PRESS

“The most interesting tension is created between segments of the play that are extremely attractive and finely aestheticized (completed with Marita Čopo's costume design), and others that are chaotic and relatively repulsive. (..) With a built-in charm of lazy boredom and easy failure, which art normally runs away from although it doesn't always manage to escape them, the show is most intriguing where edges separate and textures bounce, and most beautiful where it all flashes together in decadent and self-indulgent delight.” - Eros of the Void, Ana Fazekaš, Kulturpunkt

CREDITS

Concept and Direction: Simone Aughterlony and Saša Božić 
In collaboration with the performers:  Katarina Barešić, Boris Barukčić, Ivana Bojanić, Dora Brkarić, Viktoria Bubalo, Margareta Firinger, Nic Lloyd, Šimun Stankov, Melissa Valette, Thomas Vantuycom
Costumes: Marita Čopo
Scene: Igor Ruf
Light: Joseph Wegmann 
Music: Nikola Krgović
Production for de facto: Ida Klemenčić
Public relations: Ivana Sansević
Photography: Neven Petrović
Produced by de facto, Zagreb Dance Center, Dance Week Festival, Zagreb
Supported by Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia, Zagreb City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Embassy of Switzerland in Croatia, Goethe Institut Zagreb

BIOS

SIMONE AUGHTERLONY

Simone Aughterlony  is an independent artist based in Berlin and Zurich, working predominantly in dance and performance contexts. They have been devising queer-spirited choreographic works over the last sixteen years. As a performer they have worked with artists such as Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Forced Entertainment and Jorge León, Phil Hayes amongst others. Engaging with alternative forms of kinship, inside their process new constellations emerge as possibilities for reconfiguring a culture of togetherness that foster both familiar and unknown quantities. Their works playfully compose with representation and its saturation, seeping into and embracing the phenomenology of mis-recognition and the absurd. Simone approaches the performance genre as a world building practice where they navigate the contradiction between the domination of desire alongside the agency of all elements. 

SASA BOZIC

Sasa Bozic is a Croatian theatre director and dramaturg present in the field of European contemporary dance. Recently his projects were produced in Theatre &td in Zagreb, Croatian national theatre in Zagreb, Dubrovnik Summer Festival and Split Summer Festival in Croatia, while as dramaturge he collaborates with various choreographers coproduced by European theatre houses such as Hebbel am Ufer ( Germany), Kaaitheatre ( Belgium),  Gessnerallee ( Switzerland), The National Dance Centre ( Norway), among others. 

DE FACTO

de facto is an arts organisation established in 2008 by Zagreb based dance and theatre artist Saša Božić. de facto has engaged in collaborating and co-producing the works of international artists who share similar interests in the field of performing arts – working on a thin line between theatre, dance and performance, examining the porosity of their frames, and the position of the performer within the disparate modes of performing regimes.

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