Dancing in the Red house Ljubljana

Nicole Speletic (nspeletic@gmail.com)
Dance artist and philosopher from New York City, was first in her family to attend college. Full merit scholarships provided opportunities to pursue her education from high school through doctoral level. She held a full PhD fellowship at Georgetown University, was granted the Mellon Teaching Fellowship, was co-director of the student dance company (G.U. Dance) and received two awards for her contribution to the arts.
Nicole trained and worked at the Limon Institute (7 years), was apprentice with Limon Dance Company, was Associate Director of Limon Professional Studies Program (3 years) and helped design that curriculum. She later completed one year of a master's degree in Dance Studies (Malta University).
Dr. Speletic strongly values her European heritage, and travels there annually offering workshops, presentations, projects and attending special courses. She also maintains an active practice in dance and philosophy, with daily class and cross-training, and through reflective theoretical analysis - each enriching the other. She would say that she has learned the most from life experiences: tutoring prisoners, changing her own name, marrying her sister, talking her father through to the next realm, standing up in court for a friend, dancing back-up at Bowery Ballroom and busking with a jazz band in the UK. And she believes in art's power to express the most profound and significant aspects of this human condition - to catalyze human experience – its mystery, delight or tragedy - into something meaningful and valuable.

Davide Casiraghi (www.movementmeetslife.com)
Davide Casiraghi is a Contact Improvisation teacher, Ilan Lev Method practitioner based in Slovenia. He is exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010. His study is started in Milan and continue in Europe with the many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Anjelika Doniy, Yaniv Minzer, Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences.
He see CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, explore curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.
In Milan he is co-founder of Collettivo Daimon, in Slovenia co-creator of Moave psychology in movement (www.moave.si).
He is the web designer and developer of the CI Global Calendar the worldwide Contact Improvisation event calendar.(www.ciglobalcalendar.net).