Biennale of contemporary dance art in Slovenia-Gibanica Awards two prizes:
* The main prize of Gibanica will be awarded this year by an international expert jury:
Sandra Neuveut, director of the CNDC La BRI Modueterie, France
Catja Loepfe, Managing Director of Tanzhaus Z Animatrich, Switzerland
Monica Gillette, Co-Director of Tanztriennale Hamburg, Germany
* The audience award is given to the show that obtains the most votes from the audience.
The award ceremony will be hosted by Daniel Petkovi / the choreographic laboratory dancers.
* An elevator from the small gallery takes you to the CD Club.
More about the international jury:
Catja Loepfe, a cultural anthropologist by training, has been the artistic director of Tanzhaus Z Animatrich since 2014. She began her career as an independent curator and workshop organizer, then took over the leadership from the rote Fabrik (1999 – 2007) and continued her work at the Gessnerallee Z Animlrich (2007 – 2012), where she eventually took over as acting director. After that, she led the festival with the Animatrich tanzt and was a member of the art committee with the Animatrcher theatre spectacle.
Since 2021, Sandra Neuveut has been the director of the National Center for choreographic development – La BRI Animatueterie in France. In 2024, she held the position of President of the Association of choreographic Development National Centers, and this year she is its treasurer. She was artistic consultant at the Paris City Theatre for the Chantiers d'europe projects (2019) and deputy director of the Mus Alce de la danse in Rennes, under the direction of choreographer Boris Charmatz (2009 – 2018). She regularly teaches at universities and vocational training programs and holds the title of Knight of Arts and Letters awarded by the French Ministry of culture.
Monica Gillette is artistic co-director of Tanztriennal 2026 in Hamburg. At Tanzhaus, she works as a dramaturg and devotes herself to the transformation processes of the institution. She worked on many projects, including Dance Well, Migrant Bodies – Crossing the Borders, Dancing them, significantly, museums – The Democracy of Beings, Empowering and Dance, and the Aerowaves’ Crossing Borders, as well as a researcher for ONE of the European Dance Development Network, which was in the year 2024, was its publication of the Practices of the Care and Wellbeing, and Contemporary Dance: Evidence from the Field.
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Bienale sodobne plesne umetnosti v Sloveniji – Gibanica podeljuje dve nagradi:
• Glavno nagrado Gibanice bo letos podelila mednarodna strokovna žirija v sestavi:
Sandra Neuveut, direktorica CNDC La Briqueterie, Francija
Catja Loepfe, direktorica Tanzhaus Zürich, Švica
Monica Gillette, sodirektorica Tanztriennale Hamburg, Nemčija
• Nagrado občinstva se podeli predstavi, ki pridobi največ glasov občinstva.
Podelitev bo vodil Daniel Petković, nastopile pa bodo plesalke_ci koreografskega laboratorija.
* V Klub CD vas popelje dvigalo iz Male galerije.
Več o mednarodni strokovni žiriji:
Catja Loepfe, po izobrazbi kulturna antropologinja, je od leta 2014 umetniška direktorica Tanzhaus Zürich. Svojo pot je začela kot samostojna kustosinja in organizatorka delavnic, nato je prevzela vodstvo Züriškega gledališča Rote Fabrik (1999 – 2007) in z delom nadaljevala na Gessnerallee Zürich (2007 – 2012), kjer je nazadnje prevzela tudi delo vršilke dolžnosti direktorice. Za tem je vodila festival Zürich tanzt in bila članica umetniškega odbora Zürcher Theatre Spektakel.
Sandra Neuveut je od leta 2021 direktorica Nacionalnega centra za koreografski razvoj – La Briqueterie v Franciji. Leta 2024 je izvajala funkcijo predsednice Združenja koreografskih razvojnih nacionalnih centrov, letos pa je njegova blagajničarka. Bila je umetniška svetovalka v Mestnem gledališču Pariz za projekte Chantiers d’ Europe (2019) in namestnica direktorja Musée de la danse v Rennesu, pod vodstvom koreografa Borisa Charmatza (2009 – 2018). Redno poučuje na univerzah in v programih poklicnega usposabljanja ter ima naziv Vitezinja umetnosti in književnosti, ki ga podeljuje francosko ministrstvo za kulturo.
Monica Gillette je umetniška so-direktorica Tanztriennala 2026 v Hamburgu. Pri Tanzhaus Zürich sicer dela kot dramaturginja in se posveča procesom preobrazbe institucije. Delala je na mnogih evropskih projektih, vključno z Dance Well, Migrant Bodies – Moving Borders, Dancing Museums – The Democracy of Beings, Empowering Dance in Aerowaves’ Moving Borders ter kot raziskovalka za EDN – European Dance Development Network, kjer je leta 2024 izšla njena publikacija Practices of Care and Wellbeing in Contemporary Dance: Evidence from the Field.
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