Sanja is in Dunedin for Arts Festival Dunedin with an international collaboration for WW100, Sisters in Arms with Dunedin's Ake Ake Theatre Company, which recently premiered in Belgrade.
The workshop explores the patterns from our ancestors' physicality that live on in us and inform our physical patterns today.
Using techniques from the East European theatre tradition, these tendencies will be developed into choreography to structure starting points for performance.
Basic physical theatre training will be covered. Some theatre or dance experience is recommended.
In directing Sisters in Arms, Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic took inspiration from her solo theatre show Tales of Bread and Blood, about her two great-grandmothers during World War 1, one a soldier in the Serbian army, the other the ''woman who stayed at home''.
''Theatre has always been a kind of dialogue with the dead. A place where personal and collective stories are told and contemplated. A plea for witnessing truth that would otherwise be kept unattended, unacknowledged,'' she said.
''It is about dancing our whakapapa,'' said Jessica Latton, of Ake Ake Theatre Company.
''This Serbian/New Zealand collaboration has been a wonderful cultural exchange. We taught a haka workshop to some smart city kids in Belgrade. Now Sanja is offering her expertise to the Dunedin community.''
