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After succesful last year’s shows of our most recent prosuction Firebird, choreographed by Sergiu Matis, we are very happy to announce new shows in Zagreb Dance Center (ZPC):

March, 8th 2024. at 8 PM
March, 9th 2024. at 8 PM
April, 23rd 2024. at 8 PM
April, 24th 2024. at 8 PM
May, 7th 2024. at 8 PM
May, 8th 2024. at 8 PM

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FIREBIRD   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

We are very happy to announce new shows of our performance for children Cockroaches, directed by Mario Kovač.
The shows will take place in Zagreb Dance Center (ZPC) on February, 28th at 6 PM and February, 29th at 10 AM.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!

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Žohari   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

We are very happy to announce our next performance: House Bolero, choreographed by Matej Kejžar will be performed again, maybe for the last time, by full cast, including retired members of Studio. Come and celebrate dance with us in Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM) on Tuesday, 13th of February, 2024. at 8 PM. We are looking forward to seeing You in the audience and after.

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HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

STUDIO CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY is looking for four dancers with rich experience in professional dance, for a two year engagement in the company, with a possibility of prolonging the contract. We are looking for mature dancers, older than 26 years of age, with strong improvisational skills, strong dance technique and experience in pedagogical work. Two dancers start their work with the company in April 2024, and the other two in September, 2024.
Audition will take place on Sunday, February, 25th, 2024 from 10 AM till 5 PM in ZKM (Poly).
Please, send your applications with a resume and a photo to: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till February, 11th, 2024, the latest.

HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

Studio Contemporary Dance Company is announcing an Open Call for choreographers interested in creating a short dance form as a part of the programme Studio Youth 2.0. The vision for Studio Youth programme is to form a young ensemble which creates performative works that speak to young audiences, that is, older adolescents (17+) and in that context, we are interested in an engaged work that corresponds with interests, questions and preoccupations of modern day adolescents. This year, we want to form the performative work as a dance concert in collaboration with female teenage band Željezne pilule.
Besides for making a dance concert, created materials will be used in filming a short video, in combination with one original song from the reportoire of the band.
Željezne pilule is a female teenage band active since November 2022, which plays and creates under influence of punk (punk rock, hardcore, riot grrrl, postpunk). Themes of their songs are problems of women in modern day, growing up, social relations, addictions, mental health problems etc. Members of the band are: Katja Njari, vocalist of strong character studying Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature; Mihaela Dužnović, rythm guitarist, back up singer and future dentist; Morena Dobrić, a smashing lead guitarist, not rarely the brain of the band and future paleonthologist; Marta Goleš Salihagić, a perky drummer and design student and Barbara Cvjetičanin, a future star actress and energetic bass player. On their reportoire are original songs Ženska Histerija, Xanax, Moja persona and soon Delirij Tremens, as well as covers Troje (Xenia), Cherry Bomb (The Runaways) i Deceptacion (Le Tigre).

Working process is planned for the period between March, 18th and June, 14th. (rehearsals are happening 3 times per week in the evening with possibility of adding extra rehearsals and working online).

The dance concert is planned for mid June.

We invite choreographers to send their CV with a short concept proposition to: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till January, 30th the latest.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications!

After a successful premiere, we are very happy to announce new performances of Firebird, choreographed by Sergiu Matis, which will take place on 1st and 2nd of December 2023 in Zagreb Dance Center at 8 PM.

Tickets: https://core-event.co/events/zar-ptica-28d2/

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FIREBIRD   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

We are very happy to announce that our performance figures, figures, choreographed by Martina Tomić, will be a part of Sissi Autumn Dance Week Festival in Budapest. Figures, figures will take stage of Bethlen Square Theatre in Budapest on November, 15th, 2023 at 7 PM.

SCDC (HR) – figures, figures (Beyond Front@)

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STUDIO YOUTH 2.0 by Studio Contemporary Dance Company is a special programme of creative education for young dancers based on the work on contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and creative process with the support of the pedagogues – members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company. It is imagined as an educational programme which prepares young dancers for continuation of their higher artistic education and professional artistic work.
Since the restart of the project, many members of Studio Youth continued their higher artistic education on academies in Croatia and abroad and some of them gained higher visibility in the realm of broader contemporary dance comunity and started with their own professional artistic work.
Beside being an educational programme in its basis, long term goal of the project is creating a young semi-professional company which creates performances intended for young audience. Thus, from 2024, the programme becomes an all-year round project and we enrich it with content that opens new possibilities of professional experiences for all members.

Studio Youth programme 2024 begins in January 2024 and includes:

-continuous work on contemporary dance techniques and improvisation with the members of Studio
-individual menthor work (technical and creative) with the support of the members of the company (special attention given to preparations for auditions for artistic academies)
-access to professional morning classes with the comopany once a month, all year round
-creative process with a selected young choreographer with performances in professional conditions (CM Ribnjak, Festival Malih plesnih formi-KUC Travno, with a possibility of performing on festivals aimed at atracting young audience)
-possibility of participating in a choreographic research by Ana Mrak (1-2 members)
-learning repertoire of Studio’s performances for young audience, in order to ensure substitutes for professional company with possibility of performing with the company

Audition is open for young dancers (16+) and the application must include basic information about candidate (name and surname, date of birth, short CV)
Please, send your application to studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till Novemeber, 30th 2023 the latest.

The audition will be held on December, 3rd 2023 in Centar za kulturu Ribnjak at 4 PM.

The performance Cockroaches, directed by Mario Kovač is selected as a part of the 2023 program Ruksak pun kulture (Backpack full of culture) by Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media. After performances and workshops held in Vrpolje, Božjakovina, Laslovo and Tovarnik, Studio Contemporary Dance Company will perform and teach workshops in elementary schools in Runovići and Sisak.

Žohari   ✧   Nina Đurđević

Last weekend Studio Contemporary Dance Company made a premiere of the new piece Firebird, chorographed by Sergiu Matis. Next shows are planned for Decmber, 1st and 2nd 2023 in Zagreb Dance Center.

Author: Sergiu Matis
Performed by: Studio Contemporary Dance Company
Premire: 13.10.2023, 8 PM
Reprise: 14.10.2023, 8 PM

How would the world look like without birds?
In this performance, the sad song of the firebird speaks about a world in flames. Dance becomes a desperate attempt of an escape from one’s own human form and transforms into a desire for metamorphosis and rebirth. In a world without future we reach for leftovers: myths and folk tales which are based on the force of nature. This search for the firebird forefronts birds which inspired folk storytelling. In times when many species are in danger of extinction, the firebird represents a hopeless gesture of nature conservation in theatre by recollecting imminent connection between human kind and environment.

Choreography: Sergiu Matis
Performed by: Branko Banković, Ana Mrak, Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić i Ida Jolić
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavićević
Asistent of choreography and dramaturgy: Dina Ekštajn
Text: Sergiu Matis in collaboration with creative team and performers of Firebird
Vocal coach: Bojan Pogrmilović
Music: Hrvoje Nikšić
Costume design: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin
Asistent of costume design and making of head pieces: Ana Roko
Making of set: Leonardo Krakić, Krešimir Brkljačić, Antonio Gabelić i Dina Ekštajn
Light design: Saša Fistrić
Translation of subtitles to Croatian: Ana Vnučec i Dina Ekštajn
Photography: Nina Đurđević, Anto Magzan
Visuals: Tihomir Filipec
Production: Studio Contemporary Dance Company
Realized in cooperation wtih Zagreb Dance Center, as a part of non residential program support.
This project is supported by the funds of Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb and Kultura Nova foundation.
Thanks to: Helena Novosel, Matija Baotić, Hive.

