Biography
Movement director, choreographer, teacher working internationally across Contemporary dance, Performance and Multimedia Theatre productions for over 20 years.
Founder and Director of Histeria Nova Artistic organization with efforts to explore human and animal biomechanics, contemporary and vertical dance as a new movement theatre where elements of synetographic performance arts are inseparable.
Pioneer of vertical dance development program in the Republic of Croatia since 2011.
Developing Manager of the CROM project within the framework of School of Natural movement – educational program in movement and rehabilitation for people of all ages and various backgrounds.
Author of the Biennale of New Movement, international project in co-production with Aeriosa Society (Canada) and Yskynna (Cornwall, BC)
Natural movement
CROM is an abbreviated name for the “Croatian lateral movement”, which means informal, interdisciplinary education of human and non-human movement and motion Marija Šćekić has been implementing and teaching CROM in the Republic of Croatia since 2000. As of November 6, 2017, the name CROM has been officially transferred to the School of Natural Movement Marija Šćekić.
Vertical
Over the past 10 years, Marija Šćekić has made enormous human and financial efforts to promote vertical dance in terms of the safety of dancers and buildings as a key factor, and has formed several such safe centers across the country through annual workshops Summer school of vertical dance and somatic learning (Paklenica National park, Zadar, Đakovo, Sinj, Šibenik, Karlovac, Osijek, Zagreb). To this end, Histeria Nova in cooperation with the Đakovo Cultural Center is launching a project to establish the Slavonia Vertical Training Center in order to launch and establish the first international School of Vertical Practice in the country and the world.
Biennale
The Biennale of New Movement is an interdisciplinary Art, Science and Education project, a developmental project initiated and directed by Marija Šćekić, that explores the essential, most natural movement of all Humans, the instinct to survive. The project Biennale of New Movement combines the seemingly incompatible disciplines and ideas of human action into a unique biennial program (to be held every other year in a different locations) in order to promote the harmony, diversity and dynamism that exists between the modern conception of Human beings and the traditional value of the society in which he/she is.
