CHOREOGRAPHER & PRODUCER:
1:0 (2000)
Švic in Švarc (2001)
Against the stream (2002)
Summer Brezze (2002)
Emotivity of Adventure (2003)
:id (2003)
Bowling (2003)
I:Move (2004)
Confi-dance (2004)
Sun City (2006)
John (2008)
Unexpected (2009)
Charming group suicide (2010)
John The Other (2011)
Square (2011)
Parodos (2013)
2:0 (2016)
COLLABORATIONS as Choreographer:
Summer Theatre Studenec (2013-2016)
big folk theatre productions with mix team of professional and amateur actors, singers, musicians
Procession Locopolitana (2015)
restaging a play from 1715 with more than 800 participants in the streets of Škofja loka
Movi-ing (2015)
dance performance with ballet dancers and people with dissabilities
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After 12 years of career as dancer and performer, Bogdanovski started with his choreographic ideas and projects in 2000.
Since then, he has developed his own style of expression, combining music, light, dramaturgy, technology, text and body.
Bogdanovski is known for his humour and holistic approach toward dance and life.
His artistic work reflects the physical, emotional and mental landscape of everyday life.
Transforming the mundane through art, he offer an experience to his collaborators and audiences.
Venues that presented Goran Bogdanovski's work:
Aerowaves - The Place Theatre - London (uk
Junge hunde festival - The Single-Antwerp (b)
Junge hunde festival - Copenhagen (dk)
Taganka Theater - Moscow (ru)
Puskhin Theatre - Moscow (ru)
Judson Church - New York (usa)
DTW- Dance Theatre Workshop - New York (usa)
Boston Cyberarts Festival - Boston (usa)
Cinars, Studio 303 - Montreal (ca)
Staatstheater - Hannover (d)
Hebbel Theater - Berlin (d)
Ponec Theatre - Prague (cz)
Merlin International Theatre - Budapest (hu)
Teatri dello Sport - Milano (it)
Dance Forum - Monaco
National Theatre – Warsaw (pl)
Silesian Dance Festival - Bytom (pl)
Other Vision festival - Volgograd (ru)
Tanzhafenfestival Linz (a)
Tanzwerkstatt Europa - Munchen (d)
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Montenegro National Theatre - Podgorica (mng)
Macedonian National Theatre – Skopje (mak)
Istrian National Theatre - Pula (cro)
Belgrade drama theatre - Belgrade (srb)
Int.Theaterfestival Buhnenwerkstatt - Graz (a)
Mittelfest - Cividale del Friuli (it)
L`Auditorium - Cahor’s (fr)
Infant festival - Novi sad (srb)
Summer stage - Opatija (cro)
Theatre ITD - Zagreb (cro)
Festival Dance Meeting – Duress (alb)
Dansstationen/Palladium – Malmö (s)
Teatro Curvo Samedo – Montemor-o-novo (p)
ZVRK! festival - Sarajevo (bih)
Lokomotion festival - Skopje (mak)
Antistatic Festival - Sofija (bulg)
LINZ 09 - Cultural capital of Europe - Linz (at)
Performing mix festival - New York (usa)
Tanzhaus NRW - Dusseldorf (d)
Tokyo Contact Festival (jp)
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National Theatre Opera and Balet - Ljubljana (slo)
Slovenian National Theatre - Maribor (slo)
Slovenian National Theatre - Nova gorica (slo)
Cankarjev dom - Ljubljana (slo)
Stara mestna Elektrarna - Ljubljana (slo)
Kino Šiška - Ljubljana (slo)
Anton Podbevšek Teater – Novo mesto (slo)
Primorski Poletni Festival - Portoro (slo)
Theatre Koper (slo)
Festival Ana Desetnica - Ljubljana (slo)
Festival Trnfest - Ljubljana (slo)
Puppet Theatre Ljubljana (slo)
Teater Gromki - Ljubljana (slo)
Theatre Križanke - Ljubljana (slo)
Festival Kamfest - Kamnik (slo)
Festival GongFest - Nova Gorica (slo)
Festival Rdeči revirji - Hrastnik (slo)
Festival Gibanica - Ljubljana (slo)
Festival Exodos - Ljubljana (slo)
CoFestival - Ljubljana (slo)
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2:0; 2016 (60 min) dance performance
The dance performance 2:0 is a continuation of the legendary 1:0 performance from 2000.
The choreographer puts football boots on the dancers, transforms the stage into a football stadium and plays a dance performance on the thin line between art and populism, dance and sport, classic and modern.
