Branko Potočan was born in 1963 in Trbovlje (Slovenia). In primary school he learned ballroom dances and spent eight years dancing traditional dances. In the eighties, he founded his own breakdance group Gumiflex. Since his youth he has been actively engaged in sports and also studied at the Faculty of Sports in Ljubljana. Before he begun his professional dance career, he worked in a coal mine in Hrastnik. In 1986 he joined Plesni Teater Ljubljana. In 1990, he became a member of the Belgium group Ultima Vez, led by Wim Vandekeybus. During the next two and a half years he danced with him. In 1994 he founded another group of his own, called Fourklor. With his dancers he has already staged sixteen performances and had numerous guest appearances at home and abroad and received many awards. Branko is an active choreographer. He is the author of over thirty performances and movement adviser in different institutional theatre productions. He is director of the theatre production organization Vitkar zavod, which is operating in the field of contemporary dance and circus, creating different projects, organizing various workshops, opening space for creativity and collaboration. Branko is organizing annual international festival of contemporary theatre and dance “Red Beats” since 2003.