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Fičo Balet is an artist-led company founded in 2000 by Goran Bogdanovski and a core group of artistic collaborators and dancers. The name of the company comes from the Slovenian nickname for the Fiat 500, fičo, and the Slovenian word for ballet, balet. The group performs in original and unconventional ways, striving to transform classical and academic dance-styles into inspiring, understandable, and accessible performances enabling new experiences of art. In the frame of the Nomad Dance Academy (launched by the Balkan Dance Network) Fičo Balet produced the Pleskavica Contemporary Dance Festival in June 2010.

Production and performances

Fičo Balet's dance and theatre projects aim to reflect the "emotional landscape of the everyday". Combining playfulness and skill, Fičo Balet redefines dance virtuosity. Since its establishment, Fičo Ballet has created many performances, among others also 1:0 (2000), Sweat and Soot (2001), I:move (2003), Emofad – Emotivity of Adventure (2003), Confi-dance (2004), Edge of Eden (2005), and Sun City (2007), co-produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre. In April 2008, JOHN, premièred at Joyce SOHO, New York City. Fičo Balet also produces theatre performances aimed at younger audiences.

Networking and training

Fičo Balet has collaborated with the Nomad Dance Academy, specifically for the NOMAD Education Programme 2008 launched by the Balkan Dance Network. This initiative is dedicated to providing practical and theoretical knowledges from the field of performing arts and enabling artistic exchange between 12 emerging contemporary dancers from the Balkans in order to create a network for future artistic collaborations. Other partners include Eks Scena, Croatia; Tala Dance Center, Croatia; Station – Service for Contemporary Dance, Serbia; Lokomotiva – Center for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Macedonia; and the Brain Store Project, Bulgaria. As a member of the Nomad Dance Academy, Fičo Balet cooperated in the production of two short videos for World Dance Day on 29 April 2009 with the motto: "Go out and dance!".

Attempting to bring democracy to high art, Fičo Balet also provides an on-going, weekly training to "any body" interested in movement and dance as well as gives workshops and lectures.

Short cuts #2 / NOMAD Dance Academy 2009 by gbogda on YouTube

Short cuts #2 / NOMAD Dance Academy 2009 video

Pleskavica Festival

In June 2010 the company produced a 4-day Pleskavica Festival with two sections: Blow Up with two performances by the established dancer (Ivo Dimchev) and director (Sebastjan Horvat) and Short Cuts with 14 world premières by the emerging artists from the Nomad Dance Academy. The festival took place in the Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL) and Old Power Station venues in Ljubljana.

External links

Fičo Balet website (in Slovenian)
Balkan Dance Network
Nomad Dance Academy
Flyer for the Pleskavica Festival (in Slovenian and English)

Fičo Balet on YouTube

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