Aliki Leftherioti

Ridges draws inspiration from the traditional dances, rhythms, and atmospheres of Albania, Croatia, and North Macedonia; the choreography transforms inherited movement languages into a contemporary physical dialogue.
Footwork with sharp accents, circular trajectories that expand and contract, and timing that slips into irregular pulses form the foundation of a shifting, embodied landscape. These elements appear not as literal folk material but as echoes—energetic traces embedded in weight, breath, and the way the group gathers, disperses, and realigns.
As the dancers negotiate shared rhythms and contrasting accents, the space becomes a living map: diagonals collide with stillness, circles fold into lines, and cultural borders blur through constant reconfiguration. Tradition, identity, and memory intersect within a small square of space, yielding a collective physicality that merges three distinct pasts into one evolving present. What emerges is a contemporary movement language shaped by regional heritage yet reimagined into something new, alive, porous, and unmistakably of today.

Performed by: Mariel Brahimllari, Viktor Konstantinović, Margareta Sinković, Semela
Skenderasi, with special thanks to Lara Kapeloto

Coproducers: Albania Dance Meeting (Tirana, Albania), Dance Fest Skopje/ Interart
Culture Centre (Skopje, North Macedonia), Tjedan suvremenog plesa/ Hrvatski
institut za pokret i ples (Zagreb, Croatia)

Aliki Leftherioti

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