FIREBIRD   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

We are at the beginning of another exciting season and happy to announce many performances, including one premiere:

11.9.2023. Cockroaches, OŠ Stjepan Radić, Božjakovina, as a part of the Ruksak pun kulture programme, funded by Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media
30.9.2023. House Bolero, ZPC, 8 PM
6.10.2023. House Bolero, Slavonski Brod
7.10.2023. Rythm Tam, school yard OŠ dr. Ivana Merza, 12 PM
13.10.2023. PREMIERE: Firebird, choreographed by Sergiu Matis, ZPC
14.10.2023. Firebird, ZPC
26.10.2023. Cockroaches, ZPC, 9.30 AM i 12 PM

More info soon!
We are looking forward to seeing You in the audience!

After succesful screening at Lens Dans Festival in Bruxelles, we are very proud to announce that Summa Summarum, a dance video created within the frame of Studio Youth programme, choreographed by Nika Janković Disney, is selected for Video Dance Showcase of 31st Quinzena de Dança de Almada! The video will be presented on the festival in Almada which will take place from September, 21st to October, 8th 2023.

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House Bolero will be performed as a part of 24. Dance and Non-verbal Theatre Festival in San Vincenti, Istria on Sunday, July, 23rd 2023. The performance will start at 23h on the main square. See you there!

More:

https://www.svetvincenatfestival.com/en/predstave/2023/House-Bolero/248

HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

After a succesful tour on the Croatian coast, House Bolero is traveling to Ljubljana, where we will perform as a part of Spider festival, on Friday, June 16th atb 10.30 PM. We are very happy because this will be the first time, after the premiere, that almost the whole cast is together again!

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HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

At the end of the season, in collaboration with 40. Dance Week Festival, Studio Contemporary Dance Company gives two perfeormances as a gift to Zagreb audience! The performances will take place in Center for Culture Ribnjak.
The entry is free of charge, but it is neccessary to register.
You will be able to see House Bolero, choreographed by Matej Kejžar and a premiere of DISORDER, directed by Sara Stanić and performed by members of Studio Youth.

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DISORDER

/dɪsˈɔːdə/disorder (premiere of Studio Youth)

ABOUT:

What started as a research of BODY DISMORPHIC DISORDER became a research and an attempt of choreographing a disorder as such. Disorder of rythm, perception, self boundaries, borders of space, disorder of interpreting yourself, distrust of your own assesment, inability of the correct interpretation of environment. Question: in relation to what do we determine non-disturbed, correct (and beacause of that also beautiful), and maybe the most important – if a succesion of irregularities becomes a rule, are there irregularities at all or there is just rythm? In relation to what do we build perception/trust/direction?

Author: Sara Stanić
Choreographic assistance: Martina Tomić
Performed by: members of Studio Youth programme
Project was created within the frame of Ribnjak residency
Production: Studio za suvremeni ples (SSP)

The entry is free of charge but it is necessary to reserve tickets on: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com

Studio Contemporary Dance Company announces open call for choreographers interested in creating a short form dance performance for Studio Youth 2.0 programme. This year we decided to produce a project that speaks to young audiences, older asolescents (17+) and, therefore, we are interested in concepts that correspond with interests, questions and preoccupations of modern day adolescents. The subject of the performance is a matter of free choice of the choreographer.

Working process with members of the Studio Youth is planned for the period between 18.4. and 18.6. (rehearsals are happening 3 times per week in the evening (with possibility of adding extra rehearsals and working online).

The live performance is planned for the end of June.

We invite choreographers to send their CV with a concept proposition on email: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till March, 15th the latest.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications!

DJEVOJKE U LJETNIM HALJINAMA VOLIM   ✧   PETRA HRAŠĆANEC / SAŠA BOŽIĆ   ✧   photo© : IVICA IVČEVIĆ

After performances all over Croatia, Rythm Tam is coming back to Zagreb this Sunday, January 15th at 5 PM in Mjesni odbor Trnjanjska Savica. After the performance, children can participate in a dance workshop.

The entrance is free of charge!!!

Come on the road with us and Tam!

Ritam Tam – Renata Carola Gatica / Ana Mrak

It it with great pride that we announce that Studio is the winner of this year’s special award of professional dance organizations for contribution to development of contemporary dance in Croatia which marks 60 years of existence! We are extremely proud that our colleagues recognize our work, our tendencies and continuity. We thank to the numerous generations of dancers and choreographers who, with their dedication and work, contributed to long and rich Studio’s artistic legacy and brought it to the 60th anniversary of existence!

On the other side, Croatian Theatre Award for Best Choreography this year belongs to Irma Omerzo for the choreography of the performance Spectacle, produced and performed by Studio!

STUDIO YOUTH is a special program of creative education for young dancers based on contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and creative process with the support of dance pedagogues – members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company. The goal of this educational program is to prepare young dancers for the continuation of their dance education and for the work in the field of professional dance.
After a few year break, this program was reactivated two years ago. We are very happy that we can say that out of the seven members of Studio Youth 2.0, four of them continued their dance education on dance academies in Croatia and abroad, two of them started working on professional dance projects – Dora started with her own work and Ana joined Studio in House Bolero.

After this year’s successive educational and creative process, we are continuing with a thoroughly structured program in the duration of six months. The program starts in January and last till the beginning of July and it consists of:
– contemporary dance classes (technique and improvisation) with the members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company
-working individually (members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company with youth members)
-creative process with a selected choreographer and performing in professional conditions

Audition is open for young dancers (16+) and the application must include basic information about candidate (name and surname, date of birth, short CV)
Please, send your application to studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till December, 16th 2022 the latest.

The audition will be held on December,17th 2022 in Centar za kulturu Ribnjak at 1 PM

We are happy to invite you to the performance House Bolero which will take place in Zagreb Dance Center on November, 23rd at 8PM. This time the peformance will be a little different and the number of seats in the audience is very limited so be sure to reserve your tickets on time!

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HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

We are very proud to announce that multiple members and associates of Studio are nominated for Croatian Actor Awards and Awards of Croatian professional dance organizations.

Ana Mrak is nominated for Croatian Actor Award in the category Best performance (female role) for her performance in Fantastic Species, produced by Studio Contemporary Dance Company and choreographed by Ana Kreitmeyer.

Irma Omerzo is nominated for Croatian Actor Awawrd in the category Best Choreography for the performance Spectacle, produced by Studio.

Dalibor Šakić is nominated for Croatian Actor Award in the category Best costume design for the performance Fantastic Species, produced by Studio and choreographed by Ana Kreitmeyer.

The performers (Dina Ekštajn, Ana Mrak and Ida Jolić) of figures, figures, choreographed by Martina Tomić and produced by Studio, are nominated for Award of Croatian professional dance organizations in the category Best collective performance.

Congratulations and good luck to all of them!

We are very happy that we can invite you to performances of HOUSE BOLERO, a project choreographed by Matej Kejžar by which we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Studio Contemporary Dance Company.

