PERFORATIONS: And Only
19:00 | ZPC, Ilica 10
Bruno Isaković
i samo | And only
In a time when there’s increasing pressure to be our best selves and to present ourselves to others as idealized versions until we even believe in our own polished holograms, “And only” follows this pattern. This is about the concept of personal development with no alternatives, focusing on the success of this Sisyphean endeavor,
PERFORATIONS: il sonetto
20:00 | ZPC, Ilica 10
Martina Tomić | SSP & UO Genijator
il sonetto
Continuing the research begun in figure, figure, il sonetto seeks to find possible dance translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Using as inspiration their melody, unique sonority, their symmetries and repetitions and the rhythm that holds these together and intimately binds them, we discover a density whose sonorous landscapes brim with situations, emotions and characters. Translation thus first and foremost becomes listening to Shakespeare,
Never Allone
Never Allone is a choreographic journey within which the author treats dance as her personal time machine, allowing her to reflect on and reshape her past, as well as future – the spaces she visits the most. Spaces in which she lingers the longest.
This time, the journey continues in a technological environment, in which the other body is materialised through a heavy and solid metal frame with a transparent interior,
FIX ME!
FIX me! is a full length Contemporary Acro/Dance production by Ben Grinberg & Hazem Header. An American Jewish Acrobat, An Egyptian Muslim Dancer and Choreographers, finding, loving and using each other. FIX me! Is a dance theater piece that explores queer male impulses across disparate cultural contexts and sheds light on the preciousness of intimacy, free expressions and relationships.
FIX me!
THE SHISHA SESSIONS PT2: W’allahi, my life!
Mounir Samuel – Night 2: W’allahi, my life!
While smoking his shisha in a qahwa or coffee house in Cairo, Egyptian Dutch journalist and story teller Mounir Samuel will reveal his personal journey as a trans man. Being born and raised as the oldest daughter of both of his families, and being a well known public figure back in the Netherlands, he transitioned in front of the Dutch public and his Egyptian family from a pretty Dutch woman into an unwanted and threatening Arab man.
THE SHISHA SESSIONS PT1: Ya salem, what a world
Mounir Samuel – Night 1: Ya salem, what a world
While smoking his shisha in a qahwa or coffee house in Cairo, Egyptian Dutch journalist and storyteller Mounir Samuel will take you on a tour to the hidden queer world of North Africa and West Asia (the Middle East). Through storytelling and music he reveals the – to many – unknown secrets of the Arab speaking world,
THE LOVE BEHIND MY EYES / QUEER ZAGREB SEASON 2024.
The performance “The Love Behind My Eyes” is part of a new Triptych entitled “Love” and addresses the different myths of love and passion based on the Arab heritage. The performance is inspired by a 9th-century Arab story, which recounts the tragic and forbidden love between Mohamed Bin Daoud, a theologist, scholar and jurist, and his lover Mohamed Bin Jamea, a young man from Isfahan. Many are untold stories from Arab legacy,