MARTINA NEVISTIC
Dance and Video artist, teacher, manager
News:
Multimedia project Deep Neon: In Between premieres on June 11th 2022 at 20:00 in Urania-space of creation in Zagreb
Projects
2020 Pavement Step
Author, choreographer, director: MARTINA NEVISTIĆ
Performance and choreography: ARIANA PRPIĆ, UNA ŠTALCAR-FURAČ, ŠIMUN STANKOV
Dramaturgical support: IVANA SLUNJSKI
Photography and Filming: NEVEN PETROVIĆ
Graphic design: SARA PAVLEKOVIĆ PREIS
Production: UPPU Puls 2020
Realized with the support of Republic of Croatia Ministry of Culture
Relying on the legacy of postmodern dance and at the same time resulting as a kind of a tribute to dance artists Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, "Pavement Step" focuses on what it means today in contemporary dance to step out of the stage into outdoor spaces, when faced with numerous restrictions due to Coronavirus Covid-19, with which the survival of dance as a performing art as we know it is disrupted. We are interested in what a movement based on everyday gestures means, when it is evident that contemporary dance is a fusion of all kinds of movements. What does it mean for everyday movement to „settle in” a trained body, or body that is training less than usual because of restrictions. Which new connotations everyday movement acquires in a dance performance almost sixty years after it was established by the first postmodern choreographers.
"Pavement Step" combines "pop-up" live presentations that take place in different city locations (but are not created as a site-specific performance) and three short videos for internet broadcasting intended to build a unity with the live performance. At the same time both formats strive to function on their own as separate performative units. Such a performative format imposes a consideration of the relations between the time of live performance and the time of video distribution, which already by the characteristics of the medium itself inscribes asynchronisy of the event, and the question if the video is the extension of the live performance or vice versa and what happens in their rift considering space-time incongruity. The dispersion of watching such a split performance units puts the spectator in the spotlight as well: is the spectator that is viewing a performance in the stage space also the same spectator that is viewing the event on the street and the video, or they are three completely different spectators, three audiences? How to approach them, what are they interested in dance, how do they witness a dance event and/or participate in it? How does the optics change in regard to the different parameters of live performance and performance for the camera and what kind of attention does performance and viewing require in these contexts?
2019 Pulsar
Author, director,
choreographer, performer:
MARTINA NEVISTIĆ
Dramaturgical support and
narrative: IVANA SLUNJSKI
Filming:
NEVEN PETROVIĆ
Editing:
MIRO MANOJLOVIĆ
Music:
VIŠESLAV LABOŠ
Graphic design:
SARA PAVLEKOVIĆ PREIS
English translation:
ANAMARIJA JANDRAŠEK
Realized with the support of Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia, Kinoklub Zagreb and Gallery Greta
Production: UPPU Puls 2019
Experimental dance film Pulsar thematically relies upon the vastness of space and next to it issues of science fiction realizations, which are inspired by literary and film classics of that genre. Choreographic exploration of the body that adjusts to the changed physical conditions, different gravitation and unknown biospheres reflects characteristics of pulsars especially quick rotation, spiral movement, contracting and pulsating.
Dance vocabulary takes in consideration a posture of the body and mechanisms of its motion in changed circumstances, as well as choreographic and editing decisions regarding the composition of movement, the composition of image, the transition between frames, the perception of time and space. Bearing in mind the dystopian projections that are so often found in the science fiction genre, continuously emphasized activities are juxtaposed to the abandoned spaces and bodies, and their collision shapes are possible directions of the narrative imagining.
Since Pulsar is an experimental film, course of events does not follow classic storyline but instead, content and the atmosphere itself suggest a possible interpretation. Such narrative with poetic and philosophical thread to it and in a shape of “character’s interior monologue” suggests the backwaters that could be developed into a separate film stories but instead are left in the „embryonic stage” and in that manner inciting viewer to think about the modern life. To think over a life burdened with the imperative of success and overwhelmed by visual stimuli, a life that can easily slip into the apocalyptic wilderness.
