Dance Week Festival

Jasna Vinovrski was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where she lived and worked until 1993. She recieved her dance education at the Zurich Tanz Theatre School and Folkwang Hochschule where  she obtained a degree in Bühnen Tanz (stage dance) in 1997 and a degree in dance pedagogy in 1998. There she began to create her first choreographies.

Jasna worked with Montazstroj Physical Theatre in Zagreb, Groupe Dunes Company in Marseilles,  with Jonathan Lunn at the Opern Theater in Bonn and with Joachim Schlömer at the Theater Basel in Switzerland, where she was engaged as a soloist until 2001. Since then she has been working with Schloemer in the numerous dance, opera and theatre productions at the Köln Theater, Luzern Theater, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Provincialni Tanzi in Jekatarinenburg, Russia, Cal Performances in San Francisco and Salzburger Festspiele in Austria, and since 2003 she has been working as a freelance choreographer in Berlin and at the Theatre Freiburg in Freiburg. Jasna´s choreographic work has been shown at the Basel Theatre, Folkwang Hochschule and at festivals in Ravensburg, Rimini, Ljubljana, Naples, Berlin and Zagreb.. Her last creation ‘Which Club?’ won two prizes at the 9th International solo dance-theatre Festival in Stuttgart, as well as a prize at the 11 Masdanza contemporary dance Festival in Canary Islands in Spain.

Solo ‘Which Club?’ nastavak je istraživanja započetog kreacijom ‘Mittelwelle AFC’, a bavi se birokracijom i birokratskim sustavima, ovaj put u odnosu s profesijom plesača suvremenog pleas. Kao njezino ishodište koreografkinja je iskoristila osobno iskustvo plesačice filipinskog porijekla, Unite Gay Galiluyo tijekom 5 godina njezina boravka u Europi. ‘U kojem klubu’ plešete bilo je jedno od pitanja koja su joj postavljali nakon što je zatraživši vizu za Veliku Britaniju kao svoju profesiju navela – plesačica suvremenog plesa.

Solo “Which Club? is continuation of the piece “Mittelwelle AFC” and it questions further the bureaucracy and bureaucratic systems, this time in the  relationship with the profession of contemporary dancers.  Choreographer used the personal experience of dancer Unita Gay Galiluyo who during her last 5 years living in Europe, due to her Philippine origin, experienced world of beurocracy from very close…. In which club do you dance? was one of the  questions Unita Gay Galiluyo was asked after she named her profession as a contemporary dancer, while applying for the visa at the UK embassy.

‘Fragile On The Edge’ kreacija je koja prije svega istražuje anksioznost i odnose spram situacija koje izazivaju to stanje. Ideja korištenja čaše kao glavnog objekta proizišla je iz improvizacija, a s vremenom je od interpretatora zahtijevala posebnu posturu tijela te ih tako suočila s aksioznošću i sličnim stanjima.

The theme that is explored in ‘Fragile On The Edge’ is in the first place anxiety and relationship to different situations where this state is produced. The idea of using a glass as a main object came through experimenting with the different aspect that this certain object offers, which in the further development reached the issue of anxiety from a totally new point of view.

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Which Club

choreographer: Jasna Vinovrski

dancer: Unita Gay Galiluyo

costume design: Tanja Liebermann

composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Fragile On The Edge

concept & interpretation: Clement Layes, Jasna Vinovrški

composer: Claudio Bettinelli

Duration : cca. 60 min.