Just Dance by Ana Jelušić

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JUST DANCE /
In this practice, we will deal solely with dance. Based on the premise that movement, sensation, emotion and thought are constantly connected and simultaneous, through continuous movement by which we attune to ourselves, we will focus on a single aspect every day. Separating and then summarising these aspects, we will deal with dancing as thinking that possesses its own logic and stands in contrast to cognitive thinking. We will open up a space for dance, almost as a means of divination, to reveal to us what we experience, individually and collectively, and to be a generative tool in discovering our own interests.

BIOGRAPHY /
Ana Jelušić (1982) is a dance artist and a practitioner of the Feldenkrais somatic method. She earned her BA at the Dance, Context, Choreography programme at the HZT/ Berlin University of the Arts. She collaborated with various dance and performance artists in Berlin (Christian Falsnaes – Moving Images – Hamburger Bahnhof, Alex Martinis Roe – To Become Two – Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and Zagreb with Rosalind Crisp (In the Meantime), Ana Kreitmeyer (Who Cares), Roberta Milevoj (Family), Marko Gutić Mižimakov (Affective clones), Nina Gojić (Girl Like, Oh, Vulnerable Bodies), Marta Krešić and Zrinka Užbinec (Vulnerable Bodies). In her works, she touches upon pop culture and the themes of imitation, learning, injury and vulnerability, the question of human and machine, and the choreography of sensory experiences. She works with the Feldenkrais somatic method, for which she was educated in Vienna at the Feldenkrais Institute Wien, which she often uses as a productive tool in dance and choreographic research. She is currently participating in the program Exercises of the visual artist Nina Kurtela, and organises and leads the new edition of Missing Encounters: The Eye of the Gaze under the auspices of the Croatian Dancers Association.

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