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2:0., performed by the original ensemble of Fičo Balet: Goran Bogdanovski, Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar and Damjan Mohorko, 2016.

Fičo Balet is an artist-led NGO founded in 2000 by Goran Bogdanovski and a core group of artistic collaborators. Fičo Balet’s diverse (international) programme aims to explore and communicate the full range of the artistic and educational experience of dance by organising different community-based art projects.

Fičo Balet also provides an on-going, weekly training to "any body" interested in movement and dance and has been organising the international festival of contemporary dance.

DANCE ALCHEMY / Dance Improvisation Training by Goran Bogdanovski on Vimeo

Background and mission

The name of the company comes from the Slovenian nickname for the Fiat 750, fičo, the first widely accessible car in the former Yugoslavia, and the Slovenian word for ballet, balet. Attempting to bring democracy to high art, transform the mundane through art, and to foster new forms of collaboration, Fičo Balet seeks to explore physicality, presence, and corporeal expression through different educational and performance practices as well as through festival production.

Productions

Combining skill with playfulness, Fičo Balet's dance and theatre projects are known for redefining dance virtuosity in inspiring and unconventional ways. Aiming to reflect the "emotional landscape of the everyday", Fičo Balet has created many dance performances and other dance-related events (improvisations, community-based projects). Following the slogan “Every body can dance”, Fičo Balet also produces works with non-professional dancers as well as cross-disciplinary works, such as happenings and performance art events.

2:0 Goran Bogdanovski by Goran Bogdanovski on Vimeo

Dance development through international cooperation

Besides organising regular weekly trainings in Ljubljana and offering teachers’ training programmes and mentorship, Fičo Balet’s core members Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj were the co-initiators of the Nomad Dance Academy in 2006, an international platform for collaboration, education, research, production, and promotion of contemporary dance that gathers potentials and resources on a regional level with an aim to contribute to the improvement and professionalization of contemporary dance in the Balkans.

Do you dance? by Goran Bogdanovski on Vimeo

Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia

Fičo Balet was also an initiator and a project leader of the Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia in 2010 that aims at connecting people and increasing the quality of dance production. Its programme is oriented towards establishment of conditions for high-profile professional work in the field of contemporary dance in Slovenia. The network led a process of establishing the first public dance institution, the Centre of Contemporary Dance Arts in Ljubljana and created a touring network throughout Slovenia.

Festival production

Fičo Balet was co-initiator and co-organiser of the international festival of contemporary dance CoFestival that integrates Contemporary Dance between the market and democracy.

Since 2014, Fičo Balet has been organising Fičo Dance Journeys & retreats, summer workshop festivals featuring international teams of artists and teachers, based on the principles of co-living, learning through sharing, and cooperation. The festival is held in Slovenia, Bali and otherinternational locations.

External links

Gallery

Sun City, intimate dance spectacle by Goran Bogdanovski, Fičo Balet, 2006.

Performance Sun City by Goran Bogdanovski, Fičo Balet, 2006.

Sun City by choreographer Goran Bogdanovski, Fičo Balet, 2006.

Goran Bogdanovski, performer of the solo show John, Fičo Balet, 2008.

John the Other, Fičo Balet, 2010.

Fičo Training, a synthesis of dance techniques and tools, 2010.

Square, performance based on The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other by Peter Handke, Fičo Balet, 2011.

FičoDrom, dance partying, 2013.

Performance Parodos by choreographer Goran Bogdanovski, Fičo Balet, 2013.

Parodos, created and performed by “natural - non professional” dancers, Fičo Balet, 2013.

Confi-dance, performed by Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj, Fičo Balet, 2015.

2:0., performed by the original ensemble of Fičo Balet: Goran Bogdanovski, Dejan Srhoj, Goran Tatar and Damjan Mohorko, 2016.

Dancers transforming the stage into a football stadium during 2:0 dance performance, Fičo Balet, 2016.