The performances will take place in ZKM on November 14th and 15th at 8 PM. You can reserve and buy your tickets at the box office of ZKM or online on the following link: https://www.zekaem.hr/rezerviraj/#1668384000_2000

The entire profit of the tickets will be donated to the familiy of our recently deceased colleague Mirjana Preis.

HOUSE BOLERO

Concept and choreography: Matej Kejžar
Performed by: Drago Asić Lika, Andrija Laboš Jerry, Desanka Virant, Bosiljka Vujović Mažuran, Branko Banković, Ana Mrak, Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić, Ida Jolić, Šimun Stankov i Ana Novković
Light design and scenography: Petra Veber
Photography: Nina Đurđević
Production:: Studio Contemporary Dance Company
Thanks to: Snježana Šolić, Damir Buntak, Igor Ekštajn, Milica Sinkauz, tehnical team of ZKM i tehnical team of HNK

This project is supported by the funds of Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb and Kultura Nova Foundation.

It all started as an ode to Dance five years ago, with a common experiment on how to learn from dance, rather than on learning how to dance or how to be oneself. The crazy, odd, queer and idiosyncratic dance styles evolved around working with (respecting) physical presence, and
focused on kinesthetic writing in the matter of space and time, in an (under) common force-field, in a dynamic territory, and in a place where a constant change of dynamics is possible.
This time, the occasion is the 60th anniversary of the Studio Contemporary Dance Company. It is an intergenerational experiment with the dancers aged 21 to 69. Working with their bodies, with various ways of physical presence, and a passion for dance they inevitably bring about new implications: the writings of dances as a force that challenges the vast field of normalization.

HOUSE BOLERO   ✧   Nina Đurđević  

On Saturday, 15th of October Cockroaches will be performed in Split, in Dom Mladih, starting at 8PM.

Not long after that, on October 28th, you can see Cockroaches again in Zagreb, in Zagreb Dance Center. The performance starts at 10 AM.

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Žohari   ✧   Nina Đurđević

On October, 7th the piece Fantastic Species, choreographed by Ana Kreitmeyer, will be performed in Slavonski Brod as a part of the festival Mia Čorak Slavenska Days of Dance. The performance will start at 7.30 PM in Ivana Brlić Mažuranić concert-theatre hall.

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Fantastične vrste   ✧   Ana Kreitmeyer   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

We are going on a trip again with Tam!!!

Ryth Tam will be performed on Hvar island, in Hvar, as a part of the Hvar Summer Festival.

The performance will begin at 11 AM in Galery Arsenal.

After the performance, there will be a short dance workshop for children.

See You there!

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RITAM TAM – bajka o ritmu   ✧   CAROLA GATICA / ANA MRAK   ✧   photo© :

AUDITION

Studio Contemporary Dance Company is looking for a male dancer (17+) to participate in the
multigenerational project House Bolero by choreographer Matej Kejžar. The project marks 60th anniversary of the Studio Contemporary Dance Company.
Working process will take place from October 18th till November 18th, 2022 in Zagreb, Croatia.
We would like to invite all interested dancers to send a CV and a video recording of improvised dance material (maximum of 2 minutes) to: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com, no later than August 19th, 2022.
Selected candidates will be informed about the further selection process.

For more information about the Studio Contemporary Dance Company visit www.ssp.hr

On 18th of June Studio began the celebration of its 60th birthday with an event on Ribnjak. On this occasion members of Studio Youth performed a short piece called Murmurations, choreographed by Nika Disney, and current members of Studio performed an improvisational piece accompanied by live music by Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and based on 1966 Ana Maletić’s performance Magics.

We want to say a big thenk you to Ribnjak Stage, Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro and the whole team for the support and beautiful collaboration which we achieved and, in the most beautiful way, merked the end of this dance season. With this event we also began the celebration of the company’s 60th birthday which we will continue till the end of the year with various manifestations connected to the long and rich history of the company.

Also, a big thank you to Nenad and Alen Sinkauz for their ever brilliant musical support for the project Magics, to Matija Kralj for the video Summa Summarum, to Nika Disney for the inspirational collaboration with Studio Youth and to talented dancers of Studio Youth for their engagement and enthusiasm.

We are looking forward to adventures in the future!

Just how magic it was, you can look for yourself in the following gallery.

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević

MURMURATIONS   ✧   Nika Disney   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević 

MURMURATIONS   ✧   Nika Disney   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević >  

MURMURATIONS   ✧   Nika Disney   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević  

MURMURATIONS   ✧   Nika Disney   ✧   photo© : Nina Đurđević 

On June, 15th we were performing Spectacle in Kumrovec, as a part of the program Contemporary in Zagorje. And just how spectacular it was for us and the audience, you can see in the following gallery.

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Matija Smuk

STUDIO CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
invites You to the video projection of
SUMMA SUMMARUM
and performances
MURMURATIONS
and
MAGICS

on 18th of June 2022 starting at 20:30h
in Youth Center Ribnjak, Ribnjak street 1, 10 000 Zagreb
These projects are based on research of sixty years of existence of Studio Contempoeaey Dance Company through programs Studio Youth 2.0, and SSP:60.
Entrance is free of charge!!
We kindly ask to reserve Your place till June, 17th at 16h by writing to: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com

SUMMA SUMMARUM
The video will be presented in the foyer at 20:30h.

Idea and choreography: Nika Jankovic Disney
Performers: Ines Borić, Dora Pocedić, Judita Tripar, Lea Filipčić, Ana Novković, Isabela Eva Ljubičić, Ana Kljujev
Music: Darja Janosevic
Filming and editing: Matija Kralj
Production: Studio Contemporary Dance Company, program Studio Youth 2. 0
Thanks to: Zagreb Youth Theatre ZKM, Jelena Remetin

Summa Summarum is a visual expression of nostalgia as a recollection of the parts of ourselves which we no longer hold; an invitation to observe our identity as a summary of experiences in relationships and a personal message of gratitude for connection and longing for the parts of ourselves that have transformed in mutual contact.

MURMURATIONS

The performance starts at 21:00h on the terace.

Idea and choreography: Nika Jankovic Disney
Performers: Ines Borić, Dora Pocedić, Judita Tripar, Lea Filipčić, Ana Novković, Isabela Eva Ljubičić, Ana Kljujev
Music: Darja Janosevic
Production: Studio Contemporary Dance Company, program Studio Youth 2.0
Thanks to: Youth Center Ribnjak, Jelena Remetin

Murmurations is a second part of the work with Studio Youth. At the point where the first part, a dance video, adresses to the individual as a summary pf all interactions, Murmurations continues with an assumption that every individual already holds the world in him/herself. Together we have researched the process of grouping with the purpose of finding security and comfort within the groups. The performers accept the invitation to be carried away like waves in a sea current. Every body, decisively, as a part of a whole, closes a full circle.

MAGICS

The performance starts at 21:30h on the terace.

