Nikolina Pristaš

Nikolina Pristaš (1976) is a choreographer and dancer working in a Zagreb based performance group BADco.

After her graduation at the School for Contemporary Dance “Ana Maletić” (1994) she joined Zagreb Dance Company for which she danced for the next five years. During that time her dance teacher was Kilina Cremona (Cunningham technique) but she continued to educate herself by taking workshops/seminars with various dance artists in Europe and USA. In that period of time she danced in the productions of international as well as home choreographers – Irma Omerzo, Iva Nerina Sibila, Emilio Gutierrez, Alberto Bebeto Cidra, Alexey Taran…

Parallel to her dance occupation she studied at the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Humanities and obtained their diploma (2003) at the departments of English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature.

In 2000 together with Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Sajko and Goran Sergej Pristaš she founded BADco.

She made her first choreographic work – choreography 2 (which was the first part of a tripartite dance performance 2tri4) – while working with that group of people. 2 was a part of the Aerowaves selection in 2002 and was awarded (Hooge Huysen prize for young talents) at the Julidans festival in Amsterdam in 2002.

She occasionally gives dance classes for companies in Zagreb and holds workshops (usually in collaboration with other BADco. members) in Croatia and abroad.

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Nikolina Pristaš (1976.) je koreografkinja i plesačica koja radi unutar izvedbene skupine BADco.

Nakon završene Škole za ritmiku i ples (1994) počela je plesati za Zagrebački plesni ansambl. Članica ansambla bila je do 2000.g. Tijekom tog perioda njena glavna plesna pedagoginja bila je Kilina Cremona (Cunningham tehnika). Nikolina se kontinuirano educirala uzimajući radionice/seminare raznih plesnih umjetnika u Europi i Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama. U tom periodu plesala je u predstavama domaćih i inozemnih koreografa – Irma Omerzo, Iva Nerina Sibila, Emilio Gutierrez, Alberto Bebeto Cidra, Alexey Taran…

Paralelno s radom u polju plesne umjetnosti Nikolina je studirala na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu (odsjeci: Anglistika i Komparativna književnost) na kojem je diplomirala 2003.g.

2000.g. zajedno s Pravdanom Devlahovićem, Ivanom Sajko i Goranom Sergejem Pristašem osniva BADco.

Njen prvi samostalni koreografski rad – koreografija 2 (prvi dio trodjelne plesne predstave 2tri4) – realiziran je u umjetničkoj suradnji unutar BADco.; 2 je bila selektirana u program Aerowavesa (London) 2002.g. te nagrađena (Hooge Huysen nagrada za mlade talente) na festivalu Julidans u Amsterdamu iste godine.

Povremeno daje satove suvremenog plesa i drži radionice (najčešće u suradnji s pojedinim članovima BADco.) u Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu.