Filip Petkovski, born in Skopje, Macedonia, is a PhD student of Culture and Performance at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at The University of California Los Angeles. After graduating from a performing arts high school focusing on folk dance and ballet, he pursued professional folk dancing in the ensemble for Eastern European folk dances and songs - Tamburitzans, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Filip has graduated at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania focusing on theatrical directing and multimedia. He continued with his education with the Choreomundus program: an International Master of Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage, through a consortium of four European Universities. He has graduated as a dance researcher and he is focusing on ethnochoreology. When it comes to dancing, Filip has worked as a professional dancer, choreographer and dance teacher in the United States and Europe. He has performed at around 200 concerts throughout the United States with the Duquesne University Tamburitzans, taught various seminars and workshops on Macedonian and Eastern European folk dance, and choreographed and staged folk dances for various ensembles. His Masters dissertation is on the approaches of staging and choreographing folk dance in Macedonia and the National Folk Dance Ensemble Tanec. Currently, he is working as an intern at the Living Heritage sector at UNESCO and writing his PhD dissertation entitled From Community to Humanity: Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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