Curriculum Vitae
Igor Koruga
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December 15th 1985, Belgrade, Serbia;
Hobrechtstrasse 61, 12047, Berlin
+381 63 88 46 215 // +49 1525 87 88 087
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EDUCATION
Formal education:
2013 Graduated in MA of Solo/Dance/Authorship, University of Arts (UdK) and HZT,
Berlin, Germany.
2010 Graduated in MA of Ethnology and Anthropology, Philosophical Faculty, University of
Belgrade, Serbia.
Languages:
English, advanced;
German,beginner.
Scholarships:
2013 Tanzstipendium , der Regierende Bürgermeister Berlin, Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle
Angelegenheiten (Dance Scholarship from the Mayor of Berlin Senate Chancellery Cultural Affairs).
2009 Dance scholarship for education program DanceWeb, by ImpulsTanz Festival and
Kultur Kontakt Austria.
Scholarship for Regional educational program in Balkans – Nomad Dance Academy.
Non-formal education:
2012-2010
Workshop ’Communitas on trial’ leaders: Ana Vujanović and Saša Asentić, Tanz im
August festival, Berlin.
Dance workshop Coallision week, led by: Tino Sehgal, HZT/UdK, Berlin.
Dance film workshop Forward Motion, British Council & Faculty of drama
arts,Belgrade, facilitator: David Hinton (UK).
Classes in contemporary dance, within ImpulsTanz, led by Jennifer Lacey (USA/FR)
and Francesco Scavetta (ITA/NOR).
2009
NOMAD Dance Academy educational program, Balkans Region. Teachers:
Dalija Aćin (SRB), Jasmina Prolić (BiH/FR), Dragana Alfirević (SRB/SLO), Goran
Bogdanovski (SLO), Dejan Srhoj (SLO), Gregor Luštek (SLO), Aleksandra JanevaImfeld (HR/BEL), Silvia Marchig (HR), Irma Omerzo (HR), Iskra Šukarova (MK),
Willy Prager (BUL), Iva Sveštarova (BUL), Erol Alexander (BUL/GER), Marta
Ladjanski (HUN), Dean Damjanovski (MK), Bojan Manchev (BUL/GER), Ana
Vujanović (Srb), Maja Đurinović (HR), Bojana Kunst (SLO), Rok Vevar (SLO),
Janez Janša (SLO), Borut Šeparovič (HR), Ivica Buljan (HR), Martin Sonderkamp
(GER), Isabelle Schad (GER), Howard Katz (USA/ GER)
DanceWEB education program Vienna, Austria. Teachers:, Eszter Salamon
(HUN/GER), Christine de Smedt (BEL), Philipp Gehmacher (OST), Rasmus Olme
(SE), Chrysa Parkinson (USA), Martin Kylvadi (SLK), Damien Jalet (BEL)
2008–2006
Contemporary dance classes through organization STATION – service for
contemporary dance, Belgrade. Teachers: Fabrice Lambert (FR), Frans Poelstra
(BEL), Matej Kejžar (SLO), Gregor Luštek (SLO), Kaya Kolodziejczyk
(POL/BEL), Francesco Scavetta (ITA/NOR), Mala Kline (SLO), Frederic Gies
(GER), Martin Sonderkamp (GER), Teja Reba (SLO), and Dušan Murić (SER),
Dalija Aćin (SER) Isidora Stanišić (SER), Bojana Denić (SER).
Completed dramaturgical workshops/trainings with: Bojana Cvejić (SER), Ana
Vujanović (SER), Rok Vevar (SER) within educational program of Walking Theory
(TKH) organization, Belgrade.
Completed course by Rena Mirecka (POL), 41st Bitef festival, Belgrade, Serbia.
Completed workshops within the Alternative Academy in Mostar, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Teachers: Christine Muraotidu (GRE), Julian Boal (BRA/FR), Sead
Đulić (BiH), Zygmunt Molik (PL) and Nahndan Chirco (ITA/RS).
