Serious Series
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?
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choreographers & performers: Aleksandra Janeva & Melanie Munt
music: Fabrizio Rota
light design: Laurence Halloy
about the performance
Serious Series is the first collaborative choreographic work by Melanie Munt and Aleksandra Janeva in cooperation with musician Fabrizio Rot.
In the performance itself we can see a diverse series of research that they present us with in episodes of random order. Their genuine honesty and dedication in each of the presented material do at times appear absurd, and at the same time also touching.
We are forced to ask the question if at all appropriate at this time and age if something on stage – is a bad choice.
about the authors
Aleksandra Janeva was born in Macedonia in 1975. She graduated from the School of Rythmic and Dance in Zagreb, following which she attended dance schools in Brigge and in Liege, Belgium. She was awarded a scholarship with Jennifer Muller Company in New York and also DanceWeb in Vienna. She used to dance for the Zagreb dance companies: Studio of Contemporary Dance, Zagreb Dance Ensemble and BadCo, with the latter producing her first work which was awarded the Grand Prix in Luxembourg. In Germany she collaborated with Ismael Ivo and Anne Mondin, in France with System Castafiore, and in Belgium with Brice, Leoroux, David Hernandez and Melanie Munt.
Melanie Munt was ecucated as dancer at Die Etage in Berlin, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in Rotterdam, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York and at P.A.R.T.S. in Bruxelles. Since 1999. she works in Belgium with Michele Noiret, Joanne Leighton, David Hernandez, Randi De Vilieghom and Bud Blumenthal. In 2002 she created a piece for the dance company of Michele Noiret – her first work – a solo Gerückt. Following this she formed her own company, Cie Melanie Munt, for which she has created Popsongs, Solo auf Schwellen, Co-Incidents & Co-Inc, La cacahouète, The Pulse Triptych (Petit Pulse, Pulse Solo & Pulse +), Babbel & encorps, Ce Faire à Voir (in collaboration with French Belgian choreographer – Barbara Mavro Thalassitis).
