Dear Goran and Sandra!
Just the desire to thank you again.
I know very well how challenging it was to move what you moved. I know that you know that you did it beautifully even though could be different and more rewarding to you. I wish you go on living-moving like that: trusting and putting your heart in beautiful creations like this Journey, your kids, the simple days in your house, your dances and classes and arts etc etc. And might sacred abundance bless you!!!
My great motivation was to match all the heart you brought in action doing my best.
It was a nurturing and transformative time to me.
See you!!! ;)
Hugo Leonardo Silva 2015
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A POEM FOR STARTING OF FIÄŒO DANCE JOURNEY
Dear Ones, Dear Courageous Creative Dancers of Life,
Here you are!
All gathered for a new artistic experience in Community!
Nature and Art as common language,
You all guys, decided to cross border after border to reach out this amazing land of Slovenia.
I can imagine the effort that each of you did to make it happen.
I can imagine the excitement of entering in this dance ritual journey together !
And i can also imagine the fears of being in a new brand group with the question of : "What if...?"
I wish you to be able to cross borders within yourself and stretch a little bit.
I wish you to cross the borders of fears, the borders of angers or disappointment.
I wish you to open your heart so deep that it crack-open and meet compassion for yourself and for others.
I wish you to face and embrace all your feelings and cross the border of the Art.
We all know, the Art has his powerful magic Medicine of Transformation.
So don't forget : use dance as support and dive into the Wild of who you truly are !
May you let the dance touch you and guide each of your steps.
May the dance flow threw you that leaves imprint of change along your trail.
May you dance with organic fluidity with what arises.
May you act with Power and Faith in your expression and creation with all your differences and similarities as human being.
You are in Nature
Taste her Secrets
Touch the trees and dance their Wisdom
Connect with the dance of Birds
Feel in your body the truth from the Ancestors of the land.
For you guys, I call for :
Curiosity,
Audacity,
Invention,
Sparkling love,
Generosity,
Connexion with your craziness!
With you, i pray for :
Openness,
Wild expression,
Wise connexions,
Joyful laugh
And Releasing tears... release sing tears...
You are Seekers in the Art Quest !
May your Encounter be nourishing, flourishing and unique.
With Love,
Marie Close
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Shaloom Ibn El-Khayyat - Ziya Azazi- it was really honour to be in your presence and learn.. keep dancing, keep bringing down those energies from the sky.. alhamdulillah
Yahu Maankind
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Beautiful people.
The last day in Krk when we were thanking each other
your eyes mesmerized me.
Through their immense softness and warmth,
through their subtle depth and divine serenity
shone the flares of fireflies,
seeped the strength of waterfall
and rose the magic of full moon -
- all that was penetrating my mind
and reaching my essence in the most graceful manner.
Hana Alhadi
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Beyond the limits of electricity and phone networks, away from mirrors and human settlements, lies this pure, uncovered, raw, sparking wilderness within.
And then creativity gets another dimension.
Hana Alhadi
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"....Back from a beautiful immersion in Nature simple community living
back to the earth
to the waters sweet salty that nurture cleans and energies our dancing bodies
water falls streams rivers sea rain tears
back to the earth and its wispering voices
awakening our instinct and wisdom
Trust
co-creating and collaborating with a beautiful group of explorers
celebrating green silent breathing forests
and fire horses singing voices spinning souls
in stillness and in motion windy rocks and changing landscapes
unveiling manifesting diving deep
the dance of maya and recognition
whirling longing of freedom and transformation
sacrifices and archetypes smiling beyond and within
expanded nurtured inspired
I thank you all
Greatfull to be able to dance this inspiring life "
Irene Sposetti
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...so many different moments of tenderness...
...how much life we can fill in to a limited time? the words for "fico dj" would be "meaningfully densesness of time"
...the placement of all impressions will take quite a long time
:)
all ready missing you all...
Ziya Azazi
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We little cells of a bigger organism touched and shared with each other in some moments in time.. we departed, but we are changed, carrying new qualities, changed by connection. Thankful far all!
Boris Magdalenc
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Oh, feels like journey is still going on, so many beautiful photos, memories!... I feel
so grateful for those, not many, but intense, amazing days, that I have spent with you, guys... First of all I feel deep admiration to Sandra Anais and Goran Bogdanovski, who manifested this vision... I was observing them in the process of preparation for this project, putting together so much work and joy to bring us all together, bunch of amazing, crazy people... to express our creativity, to make deep connections, to sense nature, to create our dramas and had the opportunities to face them and heal...
It was a precious time and for me it brings out also lots of inspiration for future... how more of this visionary approach can be done .. connecting creativity, art, nature, spirit and people, who are willing to go deeper, to feel deeper... enjoying life and being responsible in the same time...
