choreography: Goran Bogdanovski
Dance: Magdalena Raiter, Dejan Srhoj, Jurij Konjar, Teja Reba, Željko Božič, Kristina Aleksova, Sebastjan Starič
Music: Suns of Arqa, Gayan Uttejak Orchestra, Borut Bernik Live sitar: Wadada Sound: Torul
Dramaturgic Advice: Tomi Janežič
Set Design: Irena Pivka
Costume Design: Bjanka Adžić Ursulov
Light Design: Miran Šušteršič
Photo: Peter Uhan
Graphic Design: Tanja Radež
Production: APT – Anton Podbevšek Theatre, Fičo Balet
Co-production: O Espaco do Tempo, Bunker production
Supported by: Ministry of Culture Slovenia, City Ljubljana, City Novo mesto, British Council, Krka d.d.; Kapelica Gallery
Pre- premiere: 20. 10. 2006 - O Espaco do Tempo, Montemor-o-novo (p)
Premiere: 26. 1. 2007 – Anton Podbevšek Teater, Novo mesto (slo)
Sun City PRESS
“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
“Created by Goran Bogdanovski and performed by exquisite dancers, Sun City is a movement spectacle of fluid energy, of falls and rises, equilibrium challenges and flowing emotions; it is both utopia and reality, an illustrated story of individual revelations within a collective body … Combining different dance movement schools and new-age music sources, Bogdanovski re-creates an innovative basis of contemporary dance expression sourcing from the historical and the new.”
Daliborka Podboj, Večer, 2 February 2007
“In fact, Sun City is a true "spectacle" with occasional flashings of lights and esoteric electronic music partly performed by the gaily-dressed Michael Wadada seated on an elevated platform, while the dancers in white costumes under him move and transform the image in the sand spread on the floor.”
Ana Perne, Polet, 30 January 2007
“Bogdanovski projected his aspirations into seven dancers of various dance backgrounds; thus, the prevailing contemporary dance movement has been combined with classical, hip-hop and Indian dance elements. The choreographer took on a demanding task of hulling the essence from different styles while not allowing it to get distorted in mutual combinations, and of upgrading individual elements of movement with a structure surpassing the convention of absolute dance. The result is a collage of movement sequences uniting and dispersing individual dancers.”
Alja, Radio Student, 2 February 2007
“Sun City is accompanied by mystical music of the Suns of Arqa and the Gayan Uttejak Orchestra; along with the dancers, the simple words of one of the songs ("… it's loving, it's belonging …") express a lot about closeness, touch, gaze, friendship, emotions … about the dance of love and affiliation – this is how we understood it.”
“It is the dancers that offer the most. One can hear the words without being spoken and one can feel the touch without being touched. This is their gift, for the emotions linger even after their final bow.”
Tina Kristan, student of FDV