Alice in WonderBand is a duo of performers bringing together world music and odd beats from the Balkans with body music and body percussion. Ana Vrbaški and Marko Dinjaški are performing on stage in theaters and concerts and are a couple in life living in nature, near Fruška gora National park.
Their unique lifestyle brings music in connection with the body and nature. Performances are vibrating and rhythmic, powerful and energetic, a crossroads of dance, stage movement and music. Deep, primordial experience takes the audience on a journey through the Balkans as well as to the depths of the being. Performers create a singing and clapping community with the audience, feeling rooted, grounded and inspired.
The band performs songs in eleven languages, around Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Turkey etc) and the ex-Yugoslav region. They prove that in the eternally stormy Balkan area there is a unity through culture, music, movement, which brings understanding and reconciliation. They are currently in the MOST Balkan Music Export program.
Press quotes “The Alice in WonderBand duo are constantly chasing through exciting landscapes of art, creativity, ideas and projects like a rushing train… always original and inspiring.” Marija Vitas, Magazine Etnoumlje, World Music Association, Serbia
“What this duo celebrated and performed on stage was grandiose. These artists use only their bodies and voices as musical instruments. Nothing more. But they do it with such energy, knowingly and persuasively, that their act is also a very amusing and interesting pleasure, that in the same time has depth. What they offer is pure energy, rhythm in its primordial form.” Peter Kees, Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Emphasizing voice and rhythm, Ana and Marko, with effective arrangements and performance, take us back to the ancient past, when these were the basic means of expression through music. Surprisingly, such a reduced sound expression also creates the effect of displaced, different, avant-garde, even contemporary.” Nikola Glavinić, Music Information Centre of Serbia
“(Their) authenticity is magical, and what amazes the most are the countless possibilities of body rhythm. The audience is fascinated, delighted, wanting more and wanting to postpone the end of this performance as much as possible, as the performance draws us in.” Ines Wagner, Kulturvision Aktuell