National Theatre to host international dance project

BELGRADE - One Night Show, a dance project by four choreographers connected by the same school, the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, will be performed late Saturday at the National Theatre in Belgrade.

The show consists of four parts, featuring Laura Hemming Lowe (Great Britain), Maciej Kuzminski (Poland) and Shin Jung Park (South Korea) as well as Serbian choreographer and dancer Aleksandar Ilic and the Ladies Dance Theatre.

"The dance project is a one-off and will, in a way, be a prelude to a dance event that will be the highlight of yet another spring in Belgrade, the Belgrade Dance Festival," Ilic told Tanjug.

"Our audiences have little opportunity to see unestablished choreographers who are successful in their countries, and this really is a great opportunity for three international artists to present themselves to the Belgrade audience alongside us through an international project such as this one," he said.

A ballet dancer and choreographer, Ilic is a principal at the National Theatre, where he has been cast in classical, neoclassical and contemporary roles.

Like the other three participants in the One Night Show project, he took his master's degree in choreography from the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.

The project is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information, the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, the Museum of the National Theatre and the embassies of the countries represented by the artists.

Photo Tanjug, F. Kraincanic (Archive, illustration)