The original ensemble of Fičo Balet (Goran Bogdanovski, Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar and Damjan Mohorko) came together again after 16 years, decided to perform a dance, football and personal introspection and check how supple their bodies still are and if they are, after all this time, still capable of an appropriate dance-football attack.
Coach: Goran Bogdanovski
Selection: Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar, Damjan Mohorko, Goran Bogdanovski
Super sub: Gregor Luštek
Strategist: Slobodan Maksimović
Expert: Rok Vevar
Technical team: David Cvelbar, Borut Čelik, Kino Šiška
Production: Fičo Balet
Coproduction: Kino Šiška, NOMAD Dance Academy Slovenija, CoFestival
Supported by: City of Ljubljana and CoTeaching program line of the project DANCE ON PASS ON DREAM ON, co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union
Sponsor: NZS - Football Association of Slovenia
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photos from performance by Urška Boljkovac & Peter uhan
2:0 trailer
document recording from premiere 25.11.2016
- full length 60 min. / password on demand
First feedback from audience and critics:
"The show does not have to be depressed, to be serious. It can be easy, fun, relaxed, you can have only one simple thought, but nevertheless tells a lot. I'm glad I got it today. In addition, during performance even for a minute did not smile melted from my face.
”Visitor of the performance; 25.11.2016
"If the performance 1:0 from 2000 integrates classic football with ballet, performance 2:0 in 2016 integrates kitsch and banality of everyday with political … Performance 2:0 in their consideration of today also starts a fun contemporary dance adventure and brings relief, freshness of humour and ingenuity to the stage of contemporary dance, that in today's world and art hammered new goal, but also remind that the goal is only a small part of a much significant entire background. “
Nika Arhar; MMC RTV Slo 28.11.2016
“The original cast of four dancers in a 2: 0, of course, is no longer so agile - some belly has grown and some skill shriveled. This is a performance that is not a simple reconstruction of dance movements, but a comic-melancholic processing, which tends to be self ironic that also gently remembers and gains. It is not so much about to rescue the dance stereotypes of femininity, but has now also become a bit more harsh in terms of exposure ridiculously low "prices" of precarious Player-Dancers.”
Pia Brezavšek; Dnevnik 30.11.2016
1:0; 2000 (60 min) dance performance
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male ballet shoes = football shoes
1:0 is a dance performance moving on a very slippery ground between populism and Art.
The dancers, versed in both classical ballet and contemporary dance, draw us into the world of their imagination, transforming the stage into a stadium.
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“This performance breaks all the rules of the classical ballet, especially when in the middle of the performance the ballet shoes are exchanged for football boots. You won't believe it until you see it.” Jutranji list (daily), Neda Galijaš, Zagreb, January 2000
“The one-hour dance performance 1:0 is one of the most humorous dance performances on our national scene so far.
”Delo, Mojca Kumerdej, Ljubljana (daily), January 2000
Triton Award 2000 for best best dance performance in Slovenia.
From Nijinsky 's «Jeux» to Bogdanovski's «1:0» : a sport ballet picture history.
Dancing means breaking the rules , sport is fair , dance is not : on the strange liaison between war and dance
Ballet Tanz yearbook 2000: Arnd Wesemann
document recording from performance in 2000 - full length
excerpts from performance
Švic in Švarc; 2001 (40 min) dance performance
Silence is classical, therefore eternally beautiful. And even if it sucks blood, it does it in a beautiful manner. The sound, however, overwhelms the movement so that every muscle is heard, every trickle of sweat is seen and every feeling is smelled - even if that sound is the waving of philosophical discourse. In the end, the taste of the purifying power of salt that remains on sweated-out bodies is bitter, and the drops of clear water, scattered all over the dancescape, are sweet.
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“Yesterday night in Cankarjev Dom, the Goran Bogdanovski quartet broke through the cultural sound barrier… Superimposing the most noble dance tradition and indicating a refined perception of existence, he created a multi-visual show, accompanied by spontaneous ovation.”
Radio Slovenija, Ljubljana, June 2001, Jasna Skrinjar Taufer
"The Švic in Švarc production is made in such a manner that the movement substance and free invention concurrently create innumerable imaginary spaces filled by the imagination of spectators.”
Dnevnik (daily), Ljubljana, june 2001, Amelia Kraigher
"Graceful, balletic moves are juxtaposed with raw, industrial music to comic but also strangely tribal effect. The trance-inducing noise blasts your senses alongside apoplectic seizures that stick in a loop, finally sucking you back into reality with a sharp slap."
