M&M: TWIST, TURN, FLIP – MARGARETA FIRINGER AND MARGARETA SINKOVIĆ

Trening

DESCRIPTION /

The two Margaretas will share with the participants the knowledge they acquired at the intensive workshop of David Zambrano’s techniques, Flying Low and Passing Through. The logic of this movement is based on grounding, spiral movement into, and out of the floor, economical movements and alertness, which gradually leads to acceleration and dynamic dancing. Special attention is paid to the relationship with the space and with other bodies in the group: the aim is to create spiral spatial pathways, establish group dynamics, synchronising one’s own dancing rhythm with those of other participants, thus creating a joint group composition. By mastering the set parameters of this movement by learning the basic elements and different improvisational tasks in pairs and in the group, we will explore how to dance for, and with each other. In the words of David Zambrano: “When one is moving, the whole room is moving with one.”

BIOGRAPHIES /

Margareta Firinger was born in 1994 in Zagreb. She was drawn to dance from the earliest age and had her first dance experiences at the Studio Lepeza V.V.. From 2009 to 2014, she attended the Ana Maletić School of Contemporary Dance. She gained her teaching experience at the Vjeverica ​​kindergarten, going on to teach contemporary dance for adult amateurs at SEAD, and occasionally as part of the morning training program at the Zagreb Dance Center. In 2015, she enrolled in SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, graduating in 2019 and joining the Zagreb Dance Company (ZPA) that the same year. As part of ZPA, she performed in Up and Up (Ferenc Feher, Petra Valentić), trio Eye from the Surface (Aleksandra Mišić), Revel, Revel by Roser López Espinosa, The Frame (Borna Babić) and Geometry of Breath (Laura Arís Álvarez). She is a member of the Škvadra arts collective, with which she creates and performs pieces: Bazen, Punopravno, Plaža, Prve 3, site-specific versions of plays and numerous short films. With her longtime friend and colleague Jovana Zelenović, Margareta creates and explores her own artistic language. I Have You is their first co-authored project. Playground 22 is their second piece, while Air Migration is their latest piece, created in November 2023, under the artistic direction of Jovana Zelenović. Margareta performed in Ana Kreitmeyer’s latest project Preparation for the Present, as well as in Agenda created by Saša Božić and Simone Aughterlony. Since 2022, Margareta holds the status of independent artist and lives and works in Zagreb.

Margareta Firinger

Margareta Sinković (1998, Zagreb). After graduating from the Classical Ballet School in 2015, she continued her dance education attending contemporary dance courses and workshops. In 2021, she completed her undergraduate studies in Contemporary Dance at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb – specialising in performance. She learned from different Croatian and international pedagogues, and in addition to performing and repertory projects as part of her studies, she performed in Roberta Milevoj’s SCENA at Platforma HR (2019), and open-air theatre Kamenjak, on the Sava embankment, organised by the festival Improspekcije 2020. She performed her two authorial solos created during her studies, Trace and Echo, at the Monoplay festival in 2019 and 2021. After graduation, she participated in the Venice Art Biennale, performing in Tomo Savić-Gecan’s performance Untitled (Croatia Pavilion), 2022, followed by her performance in Petra Hrašćanec’ dance piece Caroling (2022), and continuing to work on her own authorial project Echo, which premiered at the Zagreb Dance Center in February 2023. She graduated from the Zlatko Baloković Music School in 2016 (majoring in violin) and continues to actively play music, exploring the connecting tissue between music and dance within her own work. She maintains her performance and technical skills by regularly attending workshops, held by David Zambrano, Libby Farr, Julyen Hamilton, Francesco Scavetta and others. She is currently enrolled in the MA in performance dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.

Margareta Sinković