JOSIP BIŠĆAN: Icarus

Icarus is the result of research in the Corpography course and a personal response to the task that started from the physical reading of Violeta Kuneva’s lyrics “My body / a mite for a winged creature” and Michel Foucault’s text “The Utopian Body”. And then the meeting with Matisse’s Icarus… Icarus dives into the mysterious paths of the inner labyrinth and the outer landscapes. How are our thoughts and actions connected, in the world of their own echoes? Is the sky really the final limit? And how long does the soul sink, meeting its own fall, in the game of time that we ourselves have set?

Performer/Choreographer: Josip Bišćan
Mentor: Maja Đurinović
Music: Solitude – M83, Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation
Photo: Laura Kolesarić

Josip Bišćan comes from Požega and is a student of the fifth year of non-verbal theater at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. He has been dancing for ten years and started out as a self-taught dancer. After studying zootechnics, he decided to change his profession and pursue what fulfills him the most – dancing. In addition to non-verbal theater, Josip is a choreographer at the urban dance group Zepelin at PS Shine, and organizes a dance party called Hajp with Karla Mitrović and Stjepan Bešlić. With all the knowledge he has acquired, Josip’s goal is to one day teach dance and physical theater in smaller communities where it is not represented – where he himself could not learn.