Feel the rhythms of the Balkans pulsating through your body!
Read about the second edition of the Festival
Performing:
Teatr Rozbark
Academy of Dramatic Arts Krakow
Slavyk
Teaching:
Julia Lewandowska
Marko Dinjaški and Ana Vrbaški,
Alice in WonderBand
Combine dancing, making music, movement and singing into one
This year we are bringing you collaboration with Polish artists: workshops, concerts of the band Slavyk, music and dance theater piece Mirror with sound in cooperation with the Rozbark theater, and the work of the students of National Academy of Theater Arts in Krakow, Dance Theater Department in Bytom.
The programs of the festival will be held in Sremski Karlovci, Belgrade and Sremska Mitrovica.
If you want to know more, feel free to contact us.
02/09, Sremski Karlovci, Eco center Radulovački
15:00 – 15.45 Workshop of AWb
15.45 – 16.30 Workshop of Julia Lewandowska
21:00 Slavyk concert
03/09 Belgrade, Dadov Theater
19:00 Mirror with sound
19:40 Programs of the Academy of Theater Arts Krakow
Dym / Smoke (3rd year)
Compositions and Duets (2nd year)
04/09 Sremska Mitrovica, Dobrica Milutinović Theater
19:00 Slavyk concert
20:00 Programs of the Academy of Theater Arts Krakow
Dym / Smoke (3rd year)
Compositions and Duets (2nd year)
The partners of the festival are the Polish Institute in Belgrade, Tourism Office of the Municipality of Sremski Karlovci, Eco Center Radulovački, Pokret gorana Vojvodine, Dadov Theater, Centar za kulturu SirmiumArt, Tourism Office Novi Sad.
Marko Dinjaški and Ana Vrbaški (Serbia/Sremski Karlovci)
Duo of music and theater performers called Alice in WonderBand.
Their workshops are mostly built around the odd rhythms of the Balkans. They are deeply rooted in the music tradition and are a heritage Serbian artist contribute.
The only artists from the Balkans who have been developing a very specific type of performing arts, using unity of music, theater, dance, movement and acrobatics with special art of body music and body percussion.
Julia Lewandowska (Poland/Poznan)
Julia Lewandowska was born in 1992 in Poznań and raised in a family of art restorers. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in workshop graphics at the University of Arts in Poznań and at The National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków at the Dance Theatre Department in Bytom.
Inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski’s Workcenter and Thomas Richards, as well as the Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice and strong female artists, she performs choreography combining dance, text and music. She experiments with combining movement and voice through sound embodiment.
BODY VOICING by Julia Lewandowska is a holistic workshop method. It involves using vocal and movement exercises to warm up, open up and wake up, preparing for further training/daily life. The instructor uses yogic positions in her work, which allow for concentration and positioning of the body to support the sound. She bases her training on the elements of vocal training, which she learned from her masters of theatrical craft.
We will warm up the resonators in the body, referring to Kristin Linklater’s ladder of resonators, as well as Zygmunt Molik’s exercises. Also, some Alexandra Strelnikova’s exercises for asthmatics will be used to expand breathing possibilities, as well as to prepare for further work with movement and voice.
BODY VOICING is a game of sound in movement to release your potential!
National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow, Dance Theatre Department in Bytom
Since the establishment of the Dance Theatre Department, students and graduates of the Dance Theatre Acting specialization have been educated in relation to the now-classical understanding of dance theatre, rooted in the German Tanztheater tradition. While continuing this legacy, the Faculty actively engages with contemporary developments in dance theatre — those that transcend established frameworks and resist precise definitions.
The study program involves interdisciplinary education in dance, dance theater, physical acting, dramatic acting, improvisation, directing, composition, theory and history of theater and dance, anthropology, knowledge of art, philosophy, aesthetics, music, anatomy, biomechanics, new media. The Department’s mission focuses on constantly pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinarity and seeking innovation in the processes of education and the creation of performing arts through, among other things, the fusion of dance and acting.
The students of the Academy will present different programs at the festival: performative work Smoke (3rd year), compositions and duets (2nd year). Some of the students will participate in the Mirror with sound performance.
Mirror with sound
Traditional songs of Silesia and Vojvodina meet dance and movement, telling stories of life, war, love, happiness and support. The magical atmosphere and body music performance draw the audience into the stories told by the songs. This exploration mirrors two cultures and nations, finding similarities and differences in an intuitive and inventive way. Movement produces sound by body percussion and echoes visual and acoustic rhythm.
The work was produced during the residency of Ana Vrbaški and Marko Dinjaški (Serbia) in Rozbark Theater (Poland). The residency has been funded by the Culture Moves Europe program. The participants of the project are students of the Academy of Theater Arts from Krakow (dance theater department in Bytom), and local musicians, singers and dancers from the community of Rozbark Theater. The crew of the project is a unique community, spanning from 20 to 50 years old, multinational (Poland, Serbia, Egypt), but breathing on stage in the same rhythm.
Slavyk
The quartet of Slavic sensibility creates world music, combining the movement, body, vocal and instrumental music. We like to mix Polish, Silesian, Serbian and English languages in the cosmopolitan sound of citizens of the global music world. We are inspired by traditional music.
Slavyk is two bands in one – Alice in WonderBand from Serbia and CISI from Silesia. The group consists of the inventive Julia Lewandowska with high-energy singing and dancing skills, Ana Vrbaški with a strong voice and firm accompaniment on keyboards, the smiling master of body polyrhythm Marko Dinjaški and the multi-instrumental architect of sound and improvisation Łukasz Malok.
Sremski Karlovci are a beautiful small town situated on the bank of Danube, just outside National park of Fruska gora, with various cultural and historical landmarks.
Sremski Karlovci are also famous for honey, grapes, wine and brandy (rakija).
Tourism organization of Sremski Karlovci Municipality is the partner of the festival.