Love to each and everyone... Thank you
:)
And hope to see you again
:)
Thank you, my dear secred friend Arya O'Sulli Gonzalez for these beautiful photos with beloved friends from our neighbourhood
:)
Waking up with horses on my birthday, what a gift
:)
Romana Ercegović
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I was not fully present all the time, not necessarily in a peak with my imagination and ability to share it. However, in the end, I learned a lot. For me personally it turned out to be a great gift. Especially the last few days, twisting my ancle, having the experiences in the little village, my perspective changed. I re-remembered my love for dancing. I re-experienced the moment. Coming back to Copenhagen, I have been thinking a lot about how we structure our lives, what makes sense and not. I also came back to a Copenhagen with a newly elected blue blue government. Neo-liberalism is taking over, even here in Scandinavia. It makes me question very basic things, and in a way it is confusing. What is the point if there is not the will to share/support? And many other questions and reflections, to go into them would make the e-mail many pages long. However, my point was that I believe very much that our society has a need for people like you who work hard to bring things back to basics and share that. Thank you for that.
Hilde I Sandvold
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In exactly 15 days I will meet back our lively students and also welcome the new ones. I love growing up together with you. With this thought it also comes another one: I am gifted since I am surrounded of amazing people. I feel extremely grateful to have amazing work colleagues, the ones I share laughs and «stress» at the teachers room. I am also grateful because MUSIC exists. I am grateful because thanks to her I can fill up my lifestory. Grateful because thanks to love for MUSIC and DANCE I therefore met my superboss Joe Rusi, who encouraged me to travel and experience a Dance Journey during this summer 2015. And of course, grateful to my new Fico dance family. Thank you to Goran Bogdanovski and Sandra Anais for believing, for creating the Fico Ballet. After more than 20 years dancing, my meaning of the word MOVEMENT has reached a higher spectrum. Most of this pictures are not mine, but borrowed. I decided to share some of them with all of you, since it would be unfair to keep hidden all these moments of beauty. Music and dance as a big and pure family ♥
Arya O’Sulli Gonzales
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Sandra!!
FInally can dedicate some time to share my experiences and, at your request, what could e regarded as a feedback.
First of all I want to thank you and to Goran so much for allowing me to be part of this experience. It was heartfelt and even hard to leave the space. It does not happen often but this time I felt attached to it in someways that surprised me.
I loved the combination of you both leading the festival. It was well balanced and harmony prevailed in touching ways. I was inspired by Goran's way of trusting the flow and see how effortlessly the week in the mountains unfolded.
I thin the site specific performances at Smartno after Vangelis soulful workshop was a clear expression of what am trying to convey here with words.
For the aspects that could be improved (it can always be!) I had already manifested myself while being together.
I had difficult to resonate with the "mama group" idea for 2 reasons. First for the way it was proposed (even the name suggests itself some kind of weird relationship of dependence of power even if it does't touch the conscious layers in the first moment). Secondly while at the same time I do understand the the given freedom in smaller groups to express oneself, in long run it may have undesirable side-effects in case there is no an appropriate concern to avoid the formation of identities of such small group within the big group.
The weather factor was also a delicate aspect. We were very lucky in the mountains. But even if there would be some indoors alternative a sequences of days of heavy rain could bring about tough challenges for the flow. Don't know exactly what happened in the island but looks like a little taste of nature's sign to consider such unpredictability for the next editions of Fico Ballet.
Personally I start to feel comfortable, free and 100% relax after noticing that nearly everyone got ticks bite. We were naturally aware of that and this is just something must be dealt. Still it was pretty intense and to me, being an overconcerned type, undermines a bit the possibility the enjoy the fullness of the event.
Having said that there is nothing actually to be done other than consider whether or not exposing our bodies to ticks is worthy or not and of course this is very personal. If there are known areas to be less infested with such tiny bastards then that could possibly be included as one the topics forming the criteria in the choice of a location.
Just brainstorming here, really don't think we shall stop living but considering always seems to be a positive attitude in the path of evolution
Otherwise I miss you guys and dearly hope our paths cross again soon. Right now am in back in Brazil after having a wonderful yet intense summer filled with most splendid festival all around.
The kids were the best part, they are amazing!!! They very much reflected the easy going spirit. Congratulations all of you for having the privilege to parent such special souls!
Hope you are still having a delightful summer!!
Please send my warmest greetings to Goran
Much love
Bruno Caverna 2014
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thank you very much Goran and Sandra for all this journey, that unique opportunity of sharing curiosities, passions, movement, tasting subtilities and playing with tones of what we use to call love
Larisa Leao 2014