Ida Jolić & Marin Lemić

Ida Jolić & Marin Lemić

Ida Jolić is a dance artist based in Zagreb, Croatia. She completed her dance education at the Tanzfabrik School and graduated from the Dance Department at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. As a freelancer, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Massimiliano Volpini, Molly Fletcher Lynch, Martin Sonderkamp, Robert Clark, Matjaž Farič, among others. Together with Marin Lemić, she co-created and performed the dance trilogy „Transformers“, earning awards for Best Individual Performance and Best Choreography. She also created the performance „REM“. Since 2018, she has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and she regularly teaches throughout Croatia. Additionally, she co-organises IslanDance, a small dance festival on the Zadar archipelago. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Studio Contemporary Dance Company, working with both international and Croatian choreographers, including Matej Kejžar, Sergiu Matis, Ginevra Panzetti/Enrico Ticconi, Magdalena Reiter, Irma Omerzo, and others.

Marin Lemić is a dance artist from Zadar, Croatia. At the end of 2008, he enrolled at the dance academy in Amsterdam (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten - de Theaterschool), where he graduated in 2011 from the contemporary dance department. From 2012 to 2016, he worked in the state national theaters of Oldenburg (Staatstheater Oldenburg) and Mainz (Staatstheater Mainz) as part of the contemporary dance company, collaborating with various choreographers such as Ann Van den Broek, Sharon Eyal, Club Guy & Roni, Alessandra Corti, and Felix Berner. He is currently working as a performer and creator on various dance projects in Croatia and abroad, collaborating with choreographers such as Matija Ferlin, Adrienn Hód, Zrinka Lukčec-Kiko, Marjana Krajač, Jasna Čižmek-Tarbuk, Michael Langeneckert, and Cocoon Dance. In 2019, performance „transformers“ received a professional award for Best Choreography (Ida Jolić and Marin Lemić) and in 2020, he won the Croatian Theatre Award for Best Performance in the production „transformers“.