Balkan trafik 2008
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Klemen Slavic Masa Ceglar Ana Spik Borut Bucinel Dejan Smolnikar  Klemen Slavic, 24 years. Ljubljana. A many-sided amazing guy. Klemen started his acting career way back in his teens after a wild party, coming home telling his parents he only had "a little sip." After a boring elementary school existence, he joined his high school debate club, where he cultivated his rhetoric skills. Later, he joined the underdog improv team in 2000, staying with the same team mates to this day. Since then, he's participated in various improv groups, performing as MC, actor, director, producer or lighting and sound engineer. Lately, he started to head his own improv group, Kivi Koktejl (Kiwi Cocktail). After graduation (and an abandoned biochemistry and genetics academic career) he decided to shift his efforts towards theatre and music, while keeping up with the other love of his life - comics and cartoons. He now works as a software engineer..  Masa Ceglar, 24 years. Ljubljana. I was born on 16th February 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I study Slavic languages. When I was younger I used to do hip-hop and gymnastics. For the last three years I've taken classes in contemporary dancing and I am a stilts walker. I perform in dance-theatre performances and play in two children shows. I also work as a mentor of creative workshops (mostly puppet workshops) and as a coordinator in the Channel Zero club for concerts and international exhibitions. I e.g. organize the catering there as well as on different music festivals in Ljubljana (Druga Godba, Škuc, ...). I also participate in organizing street theatre festivals (Ana Desetnica, Metelkova festival,...).  Ana Špik, 22 years. Ljubljana. She started on the theatre and dance. Later she learned to walk on stilts and she tried some experiences joining theatre and circus. Also a hybrid artist, the last years she has being performing with Artizani, among others experimental theatre groups. She told us about her experience in Artizani: “There I’ve realized what is really possible in theatre”. Their work combines circus skills, shadows, puppets and theatre in a really magic show. Ana and Masa will lead the equilibrium and stilts workshop for the Balkan Trafik Festival.  Borut Bucinel, 24 years old. Ljubljana. The only artist in BZ.eu coming as a scene director and also as a performer: he is an independent artist, choreographer and dancer. He’s a brilliant promising creator in Slovenia, author of seven independent full-length dance theatre performances, the three last ones being, Čuda so potna gospodova, 2005 (investigative performance – premiere 30.11.2005), Speče celice, 2006 (with Bara Kolenc and Radovan Jaušovec for Teater Pozitiv theatre), and Lunatik, 2007, more short dance videos, music videos and many short dance performances. His stage and film work is always based on research of light, scenography and space, and also of the atmosphere, brought by the vivid artistic composition. He will create the scenography and lead the direction of the creation of the Slovenian Balkan Zirkus.eu Crew. We cannot wait to see the hybrid outcome of this interesting experience!  Dejan Smolnikar, 26 years old. Ljubljana. Dejan comes from a small town in Slovenia, near the Austrian border. When he was 17 years old, he discovered breakdance electro-boogie and started to teach himself this weird dance. After that, he discovered gymnastics and two years later, he started teaching kids basic figures on the trampoline. At 21 he began with breakdance power moves. Now he can do a handstand...without having legs on a wall...for a few seconds... When he was 23, life was really hard for him...but this is another story...What I mean to say...hummm...what he means to say is that his life completely changed...he discovered balls...he became what is he now...a juggler...a juggler with all his heart...and I will juggle, till the end! This versatile artist, one of the best jugglers in Slovenia, is also a very rare one: combining very different genre, his style becomes unique: break-dance, gymnastics, theatre and juggling. He’s developing a new way of doing circus, shaker of different styles and he’s the circus pole in the range of Slovenian artists in this project. He’s also the official manager of the Slovenian team in BZ.eu. |