Name:
Violeta.
Where are you from?
Sofia.
Describe yourself in 1-3 sentences (1-3 Words):
Dance.
What is your favorite number?
3
Which number are you scared from?
67
What does “42” mean to you?
Shoe size.
What is the meaning of life?
–
How do you feel about mistakes?
I like to make mistakes.
Superpowers?
I have super no-powers.
Who is “Artist”?
I think everybody wants to be an artist.
What is art for?
For a different or other reality.
Violeta Vitanova is a freelance artist working in the field of contemporary dance and performance. She actively collaborates with choreographers and artists from the Bulgarian and European scene. Together with the choreographer Stanislav Genadiev, Violeta has twice received the Icarus Award and the Jury Prize at the Margarita Arnaudova International Competition organized by Ballet Arabesque. In 2017 her contribution to Bulgarian culture was recognized with a diploma from the Minister of Culture. For the seventh year Violeta is a teacher at the National School of Dance Art in Sofia, where she graduated in classical dance.
Name:
Nina
Where are you from?
São Paulo
Describe yourself in 1-3 sentences (1-3 Words):
Maybe if I can get to the point where I can describe myself.
What is your favorite number?
Don’t have one.
Which number are you scared from?
8
What does “42” mean to you?
–
What is the meaning of life?
–
How do you feel about mistakes?
I am learning to trust them.
Superpowers?
I had one the other day, but I forgot it.
Who is “Artist”?
I had a conversation about that with a friend during last year’s edition of the festival, but we didn’t reach a conclusion.
What is art for?
For not being for something.
Nina DeLudemann was born on a last autumn day in São Paulo. She studied scenography at the university of fine arts, UdK Berlin (MA 2020) and is currently finishing a 2nd degree in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, Giessen. She builds spaces of encounter between the worlds in which she has had the chance to dwell, which lye in imaginable distance from one another (, to quote a Frankfurt graffiti).
Name:
Ivar
Where are you from?
Zagreb, Croatia
Describe yourself in 1-3 sentences (1-3 Words):
Improvise, embrace, discomfort, keep going.
What is your favorite number?
9
Which number are you scared from?
None
What does “42” mean to you?
First was just a mimetic reaction, but I guess for most people is Douglas Adams – Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
What is the meaning of life?
Improvisation.
How do you feel about mistakes?
I embrace and cherish them.
Superpowers?
–
Who is “Artist”?
Whoever feels like it
What is art for?
To make the world better.
Ivar Roban Krizic (*1990, Zagreb, Croatia) studied Double Bass at the Jazz Department in Graz and is currently pursuing an Artistic Research Doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with research into the epistemology of free improvisation. His artistic practice involves a wide variety of international projects ranging from contemporary jazz to experimental music and free improvisation. His research deals with the notions of flow, reflection, and musical cognition in the context of free improvised music. Through his research he wishes to explore the various cognitive states in which performers find themselves in during improvisation and create performative frameworks which allow both the musical and reflective aspects to coexist in the same context.
The scenographer Nina DeLudemann (Germany/Brazil), the double bass player Ivar Roban Križić (Croatia), and the dancer and choreographer Violeta Vitanova (Bulgaria) present the outcome of their collaboration inspired by this year's festival theme: 42.
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