FUNERAL FOR MY 30’s

They say that once you have a funeral, you can move on. Continuing the collaboration initiated for the performance Funeral for My 20’s and further developing the idea of ​​burying a period of one’s life, after turning 40, choreographer Sabina Perry looks back on the past decade. She reflects on the events that marked that period, both the ones she experienced herself and those she believes symbolise the 30s not only of her life, but of many other women. Observing a period infused with different hopes, pains, pleasures, losses, fulfilments, but also various difficulties, the past is excavated in order to be relived once more, presented on stage, and then forever buried. In collaboration with dancer Koraljka Begović, she creates a collage of events, experiences and emotions, both individual and collective, as well as an examination of a woman’s 30s.

“You can be a mother and a poet. A wife and a lover. You can dance on the graves you dug
on Tuesday, pulling out the bones of yourself you began to miss.”

– Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

Choreography, stage design, direction: Sabina Perry
Collaborator and performer: Koraljka Begović
Music selection: Sabina Perry
Original music score and arrangement: A.Glacier
Lighting design: Saša Fistrić
Costume selection: Koraljka Begović and Sabina Perry
Graphic design: Dora Đurkesac
Photography: Jelena Janković
Video: Fanni Tutek Hajnal
Production: Koraljka Begović
Promotional photograph: Sabina Perry

The work uses portions of the music by Dirty Beaches, Ada, Admo, Bibio, Chad VanGaalen.

Special thanks for the support: BodyWorks Cologne, Flavia Tabarrini, Ehrenfeld Studios, Oli Boxberg, Davorka Begović, Rajko Pavlić and Marta Žegura

The performance is financed by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City Office for Civil Society of the City of Zagreb and the Canada Council for the Arts.