OPUS 1 – PLESNA MINIATURA 2024
15. MEDNARODNO TEKMOVANJE MLADIH PLESNIH USTVARJALCEV
Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje, 30. marec 2024

15. International Competition of Young Dance Creators
OPUS 1 – Short Dance Piece 2024
Slovenian National Theatre Celje, 30th March 2024

  JURY

Sandra Man

Sandra Man (they/them) is an artist working with live performance, video and text. For the past six years they have been working mainly outdoors, on a new relationship between body and landscape. Sandra collaborates with dancers and performers, they move and speak in/with the environment. In Sandra's choreographed live performances they focus on encounters: Between the Earth and the moving/speaking body, between performers and audience, the landscape becomes a common ground that connects participants and attenders. In Sandra's videos they show dancers interacting with remote hybrid techno-natural landscapes. In Sandra's texts, spoken live or in videos, sometimes projected or printed, they offer a sensitive description of the world, the words literally touch what surround us. Sandra’s work is strongly multi-disciplinary. In all the media used they aim to re-connect inside and outside, investigating our contemporary geo-existence as (human) bodies on Earth. More: www.sandraman.com; https://www.instagram.com/sandraman__/

Jianan Qu

Jianan Qu is deputy director of IDA (Institute of Dance Arts), Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz / Austria and board member of APL (The Angewandte Performance Laboratory) University of Applied Arts Vienna / Austria. He was a visiting lecturer at Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing/China (2019), SOZO Kassel Hochschule (2018, 2019, 2021), Shandong University of Arts, China (2017) amongst many others.
Jianan Qu is a visual artist, contemporary dance choreographer and performer. He is interested in the material body as well as its presence. Based on the ‘performative body knowledge’, Jianan creates performance interactions between art fields, art spaces and institutions. Immaterial and reduced expressions are key elements in these inter- actions. As a diasporic individual, in-between spaces of understanding and the necessary misunderstanding concern not only his artistic but also life trajectory. His works have been shown at ImpulsTanz, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Vienna Art Week, in Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Organhaus (Chongqing) and Kunstraum Niederösterreich, among others.

Magdalena Reiter

Magdalena Reiter (PL / SLO) is choreographer, dancer and pedagogue based in Slovenia since 2002. She has graduated from the National Ballet School in Gdańsk, Poland, and from P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium. Magdalena created more than 20 choreographic pieces in frame of independent production houses and as commissioned works for Studio Contemporary Dance Company (Zagreb, Croatia), Polish Dance Theatre – Poznan Ballet, Bodhi Project – a company in residency at SEAD (Salzburg, Austria) etc. She creates choreographies for theatre productions, opera productions and works as a movement advisor in films. She received Ksenija Hribar Award for Choreographic opus (2023), Best performance award of the international jury at the 2nd Slovene Dance Festival Gibanica, Best performance award at 8th Teaterfest in Sarajevo among other praises. Her works were presented in multiple European countries. Magdalena has worked internationally as a teacher and mentor and has been running Ljubljana-based VIBRA – International Workshops and Festival of Contemporary dance since 2012. More: https://magdalenareiter.com/