OPUS 1 – PLESNA MINIATURA 2025
16. MEDNARODNI FESTIVAL MLADIH PLESNIH USTVARJALCEV
Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje, 19. april 2025

16. International Festival of Young Dance Creators
OPUS 1 – Short Dance Piece 2025
Slovenian National Theatre Celje, 19th April 2025

  JURY

Sebastián García Ferro is choreographer, dancer, performer and composer living in Barcelona since 2005. He directs his dance company formed in the city of Barcelona since 2000. So far he has premiered and collaborated in the direction and choreography of 24 contemporary dance pieces, winning several awards. He has been participating in prestigious programs such as the Rosas P.A.R.T.S. Summer Studio Project, Le Bains Connective (Belgium), Espaco do Tempo (Portugal), TanzHaus NRW, Hellerau, K3, Tanzfabrik, etc. and touring in more than 15 countries in America, Europe and Asia. 
Sebastián has engaged extensively in social and educational dance projects and collaborates with the National Company of Contemporary Dance of Argentina and the Orquestra Simfònica of Barcelona. He serves as the Artistic Director of the Barcelona International Dance Exchange, is an associate choreographer with La Caldera / Les Corts Choreography Center and Resident Composer of the Phonos Foundation at the University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona.

Simon Wehrli started as a drummer and violinist in several Swiss bands, attended the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio (CH) and then studied contemporary dance with Trinity Laban London (UK). From 2010 to 2015 he was involved in different projects by David Zambrano (amongst others "50 days of flying low and passing through Costa Rica“). Simon toured Europe, the USA, and Africa as part of the theater group Collettivo Spettatori and the dance improvisation group 50collective. As a dancer and musician, he worked for choreographers internationally. Own creations include Greatest Hits (2013), How to become Clairvoyant (2016), Nature Poetry (2018), Nothing Works (Shakira, Shakira) (2020), Deep Purple (2022). Simon teaches dance and improvisation in Switzerland and abroad, regularly works for the Bachelor in Contemporary Dance at La Manufacture and is busy with his own productions as well as collaborations.

Dragana Alfirević is a cultural worker in the field of contemporary performing arts, born in Belgrade, where she studied Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, and following that finished specialist studies in the program BODY UNLIMITED at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. She is co-founder of the Balkan Dance Network and Nomad Dance Academy, a regional tool for communication, education and artistic exchange. Dragana is also coordinator and producer of NDA Slovenia; co-founder of STATION, Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade and co-curator of CoFestival in Ljubljana. She is active in various international projects (Dance On Pass On Dream On, Life Long Burning, Imaginary School, among others). Dragana has authored and co-authored 15 evening length performances and a dozen short choreographies and she is regularly choreographing for theatre performances. She teaches, makes performances, writes, curates festivals, and produces art events in the space between praxis, theory, and activism.