew“ by one of Croatia’s most important contemporary dance artists – Selma Banich, is an autoreflective work which researches the phenomena of the covered, the particulars of body details hidden under layers of a pin-up appearance. Instead of the author, this work will be performed by Goran Sergej Pristaš only on the occassion of the 25th Dance Week Festival.
Croatian Choreographic Platform | Trafik (Croatia) | choreographer Žak Valenta
This first solo work by author Žak Valenta is also a celebration of his 20 years of work. Embodiment deals with the very soul of the performer, the body as a transporter, a tool, the marker, but also the marked…The author through his own experience of the performer is keenly interested in the embodied performer…
Random Dance Company (UK) | choreographer Wayne McGregor
He choreographed a ballet to the music of White Stripes, but he also became the resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, the first ever of contermporary dance artists. Wayne McGregor connects his past to the early days of Dance Week Festival, and he comes back its 25th edition with a brand new work, which premiered bearly a month ago to critical acclaim and has been proclaimed a true masterpiece.
La Compagnie Kettly Noël (Haiti/ France) | choreographer: Kettly Noël
Errance set to music by Björk and famous Croatian composer Ivo Malec, is about wanting to say something and being unable to find the words. Haiti -born Kettly Noël, the winner of the Prize RFI Discovery Dance, wants to express the indescribable.
Chunky Move (Australia) | concept and choreography: Gideon Obarzanek
The award-winning fusion of digital technology and human movement, “…a tour de force that will live long in the memory”, an intimate interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. Simply a must-see show!
Company Jasmina (France) | choreographer: Jasmina Prolic
Announced as winner of the French competition for emerging choreographers, and upon an invitation and encouragement of Josef Nadj, Jasmina forms her own company in Orléans. She returns to Zagreb with a duet between man and woman, which is also a duel between body and technology.
Simona Bertozzi (Italy)
Meet one of the rising stars of the Italian dance scene – Simona Bertozzi. Her L’endroit 2e, the Winner of the Gd’A 2006/2007 competition, is a dark and truly captivating performance inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel Slowness; while Terrestre is a work in progress, a dialogue between biological and emotional memory
Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland – France) | Choreographical project by Laurence Yadi, Nicolas Cantillon in collaboration with Alexandre Joly and Régis Marduel
Nicolas Cantillon and Laurence Yadi, the two ‘enfants terribles’ of the Franco-Swiss dance scene, are offering us a musical and choreographic variation on glossolalia. Following Climax, Simple proposition and La vision du lapin, their first creations which laid down, through our eyes, their peculiar ‘physical grammar’, the company 7273 now grab our ears.
Companhia Paulo Ribeiro (Portugal) | choreographer Paulo Ribeiro
One of Portugal’s foremost choregraphers, former Artistic Director of Gulbenkian Ballet, Paulo Ribeiro with his own company was presented for the first time at the 14th Dance Week Festival. This time he comes back to us with a fascinating love duet, inspired by a text by Gonçal M. Tavare and which he will performs with his – spouse.
Human Future Dance Corps (SAD) | author: DD Dorvillier
Winner of two Bessie Awards, DD Dorvillier is a star of the the experimental dance and performance scene in New York City, famous for her wonderfully unruly imagination and a sly sense of humor. Starting from “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” , a quote from Immediatisms by Hakim Bey, she plays with feedback, interpretation, and accidental associations…
Croatian Choreographic Platform | choreographers & performers: Aleksandra Janeva & Melanie Munt
Aleksandra Janeva, whose choreographic debut was awarded with a Grand Prix in Luxembourg, creates her most recent work in collaboration with Melanie Munt. The diverse series of research with episodes in random order pose the question: can we say that something is a bad choice on stage?
VRUM | Sanja Tropp Frühwald (Croatia)
Winner of the 8th Platform for Emerging Choreographers, Sanja Tropp Frühwald created her most recent piece to the music of Enio Morricone and premiered it at the New Faces, New Dances festival in Salzburg, and will feature it for the first time in Croatia at the 25th Dance Week Festival.
Daniel Léveillé Danse (Canada) | choreographer: Daniel Léveillé
One of Canadian foremost choreographers, Daniel Leveille is a dedicated investigator of choreographic possibilities regarding the naked body. His work was first presented in Zagreb at the 22nd Dance Week Festival when awarded with the Audience Award. This time round his work is presented with his most acclaimed work The Modesty of Icebergs
Compagnie Thor (Belgium) | choreographer: Thierry Smits
One more name known to Dance Week Festival is the Belgian Compagnie Thor, which returns to Zagreb after 10 years, with a choreographic project that evolved over the past year transforming Vivaldi’s Four Seasons into four distinct, yet very connected choreographic pieces.
Association Lisa (Netherlands) | choreographer Ivana Müller
Renown Croatian choreographer, Ivana Müller in her new piece negotiates the relationship between imaginary and physical, personal and collective, position of performer and position of spectator. Whilst continuously provoking shifts in perception and sense, Ivana Müller creates a show that is disquieting, moving and yet genuinely funny.