2018 Apollonian
2016
Concept and choreography:
Martina Nevistić
Performance: Petra Chelfi, Lana Hosni,
Martina Nevistić
Dramaturgy: Nina Gojić
Vizual design, scenography, costimography: Martina Granić
Costumes made by: Mirela Periša, Nina Tarnovski NTS
Video design and editing: Dora Đurkesac
Video and photography: Neven Petrović
Sound and music design: Višeslav Laboš
Music used by: Nep (Labosh remix)
Voice over: Luka Bulović, Kruno Bakota
Technical support: Duško Rihtermoc
Organization: Nina Križan, Martina Nevistić
Public relation and comunication: Amela Pašalić
Production: O.N.E. 2018 and 2016
Co-production: Perforation festival/ Domino Association, Artist-in-residence program of Zagreb dance center/ Organization Croatian institut of movement and dance
Realized with the support of: Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sports, Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Culture, Zagreb youth theatre z/k/m, Zagreb Dance Company
Apollonian was made as multimedia performance in 2016 and as a video work in 2018.
At the end of 1960ꞌs first images of the Earth as seen from the space occurred, assigning our planet the nickname “Blue marble”. These images continued to be massively distributed after the Moon landing in 1969. The idea of human civilization as a unified entity ungoverned by racial, class and other identity categories, but rendered as a unified whole, gained its visual representation twenty years before the Cold War ended. In a sense, the image of the Earth as seen from its orbit anticipated the end of a binary relationship to the world. Moreover, it became an icon of a globalized world we know today, even though this image is still far from principles of equality called for by the counter-cultural movements from the period of the first flights to space. The flight to the Moon – and its televisual mediation – caused a turnover in the way human perception of the world is organized: for the first time in history the man saw the Earth from the “outside”, from the perspective of its satellite, as a unified whole.
With a multimedia approach to choreography: by juxtaposing recorded and performed material the author tries to point out that deterritorialised images without a grounded gaze prevail in today's communication. At the level of choreography, the issue is dealt with by generating the material through a process of speculation about bodies that adjust to modified physical conditions, different gravitations and unknown biospheres. At the same time, symbolic reference to the flight to the Moon functions as a framework by which it becomes not only possible to make the current crisis of visuality a topic, but also to question the possibilities of transforming this condition.
2017 Event horizon
2015
Author, choreographer, director: Martina Nevistić
Performance: Petra Chelfi, Ivana Pavlović, Martina Nevistić
Visual design: Dora Đurkesac, Ivan Lušičić Liik
Light design: Saša Bogojević
Sound and music design: Višeslav Laboš featuring Jeff Duke
Photography and video: Neven Petrović
Make-up: Marija Bingula
Costume: Nina Tarnovski, NTS
Support: Nina Sakić
Design: Saša Bastaić
Organization: Nina Križan, Martina Nevistić
Co-production: Perforation Festival/ DOMINO,
Zagreb Youth theatre z/k/m and O.N.E. 2017 and 2015
Realized with the support: Republic of Croatia Ministry of
Culture, Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sports,
Domino association/ Perforation festival, Zagreb Dance Company, Dance House Ireland
Event horizon was made as a perfromance in 2015 and as a video work in 2017.
Event horizon is a spherical surface that marks the border of a black hole. The event horizon marks the point beyond which it is possible to enter, but it is impossible to get out. Absence of rules, yet the existence of processes, events, interdependence, movement, attraction, actions, reactions, power, pulsation. The anatomical analogy starts with the laws of physics, which is the starting point of choreographic building block. The range of movement was brought thought the service of the body in the minimum and maximum work with different dynamics and qualities. The body as such, we see as a shape, and in interdependence with other shapes, it creates pulsations evoking the particular organism in its being.
Event horizon deals with transformation of space, time and body creating the atmosphere of some other dimension, some far away world, but again very familiar one. It stages a link between micro cosmos of one unit, one inner world, and other units in their unique way of interaction, thus creating a bigger, wider picture of universe, the macro cosmos.
2014 Luna Malekova
Author, Choreography and Performance: Martina Nevistić
Visual design: Dora Đurkesac, Ana Vuzdarić
Music and sound design: Višeslav Laboš
Sound support: Maja Posavec
Costume: Kristina Bangoura, Martina Nevistić
Support: Ivana Pavlović
Light design and documentation: Luka Matić
Dramaturgical support: Rona Žulj
Design: Saša Bastaić
PR: Amela Pašalić
Organization: Nina Križan, Martina Nevistić
Production: O.N.E. 2014
Co-production: DOMINO association/ Perforations Festival, HIPP/ Zagreb Dance Centre
Through dance performance and multimedia, project builds a platform of various fields of art, recreating a surreal world of Luna Malekova. Appearing of duality is as a game with the world of visible and invisible, conceivable and obscure, regular and irregular, real and surreal, through the manipulation of the body, time and space which consistently follows the concept of "expanding space". It creates a view that produces associative and non-associative series.
