{"id":15373,"date":"2025-07-08T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/dogajanje\/gala-dance-evening-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:13:20","slug":"gala-dance-evening-2025","status":"publish","type":"dogodek","link":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/dogajanje\/gala-dance-evening-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala Dance Evening 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>6 June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Great hall of \u0160panski borci<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Gala Dance Evening of Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>\u201cI would believe only in a god who could dance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Friedrich Nietzsche)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would believe only in a god who could dance,\u201d wrote Nietzsche, stressing that truth does not dwell in rigid structures but in movement, effort, grace and transformation; and he continues: \u201cI do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For dance is his ideal, his art and finally the only form of piety he knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Gala evening, too, is not merely a display of technical skill but a space for reflection, for creative energies and for dialogue between the lecturers and the students of the Dance Academy. The genre-rich programme was not short of alliance between music and dance, as the evening was enriched by the outstanding accordion virtuoso <strong>Rihard Zadravec \u2013 Riki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Musical guest:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Rihard Zadravec \u2013 Riki \u2013 accordion<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Participating lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Lucija Velkavrh, Matev\u017e \u010cesen, Jadran \u017divkovi\u010d, Tamara Divjak, Ma\u0161a Kagao Knez, Petra Gabor, Igor Kirov, Marija Obradovi\u0107, Milica Cerovi\u0107, Ur\u0161a Rupnik, Rosana Hribar<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Performing students of Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Orly Manakhimov, Tja\u0161a Cerkovnik, Farah Ju\u0161i\u0107, Dunja Gavrilov, Alina Ko\u0161ir, Nadezhda Sizova, Tatiana Filipenko, Sofija Kozari\u0107, Anastasia Svirko, Sara Pucihar, Lija Mozeti\u010d, Jelena Radoi\u010di\u0107, Margarita \u0160unji\u0107, Paskal Verta\u010dnik-Vrbov\u0161ek, Irina Antonijevi\u010d, Da\u0161a Resnik<\/p>\n<p>Programme coordinators: Rosana Hribar and Lucija Velkavrh<\/p>\n<p>Lighting and sound design: technical support by Zavod EN-KNAP<\/p>\n<p>Production: Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy,<\/p>\n<p>programme partner CK \u0160panski borci 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Gala evening offered a high-quality presentation of the dance skills acquired over the academic year and, at the same time, an insight into the creative and teaching methods developed by the students and lecturers of the Dance Academy. Sixteen students appeared on stage, supported by 13 mentors from different fields of dance. The dance pieces drew on contemporary dance, ballet, jazz and urban dance styles.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy is not only an educational institution but a point of reference for the development of dance art and pedagogy in the wider region.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s production is further proof that Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy is following its vision of connecting artistic education with practice, research and professional development. The students\u2019 performances delighted both the professional and the general public and confirmed the high level of knowledge, creativity and commitment that they bring to the Slovenian and the wider European cultural space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 605px; top: 674.979px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1111576649?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 June 2025 20:00 Great hall of \u0160panski borci Gala Dance Evening of Alma Mater Europaea \u2013 Dance Academy \u201cI would believe only in a god who could dance.\u201d (Friedrich Nietzsche) \u201cI would believe only in a god who could dance,\u201d wrote Nietzsche, stressing that truth does not dwell in rigid structures but in movement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13973,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_dogodek_gallery":"[14058,14060,14086,14068,14066,14070,14064,14062,14084,14082,14080,14078,14076,14074,14072,14094,14092,14088,14096,14090,14098]","dogodek_hero_focal":"center top","footnotes":""},"dogodek_kategorija":[26],"class_list":["post-15373","dogodek","type-dogodek","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dogodek_kategorija-productions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dogodek\/15373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dogodek"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dogodek"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dogodek\/15373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dogodek_kategorija","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-academy.almamater.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dogodek_kategorija?post=15373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}