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-[[Fičo Ballet]] is an artist led company founded in 2000 by Goran Bogdanovski and a core group of artistic collaborators and dancers (additional information about Goran Bogdanovski can be found below).
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+[[Fičo Balet]] is an artist-led NGO founded in [[Established::2000]] by [[Goran Bogdanovski]] and a core group of artistic collaborators. Fičo Balet’s diverse (international) programme aims to explore and communicate the full range of the artistic and educational experience of dance by organising different community-based art projects.
+Fičo Balet also provides an on-going, weekly training to "any body" interested in movement and dance and has been organising the international festival of contemporary dance.
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-Fičo Ballet creates dance and theatrical performances and engages in variety of creative workshops. The group performs in original and unconventional ways, striving to transform classical and academic dance-styles into inspiring, understandable and accessible performances enabling people to experience art in a new way and, in some cases, linking democracy with high art.
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+==Background and mission==
+The name of the company comes from the Slovenian nickname for the Fiat 750, ''fičo'', the first widely accessible car in the former Yugoslavia, and the Slovenian word for ballet, ''balet''. Attempting to bring democracy to high art, transform the mundane through art, and to foster new forms of collaboration, Fičo Balet seeks to explore physicality, presence, and corporeal expression through different educational and performance practices as well as through festival production.
+==Productions==
+Combining skill with playfulness, Fičo Balet's dance and theatre projects are known for redefining dance virtuosity in inspiring and unconventional ways. Aiming to reflect the "emotional landscape of the everyday", Fičo Balet has created many dance performances and other dance-related events (improvisations, community-based projects). Following the slogan “Every body can dance”, Fičo Balet also produces works with non-professional dancers as well as cross-disciplinary works, such as happenings and performance art events.
+{{vimeo|270373097}}
+==Dance development through international cooperation==
+Besides organising regular weekly trainings in Ljubljana and offering teachers’ training programmes and mentorship, Fičo Balet’s core members Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj were the co-initiators of the Nomad Dance Academy in 2006, an international platform for collaboration, education, research, production, and promotion of contemporary dance that gathers potentials and resources on a regional level with an aim to contribute to the improvement and professionalization of contemporary dance in the Balkans.
+{{vimeo|68310974}}
+== Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia ==
+Fičo Balet was also an initiator and a project leader of the ''Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia'' in 2010 that aims at connecting people and increasing the quality of dance production. Its programme is oriented towards establishment of conditions for high-profile professional work in the field of contemporary dance in Slovenia. The network led a process of establishing the first public dance institution, the Centre of Contemporary Dance Arts in Ljubljana and created a touring network throughout Slovenia.
+==Festival production==
+Fičo Balet was co-initiator and co-organiser of the international festival of contemporary dance [[CoFestival]] that integrates Contemporary Dance between the market and democracy.
+Since 2014, Fičo Balet has been organising ''Fičo Dance Journeys'' & retreats, summer workshop festivals featuring international teams of artists and teachers, based on the principles of co-living, learning through sharing, and cooperation. The festival is held in Slovenia, Bali and otherinternational locations.
-The first performances which reflected the 'emotional landscape of the everyday', were: 1:0 in 2000, Sweat and Soot in 2001, Against the Stream and Summer Breeze (a research project) in 2002, and I:move, emofad – Emotivity of Adventure and :id in 2003, followed by Confi-dance in 2004, Igra (2004); Edge of eden (2005); Formula (2007) and Sun City (2006/2007). In April 2008 JOHN was premiered at Joyce SOHO, New York City. Fičo Ballet produces also produces theatre performances aimed at younger audiences.
+==See also==
-Until 2007 Fičo Ballet co-operated with more than 100 artists, held workshops and performed over 200 times in places as London, Moscow, New York, Boston, Montreal, Hanover, Berlin, Prague, Milan, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Bytom, Warsaw, Volgograd, Monaco, Belgrade, Podgorica, Graz, Cividale del Friuli, Cahors, Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Pula, Cambridge, and of course throughout Slovenia.
+* [[PLESkavica Festival]]
+* [[CoFestival]]
+* [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]]
+* [[Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia]]
-Fičo Ballet has also collaborated with the Nomad Dance Academy, for the NOMAD Education Programme 2008 launched by the Balkan Dance Network. This initiative is dedicated to 12 emerging contemporary dancers from the Balkans who will live, learn, work and engage with each other in order to create a network for future artistic collaboration. Other partners include Eks Scena, Zagreb, Croatia; Tala Dance Center, Zagreb, Croatia; Station - Service for Contemporary Dance, Belgrade, Serbia; Lokomotiva - Center for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Skopje, Macedonia; and the Brain Store Project, Sofia, Bulgaria. More information can be found at the above website.
+== External links ==
-Fičo Ballet are members of the [[Asociacija, Association of Arts and Culture NGOs and Freelancers]] of Slovenia. They are also part of the [[Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM)]] network.
+* [https://www.ficobalet.org/ Fičo Balet website]
+* [https://dancealchemy.net/teacherstraining Dance Improvisation Teacher Training]
+* [https://www.holisticretreats.net Holistic Retreats & Journeys]
+* [http://www.sodobniples.si/kategorija/Archive-CDNS-2010-2012 Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia]
+* [http://www.nomaddanceacademy.org Nomad Dance Academy]
-== See also ==
-* More information about individual artists
-Goran Bogdanovski has performed ballet, contemporary dance, physical theatre and video projects since 1990. He has graduated from Ljubljana Ballet School, and later went on to study gymnastics, electronic engineering, philosophy, ballet and contemporary dance techniques. He has taken part in several research projects by numerous choreographers and artists including: Emio Greco, Josef Nadj, Jordi Cortes Molina, David Zambrano, Chrysa Parkinson, Howard Katz Fireheart, Francois Michele Pesenti. Bogdanovski was also a tutor of DanceWeb 2002, ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna, Austria, and in 2003 he took part in the residency in NYC via [[CEC Artslink]]. In 2004 he was awarded a residency from the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault in Montreal, Canada.
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