Koreospektar
On Friday, 10 November, starting at 8 p.m., ZPC presents the premiere performance of Jovana Zelenović’s AIR MIGRATION, produced by the Association of Professional Dance Artists ‘PULS’, as part of this year’s development and co-production program for young choreographers – KOROSPEKTAR.
A reprise performance is planned for Saturday, 11 November, at 8 p.m.
The concept of the show has been created by Jovana Zelenović, who also created the choreography and performs the piece alongside Margareta Firinger and Waithera Scheyeck, while the music was composed by Luka Čapeta and Jerko Jurin. The lighting design was created by Toni Mrdušan, Ira Rumora and Tina Spahija created the costume designs, while Nino Dolenc is credited with visual design. The executive producer of the play is Marko Čavlović.
The project was realised within the framework of the development and co-production program intended for young and unestablished dance artists, KOREOSPEKTAR 2023, of the Zagreb Dance Center and with the support of the City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the Kultura Nova Foundation.
The Koreospektar program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb.
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KOREOSPEKTAR 2023.
February at the Zagreb Dance Center is dedicated to Koreospektor, a development and co-production program intended for talented young and unestablished dance artists, that will feature three premieres and as many as nine reprise dance performances created as co-productions between ZPC and the Croatian Dancers Association, the Association of Professional Dance Artists ‘PULS’ and production company Sabmarine.
The first of the three premiere projects, Echo, choreographed and performed by dance artist Margareta Sinković, is scheduled for Saturday, 4 February. The project stems from two motivational starting points, “out of a desire to establish a specific performative relationship with music, and from the desire to explore the auditory aspect of a dancer’s body. More specifically, to explore the body that will present a silent dance. The dramaturgical connection between the musical and the bodily-performative layer of the performance is created by defining the almost oxymoronic conceptual question of how music might emphasise the quietness in the production of dance material”, highlights the show’s writer Luka Bosanac.
Later in the month, the premiere of Unisono, by choreographer Nika Disney, performed by Arian Šajina, follows on 18 February. According to the author, Unisono represents an intelligent and sensitive individual in a society dominated by appearance, while the piece aims to explore the dynamics of social and personal expectations, mechanisms of re/presentation and feedback loops.
On the last Saturday of the month, 25 February, the premiere program concludes with the performance of Choosing by Chance, choreographed by Marija Dujmić in collaboration with Nika Špekuljuk and Martina Terzić. Directing their focus on matters of choice, decision and chance, the authors try to empower the audience to participate in shaping the performance here-and-now, and at the same time offer them the possibility of observing and leaving the decision to someone else.
Reprise titles on the program include Sabmarine’s co-production successes Individue(t) and Talking Head Case, choreographed and performed by Lara Frgačić and Endi Schrötter, Boys Boys Boys by Mateja Miković, as well as Puls’s productions, Playground 22 and I Got You by Margareta Firinger and Jovana Zelenović. The last two days of the month are reserved for the NIIT production, Salto Animato, created by Filipa Bavčević, Nastasja Štefanić Kralj and Jovana Zelenović.
All performances start at 8 p.m..
Performance schedule:
2 Feb – I Got You, Jovana Zelenović and Margareta Firinger
4 Feb – Echo, premiere performance, Margareta Sinković
8 Feb – Individue(t), Lara Frgačić and Endi Schrötter
9 and 10 Feb – Talking Head Case, Lara Frgačić and Endi Schrötter
11 Feb – Boys Boys Boys, Mateja Miković
18 Feb – Unisono, premiere performance, Nika Disney
22 and 23 Feb – Playground 22, Jovana Zelenović
25 Feb – Choosing by Chance, Nika Špekuljuk and Marija Dujmić
27 and 28 Feb – Salto Animato, Filipa Bavčević, Nastasja Štefanić Kralj and Jovana Zelenović
The program and projects created in the framework of Koreospektar have been supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Zagreb, and the Kultura Nova Foundation.