2005–2000
Completed drama and movement workshops by S. Beštić (theatre artist), Aleksandra
Markovic (ballet dancer) etc, Bitef polyphony – accompanying programme at BITEF
festival, Centre for education in Drama and Arts (CEDEUM), Belgrade.
Completed 5 courses of peer education within the project »Right to know« UNICEF,
Belgrade.
Completed course for artists in »Artistic school DADOV«, Belgrade.
Completed course »Public performance«, NGO Center for modern skills, Belgrade
by Neda Arnerić & Goran Bukelić, theatre artists.
2004-1998
Member of the drama communication club “Growing up theatre” within the
organization CEDEUM (Center for Drama and Art in Education). Workshop leaders:
Suncica Milosavljevic, Ivana Despotovic, Ana Tomovic, Igor Dobricic.
PROJECTS
2014
TOGETHER FOREVER – HAU 3/Berlin, Directed by: Jeremy Wade,
collaborators: Jared Gardinger, Liz Rosenfeld, Michiel Keuper, Igor Koruga,
production: bjoern&bjoern
2013-2012
TELL THEM ABOUT THE DREAM – artistic research project exploring usage
and role of public speaking through the frame and context of performing arts (dance
and choreography). Supported by AEIOU/ Bitef Theatre/ Belgrade,
Uferstudios/Berlin, PARTS & Workspace Brussels itd). Collaborator: Ana
Dubljević.
COME QUICKLY, MY HAPPINESS IS AT STAKE, a 21 month long research
project made within Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum fur Tanz Berlin and MA
programe Solo/Dance/Authorship, focusing on the relationship between artist and
spectator in performing arts from the perspective of hospitality.
TEMPORARIES, STATION Service for contemporary dance in cooperation with
Tanzfabrik Berlin and APAP network. Six members of Station – Ana Dubljević,
Dušan Broćić, Igor Koruga, Jovana Rakić Kiselčić, Ljiljana Tasić and Marko Milić
question conditions and practices (such are: temporality, solidarity, precarity,
competition, emergence, collectivism, self-realization, politicality, diversity etc)
related to a local and international independent performing arts scenes.
ALREADY MADE THEATRE – long-term and interdisciplinary project between
visual and performing artists, dramaturges and anthropologists, exploring various
mediums and structures of social interactions. Co-authors of the project: Nina
Kurtela (CRO), Sonja Pregrad (CRO) and Igor Koruga, with support of Rickard
Borgstrom (FIN).
2011-2009
FAST FORWARD (2009-2011) artistic laboratory with participants from west
Balkan countries and Sweden, facilitated by STATION, LOKOMOTIVA (MK) and
INTERCULT (SWE) in Belgrade and Skopje, within KONDENZ and
LOCOMOTION festivals. Leaders: Anna Koch (SWE), Katarina Nitsch (SE), Ivana
Ivković (HR), Mateusz Herczka (SE), Ingrid Cogne (FRA/SE).
11th BITEF Poliphony, following program of BITEF theatre festival.
Nomad Dance Academy Residency at ImpulsTanz 2011, Vienna;
Artist in Residence Station in cooperation with Lokomotiva, 2011 in Ohrid,
Macedonia. The program is a part of the “Swiss-Balkan Collaboration Platform”.
Artist in Residence Trafo Theatre & Workshop Foundation Jardine d’Europe,
Budapest 2010
Artist in Residence Kultur Kontakt, Vienna 2009
2008-2006
Transnational interdisciplinary research project »Myth as Destiny« organized and
conducted by NGO BAZAART, Belgrade. Project is based on
ethnological/anthropological and artistic research of Slavic mythology.
International artistic research project “Resonance” as collaboration between
Poland, Serbia and Swiss, organized by ProHelvetia and STATION organizations.
A peer-educator in educational and research centre PETNICA, Valjevo.
2005-2003
»Peace 2005« project youth exchange for Ireland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Serbia by
GIFT (Goodwill Irish Forum Theatre), Kiltegan, Ireland.
