FICHO Ballet is an NGO and an artist led company founded in 2000. Through dance performances we are enabling people to experience dance art in a new way. 

Venues that presented our artistic work

Also created costume-made shows for:

John is a solo dance performance about JOHN.

It was a 4 year long creative process between Goran Bogdanovski and theatre director Tomi Janežič, that opens new spaces between dance, theatre and life. Creative methods we used were build upon acting techniques of Michael Chekhov. 

"Bogdanovski makes you scream out loud from anger, cry from joy and blush from love. All at the same time. Delicious!"

Pisteffo, host of the Antwerp based radioshow "Klokkespijs", June 2008

The "Fičo Ballet" from Slovenia was represented by the universal genius Goran Bogdanovski, who is the originator, creator, choreographer and performer of the solo show John. Undressed to his white panties, John smacked like a vampire, gasped and smiled to the auditorium, shifting from one foot to the other. And since the hero wore glasses, we could experience the presented figure as an intellectual in search of himself …

Maja Krilova, ИЮНЯ, Moscow, 6 June 2008

Let me note that even in this fairly respected field there are people who work sincerely to find new ways in the art of movement plasticity, in order to respond adequately to the challenges of contemporaneity. And they do so with the love for man – not degrading him to the most base instincts but, on the contrary, trying to ennoble him and help him attain the not-so-simple wisdom: How to respect one's own self and, as a consequence, one's own surrounding at that.

Elena Antonova, Zavtra, Moscow, 18 Jun 2008

In this spatially-framed choreography, Bogdanovski is dressed only in white panties. He focuses on movement details while performing lookalike combinations – such as the skilfully-executed sequence of "giving-and-taking" with the emphasis on his hands, for example – with regard to stereotypes about communicativeness, or restraint, of a particular space. In doing so, Bogdanovski does not strengthen cultural stereotypes but, rather, shatters them – also by showing a number of Johns from various parts of the world not as portraits, i.e. linearly, but with swift transformations and even mutual overlaps; in the moment when it seems that we have recognised a cultural setting, he dissolves it by means of quick movement and atmospheric twists assisted by Grom's sound interventions, and transports us into another, different globalised ambience. Thus "spiritualised Hindu Janez" could as well be a citizen of London, Ivan could live in New York, and American John lives temporarily in Ljubljana, perhaps. In this short, 20-minute solo composed of interesting and original movement details, Goran Bogdanovski has presented – after a long time – his dance and movement qualities and humour, which marked especially his early projects.

Mojca Kumerdej, Delo, Ljubljana, 22 May 2008

Sun City is a space between the everyday life and dance. An intimate dance spectacle and a full length dance performance for seven dancers. One of starting points for reflection was positive utopia "The City of the Sun" by 16-century Dominican theologian, philosopher and poet Tommaso Campanella. Part of the most eclectic and uplifting music is performed live by Michael Wadada / Suns of Arqa (UK).

“Sun City is a movement spectacle of fluid energy, of falls and rises, equilibrium challenges and flowing emotions; it is both utopia and reality, an illustrated story of individual revelations within a collective body … ”

Večer (daily) ,Daliborka Podboj, February 2nd 2007

 “In fact, Sun City is a true "spectacle" with occasional flashings of lights and esoteric electronic music partly performed by the gaily-dressed Michael Wadada seated on an elevated platform, while the dancers in white costumes under him move and transform the image in the sand spread on the floor.”

Ana Perne, Polet, 30 January 2007

“Bogdanovski projected his aspirations into seven dancers of various dance backgrounds; thus, the prevailing contemporary dance movement has been combined with classical, hip-hop and Indian dance elements. The choreographer took on a demanding task of hulling the essence from different styles while not allowing it to get distorted in mutual combinations, and of upgrading individual elements of movement with a structure surpassing the convention of absolute dance. The result is a collage of movement sequences uniting and dispersing individual dancers.”