Authors and performers: Ana Mrak, Ida Jolić, Martina Tomić, Ana Vnučec, Dina Ekštajn, Branko Banković
Music: Alen and Nenad Sinkauz
Production: Studio Contemporary Dance Company
Studio Contemporary Dance Company is reviving the movements of Ana Maletić from the choreography “Magics”, which was in 1966. adapted for television. In this choreography, Ana Maletić was researching archetypes of dance and religious and magic rituals. The choreography consists of three ritual scenes. The first one depicts a healing ritual, the second one a metamorphosis, and the third one a rain calling. Musically accompanied by Alen and Nenad Sinkauz, Studio revives the history of the company and uses the movement of Ana Maletić as a basis for their own movement research. Today’s improvisational performance of Magics transpones the original movement and uses it for a new vision of dance magic on stage. The first performance was coproduced as a part of 37th Dance Week Festival 2020.

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

We are going on a trip again with Tam!!!

Ryth Tam will be performed in Ogulin, as a part of the Ogulin Fairytale Festival.

The performance will begin at 11 AM in Regoč.

See You there!

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RITAM TAM – bajka o ritmu   ✧   CAROLA GATICA / ANA MRAK   ✧   photo© :

Rythm Tam will be performed on 12th Hurtok program, organized by Youth Centre Ribnjak for our little friends from Ukraine.

The performance starts at 10 AM. After the performance, at 11 AM, there will be two workshops – one dance workhop and one visual art workshop.

Applications: info@cmr.hr
The children should come accompanied by an adult person.
All contents are free of charge.

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RITAM TAM – bajka o ritmu   ✧   CAROLA GATICA / ANA MRAK   ✧   photo© :

On 15th of June, Spectacle will be performed in Kumrovec, as a part of the program Contemporary in Zagorje, organised by House of Klajn.

The performance will take place in front of Political School in Kumrovec at 6:30PM.

See You in Zagorje!!!

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SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Jasenko Rasol

Healers – next stop: Sofia, Bulgaria

Healing bulgarian performance spaces on May, 17th at 7:30 PM in Toplocentrala in Sofia.
The performance will take place as a part of the festival Antistatic. (https://antistaticfestival.org/en/project/healers/)

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Healers   ✧   Jansa Layes Vinovrški   ✧   photo© : Silvija Dogan

This May two of our performances Spectacle, by Irma Omerzo and Rythm Tam, by Renata Carola Gatica will be shown in Rijeka.

Audience from Rijeka will get the opportunity to see Spectacle on May, 14th at 7 PM on the location known as Exportdrvo, as a part of contemporary dance festival Port of Dance.

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SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Jasenko Rasol

On the other hand Rythm Tam will make children and all those who feel like children on May, 22nd at 5 PM, after which Studio members will hold a little workshop for children. All of this is happening as a part of the festival Plesni zbirkus.

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Ritam Tam – Renata Carola Gatica / Ana Mrak

The performance Healers, created in coproduction with Berlin company Public in Private is once again on the stage of Zagreb Dance Center.

Check what is mutual for Zagreb Dance Center, Zagreb Dance and Horse Association, and softcore movies from the 80s.

Healers are healing on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd 2022 at 8PM in Zagreb Dance Center.

We are looking forward to seeing You in the audience!

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Studio Contemporary Dance Company proudly presents the premiere of a new performance for children: Cockroaches, created by the motives of a short drama piece written by Stanislaw Witkiewicz and directed by Mario Kovač.

The premiere peformances will take place on March 25th, at 8PM and March 26th, at 11AM and 6PM in Zagreb Dance Center,

Cockroaches are intended for everyone in the age between 5 and 105!!!

Žohari   ✧   Nina Đurđević

Žohari   ✧   Nina Đurđević

It is our pleasure to announce that a young choreographer Nika Janković is selected on our open call for creating a short dance form inspired by the performance ”Veze”. We are looking forward to seeing her work.

http://www.nikajankovic.com/index.html

Studio Contemporary Dance Company announces open call for choreographers intersted in creating a short form performance (around 20 min) inspired by motives from dance performance ”Veze/ Connections” from 1963. choreographed by Ana Maletić. The project is part of the Studio Youth 2.0 programme and is part of the 60th anniversary of Studio Contemporary Dance Company. Working process with members of the Studio Youth  is happening in two parts from 15.3. till 07. 4. rehearsals are happening 3 times per week in the evening (with possibility of taking place online) and from 06. – 20. 6. 2022.

First part of the process include creating dance materials that are provided for making a dance film (which will take place in the second part of April) and last part include adapting materias for the live performance which is planned for the end of the June.

We invite choreographers to send their CV with a concept proposition on email: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till 25.01. 2022.

Link on performance from 1963. (”Veze”): https://vimeo.com/660223980

Looking forward!

STUDIO YOUTH is a special program of creative education for young dancers based on contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and creative process with the support of dance pedagogues – members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company. The goal of this educational program is to prepare young dancers for the continuation of their dance education and for the work in the field of professional dance.
This program was active continuously until 2016 and many young dancers passed through it, some of them continuing their dance education on dance academies abroad, some of them joining professional dance projects produced by Studio Contemporary Dance Company, some of them working as active members of Studio in the present time.

This year successive online creative process were held by the SSP mentors and Studio Youth 2.0 program is continuing to develop for the next 6 months. Program is starting in January until June and its consist of:
-joining contemporary dance classes (technique and improvisation) with the members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company
-working individually (members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company with youth members)
-possibility of joining professional classes and workshops guided by the various Croatian dance artist
-creative process with a young choreographer
-making dance video
-possibility of participating in new production with choreographer Matej Kejžar (September/November 2022.) in Zagreb

Audition is open for young dancers (17+) and the application must include basic information about candidate (name and surname, date of birth, short CV)
Please, send your application to studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till December, 16th 2021 the latest.

New performance figure, figure. was held in ZPC on 26./27.11.20h

CHOREOGRAPHY
Martina Tomić

PERFORMED BY
Dina Ekštajn, Ida Jolić, Ana Mrak

DRAMATURGY
Ivana Đula

SOUND DESIGN
Luka Vrbanić, BILK

COSTUMES
Ana Fucijaš

LIGHT DESIGN
Toni Modrušan

TEXT AND GRAFIC DESIGN
OAZA (Nina Bačun and Roberta Bratović)

VISUAL
Lena Kramarić

PRODUCTION
Studio Contemporary Dance Company:Tena Bošnjaković, Ivan Mrđen

COPRODUCTION
Nonresidential program Zagreb dance centar

Thanks to: Milica Sinkauz, Branko Banković, Ana Vnučec, Ana Kreitmeyer, Aleksandra Jurišić Rastović

The performance was financially supported by the Zagreb City office for culture, the Ministry of Culture and Media and Kultura Nova foundation

we seek inspiration for this dance epic from
an essay by giorgio agamben called the end of the poem
in the text it states that poetry emerges from the tension
between sound and meaning
the possibility of enjambment is what separates poetry
from prose: the moment when the rhyme ceases
to correspond with the end of a thought
but what happens when the poem ends, when
the possibility of enjambment ceases to exist,
is the end of a poem a crisis of the verse and
a negation of the poetic
when analyzing a baudelaire poem and its ending
proust notices how the poem is suddenly
ruined how it lost its breath
walter benjamin when speaking about the end of another baudelaire
poem says that the poem suddenly
ends itself as if a poem could not truly have
an end because an end presumes what
is not immanent to poetry: the correspondence of sound
and meaning
leaning on valéry’s observation that
poetry is to prose what dancing is to walking we transfer the obsession
at the end of the poem to movement
what is the end of movement, where does dance begin, when does
walking become dancing, what if the end
becomes the beginning
while seeking for the answer we stop the movement in poses
static figures
by investigating the notion of a figure in everyday life
literature sport dance we create landscapes
through bodies
(landscapes of figures in movement) we examine our relationship
towards (our own) figure, we push it outside of its borders
of previously established movements
we expose ourselves
how comfortable do we feel in a presumed female
figure, what is a presumed female figure, what if
we go too far, where is the boundary and is there one
a moving figure becomes dance, brings an array of new
associations and emotions, which of these do we find
acceptable, which of these we do we not, what do they mean for us
and should they mean something, what is a typical figure in
contemporary dance
we imagine the five books as a dedication to dance
to body,
to figure,
to (the) end.

