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Goran
Bogdanovski (1971) Choreographer / dancer / performer / artistic director As a peformer he has worked successfully since 1989 with more than 70 choregraphers and directors in many different fields of performing arts – classical ballet, physical theatre, contemporary dance, film and video. For over 10 years he was a soloist of the Slovene National Opera and Ballet Theater and parallely enjoyed a rich and versatile career of a freelance artist that brought him to work with many theater artists and contemporary choreographers from the Slovenian and European arts scene. Michael Clark, Matjaž Pograjc and Betontanc, Dragan Živadinov, Pia and Pino Mlakar, Julio Lopez, Yuri Yamos, Jeremy Leslie-Spinks, Vlasto Dedovic, Ivo Kosi, Ksenja Hribar, Matjaž Faric, Milko Šparamblek,Francois Michele Pesenti, Ema Kugler, Emil Hrvatin, Howard Katz Fireheart, among others. He also took part of research projects with Emio Greco, Josef Nadj, David Zambrano, Andrew L.Harwood ...to mention just some of them. He also acted and danced in a number of films. |
Goran founded Fičo Balet in 2000, within wich he has been developing his own style of expression – combining music, light, dramaturgy, technology, text and body. For Fičo Balet to date, he choreographed five full-length dance productions, organized and headed five international reaserch projects and created an educational program. With his own work he performed over 200 performances and held workshops in 22 countries throughout Europe and in North America. He also won several prestigious awards. In 2003 he launched the first biannual Slovene contemporary dance festival Gibanica (Moving Cake), in 2002 he opened up Kino Šiška as a rehearsal space for contemporary dance and theatre in Ljubljana and in 2007 launched NOMAD Dance Academy with partners from Slovenia, Croatia, Srebia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. He has received Triton Award 2000 for performance 1:0 and was chosen as 'dance artist of the year' in 2000 by the Slovenian weekly magazine Nedelo. He also received DanceWeb scolarship 2000, 2002 in Vienna; and an Artslink Residency Award 2003 for New York, as well as a 2004 UNESCO Aschberg Award in Montreal .... |
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