On line review, Aerowaves - The Place Theatre London, February 2002, Rachel Tonkin
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Emofad / Emotivity of Adventure; 2003 (60 min) dance performance
The performance is specific in the sense that it bonds the real-time produced soundscapes with movement as most of the sound scapes are created through the very movements of dancers, clad in sonic-wear. Emofad is built of points - adventures - interwoven with improvised and spontaneous situations and constructed in a way that allows intrusions by guest performers.
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“Emofad opens the spaces behind the banal and seemingly random events of everyday life. ”Slovenske novice (daily), February 13th 2003
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“Bogdanovski and his associates have mad a giant leap forward: they have created an audience for themselves. Considering the numbers and enthusiasm of the Wednesday premiere's audience, I can even go as far as to say that he has widened the commonly rather narrow circle of contemporary dance viewers.” Tamara Langus - Radio Student, February 7th 2003
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Summer breeze; 2002 (60 min) dance performance
Goran Bogdanovski invited a number of perfomers and artists to come to Ljubljana:
Simon Anxolaberehere (Paris), Anastasia Hvana (Arnhem), Nell Breyer (New York), Dušan Murič (Beograd), Sanja Nesković-Peršin (Ljubljana), Carlos Pez (Tenerife / Bruxelles), Anastasia Smirnitskaya (Moscow), Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar, Gregor Gruden, Miran Šusteršič, Jure Novak, Gregor Zemljič, Miha Klemenčič / Random Logic, Boris Benko / Silence (Ljubljana), to join Fičo Balet team, along the cooperation of Maska productions and the Mladi Levi festival. Cankarjev dom kindly made available to them the Linhart auditorium and all the necessary equipment to seek and travel into the unknown.
Then and there the project began and was completed in six days of the Mladi Levi festival.
Improvisation as simply a level of exploration, could be called a jam session. As in any good improvised performance, the task and beginning are there - a defined ending, however, is missing. The task is unpredictable, surprises are imminent. Images of passing. Bodies in time, un/used. What commands dance/movement? The idea or the music? The body itself, un/able to keep still? Are what we see stories? Perhaps, but surely they are narratives, invading a raw/deaf/empty/rigid world. Narratives amid music, lights, projections of images and words. This is a space in which the body may well be the only remaining myth. Music/lights/video/projections create space in which the human body appears, owning only itself - and the others, un/accepted, dancing together/apart, lighting/writing it up or not. The hour alive, discovering Antarctica, this is Summer Breeze.
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:id; 2003 (60 min) dance performance
:id is a piece for and about three men, who search to find their identity in a game-like conflict. They try to uncover the conditions that have made them into what they are. When these identities begin to dance, it becomes clear: Though we are determined by social moral rules and customs, still our basic physical needs and instincts affect us.
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Bowling; 2003 (12 min) Video
Bowling is a short video dance movie.
Goran Bogdanovski meet Olivier Simola (France) in Cetinje (Montenegro).
They played 1 game of bowling in old hotel, and than recorded and edited videoin 2 days.
with participants of A week for dance: 1 - 7 june 2003, Cetinje, Serbia and Montenegro - organisation - CIE IXKIZIT (Paris)
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I Move; 2004 / interactive instalation
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I:move is an interactive video installation & performance series in New York (usa) that explores how we perceive movement.
We are using motion capture, video processing, and live interaction to visualize dynamic patterns over a 24-hour cycle in order to get people to move and play.
Choreography and dance: Goran Bogdanovski & Dejan Srhoj
Digital effects: Nell Breyer & Jonathan Bachrach
Installation: 3 Febraury - 29 March 2004 / DTW - Dance Theatre Workshop, New York
Performances: 9 March - 13 March 2004 / DTW - Dance Theatre Workshop, New York
Confi-dance; 2004 (50 min) dance performance
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Confi-dance is a dance about sharing secrets, a dance about the consolation and the comfort one finds in a dance.
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“Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj transfer the dance from the non-problematic physical deftness into the register of the essential matters: way of living and way of thinking. Food for though for the bored Slovenian, contemporary dance folklore.”
Deloskop (weekly), Rok Vevar, September 9th 2004
"Performance of enormous variety, imagination and irreverence.”
Tom Lee - Aerowawes on line - LONDON, Sat 29 January 5th, 2005
"The high voltage magic!
Confi-dance is a very skillful portrayal of the mix of genres typifying contemporary dance today. But the true statement of this performance is about creating an incredible space framed in complicity and freedom. Bogdanovski and Srhoj reach deep within while amusing themselves, combining classical, hip hop, contact and modern dance with a touch of derision and light-footed aggression typical of comic twosomes.”
