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FRAGMENTS

Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski i Saša Asentid

Autori:

Igraju:

Andreja Kulešević, Frosina Dimovska, Saša Asentić

■ inspicijent:

Tanja Cvijić

Majstori svetla;

Marko Radanović. Tihomir Boroja

Dušan Jovanović

Majstor ton a;

Tonski saradnik:

Predrag Petruševski

Video bim majstor:

ĐorđeVernački

Fragments present the exploration of ones body and an effort of recognizing what we could call "our body" in relation to "somebody else's body" (realization of identity, communication); and "our body-else's body" as product of materialization of social rules which contemporary society imprints in us forcing roles, looks, decisions, opinions, etc. Feeling that “our" body is "strange" (alien, distant) has strengthened the basic/personal/professional necessity to be on stage - To Dance. That necessity led us through our work with what we could recognize as a message of a billboard, a music number, a doctor's diagnose, the repertoire of our theatre, etc. We have chosen the fragmentary way of presenting (to us and to the others) of what we have achieved through our work, without (traditional) narrative structure and logical order, because it (we believe) opens the window of opportunity for an unlocked process of offering meanings and constant changes/improving of dance in relation with every participant's investment (experience, reasons, bodies). Fragments are postures in movements-postures: floor; disco; kg; word; variation; Dada Jihad; chosen days; agony; scales; number; beginning and others. OLIVERA KOVACEVIC CRNJANSKI Olivera Kovacevic Crnjanski, choreographer and dance pedagogue, was born on October 15th, 1966. She graduated from the Ballet School in Novi Sad in 1984 in the class of ballet pedagogue Ksenija Dinjaski. Until 1996, she worked in the National Theatre in Sarajevo. She has worked in the Serbian National Theatre since 1987, as the ballet soloist. She won two annual awards of the Serbian National Theatre: for the role of EULALIA in the choreodrama by Nada Kokotovic In Search of Lost Time (1989); for the role of FRANCESCA in Francesca da Rimini, and the role of MADAME VALENCIENNE in The Merry Widow by Vadim P. Fedotov (1996). She worked with many choreographers, amongst whom were; M. Bogart, S. John, V. Logunov, K. Simic, R. Kljavin, M. Sparemblek, A.P. Greenwood... She was the choreographer and the assistant director in the projects: Baal, The Dead Queen, Moment, etc. of the Chamber Theatre of Music »Ogledalo«. She is one of the founders of the Center for Contemporary Stage Experience. She was the assistant choreographer to A.P. Greenwood in the projects: Sicilian Story, The Body, Don Juan and ballet numbers in the opera Macbeth, as well as choreographes Istvan Hercog (Ahum Silentium), Stasa Zurovac (Divine comedy), Jens van Daele (Outer and inner circles) i Guy Weizman (The language of walls). She is one of the initiators and organizers of the Per. Art organization for production, education and promotion of contemporary performing arts. She is the author of choreographical miniatures within the Academy of Dancing Techniques founded by Boris Kovac. For her choreographical work she won the 1 st award for choreography Games People Play at the VII Festival of Choreographic Miniatures, Belgrade, 2003, and the Special award for the choreography No Title on the 111 Festival of Choreographic Miniatures, Belgrade, 1999. She is the initiator and one of the founders of the Serbian National Theatre Ballet project the Forum for New Dance, which mission is to broaden the space for exploring all the forms of dancing and theatrical expression.