Dance Performance Metronomy

The play ‘Metronomy’ will be performed on 3 September in the District, within the opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture.

Choreography: Tamara Gvozdenović

Music: Kangding Ray

Assistant choreographer: Ognjen Vučinić

Dancers: Katarina Bućić, Sonja Stojanović, Angela Mihova, Una Balaž, Miona Petrović, and Tijana Ostojić

We are building our common future by considering contrasts: construction vs. deconstruction, parallels, crowd vs. loneliness, in-between, negative space, shadow, body shift, change of space, change of perception and perspective. ‘In order to create, we have to destroy first. Everything we have built, we will destroy. Everything we believed in, we will erase. We will forget all the faces we have seen. We will not start from scratch. We will keep the foundations. In pieces. We will collect them. Some will stay. We will choose. Some will be forgotten. Compose. Lift. Step away. Valorise. Destroy’, said the author of the project.

Tamara Gvozdenović, after studying visual arts in Neuchâtel, joined the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance in London, where our famous choreographer Aleksandar Ilić received his master’s degree. After graduating, she presented her first dance theatre piece, Sainte Marie Joseph de la Rose, at the Théâtre du Pommier in Neuchâtel, followed by another, Sous le Cou(p) du Lapin, the following year. And finally for the third time Light Scream. In 2014, she joined the famous Belgian dance theatre troupe, Peeping Tom, in Brussels.

She is the founder of Le Facteur, a dance theatre troupe that was formed as a collective of artists, developing in Switzerland, France, and Belgium. She performed for the Belgrade audience last year for the first time, as part of the first edition of the Solo Festival with the play Tombés.

Belgrade Dance Institute, the first and only accredited study programme in the field of artistic dance in Serbia, was founded in 2014. Accredited study programmes for undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies provide education in the field of highly professional artistic dance (classical ballet, contemporary dance, stage folk dance, and music), choreography, ballet pedagogy, and contemporary dance pedagogy. More information can be found on their website.

Photo: Nemanja Maraš