Blue Friday
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.
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idea: Andrea Gotovina
choreography & performance: Andrea Gotovina, Roberta Milevoj, Ivan Blagajčević
choreographic advisor: Matija Ferlin
music: Andrea Gotovina, Ivan Arnold, Carlos Fagin
light design: Marko Bolkolvić
set design: Katja Taljat
about the performance
The performance is a result of a two month long research and creation of material based on the theme of melancholy. Starting from Victor Hugo’s quote, Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad, the authors (also performers) learn about and the research types of melancholym, its beauty and the atmosphere it brings about.
Allowing feelings to lead them into the known, and a step later into the unknown.
In this intimate atmosphere they relive the moments, pictures and conditions of melancholy past and present and through interpretation and regression they translate these into physical states
about the choreographer
Andrea Gotovina was born in Pula. She started dancing at the age of four. She began at the Studio Zaro in Pula under the guidance of Slavica Šenk. At the age of eighteen she went to study dance in Zagreb. She continued her dance studies in Liberdance Studio with Rajko Pavlić and also with the Zagreb Studio for Contemporary Dance. In 2001 she leaves for Amsterdam to study at the Dance Department of the Theater School, learning to be a dance educator specializing in contemporary dance and improvisation.
Between 2003 and 2005 she was guest student in the Department of Choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) were she deepens her knowledge in areas of improvisation and choreography. She started to choreographer while still a student and as dance teacher at the Music Academy in Amsterdam and at dance schools in Amsterdam. She graduated as a dance teacher in 2004.
Between 2003 and 2008 she is active as a dance teacher in both Croatia and in the Netherlands, as a dancer she collaborates with: Karni Keidar (Elephant, Somniferoum, The Fool), Marta Reig Torre (The Space Between), Nicola Hepp (Passion), Ron Bunz (Just Can’t Get Enough)…
She has created these works: Teleport (Pula), La Voisin (Amsterdam), Ruben (Curacao, the Antilles)