2013 Sisyphus Pink
Author, Choreographer, Director: Martina Nevistić
Performance: Sisyphus: Sara Barbieri, Petra Chelfi, Pavle Heidler, MsPink: Martina Nevistić
Design: Dora Đurkesac
Dramaturgy: Rona Žulj
Costume: Martina Nevistić, Sara Barbieri
Video and light design: Luka Matić
Editing: Miro Manojlović
Photography: Dora Đurkesac, Luka Matić
Music and sound design: Luka Grubišić-Čabo
PR: Amela Pašalić
Organization: Martina Nevistić, Nina Križan
Izvršna producentica: Nina Križan
Production: O.N.E. 2013
CO-production: DOMINO/ Perforations festival
Myth of Sisyphus is an old story. We all know the story of Sisyphus - a man pushing his rock up the hill every day, for no reward. But who is Sisyphus today? Are we all him? Do we choose to be him? The answer to this question may be left to each individual. But what if Sisyphus was pushing the stone just for the illusion of meaning, just to get to a promised better life, a better life that others promised him? Life where everything is beautiful. Where everything is easier. Where people are perfect, just as they want themselves to be. Just as in the advertisement.
Sisyphus Pink its a three grid installation video. It doesn't offer answers, but instead, this piece offers us completely different view on the dance videos, with its appealing, subtle humor. Sisyphus Pink plays with the form of advertisment, welcoming you inevitably in the streets and squares and even in shop windows.
Archived projects:
Black, Black, Silver, Evolution Revolution
Evolution Revolution 2011
BLU jump 2011
Silver 2010 (2)
Evolution Revolution 2011
MARTINA NEVISTIC
Martina was born 18 December 1983 in Zagreb.
In 2000 she graduated from the School of Contemporary Dance Ana Maletić, after which she becaome a professional dance as a member of The Studio Contemporary Dance Company.
In 2006 she finished her studies at Faculty of Economics, Department of Organization and Management.
In 2008 she finished her studies at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Austria (SEAD)
2009 Nomad dance academy, educational program, organized by Tala Dance Center and
2014-2015 Communicating dance, organized by HIPP
In 2011 she gained vercification for teaching dynamic styles of yoga (by Yoga Alliance RY200)
During her schooling, she collaborated with well-known choreographers: Anna Macrae, Salva Sanchis, Jule Flierl, Libby Farr, Susan Redhorst, Ted Stoffer, Sanja Tropp Fruehwald, with musicians from "Miscellanea guitar quartet" and composers Marious Joannou Elia and Agustin Castilla-Avilla in projects Armatur and Race for two quartets+1. She gained her diploma with a solo performance made by Croatian choreographer Matija Ferlin, with the name"Lucky between the mountains".
She attended advanced training/skill improvement in Brussels and Berlin. Also she started to investigate her own work and areas of interest and established as an author and co-author of pieces: Macho (Flierl/Nevistić), My first... (Nevistić), Medium (Petrovski/Nevistić), made for Festival Zadarsnova.
She received scholarship for Nomad Dance Academy education program, where she established contacts with young artists from South East Europe/Balkans for future work and friendship. She created the piece WannaBe, for which she won the Audience Award at the Festival of Choreographers in Almada, Portugal.
Since autumn 2009, she lives in Zagreb where she works as a dancer, performer, dance maker and teacher and producer, manager. She established and led O.N.E. Art Company.
Author projects: Pulsar (2019),experimantal dance movie, Apollonian (2018), exiperimental dance movie, Event horizon video (2017), dance video, Apollonian (2016), multimedia performance, Event horizon (2015), performance, Luna Malekova (2014), multimedia performance, Sisyphus Pink (2013), video dance triptych installation, Evolution revolution (2011), multimedia installation,
Co-author projects: Black (2012), experimental video dance performance/installation, BLU (2011), multimedia performance,, Silver (2010), multimedia installation.
Her interest in choreography involves: multimedia and interdisciplinary, where she questions movement through individual sensibility of performer, anatomical articulation of movement, transformation of the space and optic of viewing.
