15:30-17:00, Club Cankarjev dom
The Slovenian Contemporary Dance Biennial – Gibanica awards two prizes.
- The Gibanica Grand Prix will be awarded by an international expert jury composed of:
Sandra Neuveut, director of CNDC La Briqueterie, France
Catja Loepfe, director of Tanzhaus Zürich, Switzerland
Monica Gillette, co-director of the Tanztriennale Hamburg, Germany
- The Audience Award is given to the dance performance that receives the most votes by the audience.
The Award Ceremony will be led by Daniel Petković, joined by the dancers from the choreographic laboratory.
Obligatory reservations for free tickets at dsps.promocija@gmail.com
* You can access the Club with the elevator from the Small gallery (Mala Galerija)
More about the international expert jury:
Catja Loepfe is since 2014 artistic director of Tanzhaus Zürich in Switzerland. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she began her career as a freelance art curator and workshop organizer. She directed Zürich’s Rote Fabrik Theater (1999 – 2007) and worked at Gessnerallee Zürich (2007 – 2012), ending as its interim director. She then led the Zürich tanzt Festival and was member of the Artistic Board of the Zürcher Theater Spektakel.
Sandra Neuveut is the director of The Choreographic Development National Center – La Briqueterie since 2021 and served as president of the Association of Choreographic Development National Centers in 2024, and its treasurer in 2025. She was artistic advisor at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris for the projects Chantiers d’ Europe (2019) and was deputy director of the Musée de la danse in Rennes, led by the choreographer Boris Charmatz (2009-2018). She teaches regularly at universities and on vocational training programmes and holds the title of Knight of Arts and Letters, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture.
Monica Gillette is a dance dramaturg, facilitator and Co-Artistic Director of the Tanztriennale 2026 in Hamburg. She has accompanied several EU-funded projects, including Dance Well, Migrant Bodies – Moving Borders, Dancing Museums – The Democracy of Beings, Empowering Dance and Aerowaves’ Moving Borders. She is a dramaturg and transformation coach at Tanzhaus Zürich and researcher for EDN – European Dance Development Network, resulting in the 2024 publication Practices of Care and Wellbeing in Contemporary Dance: Evidence from the Field.
Production: Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia
Partner and technical crew: Cankarjev dom
Sponsor: Hiša vin Emino, Hiša GIBANICE by HUDO DOBRO
With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the City of Ljubljana.