For the first time Studio Contemporary Dance Company is opening its all-year-round research process to interested professional dancers through workshop Poetry and physicality.

Workshop Poetry and physicality, by dramaturge Ivana Đula and dancer Martina Tomić, is focused on finding tools for translation of a poetic form into movement. Considering the selected poetic materials, we will explore the possibilities of their transformation into individual dance materials, which would appear in a from of trio. In choreographing these dance responses, accent will be put on the beginnings and the ends of movements, questioning the very nature of the end of a movement, verse or a poem: how can an end become a beginning and vice versa. Beside that, materials will also be researched through different techniques of stopping the movement, techniques derived from the concept of pause and its synonyms, which can be found in dance and poetry. This research is a part of the research of Studio Contemporary Dance Company and it is financially supported by the Foundation Kultura Nova.

Time and place: September, 27th – 30th 2021, 10 – 12 AM in Zagreb Dance Center.

This workshop is open only for professional dancers. If You are interested, please apply to: info@zagrebackiplesnicentar.hr

Photo by Silvija Dogan

Photo by Silvija Dogan

Photo by Silvija Dogan

Photo by Silvija Dogan

After summer vacation and a little bit of summer touring, a busy autumn is ahead of us. Here are the dates for our upcoming performances:

HEALERS
September, 23rd, 2021 at 8 PM at ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theatre)
September, 24rd, 2021 at 8 PM at ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theatre)

SPECTACLE
October, 1st, 2021 at 6:30 PM in Split, Prokurative
October, 10th, 2021 at 5 PM at High School Yard Elipsa, Zagreb

RYTHM TAM
October 2nd, 2021 at 11 AM in Split, Centre Solar
October, 24th, 2021 at 5 PM in Samobor, POU Samobor

FANTASTIC SPECIES
October, 16th, 2021 at 8 PM in Zagreb Dance Center as a part of Dance Inn Festival

Be sure to reserve Your tickets on time. We are looking forward to seeing You in the audience!

Our last year’s performance Spectacle is going to be performed again this summer on festivals in Svetvinčenat, Karlovac and Novi Sad. So, reserve the dates and tickets on time and see You there!

Also, since two performers from Spectacle are pregnant, we have new dancers entering the show: our very own Dina Ekštajn instead of Ana Vnučec and Nastasja Štefanić instead of Tea Maršanić. We wish them to break a leg and are looking forward to the performances!

Svetvinčenat: Dance and Non-verbal Theatre Festival, on July, 23rd 2021, at 22:15h on the main square

Karlovac: Karlovac Dance Festival, on August 30th 2021, at 19h on Basketball field Šanac

Novi Sad: Infant Festival, on September 3rd 2021, at 20h in Kineska četvrt, Bulevar Despota Stefana 5, Novi Sad

See You there!

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SPECTACLE   ✧   Irma Omerzo   ✧   photo© : Jasenko Rasol

We are happy to finally announce the premiere of our new performance Healers, which was created in coproduction with our partners – Berlin based company Public in Private and choreographed by Jasna Layes Vinovrški. Healers was originally supposed to be premiered last year in Berlin, but due to corona crisis, it was postponed several times. So, now the premiere will finally happen – on July, 1st 2021 at 8PM in Zagreb Dance Center, as a part of Perforacije festival.

HEALERS is a co-production between Public in Private company from Berlin and Studio contemporary dance company from Zagreb. Initially two different “Healers” teams from Berlin and from Zagreb had to work together hand in hand on stage. Due to the corona crisis, the collaboration couldn’t take place as planned and the two teams will perform for now separately. However the work has been created and developed with both teams equally. Also the first draft of this work was made in close collaboration with Darko Dragičević, during the event series Flutgraben performances #1 in 2019.

Artistic team of Healers has the task of disovering and eliminating situations, unsolved problems, emotional and energetic stagnations which could have accumulated in the walls of the space in which the performance is happening. In this case, the space of Zagreb Dance Center is carefully examined: what is its history and how is it handling its current function as a dance theatre?

Concept and choreography: Jasna L. Vinovrški
Performance: Ana Vnučec , Branko Banković , Martina Tomić | (Berlin team: Cécile Bally Darko Dragičević , Jasna L. Vinovrški)
Light design: Catalina Fernandez
Stage design: Clément Layes
Costumes: Malena Modeer
Choreographic advice: Dina Ekštajn
Performance assistance: Mia Stark
Production: Valerie Terwei, Joseph Wegmann/ Tena Bošnjaković, Ivan Mrđen
Press: Aïsha Mia Lethen

Funded by Berlin Senatverwaltung for Culture and Europe, Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the City of Zagreb, Foundation Kultura Nova. Production by Cie Public in Private in coproduction with Studio Contemporary Dance Company from Zagreb and Tanzfabrik Berlin.

Very much looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Studio Contemporary Dance Company presents

DANCE SONGS

short dance videos created as a result of an online creative process Studio Youth 2.0

The main idea behind this project was to investigate different ways in which a poetic text can corelate with the body or dance performance. How can poetry be made from the physicality of the dancer and vice versa? The investigative approach was guided by the idea of silencing the rythm. Each member of Studio Youth 2.0 entered the creative process by bringing a poetic text by her own choice, which served as a basis for research. With the support of mentors – members of Studio, young dancers used words, thoughts, lyrics, figures, rythm and melody of the chosen poetic text, and approached the material through specific praxis, thus creating a unique dance vocabulary while, at the same time, not neglecting poeticity of the movement.

In the period from June, 29th till July 3rd, 2021 every day we will present one video, made in cooperation between each dancer, mentor and video maker Matija Kralj.

Videos will be presented on Studio’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

29.06. Ana Novković

30.06. Ana Kljujev

01.07. Ivona Mezulić

02.07. Jana Božić

03.07. Sunčica Bandić

Project Dance Songs is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.

Our well known performance for children Rythm Tam – The Fairy Tale of Rythm will be performed again, on July, 2nd, 2021, at 7PM in The Centre for Culture Ludbreg – Centar za kulturu i informiranje Dragutin Novak, in Ludbreg.

The number of the spectators will be limited due to the current epidemiological measures regarding coronavirus so hurry up and get your tickets on time!

We are looking forward to perform Rythm Tam again and see little happy faces in the audience!

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RITAM TAM – bajka o ritmu   ✧   CAROLA GATICA / ANA MRAK   ✧   photo© :

Very soon after succesful premiere, you will have the opportunity to see our new performance Fantastic Species, choreographed by Ana Kreitmeyer, in MSU. The performance will take place on Tuesday, 8th of June 2021 in Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU).

