Alice in WonderBand links

Balkan body music

Alice in WonderBand is a duo of performers bringing together world music and odd beats from the Balkans with body music and body percussion. Ana Vrbaški and Marko Dinjaški are performing on stage in theaters and concerts and are a couple in life living in nature, near Fruška gora National park.

Their performance is vibrating and rhythmic, powerful and energetic, a crossroads of dance, stage movement and music, a deep, primordial experience that takes the audience on a journey through Balkans as well as to the depths of the being. This journey they finish together with the performer, as a singing and clapping community, feeling rooted, grounded and inspired.

Duo teaches workshops for all age groups and produces New Balkan Rhythm, festival of body music in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia.

Alice in WonderBand perform on big stages, as well as smaller, with backing tracks or acoustic.

AWb performed at Kaustinen Folk Music Festival (Finland), Maraton hudby (Brno, Czech Republic), A to Jazz festival (Sofia, Bulgaria), Balkan:MOST festival (Veszprem, Hungary), World Music Festival Bratislava (Slovakia), Music Meeting (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Gentse Feesten / Trefpunt festival (Ghent, Belgium), Balkan Trafik (Brussles, Belgium) etc.

Debut album RikaTaka, New Balkan Rhythm is released by a German label CPL Music and was at the seventh place in World Music Charts Europe in December 2022. Album is a union of different genres, acoustic and electronic music, tradition and contemporary artist expression. Rooted in Balkan music tradition and irregular rhythms it makes Western heart skip a beat and synchronize it to more primordial sounds of body music. Songs from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Greece, Turkey, Albania, Kosovo, even Hungary, offer a wide palette of sounds and rhythms.