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Choreographic Commissions    2016-2000

 

- The Unbearable Heaviness of Expectation - March 2016 -  Listháskóli Iceland

- Broken - June 2015 - The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp

• (Recreation) A Life In Muscle - March 2015, Listháskóli Iceland

• Little Brute - February 2015, De Kunsthumaniora, Belgium

• A Life In Muscle  - March 2014, Listháskóli Iceland

• Death Rattle -January 2014 - University of Stavanger, Norway 

• Till Death Do Us - December 2013, Listháskóli Iceland

• Nepaisant nieko/visko - September 2013 - Palanga, Lithuania

• A Beast For Thee – January - March 2013 – University of Stavanger, Norway
• Co-Dependent Bliss – October 2012, Listháskóli Iceland
• Citadele Nr. 14 September 2012, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
• Dry Love – May 2012, SEAD Salzburg, Austria
• Crystal Tear – February – March 2012, Listaháskóli, Iceland
• Fleurs Du Mal – November – December 2011, SEAD Salzburg, Austria
• All The Waters Of The Earth Shall Turn To Blood June 2011, ArteZ Arnhem, Holland
• Genius of the Crowd – May 2011, Listháskóli Iceland
• Rough Cut – September 2010 Listaháskóli Iceland
• Killing Time – December 2009 Listaháskóli Iceland
• Cardiac Strain – November 2009 Iceland Dance Company
• Deadhead’s Lament - May 2009, Listaháskóli Iceland
• Disfigure Me - October 2008, Listaháskóli Iceland
• Pieces of Quiet -June 2008, S.M.D. Copenhagen, Denmark
• 10000 Offers - December 2007, S.M.D. Copenhagen, Denmark
• Coma Angel - April 2007, Artez Arnhem, Holland
• Dis-ease: Beast - September 2006, Listaháskóli Iceland
• Delirium: Flogging a Dead Horse, December 2005 Artez Arnhem, Holland
• Rule My Heart - November 2005, Artez Arnhem, Holland
• Missing Teeth - December 2004, Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland
• The Cut Ups - November 2004, Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland
• Little Fury - May 2003, Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland
• Windeater - May 2002, recreated for the The Tanz Companie Lübeck, Germany
• Structural Damage - May 2001, Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland
• Degrees of Damage - April 2001, Tanz Companie Lübeck, Germany
• The Sound of 60 Hertz - June 2000, Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland



Temper Temper

Tony Vezich formed the Temper Temper Dance Company in 1998. He is the company’s choreographer and artistic leader.



Temper Temper  2005 – 1998

• Gone Critical April 2005, Bonn, Germany

• Hymn August 2004, Bochum, Germany
• Code June 2003, Bonn, Germany
• One Hundred Bits June 2001, Essen, Germany
• Windeater January 2001, Bochum, Germany
• Ich bin meine Welt Septemeber 1999, Krefeld, Germany
• Lungfull of Water May Gelsenkirchen, Germany
• Cold Cuts 1-7 and Retroactive June 1998, Krefeld, Germany



Engagements  1987 - 2000

• Northern Ballet Company, Auckland 
• Royal New Zealand Ballet
• Hildesheim Stadttheater Dance Company, Germany.
• Ballett Schindowski Company, Schillertheater, NRW, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.



Associated company choreographer and artistic collaborator since 1996.

Choreographic Credits (Ballett Schindowski,)

• Bait (1992)
• For the love of what's golden (1993)
• And the ass saw the angel (1993)
• Rise Cherry Fall (1994)
• Bullrush (1995)
• Ape (1995)

Ballett Schindowski Choreographic Commissions
• Dog Dance  (1996)
• Cold Cuts 1-7 (1998)
• Lungfull of Water featuring Temper Temper, (1999)



Awards

2010 - Gríman Nomination for Cardiac Strain in the category, best choreography
The Department for Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia nominated Tony Vezich as the recipient of their sponsorship award for 1999, The NRW Preis für Tanz. The award took the form of a commission for a new choreography Ich bin meine Welt  (I am my world) for the opening of the Meeting Neuer Tanz Festival 1999.

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Teaching

​Since the year 2000, Tony had been a regular guest teacher of choreography, and of his self devised contemporary dance technique (Release the Beast) and has taught throughout Europe, Scandinavia and New Zealand.

He accepted a fulltime position in ArteZ as lecturer of contemporary dance and choreography in 2006-07.
Tony then went on to hold the position of head lecturer of contemporary dance and choreography in the Listaháskóli Íslands, from 2007 – 2011. He is currently enjoying an Artistic leave of absence to follow his freelance ambitions.

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Dance Education

1987-1990 The New Zealand School of Dance, Wellington. 3 years full time professional training in Classical and Modern dance: Highly commended on graduation with the Deidre Tarrant Award for excellence in modern dance and the New Zealand School of Dance Award for the most promising student.​