Hurry up and reserve Your ticket on time because the number of spectators is reduced due to the current epiodemiological measures.

See You there!

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Fantastic Species   ✧   Ana Kreitmeyer   ✧   photo© : Igor Pauška

Studio Contemporary Dance Company and Ana Kreitmeyer presents:

Fantastic Species

Premiere: May, 24th 2021 at 7 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art – SOLD OUT!!!
Reprise: May, 25th 2021 at 7 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art – reservation possible through recepcija@msu.hr

These performances are part of the festival ANTISEZONA 21.

Choreography: Ana Kreitmeyer
Performance: Branko Banković, Dina Ekštajn, Ida Jolić, Ana Mrak, Martina Tomić, Ana Vnučec
Dramaturgy: Nina Gojić
Scenography and light design: Igor Pauška
Sound design: Nika Pećarina
Costimography: Dalibor Šakić
Dramaturgy assistant: Vida Zelić
Production: Ivan Mrđen, Tena Bošnjaković

The performance has been supported by the Zagreb City Office for Culture, Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, and Foundation Kultura Nova, as a part of the program of the Museum of Contemporary Art ANTISEZONA 21.

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Fantastic Species   ✧   Ana Kreitmeyer   ✧   photo© : Igor Pauška

Our well known performance for children Rythm Tam – The Fairy Tale of Rythm will be performed again, after long time, on April, 12th, 2021, Monday at 6PM in CZK Đakovo – The Centre for Culture Đakovo.

The number of the spectators will be limited due to the current epidemiological measures regarding coronavirus so hurry up and get your tickets on time!

We are looking forward to perform Rythm Tam again and see little happy faces in the audience!

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RITAM TAM – bajka o ritmu   ✧   CAROLA GATICA / ANA MRAK   ✧   photo© :

In tonight’s edition of the Art a la carte show on HRT 3, at 9:17PM you can watch our dear Dina Ekštajn and Ana Mrak talking about Studio. After the show you will be able to see TV adaptation of Emergency Artist by Clement Layes. Don’t miss it and enjoy!

STUDIO YOUTH is a special program of creative education for young dancers based on contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and creative process with the support of dance pedagogues – members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company. The goal of this educational program is to prepare young dancers for the continuation of their dance education and for the work in the field of professional dance.
This program was active continuously until 2016 and many young dancers passed through it, some of them continuing their dance education on dance academies abroad, some of them joining professional dance projects produced by Studio Contemporary Dance Company, some of them working as active members of Studio in the present time.
After a long pause, Studio Contemporary Dance Company is starting again, in spring time, the program of education for young dancers STUDIO YOUTH 2.0. Due to the current epidemiological situaton, this year the program will be exceptionally held online, and will be based on creative research, goal of which is creating mini solo pieces which will be presented online on Studio’s social network pages and Studio’s web page, in the form of short dance videos.
STUDIO YOUTH 2.0 will be mentored by members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company through online education combining different approaches: group sessions live on Zoom, sharing recorded video materials and research processes of each of the selected young dancers with the guidance of a mentor.
Due to the online caracter of STUDIO YOUTH 2.0 this year, the number of participants will be limited to maximum six young dancers. Each participant will be assigned with one mentor. Duration of creative process is six weeks with continuous work with mentors online, in the period form May, 1st till June, 15th, 2021. The dynamic of the process will be determined individually, in agreement with mentors.
We invite all interested young dancers (age 17+) to apply for auditon for STUDIO YOUTH 2.0.
Tha application must include basic information aboust candidate (name and surname, date of birth, short CV) and a short video of the candidate performing dance material of his/her own choice in the duration of maximum 2 minutes.
Please, send your application to studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com till April, 20th 2021 the latest.

DJEVOJKE U LJETNIM HALJINAMA VOLIM   ✧   PETRA HRAŠĆANEC / SAŠA BOŽIĆ   ✧   photo© : IVICA IVČEVIĆ

Members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company: Branko, Martina and Ana V. are currently in Berlin, working with Jasna Layes Vinovrški on the performance Healers, a coproduction between Public in Private and Studio Contemporary Dance Company, which was supposed to be premiered in Berlin last year, but due to the corona regulations it was postponed. Since the theatres are still closed in Germany, they will be finishing the work on the performance and making video materials. The premiere of Healers is expected in Zagreb this spring.

HEALERS   ✧   Jasna Layes Vinovrški   ✧  

Long time company member Ana Vnučec is the winner of the Croatian Actor Award for best performance (female category) in Conversation Pieces, choreographed by Magdalena Reiter, performed and produced by Studio Contemporary Dance Company, in co-production with Mirabelka Institute, Zagreb Dance Center and Dance Week Festival.

Congratulations to Ana!!!
Congratulations to all winners!!!

ANA VNUČEC   ✧   CONVERSATION PIECES   ✧   photo© : SUNČAN STONE

CONVERSATION PIECES   ✧   MAGDALENA REITER   ✧   photo© : NENO PETROVIĆ

Here are some photos from our improvisational performance on Dance Week Festival.
Photos by: Krunoslav Marinac

Take a glimpse into Magic and enjoy!!!

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

MAGIJE   ✧   SSP   ✧   photo© : KRUNOSLAV MARINAC

Long time company member and our current Artistic director Dina Ekštajn will be teaching dance classes for professional dance artists in Zagreb Dance Center next week 16.11.2020 – 20.11.2020. in the mornings from 10 AM till 11.30 AM. Members of Studio will also be attending her dance classes there.

The classes are open for professional dance artists, but due to limited number of participants it is obligatory to apply on info@zagrebackiplesnicentar.hr

So, seize Your opportunity to take Dina’s highly educational, beautiful and exciting dance classes and hurry up and apply!

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POKRET-AČ   ✧   ALEKSANDRA JANEVA IMFELD   ✧   photo© : IVA KORENČIĆ

Studio Contemporary Dance Company is reviving movements from Ana Maletić’s 1966 performance Magic which was also adapted for television. In her choreography, Maletić was exploring dance archetypes and religious and magical rituals. The performance consists of three ceremonial scenes: healing ceremony, transformation ceremony and rainmaking dance ritual.

Together with Alen and Nenad Sinkauz, Studio is reviving the company’s history and using Ana Maletić’s movements as an inspiration for exploring and creating new ones.

This improvisation based performance transpones the original movement and uses it as the foundation for making new kind of dance magic on stage.

The performance is going to take place in Zagreb Dance Center on Novemeber, 14th, 2020 at 8 PM, as a part of Dance Week Festival.
Entrance is FREE of charge!

Performed by: Ana Mrak, Ida Jolić, Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić, Branko Banković
Music by: Alen and Nenad Sinkauz

Ana Maletić: Magic (screenshot)

Croatian Association of Drama Artsits announced today the nominations for Croatian Actor Awards 2020 (also known as Croatian theatre Oscars). Three members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company have been nominated in two different categories:

Ana Vnučec – nominated for Best Dance Performance (female category) in Conversation Pieces
Ana Mrak – nominated for Best Dance Performance (female category) in Podivljalo
Ida Jolić – nominated for Best Choreography (in cooperation with Marin Lemić) in Transformers

Congratulations to our members and good luck to all of them!!!

