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[ Sun City ]
Created
by Goran Bogdanovski and performed by exquisite dancers, Sun City is a
movement spectacle of fluid energy, of falls and rises, equilibrium
challenges and flowing emotions; it is both utopia and reality, an
illustrated story of individual revelations within a collective body
Combining different dance movement schools and new-age music sources,
Bogdanovski re-creates an innovative basis of contemporary dance
expression sourcing from the historical and the new.
Daliborka Podboj, Ve่er, 2 February 2007
In fact, Sun City is a true "spectacle" with
occasional flashings of lights and esoteric electronic music partly
performed by the gaily-dressed Michael Wadada seated on an elevated
platform, while the dancers in white costumes under him move and
transform the image in the sand spread on the floor.
Ana Perne, Polet, 30 January 2007
Bogdanovski projected his aspirations into seven
dancers of various dance backgrounds; thus, the prevailing contemporary
dance movement has been combined with classical, hip-hop and Indian
dance elements. The choreographer took on a demanding task of hulling
the essence from different styles while not allowing it to get
distorted in mutual combinations, and of upgrading individual elements
of movement with a structure surpassing the convention of absolute
dance. The result is a collage of movement sequences uniting and
dispersing individual dancers.
Alja, Radio Student, 2 February 2007
Sun City is accompanied by mystical music of the Suns of Arqa and the
Gayan Uttejak Orchestra; along with the dancers, the simple words of
one of the songs ("
it's loving, it's belonging
") express a lot
about closeness, touch, gaze, friendship, emotions
about the dance of
love and affiliation this is how we understood it.
It is the dancers that offer the most. One can hear the words without
being spoken and one can feel the touch without being touched. This is
their gift, for the emotions linger even after their final bow.
Tina Kristan, student of FDV
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