In August 2011 she participated in the laboratory "From science to art, forests at the heart of life" in Montpellier, after which she creates interactive installation Evolution revolution. In September 2012, the installation was invited to open a season at Domaine DꞌO in Montpellier, as part of the network Imagine 2020.
In 2009 she choreographed The Throng for Youth group of The Studio contemporary dance company and collaborated as a dancer with Andreja Široki in the piece Field of grounding and Marjana Krajač in the project Simple life, co-produced by SaintVincenti festival in Istria, Croatia.
In March 2010, she became a member of the Zagreb Dance Company, where she participated in performances: Interface by Snježana Abramović Milković (2010), Under the eyelids by Laura Aris Alvarez (2011) and entered earlier company production UTF-8 by Sahar Azimi (2009). Also in performances: Changes (2012), by Vučinić/ Nevistić/ Mišić; Anything (2013) by Daniel Abreu; Requiem for Z. (2014.) by Snježana Abramović Milković, Intangible bridges (2015.) by Roberto Olivan.
In 2011 she joined collaborative work with her colleagues from Nomad dance academy program (Schnabl-SLO, Koruga-SR, Georgiev-MK/BG, Larrere-FR) where was made performance Artist as a present, supported by Jardin dꞌEurope.
In 2012 she collaborated as a dancer with Irma Omerzo on choreography Meteo.
In 2013 she collaborated as a performer with Rona Žulj in performance Irinaꞌs soul is like an expensive piano (after the text from P.I.Chekov: “Three sisters”), co-produced by Theatre association Kufer and Theatre &TD/ Theatre of Changes.
Through 2014 and 2015 she participates in international program Communicating dance, where Croatian partner was Zagreb Dance Centre/ led by HIPP-Croatian institute for movement and dance. As a result, together with colleague Jelena Mihelcic, she organizes talks with audience after performances.
In 2016 she works as collaborator for stage movement for actors on performances "Nature and society" by director Nora Krstulović, and "The fall" by director Miran Kurspahić.
Throughout 2017 and 2018 she collaborated with video directors Vanja Vascarec, Filip Filković and Renata Lučić, on series of music videos by signer Antonia Matković Šerić- Tonka, on her solo album "Important things" (="Važne stvari").
Since November 2016, she is Program Director of Zagreb Dance Center, where she is running program, doing organization work, teaches, and doing mentorship.
TEACHINGS
Martina is also working as a a teacher of contemporary dance technique, improvisation and dynamic styles of yoga.
She gained her studies of methodique and pedagogy at School for conetemporary dance Ana Maletić and at the SEAD, Salzburg experimental academy of dance.
She gained verification for teaching dynamic styles of yoga within the frame of YOGA ALLIANCE (RYT200).
She teached or still teaching:
Zagreb Dance Center as part of program of morning classes and workshops for professional dancers.
Zagreb Dance Company, The Studio contemporary dance company, Zagreb, Bitef Dance Teater Belgrade, Serbia, Divadlo studio tanza in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. She has been teaching on Dance academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia; on Dance Conservatory in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia; in Zagreb for international program Spazio and Communicating dance, Nomad dance academy, also semi-professional classes for the youth group of The Studio contemporary dance company and for the Liberdance studio in Zagreb. Through 2015 she was teaching for KHA Foundation dance organisation in Bangalore, Katarnaka, India; for Eks-scena art organization, Zagreb Dance Company and Zagreb Dance Centre; in Ireland Dance House in Dublin; on Karlovac dance festival in Karlovac, Croatia, Zagreb Dance Center as part of program of morning classes and workshops for professional dancers.
Lectures:
Martina is giving lectures on topic of production in dance, organization and self-organization within the contemporary dance field in Croatia.
Schedule
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June 2022 premiere of multimedia performance Deep Neon: In Between in Urania-space of creation in Zagreb
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April 2022 premiere of video Pavement step, adaptation of dance performance
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July 2021 premiere of performance Pavement step in parks and streets in Zagreb
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interview about PULSAR on plesnascena.hr
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check out video work PULSAR on HRTi from Dec 8th 2019
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May 2020- Pulsar on festival SFERAKON in Zagreb
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March 2020- Apollonian on festival Contrast in Tel-Aviv, Izrael
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January 2020- lecture in Zagreb Dance Center about organization and self-organization in contemporary dance in Croatia