Programme
It (12 min.)
Choreographer: Iskra Šukarova
Performer: Ursula Eagly
Music by: Aleksandar Pejovski

Fields of Ida (25 min.)
Choreographer: Ursula Eagly
Performer: Ursula Eagly
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It
Inspiration comes from the myth of the Sphinx, a mythological creature and a symbol of femininity. 
Iskra Šukarova is an established principal soloist and choreographer at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. She was a student of contemporary dance at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon, France, and in 2002 obtained her Master’s Degree at the Laban Center in London, UK.
She has completed several different trainings, seminars for contemporary dance with: Susanne Linke, Mark Tompkins, Joe Alegado, Milli Biterli, Mia Lawrence, Ivan Wolfe, Jennifer Lacey etc. She collaborated with Yoshiko Chuma (The School of Hard Knocks, New York); Allyson Green (New York); Bert Gstettner (Tanzhotel, Vienna); Cathy Weis (New York); Alice Castillio (London). 
In 2003 she was invited to perform her solo piece Off at a Tangent at the Tanztenzenden, Germany, the 2nd Balkan Dance Platform - Bucharest and in Fivizzano, Italy, where she was awarded the Golden Dolphin. 
Her production Ouch Couch toured in Sarajevo (Teatar fest), Malmö (Dansstationen), Sofia (Redhouse), Belgrade (Dom omladine), Durrës (an International festival). Orleans Choreographic centre Artistic Director Josef Nadj honored Iskra with an artistic residency to create Formula, a collaboration with Dejan Srhoj (SLO).
She has been honored with many fellowships and artistic residencies, including Arts Link and  DanceWeb. She was a part-time contemporary dance teacher at the Secondary Ballet School in Skopje and an art director of the Ballet at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje for two years.
In 2003, together with Biljana Tanurovska and Nataša Dimitrievska, she founded Lokomotiva - Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. At Lokomotiva she is engaged as contemporary dance art director.  She is one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy project.

Fields of Ida
In Norse mythology, the Fields of Ida exist after one world is destroyed and a new one is created.  The fields are a halfway place, a way-station between worlds, both an ending and a beginning.  This dance takes shape in that dark place.
Ursula Eagly is a New York-based choreographer and performer.  She grew up in Indiana and graduated from Princeton University in 1999 with the Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award for Excellence in Dance and the Class of 1955 Grant for her senior thesis in dance.
Her work has been presented throughout New York City and commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, and Dance New Amsterdam.  Fields of Ida is her newest piece, and it will next be presented by Bunker Productions in Slovenia and Albania Dance Meeting International Festival in Albania.  Eagly was awarded the Mid Atlantic USArtists International grant to support the engagement in Albania.
Eagly was a 2008-2009 Dance New Amsterdam Artist-in-Residence and has also received Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks and Studio Series residencies.  She has been honored with three grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and space grants from Topaz Arts and Ur.
Since 2006, Eagly has collaborated with choreographer Kathy Westwater (New York), delving into a process-oriented somatic investigation of the pelvis.  Also since 2006, she has been a core performer in Yoshiko Chuma’s A Page Out of Order series, a project with which she’s toured throughout Albania, Macedonia, Japan, and Romania, collaborating with incredible local performers.
Eagly is an active member of the New York performance community.  She writes about performance, most recently contributing to Artforum Magazine and Movement Research's Critical Correspondence. She has taught at Dance New Amsterdam as part of the Guest Artist Series. From 2003 to 2009, she supported artists through her work as a Danspace Project’s Development Coordinator. 
www.ursulaeagly.org
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Project is in organization of Lokomotiva- Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. Project manager - Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski. 

Fields of Ida is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Programme with support from the Jerome Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Production of IT is supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkan and EU Programme, Culture 2007-20103 in the frame of the research programme of Nomad Dance academy and the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia.