p e o p l e
irena ristic, artist and researcher
graduated in 1992. at the academy of drama arts, department of
theatre directing. finished
postgraduate
studies
of
psychology
of art
at the faculty of philosophy (msc) and faculty of fine art in belgrade (phd). worked with professional ensembles in city theatres of belgrade, krusevac, vrsac, becej, banjaluka and hall in tyrol. major projects includes: "appetite", "room of the little fears", "saga", "autopsy: rigor mortis", "on the way... seeking", "kangaroo skin shoes", "men at the table", "man ist man", "love of perlimplin and belisa", "quartet" etc.
gained significant
experience in the field
of psychodrama, pedagogy and participative art working for
unicef, ballet school "lujo davico" and academy of art belgrade.
since 2000. she collaborates with laboratory of experimental psychology in
belgrade, moderating a serial of empirical researches of
creative process
in different art disciplines. founder and programme director of hop.la!
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andjelka nikolic, theatre director and philologist
graduated in 2002 at the faculty of philology
(department of french language)
and in 2004 at academy of drama arts (department of theatre and radio directing)
university of belgrade. major theater projects include:
sophocle's „antigona“ (slg celje), milan markovic & andjelka nikolic's „long live labour!“ (atelje 212), martin crimp's „attacks on her life“ (snp novi sad), „about violence“ after
„titus andronicus“
(hop.la! & np kikinda), simona semenic's „you haven't forget, you
just don't remember anymore“ (gledalisce glej, ljubljana), jean-luc lagarce's "rules for
good manners in the modern world"(jdp, beograd), doug wright's "i am my own wife" (gallery progress), “cheated” after jovan popovic sterija, miroslav krleza's "vucjak",
nikolai gogol's “marriage”
and ivo vojnovic's “dawn”. participated at the festivals:
sterijino pozorje, vojvodina theatre festival , bitef showcase, teden slovenske drame,
die besten aus dem osten/slowenien itd. award winner for best director at the theater's
fall vrsac. translate from french and english. member of association of
drama artists of serbia. co-founder and programme coordinator of hop.la!
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dejan dosljak, costume designer
studied theatre costume design at the royal academy of fine arts in antwerp, belgium.
worked as a costume designer on different projects in the past years like on mauel de
falla's opera "el retablo de maese pedro", jean-luc lagarce's "rules for
good manners in the modern world", doug wright's "i am my own wife", w.shakespeare's "titus andronicus" among others. collaborated with the swedish artist lisa jeannin on her
short films "black master, blue master, red master" which was part of the 2-channel installation "the crossing" and on "goddess" which was part of the 3-channel installation"ggg and g". recently was involved
in several workshops based on recycling and design.
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ah.ahilej, duo
founded in 2002. in belgrade. a grotesque sound of new wave cabaret. by decostructing classical pop forms,
they easily slide through multicoloured
musical gardens: jazz-noir, mutant-disco,
pantomima-obscura, dark-calypso, death-shlager, avant-pop etc.
performed in museum of contemporary art in belgrade/05,
refract festival in
belgrade/06, bibliotheca alexandrina within the forum of independent artistic
groups,
egypt/06,
czkd belgrade/06 and pavillion "cvijeta zuzoric" belgrade/07,
book fair leipzig.
editions:
"super life", "home made music", "rigor mortis" & "objectively worse edition".
performers and music support in
major hop.la! projects.
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milos paunovic, scriptwriter
studied philosophy at the faculty of philosophy in belgrade.
worked as associate writer, dramaturg and performer in different hop.la! projects
in the past years, including "room of the little fears", "appetite" and "process_k".