I have been teaching for quite a long time and if I am honest I am not sure of my methods and ways of working with dancers.

I have never been in any dance school, so sometimes I feel a lack of some basic knowledge, that I, as a dancer and teacher should have. First of all I feel very embarrassed when students are asking me about functioning of a muscle we are using and I am not very sure about it. Sometimes I also notice that I gain some dance movements from other teachers, and that I actually don’t understand the basic principle of it. I believe that’s happening to everyone now or then, but I would like to organise myself at least so much, that I could work with somebody on basic principals of all.

I believe I should first work on myself, on my body, with my soul, brains and try to feel and somehow understand what is going on while I move. I was working a lot on awareness of my body, the space, time and circumstances (also through Stanislavski method for actors). I did quite a lot of improvisational work and I sort of find myself a field to let go.

Since I have been training gymnastics and since I have work a lot with dangerous things like acrobatic, circus ropes and tissues, I am fully aware of the need for safety. And I must say for me the most dangerous thing is still dancing and ordinary physical movements like running for instance. I have a chronic knee problem, I have a reconstruction on right one, operation of meniscus twice,… It is obvious that is the weakest point of my body, and I still didn’t find any teacher or dancer or doctor to advise me, to tell me the proper way to move. I must admit my first choice to learn the AS was because of my knees. I would like to learn to save them from stresses, from breaking down and I would still love to dance in the future. I would like to work on this first, so, that I could continue with other things.

I have read “The Axis Syllabus” book, where I already found some good advices for my work. I got a wish to know and learn more. I started to study anatomy of human body again, cause what I learned in my studying pharmacy was really a disaster. At your studio I would like to study about functioning of the body, of all that is written in your book.

By dancing/moving I would like to get the principals of walking, falling, using of weight, torsion, gravitation, forces,… I would like to touch the three qualities of movement: the fullness, the openness and the ease. All that I have seen while you are dancing, and I truly admire it. It is inspiring to have a teacher like that.

If I still teach in the future it is useful to gain some good teachers practice, to learn how to show, what to show and also why. To be an example when moving, articulate and precise.

The only thing I would add is that I love contact improvisation. I am always happy to practice it, doing it a lot, to get closer to the point where one (that’s two) can create dance. I also use it in the class because my students (specially not-dancers) are really having fun with it.

Ljubljana, 4.10.2005

curiculum vitae

I was born on 16.7.1974, in Ljubljana, where I also live. From the age of 8 till 16 I was training artistic gymnastics, I won a national championship at 12, and later on I was a member of Slovenian national team.

After high school, I have studied pharmacy at the University of Ljubljana.

I have a status of professional dancer from 2002.

Dance Education

• I made my first dance steps as a teenager at jazz-ballet classes and classes at student contemporary dance studio Intakt.
• I made first dance audition at 21 in Dance Theatre Ljubljana, where I started with every day education: Channinghama (Ann Poupolis), Limon (Elena de Vega, Joe Alegado), release, classical ballet, Tae Kwan Do, yoga, contact improvisation…
• During the years of dancing I visited workshops led by:

• David Zembrano, Rasmus Olme, Alix Eynaudi, Jordie Molina Cortes, Wendy Houston, Sonia Mota, Ivan Wolfe, Frey Faust, Joe Alegado, Andrea Roberti, Rebecca Murgi, Julien Hamilton, Branko Potocan, Iztok Kovac, Maja Delak, Mala Kline, …

• I am visiting an actors studio researching The Method by Stanislavsky for the last 4 years, where I studied with Ed Covens, Tomi Janezic, Andrej and Janez Vajevec, Scott Fielding.
• My speciality is also an aerial circus skills as ropes, tissues, rings. I won some basic skills, which I try to incorporate with dance. I made workshops with circus masters Bruno Krief and Volodia Lesluin.

Dance Biography

• Children dance performance "Bikec Ferninand", Dance Theatre Ljubljana, 1997, (choreographer Ksenja Hribar)
• Dancer in Drama, Chekov, "Cešnjev vrt", National Theatre SNG; 1999, dir. Janus Kica
• Dance performances: “Flies” (200) and “The Swamp”, dir. Dušan Teropšic.
• As a cooperated with Iztok Kovac for the performance “Perfect Step” (2001) as a student.
• Alternation with Matjaz Pograjc and group Betontanc in 2 performances (2001, 2004).
• With dance performance “The Rhythm Of Risk” 2003 we won a national dance platform Gibanica award for the best performance of the year , in 2004 I danced in “Impro(v(e))”; dir. Sinja Ozbolt, Dance Theatre Ljubljana.
• I am a member of a physical theatre group Fourklor, lead by Branko Potocan. I danced in performances: "The Doors" (2000), "Stolen Poem" (2002), “Somewhere In Between” (2003), “Short Cuts” (2005) and the short movie “Where Are Those Paths…”.
• Children dance performance "Jure Kvak Kvak", Dance Theatre Ljubljana, 1997, (choreographer Igor Sviderski)
• My first project “As a Snow Would Cover Me Up…”was premiered in December 2004 in Dance Theatre Ljubljana
• At this moment I am performing in a new Fourklor performance “The Rusty Trumpets” which was premiered in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana on 12.9.2005, dir. Branko Potocan.