Gordana Svetopetric

Croatia – Hipp

Gordana Svetopetrić– dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and yoga teacher. She graduated in School for New Dance Development, Theater School of Amsterdam, Netherlands, while Gaia Yoga training, training for yoga teachers, ended in GaiaYoga school, Zagreb, Croatia.

After years of dance and choreographic studies, she participated in numerous dance and theater workshops for dance specialization. She worked autonomously and performed with the local and foreign artists of the independent dance scene in Netherland and Croatia. In recent years, her focus is on her own authorial and choreographic work. She works through independent projects and collaborates with dance colleagues from Slovenia, Germany, Netherlands and works in professional projects as author, choreographer, and performer / dancer on Croatian independent scene.

She works as a teacher of contemporary dance at the School of Contemporary Dance Ana Maletić, Zagreb, regularly holds dance workshops for students, professional artists, children.

Cooperates with the Association of People with Cerebral Palsy, Rijeka where is, after ten years of intensive workshops of contemporary dance, produced Dance group Magic (dance collective of people with disabilities). As artistic director and choreographer of dance group Magija, she is also the producer of a festival Inclusive Scene in Rijeka. One of the pioneers and the initiator of the inclusive scene in Croatia.