A world in-between

Choreography And Directing: Risima Risimkin

Design: Blagoj Micevski

Technical Editor Of The Performance: Vancho Bogoev

Light Design: Vasko Lisichev

Assistant Repetitor: Irena Lozinska

Technician: Gorgi Pokrajchev

Performers: Matea Kiselichka, Andrijana Atanasova, Ljupcho Atanasov, Andrijana Danchevska, Tatiana Adam

The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Macedonia.

„At the moment we wish to step forward into the obscurity, a new, unknown world comes to life. Initially we aren’t certain about the existence of this world, whether it is real, or it is only A WORLD IN BETWEEN, a place where dreams and waking interfere with each other. While we open the gate toward sub consciousness, we become aware of the unconscious and we act and dance through the tunnels of secret knowledge, an architecture of situations, which transforms our lifetime into a long journey toward consciousness and the terminus, which is the point where another beginning is waiting to be reborn.„ Risima Risimkin

Skopje dance theater is the first company for contemporary dance in Macedonia, led by the renowned choreographer Risima Risimkin as its founder and artistic director, with the aim to promote new aesthetics, researches and productions in the area of contemporary dance. A WORLD IN-BETWEEN is performed by the students of the recently opened Skopje Dance Academy – the first academy for contemporary dance in Macedonia, which works in collaboration with the prestigious Rotterdam academy for contemporary dance, Netherlands.

Risima Risimkin is one of the leading Macedonian choreographers and director of Dance Fest, Skopje. She received her MA from the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at the Academy for Music and Dance Art (AMTI) in the section for Choreography, Ballet Directing and Pedagogy and was awarded the title ballet master. In the moment she is working as a professor of the University of ESRA Paris-Skopje-New York in Skopje. From October 2010 she is leading the Skopje Dance Academy in collaboration with prestigious Rotterdam Dance Academy, as a part of the same University. She is a member of the Executive Council of CID UNESCO, Paris, France. Risimkin is the founder of the Interart Centre for Culture (1996), whose activities have helped the development of the Macedonian contemporary dance scene. She is one of the most prolific contemporary Macedonian choreographers-an avant-garde representative in contemporary creation. She has actively represented Macedonia on the international contemporary dance scene with her own performances, which have received excellent reviews both in the country and abroad. Risimkin is the recipient of several awards, including the award for exceptional contribution to the development of culture in the Republic of Macedonia. Risimkin represent Macedonia as a choreographer in many countries abroad including Arhus, Denmark; Leipzig, Germany; Thessaloniki, Greece – European Capitol of culture; Portugal, Lisbon - EXPO - National day of Macedonia; Niamey, Niger; Sofia and Burgas, Bulgaria; Belgrade, Serbia; Podgorica, Monte Negro etc. In 2010 she was working as a choreographer in Rotterdam, Netherlands and with the National Ballet Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her performances are graded as “performance - boundary stone of the Macedonian dance history” (Stravinsky Diary 2004) or “a new era in Macedonian dance” (MEMENTO 2002), and the foreign critics name her as “the Macedonian Pina Bausch”. In 2011 Risimkin founded the first contemporary dance company in Macedonia – SKOPJE DANCE THEATER.