Jasna Layes Vinovrški
CARE – Three Shift System| KDF016 Autumn Edition
Performance:
Wednesday, 30 September at 8 pm
Edison Cinema, Karlovac
Duration: 53 minutes
Tickets: Pay What You Can (free donation)
Recommended amount: €7 (or according to your means)
Free admission: Unemployed, pensioners, and persons with disabilities
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ABOUT
“Care – Three Shift System” is a new work by choreographer Jasna Layes Vinovrški, created in collaboration with three performers—Koraljka Begović, Melita Spahić Bezjak, and Larisa Lipovac Navojec—who are simultaneously producers, heads of artistic organizations, mothers, partners, and daughters. They have been compelled to develop and practice multiple roles of caregiving across various spheres of activity. The creative process raised questions about how this care—which is deeply interwoven with their identities—impacts them and their bodies. Does it manifest as a sense of control? As a need for constant control? As a state of readiness and responsibility? And where does this need for care—which knows no set working hours—actually come from? These intimate questions intertwine with the global situation, characterized by declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy, where issues of care and nurturing become matters of survival—for both humanity and our very humanity.
Concept & Choreography: Jasna Layes Vinovrški
Performance: Koraljka Begović, Melita Spahić Bezjak, Larisa Lipovac Navojec
Dramaturgy: Nikolina Rafaj
Scenography: Clément Layes, Dora Đurkesec
Costume Design: Ana Paulić
Light Design: Saša Fistrić
Sound & Graphic Design: Hrvoje Jelinčić
Production: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld / Nomad Dance Academy Croatia
Production & Administration: Davorka Škrlec
The performance was produced through a collaboration between three artistic organizations—Nomadic Dance Academy Croatia, Tala Dance Center, and Cie. Public in Private—with the support of the City of Zagreb’s City Office for Culture, Intercity and International Cooperation and Civil Society; the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia; the Goethe-Institut’s International Coproduction Fund; and the Kultura Nova Foundation.
Biographies
Jasna L. Vinovrški is a performer, choreographer and lecturer who grew up in Zagreb, Croatia and has been based in Berlin since 2008. She has been co-running the company Public in Private and Studio PIP togeather with Clement Layes for over 18 years. Alongside her artistic practice, she co-curated and organized performance platforms such as 3AM, Montag Modus, and Flutgraben Performances, and has been actively involved in dance politics since 2020.
About the Performers
Koraljka Begović
A dancer, creative producer, and yoga teacher. In 2016, she completed her MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the University of Limerick. She develops her own choreographic work and collaborates with numerous choreographers and educators. She holds a BA in Early Childhood Education from Zagreb and a degree in Cultural Management from Zadar. Since 2007, she has worked as a producer, collaborating with various organisations and associations. Her authorial work Playing Reality, co-produced with the Domino association, was selected as part of the BeSpectACTive! programme for 2020.
Melita Spahić Bezjak
She completed her dance studies at the London Contemporary Dance School, where she also earned her Master’s degree. She is actively engaged in dance, pedagogical work, and choreographic research. She shapes her artistic expression by finding inspiration in research, the connections between science and art, nature, and the universe. Visual aspects, multimedia, technology, and interactivity in dance are key drivers of her various concept projects and choreographic works. She has collaborated on dramatic, theatrical, and dance performances with various artists and theatre houses. She is the founder of the MSD ensemble (UK) and the Free Dance organisation, and she initiated the Karlovac Dance Festival (KDF).
Larisa Lipovac Navojec
In 2018, she graduated in Performing Arts from UdK/HZT Berlin (MA in Performing Arts). In 2000, she founded the TALA Dance Centre arts organisation and the Platforma HR festival, where she currently works as a director, performer, choreographer, dance educator, and producer. Since 2018, she has been teaching in the Acting Department (2nd year of the MA programme) as an associate lecturer, working alongside director K. Dolenčić. She has participated in the creation of around 100 performances across various genres, many of which have received different awards. As a choreographer and dancer, she has taken part in a large number of commercial projects. Today, she produces, organises, and initiates many dance projects, and continuously participates in all activities of the Croatian independent dance scene. She works as a dancer, choreographer, dance educator, and director, creating creative concepts for various collaborators, organisations, and projects.
Karlovac Dance Festival — Credits
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Karlovac, and Karlovac County
Media Partner: HRT3