Stéphanie Brody, La Presse MONTREAL, December 7th, 2004
Sun City; 2006 (80 min) dance performance
Sun City is a space between the everyday life and dance. An intimate dance spectacle and a full length dance performance for seven dancers. One of starting points for reflection was positive utopia "The City of the Sun" by 16-century Dominican theologian, philosopher and poet Tommaso Campanella. Part of the most eclectic and uplifting music is performed live by Michael Wadada / Suns of Arqa (UK).
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“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 … ”
Večer (daily) ,Daliborka Podboj, February 2nd 2007
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“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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John; 2008 and John The Other; 2011 (60 min) dance performance
John is a solo dance performance about JOHN.
It was a 4 year long creative process between Goran Bogdanovski and Tomi Janežič, that opens new spaces between dance, theatre and life.
Creative methods we used were build upon acting techiques of Michael Chekhov.
"John makes you scream out loud from anger, cry from joy and blush from love. All at the same time. Delicious!"
Pisteffo, host of the Antwerp based radioshow "Klokkespijs"
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"Let me note that even in this fairly respected field there are people who work sincerely to find new ways in the art of movement plasticity, in order to respond adequately to the challenges of contemporaneity. And they do so with the love for man – not degrading him to the most base instincts but, on the contrary, trying to ennoble him and help him attain the not-so-simple wisdom: How to respect one's own self and, as a consequence, one's own surrounding at that." Elena Antonova, Zavtra, Moscow, 18 Jun 2008
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"Bogdanovski does not strengthen cultural stereotypes but, rather, shatters them – also by showing a number of Johns from various parts of the world not as portraits, i.e. linearly, but with swift transformations and even mutual overlaps; in the moment when it seems that we have recognised a cultural setting, he dissolves it by means of quick movement and atmospheric twists assisted by Grom's sound interventions, and transports us into another, different globalised ambience. Goran Bogdanovski has presented – after a long time – his dance and movement qualities and humour, which marked especially his early projects." Mojca Kumerdej, Delo, Ljubljana, 22 May 2008
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Texts used in performance from:
accompanied by videos:
1. cage in a lion
2. out
4. it's a good day to die
3. monolith
5. shity pity
6. step
7. try simple
WORKS with natural non-professional dancers
Charming group suicide; 2010 (275 min) dance performance
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Charming group suicide is a humorous way of touching novel of the Finnish Arto Paasilinna, envisioned as the multitudes look at a series of questions about identities, art, personality and physical limits of individual and shared ideas and ways of being together - how to create a community. The reserach process and performance is in fact a documentary portrait of the community participants of Fičo training, their joint work and ways to extend the workshops and affecting their home and work environments.
Square was created and performed by “natural - non professional” dancers.
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Trg / Square; 2011 (60 min) site specific performance
Based on The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other by Peter Handke.
»All the happening is taking place at a square. A town square or a ''square'' in our inner selves. People are walking through the square, and that is all. There is nothing behind it, no higher purpose. The square represents "point zero", where one individual becomes clearer through another. The square is the place where we can find out and see everything or rather notice nothing at all.«
Square was created and performed by “natural - non professional” dancers.
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PARODOS; 2013 (70 min) dance performance
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"Parodos – the entrance of an ancient urban chorus on stage. What is so important that the audience have to see, hear and experience it? Goran Bogdanovski
Parodos is created and performed by “natural - non professional” dancers which in daily life play roles of student, journalist, softwear designer, teacher, actor, real estate broker...
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"The show itself is fantastic, a highly complex composite and nevertheless carries a clear message: That we can do everything what we started together, if we put enough (all) of our energy into the group, in our mutual relations, mutual feelings, respect, love. "P. C.
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"In performance I was fascinated by the expressiveness of movement - with a few words much was said. I found out how the words are often redundant in communication. I did not quite "understand" the performance, but I feelt and experienced it intensivly. "T. P.
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"There are many direction. Only one is common - here and now ... and with Parodos the show has reached this moment.
The beauty of bodies in motion, it pours ... "J. B
Presence; 2014 happening
Presence is happening. It is also an exhibition, concert, video, dance and theater, improvisation and games, dinner, entertainment, Jam session ...If you're not here, you are not present!
Happening is a performance, event or situation and it is considered an art, usually in a field of Performing Arts. Happening is an event with multi-disciplinary, non-linear narrative and the active participation of the audience. Key elements of happening are planned, but artists and participants retain space for improvisation. This aspect of happening eliminates the boundaries between the artwork and its viewers.
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FičoDROM; 2012-2014 - dance celebrations
FičoDROM is a platform for experimentation in dance, music and visuals, opening up the space to various exhibitions, performances, installations, projections and artistic practices, which we still have no name for.
With FičoDROM's we celebrated solstices and equinoxes.
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