GALA

created, directed and performed by: Edvin Liverić
video: Marin Lukanović
production: Trafik (2013)

As his farewell from the never pursued career in dance, Edvin Liverić creates a GALA with his dear friends and colleagues who have marked his fictitious life of a dancer. In this highly moving farewell performance, he is joined by Trisha Brown, Akram Khan, William Forsythe, Pina Bausch and Russell Maliphant. Liverić's auto-referential questioning and challenging of his own artistic position blends acting, physical theatre and sign language for the deaf, to create a scenic illusion in which shadows of dancers „dance“ across the wall.

Edvin Liverić was born in Rijeka in 1970, and graduated acting from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 1995. From 1996 to 2005, he was a selector and the assistant artistic director of Dance Week Festival. Since 2003, Edvin has been the artistic director of Poreč Street Art Festival. He is also a co-founder of TraFiK Theatre Company (Transitional-Fictional Theatre Company) based in Rijeka. Closely connected with dance and movement theatre, Edvin has created manyprominent roles in Croatia and abroad, and directed several theatre plays, the most recent being The Notebook (based on the novel of Agota Kristof) in Zagreb Youth Theatre. He is the winner of Vladimir Nazor Award for the play Imago.