Choreography, concept and performance: Iskra Sukarova (MK) and Dejan Srhoj (SI)
Dramaturgical tricks: Ana Vujanovic
Production manager: Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski
Costume and design: Iskra Sukarova and Dejan Srhoj
Costume realisation: Afrodita Kiki
Choice of music: Iskra Sukarova and Dejan Srhoj
Duration: 25`
Coproduction: Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (MK) & Fičo Balet (SI)- Macedonian Opera and Ballet (MK), National Choreographic Centre in Orleans (FR)

The performance has been realized with the help of the: Ministry of Culture of the R. Macedonia, Ministry of Culture of the R. Slovenia and the Ljubljana City Hall.

Formula is a contemporary dance project initiated by Dejan Srhoj (Slovenia) and Iskra Sukarova (Macedonia) in year 2006.

Formula includes structured improvisation as dance method dealing with the research of different discourses of communication, formulas of establishing relation between different individuals in different conditions, as well as imposing and decomposing the codes of conveying. Formula is a way of open communication; it is a way of collaboration with different artists. Formula is the speed we create with and it is the speed we forget with. Formula is to be and not be on the stage. Formula is a sonnet, a square, a diagonal and a recipe.

First Formula was based on the deconstruction of some aspects of classical ballet (moving in diagonals, facing public and facing up-stage, partnering, gestures). These aspects were later re-shaped, inverted, exposed. The result was far from ballet but it kept aiming at precision of performance, quality of touch and being human.

Dejan Srhoj, born in 1978 in Ljubljana, is a freelance performer and choreographer. He is currently involved in projects dealing with the questions of copying and originality: as a performer in Pupilija Papa Pupilo and Pupilceks and Fake It directed by Janez Jansa. As a dramaturg in Hommage a trois, a dance theatre piece directed by Dragana Alfirevic.
He is interested in dancing as non-product and on the other hand interested in creating dance pieces that would act as good products. He has great interest in the Balkan region and has co-founded regional project NDA-Nomad Dance Academy. With Macedonian choreographer Iskra Sukarova he is working on the ongoing dance duet Formula. In 2008 he has gained BA in Humanities at The Open University.

Iskra Sukarova 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 Masters 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 Tangentat the Tanztenzenden, Germany, the 2nd Balkan Dance Platform - Bucharest and in Fivizzano, Italy, where she was awarded the Golden Dolphin. With her new production Ouch Couch she toured in Sarajevo (Teatar fest), Malmö (Dansstationen), Sofia (Redhouse), Belgrade (Dom omladine), Durrës (an international festival). For her research in the field of contemporary dance she has been awarded an Arts Link Fellowship in 1996 and the DanceWeb grant in 2000. 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 National Theatre in Skopje for two years. In 2003, together with Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski 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.