Jovana RAKIĆ, Concept, Text, Choreography, & Set Design Marko MILIĆ, Concept, Text, Choreography, & Set Design Milica PISIĆ, Concept, Text, Choreography, & Set Design Milena TODOROVIĆ, Concept, Text, Choreography, & Set Design Bojan PALIKUĆA, Sound Design & Music Željka JAKOVLJEVIĆ, Set Design Nađa PETROVIĆ, Narrator

Jovana Rakić works in the field of contemporary dance and performing arts for young audiences. She graduated MA studies in Anthropology at Belgrade University, and holds a Masters Degree in Dance Dissemination, from Hochschule für Musik und Tanz (Zentrum für zeitgenössischen Tanz), Cologne, Germany. Her interest in contemporary dance and choreography as a part of artistic practise and everyday life involves the dissemination of dance as continuous communication through learning, creating, performing and questioning means of expression in the context of this artistic field and wider social and political context. Her artistic collaborations also include: Concerto for Three Bodies (with Aleksandar Georgiev and Azra Ibrahimović), Skin is the Wall (with Adrijana Lubina and Jelena Stojiljković). She is an author of dance performances: Accumulated Figures (Cologne 2012.), SS and Above (Belgrade 2009.), Choreography of Imagination (MA research and performance, Cologne 2014.), Species (Belgrade 2015.), Scrape (2017.)etc. Jovana was a recipient of Dance Web scholarship 2011 and took part in Nomad Dance Academy 2010 and ENPARTS Open Campus, Dansens Hus, Stockholm 2011. She received the Special Price for Innovation in Contemporary Dance (as the author of the performance Species, season 2015-2016. introduced by the Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia) Since 2008, Jovana has been collaborating with socially marginalized groups and individuals in Serbia: people with disabilities, war veterans, mentally challenged children and young people. In this context she worked as choreographer, dancer and dance teacher within projects The Day After, Body Frame, Right to Art, Together (group "Let’s…", Belgrade). Since 2014 she became active in projects with focus on performing arts and dance education for children, working on developing dance theater and creative dance education (Generator platform, Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade). As an author and performer she took part in festivals: Bitolino (Bitola), FEP (Bačka Palanka), Bitef (Belgrade), Infant (Novi Sad), ImpulsTanz (Vienna), TheaterSzene (Cologne), Kondenz (Belgrade), Pleskavica (Ljubljana), Platform of Young Choreographers (Zagreb), Locomotion (Skopje), Off Frame (Belgrade), FIAT (Podgorica), Performing Arts Market (Thessaloniki), Shaking Body (London). In 2011, together with fellow artists, she initiated Off Frame festival which focuses on socially engaged performing art. She is one of the artists closely engaged in work of Station- Service for Contemporary Dance, "Let’s…" from Belgrade, and Pokretnica, a female artistic collective from Novi Sad. She is a board member of ASSITEJ Serbia and is engaged in the realization of Turning Point, the AAG 2023. She is a member of YDN.

Bojan Palikuća is a sound designer and sound recordist based in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a member of production and post-production teams on numerous fiction, animated and documentary films, actively working as a sound designer and composer for dance theatre, plays and commercial videos. In 2016, he began an ongoing cooperation with international film productions from Belgrade, Azakhstan, the UK, Spain and Ukraine. He was the sound designer for Glorious Revolution (2021; third prize Cinéfondation Cannes). He recorded and designed sound for Mamonga (2019) by Stefan Malešević and Roots (2021) by Tea Lukač (both premiered at Karlovy Vary Film festival), as well as Light Falls Vertical (2022) by Eftymia Zymvragaki (premiered at IDFA). He was the composer for the contemporary dance performance Year Without Summer (2019), a co-production between Bitef Theatre, Serbia, and Stanica, Croatia. Among his current projects are documentaries The Last Nomads by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, and Soil and Wings by Stefan Malešević (in production and post-production). He plays the guitar, accordion, keyboards, and especially enjoys playing the banjo.

Marko Milić works as an author in the field of contemporary dance and multimedia. Born in Serbia, he began his education in the arts as a member of Growing Up Theater, and later the Association of Independent Theaters in Belgrade. He studied Andragogy at the Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade, and was interested in the effects of learning and how it shapes the way we interact with the world. He has created and co-created numerous artworks, most notably: DILF, KOREOEROTIKON, PSP, ЯTUCORA, and LUMI, each of which explores themes such as - what could be physical manifestations of pleasure, how traumatic experiences shape the way we interact with the world, is there a strong sexual fantasy without trauma, and what kind of knowledge could be incorporated through dancing? His work has been exhibited and performed at various festivals worldwide, including ImPulsTanz, TanzImAugust, Perforacije, FIDQU, Kampnagel – Treffen Total, Kondenz, Il faut brûler pour briller, GNARL festival, and CoFestival. Marko Milić was a fellow within the exchange program between Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, within the framework of the 'WimmelResearch-Fellowship,' and Wimmelforschung. This allowed him to learn about the art/science/business cooperation while developing BINEMA - ongoing research about dance in a scientific context. In 2021, he continued working on the idea by being selected as a winning artist of the art+science AI Lab national selection, done in collaboration with the 'Clean CaDET AI' project. Marko Milić is also one of the founders of STATION, which promotes contemporary dance and performing arts in Serbia and the region. He is a coordinator of the 'Puzzle' educational program for young dance makers which has its 7th edition this year, and a guest teacher at the Academy of Dance and Performance at the National Center for Dance, Bucharest in 2023. He develops art workshops and participatory installations for children in the field of contemporary dance.

Milena Todorović completed her MA studies at the UNESCO Department of the University of Arts in Belgrade in the field of Cultural Policy and Management (2012). She is a member of the representative association of the Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia, in which she had the status of an independent artist until August 2021. Since 2014, as a project coordinator and author, she is active in the representative association in culture Service Station for Contemporary Dance, and she is co- author of the following projects that were all supported by the Ministry of Culture: Little Bali (2022) - participative dance workshops for children aged 6-11 years; Under the Droplet (2020-21) - participatory dance performance for children; Beneath the Other Surface (2019) – participatory dance workshops for children with less opportunities; Beneath the Surface (2018) – a contemporary dance performance and project designed to bring the art of dance closer to children through educational workshops and participatory practices; Dance Museum (2018- 2020) - participatory dance installation for children and education lectures for youngsters that are based on contemporary dance. Together with Jovana Rakić, author of the program, Milena organized and delivered educative program 'Creative Dance and Movement', dedicated for kindergarten teachers and all the stakeholders interested in participatory dance techniques and methodologies when working with pre-school children. The program is produced by Station Service for Contemporary Dance and accredited by the Institute for the Improvement of Education and Training of Republic of Serbia. Milena is president of the Association of Jazz and Modern Dance-Dance Buzz, where she has been working as a dance pedagogue with children and young people since 2013 and implementing creative methodologies such as drama, music and dance. The association is active within the ERASMUS + program and has so far implemented three international projects as a partner: 'MINDformance' (2022), 'Responsibilities: Power to Act' (2019), and 'The Core of Leadership' (2018). In 2018, Milena designed 'Manual Tools for Social Development' as a tool kit for youth workers as well as everyone interested and willing to start working, facilitating or participating in the artistic processes with mixed ability groups.