DANCE IS OUR ENERGY . BODY IS OUR MEDIA . WE TAKE OUR SPACE FOR A RIDE . YOU ARE OUR STORY .

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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