| Vesna
Eča Dvornik
Dance performance Opeklina
Thursday, March 10th at 21.00 in Menza pri koritu
Biography
Dancer and choreographer Vesna Eča Dvornik left Ljubljana in 1981 after
she finished her studies at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Fim and
Television and moved to Paris where she studied classic and modern
dance technique, learned traditional Brazilian and African dances
and, with increasing interest, learned post-modern techniques: dance
contact and improvisation, release technique, body mind, feldenkrais,
body meteorology, butoh, anatomy and kinesiology. She trained her
voice with the Roy Heart Theatrom. She has completed many courses
in composition with Karin Waehner, Jacqueline Robinson, Delphine
Rybinsky, Marc Tomkins and other pedagogues.
In 1985, she graduated from the Choreography Department of Sorbona
IV and in the 90's, she finished her post-graduate studies with a thesis
entitled Figuration and Abstraction in Contemporary Dance. She is interested
in choreography, intersections between music and dance, the perception
of dance performances and composition with Odile Duboc, Stephanie Aubin,
Susan Buirge, etc. In all these years she has been active as a pedagogue
and has made many (mostly solo) performances which mainly focus on
her own dance and human identity.
She won the EUROPE DANCE EUROPE contest which was curated by the French
choreographer Karin Saporte.
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Dance performance Opeklina
Concept, realisation, choreography, text: Vesna Eča Dvornik
Musical collage: Jonathan Harvey, Michael Levinas, Elvis Presley
Costumes and scenography: Helene Lepetit, Vesna Eča Dvornik
Duration: 50 minutes
Eča’s dance performances are neither conceptual nor representative.
Her interest lies in physical states, language and the imagery within,
evoked by this move or another. A performance is an encounter, a cut
through the given moment, neither beginning nor the end, simply a movement,
a change, a becoming... Opeklina (Brulure, or, in English: Burn) is
asking questions that burn, hurt and leave a mark. Who are we? What
are we? What is our nature? Especially that of a woman, a choreographer,
a dancer. Is the desire to create and give birth exclusively erotic?
Opeklina is a work in constant progress. It premiered on the Zagreb
choreography platform, Vesna Eča Dvornik performed it in ŠTUK Maribor
and the Nous n‘irons pas a Avignon festival in Vitry-sur-seine, France.
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