- stage: MKC, 25. May hall
селекција за награда БИШ 2022
Filip Petkovski (MKD)
Director: Filip Petkovski
Duration: 35’
Author: Filip Petkovski
Dancers: Teodora Gjorgieva, Sara Cvetkovska, Stefanija Manevska, Marija Sazdovska, Jovana Zajkova, Deni Sinadinovski, Antonio Stojcheski, Balazh Luchei
Costumes: Antonija Guginska Jordanovska, Maja Gjureska, Gordana Bozhinovska
Music: Duke Bojadziev, Vlatko Stefanovski, Ljubojna, Boris Harfman, Hrvoje Crnic, Miroslav Tadic, DahaBraha, Mobajl Soul Sistem
Camera and photography: Marko Marjanovic
Graphical design: Ivana Mojsovska
Populus (lat. the people) is a dance performance aiming to elaborate and amend all those dances and movements tied to traditional culture of the communities that inhabited this area. This performance represents a new mode of dancing and expression, especially when it comes to presenting traditional dances of this country, stemming from the fact that since the 1950s till today, there have not been any new dance currents, neither has there been an attempt to modernize traditional dance, which in turn, had been dictated by the performance policies of the national institutions.
The basis and inspiration of the choreographic opus are the traditional dances of Macedonians, Albanians, Turks and Roma people, synthesized in an original and modern product.
TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, AT THE HEIGHT OF EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM, THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER SHOWED INTEREST IN THE LOCAL DIALECTS OF THE GERMAN VILLAGE POPULATION, AS WELL AS IN THEIR STORIES, MYTHS AND LEGENDS. THE COLLECTIVE BODY OF THE COMMUNITY. BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY TO THE EUROPEAN ROMANTICS—THE COLLECTIVE BODY OF THE NATION, THE SAME THAT WAS FIRST BORN THROUGH THESE IDEAS.