ANA VNUČEC   ✧   CONVERSATION PIECES   ✧   photo© : SUNČAN STONE

ANA MRAK   ✧   PODIVLJALO   ✧   photo© : MAURA BATARILOVIĆ

IDA JOLIĆ   ✧   TRANSFORMERS   ✧   photo© : IVA KORENČIĆ

Long time company member and our current Coordinator of artistic programming Ana Mrak will be teaching dance classes for professional dance artists in Zagreb Dance Center next week 9.11.2020 – 13.11.2020. in the mornings from 10 AM till 11.30 AM. Members of Studio will also be attending her dance classes there.

The classes are open for professional dance artists, but due to limited number of participants it is obligatory to apply on info@zagrebackiplesnicentar.hr

So, seize Your opportunity to take Ana Mrak’s highly educational, beautiful and exciting dance classes and hurry up and apply!

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  photo© : Silvija Dogan

Dear dance lovers! We have prepared a treat for You! We have created a dance quiz with questions from first Croatian pub quiz about dance, which happened after the premiere of SPECTACLE. It was created and conducted by the quiz master Mario Kovač. So, test Your knowledge and have fun with Studio’s Dance Quiz!

After a succesful premiere performances, our new production is going to be performed again this Sunday, October, 18th on High school yard Elipsa, at 5PM, as a part of DANCE INN/OUT Festival, organized by De Facto Theatre Company. Reserve Your ticket on time, the number of spectators is limited due to current epidemiological measures.

See You there!

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SPECTACLE   ✧   IRMA OMERZO   ✧   photo© : JASENKO RASOL

After a long break, Study for Emergency Artist, choreographed by Clément Layes, will be performed again in ZKM, dvorana Miško Polanec, on October, 16th, 2020 at 8PM. So, don’t miss Your chance and reserve Your ticket on time. There are not so many places in the audience because of current epidemiological measures, so hurry up!

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UMJETNIK ZA HITNE INTERVENCIJE   ✧   CLÉMENT LAYES   ✧   photo© : TOMISLAV SPORIŠ

As we announced, here You can find some chunks of information which could be valuable for the pub quiz.

Studio Contemporary Dance Company has performed on five continents:
1. Europe: Germany, Poland, Russia / and former SSSR/, Greece, France, Austria, Portugal, Italy, FYR of Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary
2. Asia: Korea, Armenia
3. Africa: Egypt
4. North America: USA
5. South America: Peru

The most performed Studio’s production: Ugly Duckling with 260 performances

Studio has won six Croatian Actors Awards:
2004. Best Performance (male) – Branko Banković – Kaputt
2010. Best Contemporary Dance Production – Nastup
2010. Best Choreography – Matija Ferlin, Nastup
2010. Best Performance (female) – Roberta Milevoj, Nastup
2014. Best Contemporary Dance Production – Surprised body
2016. Best Choreography – Bruno Isaković Nečastive

In its long and creative history Studio has produced and coproduced 146 premiere performances!
Here are some of them:
HIR INFANTKINJE, Vera Maletić , 1962/63.
SALTATA, Vera Maletić , 1963.
VEZE , Ana Maletić , 1964.
RITAM OBLIKA, Manja Crnković , 1966.
IGRA ZGLOBOVA, LelaGluhak , 1966.
PULZACIJE , Branka Zimmer , 1966.
PUSTOŠ ŠTO KAO…, Zoja Buneta , 1966.
UBOJSTVO, Dorica Kljaković,Zaga Prijić,Darko Kolar , 1966.
AKVATALIJE, Branka Zimmer , 1966.
SKOPLJE 63 ,Zoja Buneta, Lela Gluhak, Zaga Prijić,Dunja Ruljančić , 1966.
EPIZODE NA HARFU, Ivanka Cerovac 1966.
DJETINJARIJE, Lela Gluhak, Zoja Buneta , 1966.
7 KARAKTERA, Lela Gluhak , Zaga Prijić, Ivanka Cerovac , 1966.
DESSINS COMMENTERES, Vera Maletić , 1966.
MAGIJE, Ana Maletić , 1966.
EQUILIBRES, Vera Maletić , 1966.
STEĆCI, Ana Maletić ,1966.
LAMENT, Lele Gluhak , 1968.
LIRSKE VIBRACIJE, Ivanka Cerovac , 1968.
POETSKE VIBRACIJE, Tihana Škrinjarić 1968.
……
NOVO VRIJEME, članovi Studia za suvremeni ples , 1971.
ĆAĆE MOJ, Tihana Škrinjarić , Zaga Prijić , Branka Kolar , 1971.
U POČETKU BIJAŠE RITAM, Tihana Škrinjarić , 1971.
SEKVENCE, Zaga Prijić , 1971.
MOMENT COSMIQUE, Branka Kolar , 1971.
IMPRESIJE, Ivanka Šerbedžija , 1971.
TAM TAM, Branka Kolar,Zaga Prijić , Tihana Škrinjarić 1971.
…..
TCHI-TCHIAO , Kilina Cremona , 1993.
STRAVINSKI I JA , Matjaž Farič , 1995.
EPIZODE , Rajko Pavlić , 1996.
ONA , Ann Papoulis , 1998.
BIG IZ ;BJU;TIFUL , Mirjana Preis , 1999.
TKO JOŠ VJERUJE U RODE? , Desanka Virant , 2000.
….
ANSAMBL , Jasna L.Vinovrski 2018.
UMJETNIK ZA HITNE INTERVENCIJE, Clement Layes 2018
STRAH , Mirjana Preis 2018
CONVERSATION PIECES , Magdalena Reiter 2019
ISCJELITELJI, Jasna Vinovrski 2020.
SPEKTAKL, Irma Omerzo 2020.

So, if You want to be successful on the quiz, remember this!!

See You on October, 10th at 6PM in Regular Bar!!

After the premiere of Spectacle, we are preparing a real treat for all those eager to merge mind and body: the first Croatian pub quiz about contemporary dance! The quiz will be assembled and conducted by European quiz champion in the category of performing arts – Mario Kovač and the questions will tackle the history of contemporary dance all around the globe and also in Croatia. There will also be a special category dedicated to Studio Contemporary Dance Company. We will occasionally publish small chunks of information which could make its way into the quiz on our web pages and also on social media, so don’t forget to follow us here and also on Facebook and Instagram. The rules are simple: gather a team or come alone and apply for the quiz there, in Regular Bar, play and learn with us. And, don’t worry, You won’t have to reveal Your answers live in front of the audience. Every team (sitting around its own table) will have their own paper form for answers and the secrets of Your eventually wrong answers will go to the grave together with Your Master of the Ceremony who will, after the quiz, magically transform into a DJ and make You dance and burn away all the calories You will gain during the pub quiz. We are looking forward to meet You there!

Location: Regular.Bar, Ilica 65, Zagreb
Time: October, 10th, 2020, 6PM

You can also reserve Your spot and apply on studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com
The number of participants is limited!

Pub quiz is a part of Studio’s project Audience Development and is supported by the funds of Croatian Ministry of Culture.

We are happy to announce the premiere of our new performance SPECTACLE, choreographed by Irma Omerzo, which is going to take place on October, 10th, 2020 at 5 PM on the high school yard Elipsa (ulica Vjekoslava Klaića 8, Zagreb). There will also be a second performance on the next day, October, 11th also at 5 PM in the same place.

