MATJAŽ FARIČ

Matjaž Farič started his career as a dancer and choreographer at home and abroad in the eighties and established several dance groups. With “Vzhodni plesni projekt” group, the first among them, he created the majority of his earliest works: 6. APRIL and ZLOM (Break, 1988), RDEËI ALARM (Red Alarm, 1989), EMOTIONAL (1990), ICHT (1991). In 1991 he created VETER, PESEK IN ZVEZDE (Wind, Sand and Stars) for Slovensko Mladinsko Gledališče and received the prestigious BORŠTNIK PRIZE. In 1993 he established the Matjaž Farič Group with the performance DERR. The same year Matjaž Farič attracted special attention with his SOLO, then followed the reinterpretations of the grand ballet classics LABODJE JEZERO (Swan Lake, 1994), STRAVINSKI IN JAZ (Stravinski and I, 1995), ROMEO IN JULIJA (Romeo and Juliet, 1995), POSVETITEV POMLADI (The Rite of Spring, 1996), TRILOGIJA, ZADNJE DEJANJE /Romeo in Julija, Labodje jezero, Posvetitev pomladi  (Trilogy, The Last Act - Romeo&Juliet, Swan Lake, The Rite of Spring, 1997).

Abroad, Matjaž Farič collaborated as a dancer in the works of the dance group Testworks from Amsterdam (1989) and as a choreographer with the Studio for Contemporary Dance from Zagreb, Croatia for which he created STRAVINSKI IN JAZ (Stravinski and I, 1995) and for Diversions Dance Company from Cardiff, Wales  FROM THE DESERT TROUGH THE FOREST(1997). As a choreographer he also collaborated with directors of national theatres staging opera and theatre pieces in Ljubljana, Klagenfurt,  Zagreb and Antwerpen.

In the season 1997 he created with Plesni Teater Ljubljana the performances KLON (Clone), its shortened version RAM,  and in 1998 OTOK( Island), beta version of TERMINAL. With the latter he attended the Cultural Capital of Europe in Stockholm, Sweden.

After leaving Plesni Teater Ljubljana in 1998 he became łartist in residence˛ in Cankarjev Dom - Cultural and Congres Center in Ljubljana and established dance company FLOTA. His latest works are TERMINAL (1999), 10º BELOW 0 (2000) and POHUJŠANJE/TEMPTATION (2001),

For his achievements he received ten foreign and domestic awards, among the most important ones are the GOLDEN BIRD PRIZE, the highest municipal cultural ŽUPANČIČ AWARD and among the highest national prizes The PREŠERENąs FUND AWARD for choreographies Trilogy - The Last Act (produced by Cankarjev dom) and Clone (produced by Plesni Teater Ljubljana). In 1998 he also received the prestigious choreographer winner prize "PRIX D'AUTEUR 1998" for performance RAM (shortened version of Clone), the award winning performance at the world  biennial choreographic competition Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, previously known as Bagnolet, based in France.

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