Alja, Radio Student, 2 February 2007

The performance is specific in the sense that it bonds the real-time produced soundscapes with movement as most of the soundscapes are created through the very movements of dancers, clad in sonic-wear. Emofad is built of points - adventures - interwoven with improvised and spontaneous situations and constructed in a way that allows intrusions by guest performers.

“Emofad opens the spaces behind the banal and seemingly random events of everyday life. ”

Slovenske novice (daily), February 13th 2003

“Bogdanovski and his associates have mad a giant leap forward: they have created an audience for themselves. Considering the numbers and enthusiasm of the Wednesday premiere's audience, I can even go as far as to say that he has widened the commonly rather narrow circle of contemporary dance viewers.” 

Tamara Langus - Radio Student, February 7th 2003

“In Emotivity of Adventure we face commendable, atractive dance, a series of fun ideas and virtuous accordance of movement and sound sequences in which the histrionic and gesticular rhythm of the team comes to light. At the same time we can see in Bogdanovski's pieces a rare sense of communication, attractiveness, frivolity and humor, with which contemporary dance breaks the barriers of aesthetical hermetism and the eletism of the audiences, thus becoming interesting to more viewers (of all ages).”

Rok Vevar, Delo (daily), February 11th 2003

Silence is classical, therefore eternally beautiful. And even if it sucks blood, it does it in a beautiful manner. The sound, however, overwhelms the movement so that every muscle is heard, every trickle of sweat is seen and every feeling is smelled - even if that sound is the waving of philosophical discourse. In the end, the taste of the purifying power of salt that remains on sweated-out bodies is bitter, and the drops of clear water, scattered all over the dance scape, are sweet.

“Yesterday night in Cankarjev Dom, the Goran Bogdanovski quartet broke through the cultural sound barrier… Superimposing the most noble dance tradition and indicating a refined perception of existence, he created a multi-visual show, accompanied by spontaneous ovation.”

Radio Slovenija, Ljubljana, June 2001, Jasna Skrinjar Taufer

"The Švic in Švarc production is made in such a manner that the movement substance and free invention concurrently create innumerable imaginary spaces filled by the imagination of spectators.”

Dnevnik (daily), Ljubljana, june 2001, Amelia Kraigher

"Graceful, balletic moves are juxtaposed with raw, industrial music to comic but also strangely tribal effect. The trance-inducing noise blasts your senses alongside apoplectic seizures that stick in a loop, finally sucking you back into reality with a sharp slap."

On line review, Aerowaves - The Place Theatre London, February 2002, Rachel Tonkin

Presence is happening. It is also an exhibition, concert, video, dance and theatre, improvisation and games, dinner, entertainment, Jam session ...If you're not here, you are not present!

 Happening is a performance, event or situation and it is considered an art, usually in a field of Performing Arts. Happening is an event with multi-disciplinary, non-linear narrative and the active participation of the audience. Key elements of happening are planned, but artists and participants retain space for improvisation. This aspect of happening eliminates the boundaries between the artwork and its viewers.

Parodos – the entrance of an ancient urban chorus on stage. What is so important that the audience have to see, hear and experience it?  Goran Bogdanovski

Parodos  is created and performed by “natural - non professional” dancers which in daily life play roles of student, journalist, softwear designer, teacher, actor, real estate broker...

Parados was performed by participants of Ficho trainings.

"The show itself is fantastic, a highly complex composite and nevertheless carries a clear message: That we can do everything what we started together, if we put enough (all) of our energy into the group, in our mutual relations, mutual feelings, respect, love. " P. C. 

"In performance I was fascinated by the expressiveness of movement - with a few words much was said. I found out how the words are often redundant in communication. I did not quite "understand" the performance, but I felt and experienced it intensively. " T. P. 

"There are many direction. Only one is common - here and now ... and with Parodos the show has reached this moment. The beauty of bodies in motion, it pours ... " J. B