»War Stories« project - International artistic collaboration project of independent
theatre companies from Serbia, B&H, Slovenia, Algeria, Argentina and UK. Artistic
director: Jonathan Chadwick, (UK).
»Like fingers on the hand« project - international human rights project that
included young people with special needs from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia; in
cooperation with SCN »Theater Cvete« & international festival APOLONIA 2004 –
Sozopol, Bulgaria.
»RIGHT TO KNOW« project - UNICEF youth education program on adolescence
issues: One of the co-authors of the serial that followed the project; participant in
peer education training in Belgrade and Prijepolje, Serbia, within the project.
2001-1999
»Play against violence« project by Center for Culture in Belgrade: As a member of
“Growing-up theatre” participated in creative workshops and three theatre
productions in CEDEUM (Center for Drama in Education and Arts). This project
was supported by ASFC (Art for Social Change). This program simultaneously took
place in 6 Balkan countries as well as in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania.
AUTHOR:
2013 Practice What You Pitch! Uferstudios/Berlin & LLB European dance network,
AUSFERN/Tanz im August/ Berlin, PARTS & WSB/Brussels. In co-authorship with
Ana Dubljević.
TEMPORARIES 2013, APAP network and Station. Co-author and performer with:
Dušan Brocić, Ana Dubljević, Jovana Rakić-Kiselčić, Marko Milić and Ljiljana Tasić.
AEIOU, Bitef Theatre, Belgrade. Authors: Ana Dubljevic, Dragana Alfirevic, Dragana
Bulut, Milos Sofrenovic and Igor Koruga
2012 COME QUICKLY; MY HAPPINESS IS
Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum fur Tanz Berlin
AT
STAKE,
production:
TEMPORARIES, APAP network and Station. Co-author and performer with: Dušan
Brocić, Ana Dubljević, Jovana Rakić-Kiselčić, Marko Milić and Ljiljana Tasić.
ALREADY MADE THEATRE, Stamsund International Theatre festival, Norway. Coauthor and performer with Sonja Pregrad (HR) and Nina Kurtela (HR).
2011 The Scale, Weld, Stockholm. Co-author and performer with: Josefine Larson Olin (SE)
TELL US THE FUTURE OF NDA AND WIN 1000 EUROS, Nomad dance
academy residency at Impulstanz, Vienna; co-author and performer with: Dalija Aćin
Thelander, Johan Thelander, Dragana Alfirević, Dejan Srhoj, Aleksandar Georgiev,
Ana Schnabl, Igor Dobričić, Angela Vadori, Ema Kim-Hadghal, Rok Vevar, Iskra
Sukarova, Sanja Tropp, and Manuel Pelmus.
Artist as a present, project and dance network Jardine d’Europe European Cultural
Programme (2008-2013), Cultural centre REX, Belgrade. Co-author with: Ana Schnabl
(SLO).
2010 Store at room temperature, project and dance network Jardine d’Europe European
Cultural Programme (2008-2013), Workshop Foundation and Trafo Theatre Budapest,
Nomad Dance Academy network - Station and Lokomotiva. Co-author and performer
with: Aleksandar Georgiev.
2009 I wanted to tell you something, FASTFORWARD laborotory, Kondenz Dance Festival
and STATION organization, Cultural Centre GRAD, Belgrade, video: Nina Zeljković.
...This Figuration in C-minor..., Nomad Dance Academy 09, Shortcuts #2, Stara
Elektrarna (Old Power Plant), Ljubljana, Slovenia;
2004 Right to know, co-author of educatinal series, National television of Serbia with
UNICEF/CEDEUM/CRPHO/JAZAS/SPY/Friends of Serbia Youth/Roman edu.Centre.
Published texts and articles:
2013 The role, contribution and competences of participants (students/tutors) in alternative
educational models, Methodical days 2013, scientific conference COPETENCES OF
PRESCHOOL TEACHERS IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, Preschool Teachers
Training College in Kikinda/Serbia.
Correspondence, in ‘Leftovers of Endurance’, by Nina Kurtela, Motto/Berlin;
Hospitality in Performing Arts: principle of negotiating the contexts of spectator and
artist by choreography, University of Arts and Inter-Centre for Dance Education,
Berlin.
