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Water lilies
“Water Lilies” was created in 2025 for the 4th year contemporary dance students at the Elementary School for Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance, at the Elementary School Vežica, Rijeka. Inspired by Monet’s “Water Lilies” and set to Claire de Lune by Debussy, the work is a meditation on peace, interdependence and the flow of water.
Dates and times
Saturday September 13, 17:00 to 18:00
Address
Karolina Riječka Pier
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The dancers investigated aspects of flow, falling, stability and instability in partnership. Monet worked on this cycle of paintings, inspired by the water garden he created, for several decades, and offered the crowning series to the French State on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918, as a symbol for peace.
Dancers: Laura Banić, Lucija Dapčić, Ema Krnelić, Karla Pešut, Maša Štakić
Choreography: Kate Foley in collaboration with the dancers
Photo Sandro Donda
Kate Foley
Kate Foley choreographs and directs projects for stage, film, video, new media and specific sites. She founded and directed chamber dance companies in New York and San Francisco from 1986 to 1998. She then worked on a variety of large-scale collaborations, including Theater Ulysses’ site-specific productions of King Lear (2001) and Medea (2002), visual artist Mike Kelley’s epic Day is Done (2005/2006, 2009), and her Fulbright Fellowship project Angels of Suđerac (2006). In 2007 she moved to Rijeka to work as a strategist, teacher and contributing artist at Prostor Plus Association for the Performing Arts, and at the Primary School for Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Primary School Vežica, where she currently directs the student ensemble.
©Photo Sandro Donda
In 2010 she co-founded the interdisciplinary, international collective Language Anonymous to explore open form improvisation in archeological sites. 2012-2014 her new media project International Harvester engaged a variety of collaborating artists, students and venues. Recent projects include directing the full-length dance-film fairy tale The Journey of Halima (2023) filmed with 110 young dancers and 6 adults during the pandemic of 2021, and the site-specific inaugural performance and dance film for architect Ivan Juretić’s Hatched Egg in the Nest (2023) in Učka Nature Park, Croatia. A member of the Croatian Association of Dance Artists, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from California Institute of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography from UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Photo Sandro Donda
