Mala KLINE (SI/BE)

Born in 1977. Mala Kline is a performer and choreographer. During her formative years as a professional, she took many courses and workshops for dancers and performers with people like Joseph Nadj, Jordi Cortes Molina, Vera Mantero, Mark Tompkins, Lloyd Newson, Meg Stuart, Jan Fabre, and she attended workshops at the Jerzy Grotowski’s Workcenter and Thomas Richards’ StemWerk. Mala performed in Iztok Kova's productions of “Sting and String – first touch” and “Codes of Cobra” as well as his films “Vertigo Bird” and “Dom Svobode.” She was also in Wim Vandekeybus’ productions of “InAs-MuchAsLifeIsBorrowed” and “Spiegel.” From 2001 to 2004, Mala collaborated with En-Knap’s Dance Laboratory. She was a cofounder and a co-programmer (2004-06) of Agon – educational and research programme for dance and co-director of Cimet – project for mobility of young dancers in Central Europe in 2004. She co-founded Emanat -institute for the affirmation and development of dance art, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her own works invlude “Garden of Traversing Fates” (2003), “Campo de' Fiori” (2004), “Properly blonde,” “Rondinella and HIRES,” “Gallery of Dead Women” (2005) (the later four in collaboration with Maja Delak) and “Début - In Memory of Coming.” In 2005 she created “Anagram” (in collaboration with Lucija Stupica). Mala Kline is the co-founder and was from 2004-06 co-editor of Prehodi, which publishes books on dance in relation to other arts and theatrical practices. In 2005 she received the Zlata Ptica and Povodni Moz Awards. Mala Kline is currently finishing her studies in philosophy and comparative literature at the Univeristy of Ljubljana and assisting Iztok Kovac with “My Kingdom for a Horse,” the new production of En-Knap's Dance Group.