Choreography: Goran Bogdanovski
Dance: Damjan Mohorko, Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar, Goran Bogdanovski (Gregor Luštek, Damaas Mithras Thijs)
Music: Peter Penko, Brahms
Sound Design: Boris Benko
Light Design: Miran Šusteršič
Dramaturgy: Mojca Dimec
Costume Design: Metod Črešnar in Dada Volk
Stage Design: Tomaž Štrucl & Irena Pivka
Tehnician: Igor Remeta in Jasmin Sahimpasic
Co-production: Gledališče Glej in SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana
The production was supported by: Ministry of Culture of Slovenia Ljubljana City Municipality - Departure of Culture
Premiere 15.1.2000, Ljubljana
1:0 PRESS
“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 whole performance is overflowing with humour and a special kind of ironic distancing... ”
“For a moment, a thrilling frenzy of the body responding to the firing music.”
Dnevnik (daily), Jasna Škrinjar Taufer, Ljubljana January 2000
“It's quite an artistry if you manage to make a farce without all the unnecessary pretence,
the farce moving on a very slippery ground between populism and Art, which would,
on top of it, please not only the ballet audience and the lovers of contemporary dance but
also accidental passers-by. Entertainment? No, that is an achievement.”
Mladina(weekly), Jaša Kramaršič Kacin, Ljubljana, 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
“Like anywhere, the big question in Slovenian Ljubljana is: how to entice man into ballet.
Success at last: thanks to goran Bogdanovski, dancer and current choreographer with the Slovenian National Ballet. His debut on 15 January was a triumph. "1:0" for Goran, the balletnik. Critics maintained he had broken the rules of classical ballet. Five male dancers in football gear danced on point. It works perfectly with studded boots, which normaly sink into the turf. Bogdanovski`s choice of title "1:0" alloved much scope for interpretation such as " One is None." Male members of the audience were clearly thrilled.”
Ballet-tanz aktuell , The Yearbook 2000, Berlin
“The choreographer skilfully articulates in the language of dance, his narrative needs no additional explanations or verbalizing. He manages to walk the thin line between mild humour, irony, hearty self-irony and caricaturing or mocking or haughty superiority.
Sparkling kindness in connection with in-depth analysis raises this otherwise miniature
story about boy's growing up to a quite unexpected level.”
Moda In (montly), M. Kne, Ljubljana, June 2000
“The public wants to laugh, the absolutely packed hall of the SNG Opera opera-house in Ljubljana is a proof of that. In this temple of pure ballet and serious opera repertoires, a story about longing, poetry and fantastic thoughts on football as the sport, with masses following it on stadiums and in front of the TV sets, was a complete nail on the head.”
Moski svet (monthly), Barbara Drnač, Ljubljana, January 2001
“An hour of absolute fun and almost burlesque ideas. Four equally skilled dancers replace ballet-shoes with football shoes and play soccer, changing the stage into a stadium...”
Jana (weekly), Gusti Leben, June 2000
A Football Dance
Report on a performance by the Slovenian dance group Fičo Balet, which appeared at the Junge Hunde festival in Copenhagen last week. In his success-reaping humorous choreography '1:0', Goran Bogdanovski, Slovenian dancer and choreographer, effectively captured the atmosphere at a football match. The audience can see mental and physical warming-up, dribbling with a fictitious ball and a slow motion replay as seen in television broadcasts.
The highly competent dancers, who are masters of classical ballet as well as modern dance, draw us into their imaginative world where they achieve success by expressing themselves through flamenco, dancing on skates - with hybrid ballet/football boots on their feet.
They slowly return to a less euphoric reality where the game can begin again. A wonderful score for Slovenia.
Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen, March 2002
Artist Of The Year In The Field Of Dance
Goran Bogdanovski For The Choreography Of 1:0
“With his choreography of the 1:0 performance, dancer Goran Bogdanovski proved that Slovene contemporary dance can be humorous." His answer "Who cares," to the question regarding the definition of contemporary dance proves it is the idea and the interpretation that matter.”
(honour given by Ljubljana weekly, Nedelo, in January 2001)