
urša štrukelj
Creator, holistic dancer
I love the wilderness, dance, creativity and travel.
I graduated from a high school of design- industrial design and graduated in philosophy and sociology of culture in the field of aesthetics, Artaud's theater and film. At the same time, I also attended drawing and painting school of Zmago Modic and received dance education at dance, choreography and movement workshops at home and abroad. My dance background ranges from LA dances to contemporary dance, tango, contact improvisation, contango, aerial silk and research into holistic movement and spiritual movement techniques.
I have participated in many dance-theater performances and projects, including the co-creation of the performance Because I’ve missed the colours, where I presented it as a poet, dancer, set designer and costume designer.
In 2004, we created the circus group Trupa Aduta, where we were among the first in Slovenia to start developing aerial silk acrobatics. We created several street performances, including Wings of Wings, which was performed entirely in the air. We performed at many events, celebrations and festivals. I regularly taught aerial silk for 8 years at the Waldorf School in Ljubljana and elsewhere.
In 2007, I co-founded the Cultural Ecological Association Smetumet and led it for 7 years. Within the Association, we were creating eco design, awareness-raising and pedagogical projects. From exhibitions, guerrilla actions, creative workshops, space design to sustainable design of products from waste materials. We have presented at various ecological awareness events, festivals, conferences, in the EU Parliament, kindergartens, schools...
Through experimentation in unique innovative design, the Dilight brand was created, a more than 30-year journey through various artistic forms of interior design, sustainable fashion and ecological awareness projects. Currently, it is on the very edge of innovative-sustainable re-design. It presents itself with glass transparencies, window jewellery , unique paintings in fabrics, curtains, unique jewellery, sustainable re-design, interior decoration of premises, product design.
In 2017, I founded the Association Dilight, within which many projects of sustainable re-design take place, intertwining ecology, art and self-awareness. Thus, I led the movement workshops Pris(O)tno TELO, women's creative circles TOUCH of the story, workshops for adults and children. I have been organizing the camps for children Scented Aerial holidays for children and adults where we teach them sustainable way of living.
At the same time, I am always interested in new forms of creation and transformation of spaces, all types of recycling.
Now I am exploring wood, design from wood. And ecoprint techniques, printing on fabrics exclusively with plants. New possibilities are always opening up... Like a uruborus chasing its tail, it travels an ever-new circle through the colors of the rainbow.

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