2012 Artist’s Pledge by Igor Koruga, University of Arts & Inter-Centre for Dance Education,
ZTB (zeitgenössichertanz Berlin) e.V. Berlin, link: http://artistpledge.wordpress.com/
2010 Body in movement: Contemporary dance as embodiment of social and cultural changes
in Serbia, University of Belgrade.
PERFORMANCE EXPIRIENCE:
2013/2012
Performer in performance event TOGETHER FOREVER, directed by: Jeremy Wade,
HAU 3 Berlin,
Performer in dance performance Fytografia, by Katharina Meves; DOCK 11 Theatre
Berlin;
Performer and collaborator on performance ‘Vitrine’ of Nina Kurtela in’Xchoreographen’ program within Tanz im August/Tanznacht festival, Berlin.
Performer in „Come Quickly, My Happiness is at stake!“, Uferstudios, Berlin.
Performer in Temporaries
Performer in ALREADY MADE THEATRE
2011/2010
Dancer in dance performance „Wastelands“ , HZT/HfS ’Ernst Busch’, ada Studio
Berlin, Ballonerie dance Scholarship Berlin; concept: Katharina Meves.
Dancer in dance performance the Scale
Dancer in dance performance „HAPPY TO BE HERE!“, Weld/DansensHus,
Stockholm, Sweden, concept and choreography: Anna Koch (SWE).
2009/2008
Dancer in performance „TRESHOL (in process D)“, NomadDanceAcademy09, concept
and choreography: Aleksandar Georgiev (MK);
Dancer in video dance project „APPLEMAN“, concept and choreography: Ruta
Nordmane (LAT);
Dancer in performace „TRANSFORMERS“, ImpulsTanz festival/DanceWeb 09,
authors: Eszter Salamon and Christine de Smedt.
2008/2007
Dancer in dance performance »SEED«, choreography: Isidora Stanišić.
Dancer in theatre play »BARBELO – about children and dogs«, Biljana Srbljanović,
director: Dejan Mijač, choreographer: Isidora Stanišić.
Dancer in performance »BRITH OUT...« within the RESONANCE project, Stary
Browar, in Poznan, Poland, choreography: Kaya Kolodziejczyk
Dancer in performance „Blank space“, Belgrade Dance Center, choreography: Bojana
Denić.
2006 Dancer in performance »ANGEL«, openning manifestation of 40th BITEF (Belgrade
International Theatre Festival), director: Sunčica Milosavljević.
2004 Dancer in slepstic performance »ROMEO & JULIET«, alternative theatre scene at the
House of Youth in Belgrade, director: Ana Tomović.
2001/1999
Dancer in three theatre perfomances (»PROLEGOMENA«, »THE POWER OF
LIGHT«, »THE CONTRACT«) , Growing-up Theatre, directors: Sunčica
Milosavljević i Ivana Despotović.
DRAMATURGY WORK:
2013 Near That Place, author: Daniel AlmgrenRecen, MDT / Stockholm.
2012 Interiors, author: Nina Kurtela, X-Choreographen, festival Tanz im August /Berlin.
FESTIVALS
2009
2010
2011
2012
I wanted to tell you something, Kondenz, Beograd, Srbija
Store at room temperature, LOCOMOTION, Skoplje, Makedonija.
Store at room temperature, Balcan Dance Platform VI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Already made theatre, Stamsund International Theatre Festival,
Temporaries,Locomotion festival, Skopje, Makedonija;
Kondenz festival, Beograd, Srbija
2013 Come Quickly, My Happiness is at stake, Kultur-Mitte Europa congress, Selb,
Nemačka
Temporaries BUDAVISTA#3, Kortrijk /Belgija;
LIMIT, Dom Omladine, Beograd;
DANCE LOVES STOCKHOLM, Weld, Stockholm/Švedska;
Practice What You Pitch!, AUSFERN/Tanz im August, Berlin/Nemačka;