New performance by Studio Contemporary Dance Company ’SPECTACLE’, choreographed by Irma Omerzo, questions the heritage of this eldest Croatian contemporary dance company. However, instead of a classic hommage performance, the author approaches Studio’s tradition by using it for questioning conditions, meanings and reasons of collectiveness in present time, on stage and outside of it. By generating dance vocabulary from selected photographies of dance performances produced by Studio, specific dance experience of performers and massive ‘spectacular’ choreographies, in this work Omerzo questions perspectives of unison movement and the possibilities of its deconstruction while, at the same time, searching for boundaries, frames and combinations of collectiveness. The title of the performance is at the same time a reference to the fascination by unison movement in mainstream culture, but also a reminder of the potential which surfaces as a consequence of its persistence. ’SPECTACLE’ in this sense denies traditional protocols of spectacularity which insists on uniformity, replacing it with emphasis on the potential of being together in a way that affirms also individuality in this collectiveness.

Studio Contemporary Dance Company presents: “SPECTACLE”
Choreography: Irma Omerzo
Choreographer’s assistant: Dina Ekštajn
Performers: Ana Mrak, Ana Vnučec, Martina Tomić, Ida Jolić i Tea Maršanić
Dramaturgy: Jasna Jasna Žmak
Music: Stanislav Kovačić
Scenography: Vanja Magić
Costumes: Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin
Production: Studio Contemporary Dance Company
Photography: Jasenko Rasol
Producers: Tena Bošnjaković, Ivan Mrdjen

Entrance is free of charge.

Since we must take into account current epidemiological measures, we kindly ask You to reserve Your ticket through e-mail: studio.suvremeni.ples@gmail.com

After the performance, visitors are invited to support this art work through a financial donation, depending on their own possibilities to contribute. The profit raised by donations will be spent in its entirety for covering the costs of artistic program.

We are looking forward to see You in the audience!

Healers: work-in-progress showing
September, 4th 2020, 8 PM, Polanec dvorana, ZKM

Choreography: Jasna Layes Vinovrški
Performers: Martina Tomić, Ana Vnučec, Branko Banković
Assistant of choreographer: Dina Ekštajn

This project is a second co-production between Public and Private and Studio Contemporary Dance Company from Zagreb. Due to Corona situation, we were not able to proceed with the artistic process as planned, during which the dancers from Zagreb and Berlin would work together in both cities. We didn’t want to cancel or postpone the project. Therefore we came up with the solution of creating a piece that will be played by two different teams: one from Zagreb and one from Berlin. Jasna has been creating the work with both teams in their cities. End of October/beginning of November, at the festival Open Spaces in Berlin, both teams will premier the work. The premier in Zagreb is planned for the next year. Due to special circumstances, this work-in-progress showing is closed for the public because of extremely limited number of seats in the audience.

„Healers“ explores the phenomenon of “life coaching” by analysing various healing strategies from strictly medical up to alternative – spiritual fields. In the main focus is space where the performance is taking place. That space is imagined as a living organism whose relationship with people that inhabit it, is disturbed and damaged. This is a starting point from which the imaginary about developing different kind of the relationship between human and non human, healer and patient, stage and performers can grow.
The goal of this choreographic endeavour is, by using subtle humor that maintains a healthy distance from the divine, and encourages thinking about human abilities in creating different belief systems, to awaken a desire for different visions and imaginations of the world we live in.

A production by Public in Private/Jasna L. Vinovrški.
Funded by the Berlin Senatsverwaltung for Culture and Europe, the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the City of Zagreb. In coproduction with Studio – Contemporary Dance Company in Zagreb and Tanzfabrick Berlin

HEALERS   ✧   JASNA LAYES VINOVRŠKI   ✧   photo© : MIA STARK

We are approaching our 60th anniversary, so we decided to make some of our performances available online! Also, since we were forced to stop all our activity during COVID-19 virus crisis, we are offering our audience an opportunity to enjoy our performances from their homes.
Each selected performance will be available for 48 hours on Studio CDC Youtube channel

Stay tuned and folllow us also on our Facebook and Instagram pages.

SURPRISED BODY PROJECT   ✧   FRANCESCO SCAVETTA   ✧   photo© : DANKO STJEPANOVIĆ

After successful performances in October and November in Zagreb Dance Center and premiere in Ljubljana (Stara elektrarna) in December, Studio Contemporary Dance Company is announcing a new performance of Conversation Pieces, which is going to take place in Slavonski Brod, in KKD ‘Ivana Brlić Mažuranić’ on February, 21st, 2020 at 7.30 PM as a part of the festival ‘Dani plesa’.
We are very excited to perform there again! Come and join us!

CONVERSATION PIECES

Preview: 04.06.2019. ZPC
Premiere: 05.06.2019. ZPC
Choreography: Magdalena Reiter
Dancers: Ana Vnučec, Dina Ekštajn, Martina Tomić, Ana Mrak, Ida Jolić i Una Štalcar Furač
Dramaturgy: Vedrana Klepica
Costume design: Ana Savić Gecan
Music: Nenad i Alen Sinkauz
Stage design: Andrej Rutar
Assistant Choreographer: Lada Petrovski Ternovšek
Light design: Marino Frankola
Design: Ana-Marija Vlahović
Photography and video: Neven Petrović
Public relations: Nina Kunek

more about performance

CONVERSATION PIECES   ✧   MAGDALENA REITER   ✧   photo© : NENO PETROVIĆ

Studio Contemporary Dance Company / Mirabelka Productions  / Zagreb Dance Center

Presents

CONVERSATION PIECES

Preview: 04.06.2019. ZPC
Premiere: 05.06.2019. ZPC
Choreography: Magdalena Reiter
Dancers: Ana Vnučec, Dina Ekštajn, Martina Tomić, Ana Mrak, Ida Jolić i Una Štalcar Furač
Dramaturgy: Vedrana Klepica
Costume design: Ana Savić Gecan
Music: Nenad i Alen Sinkauz
Stage design: Andrej Rutar
Assistant Choreographer: Lada Petrovski Ternovšek
Light design: Marino Frankola
Design: Ana-Marija Vlahović
Photography and video: Neven Petrović
Public relations: Nina Kunek

more about performance

CONVERSATION PIECES   ✧   MAGDALENA REITER   ✧   photo© : NENO PETROVIĆ

Two members of Studio Contemporary Dance Company, Ana Vnučec and Dina Ekštajn, are participating in a Berlin residency project The Emergency Artist in November. The performance is choreographed by Clément Layes and coproduced by Studio Contemporary Dance Company and Public in Private.

Information about Berlin premiere and the following performances are down below.
We are looking forward to seeing You in the audience! 🙂

The Emergency Artist by Public in Private/ Clément Layes, in coproduction with Studio Contemporary Dance Company, at Sophiensaele Berlin, Sophienstrasse 18, 10178 Berlin. The premiere is on November 22nd, 2018 at 19:30 and further performances from November 23rd–25th, 2018, at 19:30.

UMJETNIK ZA HITNE INTERVENCIJE   ✧   CLÉMENT LAYES   ✧   photo© : TOMISLAV SPORIŠ