choreographer, dancer, performer, pedagogue

Nataša Živković (1981, Ljubljana) is a freelance performer, choreographer and dancer working in the fields of contemporary dance, theatre and performance and a graduate of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (French language and comparative literature). After finishing the Ljubljana Ballet School, Nataša discovered contemporary dance and changed course to pursue it. In 2004/2005 she was an Erasmus exchange student at the Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 in Paris and in 2006 part of the DanceWeb programme at the ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Besides making her own work, she has worked with some of the leading as well as emerging choreographers and theatre directors. She regularly teaches at the contemporary dance programme of the Pre-school Education, Grammar and Art Grammar School (SVŠGUGL) since 2018. Between 2014 and 2015, she organised drama classes, theatre clubs and dance lessons for primary school pupils as part of Bunker’s Theatre Playground project.
Her “family trilogy” staging family constellations consists of the performances First Love’s Second Chance (2009), For Father’s Sake (2014) and Dodgeball (2020). The first from the series, First Love’s Second Chance, received the 2009 Golden Bird Award. She works both in the institutional and independent scene and collaborates with different Slovenian producers and festivals, most frequently with Via Negativa, City of Women, Emanat and Sploh. In 2019 she received the Ksenija Hribar Award for achievements in contemporary dance and the main award at the 2019 ACT Festival in Bilbao, Spain for her performance Sonny (2018) produced by City of Women. She has been performing with the technoburlesque Image Snatchers (by Emanat) since 2013 under the name Tristan Bargeld. In 2017-2019 she participated as a selected Slovenian artist in the international project Performing Gender – Dance makes differences with City of Women.

links:  Via Negativa  /  CoW

 

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