at 6 pm
Online dance training via Zoom (in English).
The event is free of charge.

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Meeting ID: 891 1526 4972
Passcode: 704645

The reintroduction of restrictions on public life across Europe has, inter alia, limited or completely prevented the execution of dance training, artistic processes and dance performances. The #DanceAndWellBeing campaign by the European Dance Network with the offer of regular, free weekly dance sessions led by European dance artists of different profiles, aims to reaffirm the key role of dance in our societies and its importance in maintaining an individual’s physical and mental well-being.

This time training will be led by the dancer, performer, choreographer and dance educator Nataša Živković. With her metamorphosis ability, outstanding presence of performer and the agility of co-creation, she is an indispensable name of contemporary performing practices in Slovenia with her (co)-creative and performing contributions. For her debut work First love, Second Take (To Get over Nace Junkar) and her dance-theatre engagement she received the Golden Bird Award in 2009, while her dance performance Sonny (City of Women, 2018) won the main award at the ACT 2019 Festival in Bilbao, Spain, and the same year she received the national dance award Ksenija Hribar for best dancer.

In particular, in recent years, Nataša has developed sensitivity to the materiality of voice, inter-body relationships and focused on the issue of intimacy. Family ties, the issue of gender and gender differences have become the focus of her substantive accents, which puts her creation on a register of feminist practices that can be activist and preserve the artistic sensibility at the same time.

At the one-hour workshop, Nataša Živković and her participants will focus on the connection between voice and body. As she says, she and her participants will »release, loosen, warm up, stretch, shrink and wire this existential instrument. How can we listen to and hear the body, how does the voice move? Can a voice emerge out of me that I’ve never heard before and move me?«