BIOGRAPHY
Tomislav Nevistic is an internationally touring interdisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, painter, and teacher. He is committed to performative creations as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance and painting traditions and techniques, sound composition, design, and poetry. He is grateful for his parents and all the people in his life who have supported his moving and discovering his love for creativity. ABody Disappears (2022) is a conceptual, poetic dance based on a response to his experience living in New York during the pandemic Covid-19 and inspired by the imagery of the American novel The Catcher in the Rye. Drawing a parallel to his own life he was inspired by people in his life and his inability to let them go and therefore keep them in the abyss of nostalgia, just a shadow of longing for a body to meet another body. Tomislav received a grant from Mare Nostrum Elements and NYCA to support the creation and presentation of Body Disappears.Tomislav has performed his works at venues such as the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, NY (2022); New York Live Arts, New York, NY (2022); Dance Olympiad IDO, Moscow, Russia (2013); Gavella Theater, Zagreb, Croatia (2015); and various venues in
Nassau, Bahamas (2023) and Rome, Italy (2015). He has also performed with the companies Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Ziel Dance Teather, iDance Ministry, and Graham II, among others, and collaborated with many artists, including Gabriela Vasques, Issac Iskra, Ellen Gunn, Yamini Kalluri, Jasminka Zjec, Alice Momm, and Rodney Ferrer. Tomislav is the recipient of the Oscar of Knowledge in Dance from the Agency for Education under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Parliament and in the co-organization of the Ministry of Science and Education. (2015), a Mia Corak Slavenska award (2015), silver medal at the IDO - European show dance championship in St. Petersburg(2014). He has been awarded residencies through Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY, Movement Research, New York, NY; and Zagrebacki Plesni Centar, Zagreb, Croatia. Tomislav was born during the Croatian War for Independence and raised in post-war Croatia which greatly influenced his artistic development and later thematic choices, He studied Laban technique at the Contemporary Dance School of Ana Maletic Zagreb and, in 2015 he moved to New York and obtained Dance certification at The Ailey School and Graham technique certification at the Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance. He has also been greatly influenced by teachers, mentors, and collaborators, including Elizabeth Auclair, Jasmina Zagrajski-Vukelic, Marija Lutter, Alison Cook Beatty, Jeramin Terry, and Josh Assor.