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Dance Improvisation by Roberta Milevoj

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DANCE IMPROVISATION /
During the classes, we will focus on the exploration of our own dance experience and the interpretation of the proposed content through improvisation. We will find ways that help us stay in the moment while we dance, aware of the activity of the inner (bodily) experience, as well as its outer manifestation in a three-dimensional environment.
We will explore different elements of movement support (breath, grounding, body connections, touch, rhythm, space, etc.) that we use as the foundation for comprehensive application in movement and dance. We will observe the body as a communication mechanism that constantly produces movement and emits it into space through different individual or group impulses, imaginative stimuli or bodily actions. We will rely on the inseparability of set factors and the ways in which we can recognise, contemplate, and apply dance material in creating improvisation.
These classes serve to produce and highlight the importance of accepting the knowledge that comes from one’s own experience of movement – movement research – and highlight the development of one’s own dance vocabulary based on the experience and the interpretation of the received instructions and specific improvisational-compositional tools.

BIOGRAPHY /
Born in Pula in 1979. Since 1998, she has been working professionally on the Croatian dance scene as a performer, choreographer and pedagogue of contemporary dance. She gained her dance experience by participating in numerous workshops and residential programs at home and abroad, as well as working with renowned dance artists (Matija Ferlin, Irma Omerzo, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Mala Kline, Keren Levi, Tomislav Feller, Rosalind Crisp and others) and artistic collectives (MONTAŽSTROJ, Zagreb Dance Company, Studio Contemporary Dance Company, TALA Dance Centre, Liberdance, Sodaberg, MARMOT, dance_lab collective and others). Over the years, she developed her creative and performative signature, producing a great number of artistic collaborations and independent pieces (TRIO, material248, Roberta, Roberta, Rachel & Sonny, Roberta Again, &, In the Eyes, Family, SCENA, ROB3RTA, Scenes).
From 2014 to 2016 she participated in the international program apap – Performing Europe. In 2017, together with Ana Mrak, she founded the artistic organisation Nikad kraja. In 2021, she earned her Bachelor degree in contemporary dance – Dance Pedagogy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. In 2022, she founded the Recreational Centre for Movement and Dance – Dancecare (Plesni boravak), where she teaches and implements programs intended for adults and the elderly (experiental workshops – Balance of Mind and Body, thematic workshops of contemporary dance and movement, regular program).
Since 2022, she teaches the course Contemporary Dance Techniques at the Dance Department (Performative Studies) at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. She is a member of the Croatian Dancers Association (UPUH). She works as a dance pedagogue at all the major and recognised dance centres in Croatia (Zagreb Dance Center, Studio Contemporary Dance Company, Zagreb Dance Company, TALA Dance Center, Liberdance, Istrian National Theatre, Pula, Mediterranean Dance Center Svetvinčenat and others).
She is the recipient of the Croatian Actor Award for Best Female Performance in the play Onformance (2010) and the Production Award at the 28th Dance Week Festival for the piece Roberta, Roberta (2011). She was nominated for the Teatar.hr Audience Award in the category of Performer of the Year (2013), and for the Croatian Actor Award in the category of Best Choreography for dance pieces Roberta Again (2014) and Family (2017).

The training is free of charge, but please reserve your spot at info@zagrebackiplesnicentar.hr.