UNDERDOGS, Editta Braun Company (Austria) / TWO ROOM APARTMENT, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor (Izrael)

TICKETS available via link on Eventim.hr ticketing system.

* A single ticket is valid for BOTH performances

UNDERDOGS, Editta Braun Company (Austria) - 10 P.M.

Editta Braun and her team of artists create distinctive dance pieces that are consistently committed to an expressive, theatrical style; humor and seriousness are often closely intertwined, always interwoven with a decidedly socially critical commitment.An exciting sextet with elements of acrobatics, dance and drama about isolation and conformism, blind violence, merciless struggle, the rage of ideology and war, but also about the power of solidarity on the margins of our society. Broken, but together. Not useful to society. They wear their clothes in layers on top of each other. They are people like you and me. Vulnerable, anxious, peculiar. Occasionally aggressive. Sometimes happy. Solidary. Selfish. Will they throw their lostnesses together? Will they show solidarity? Fight with each other instead of against each other? Their powerlessness, added together, would be an enormous force. A threat and a promise at the same time.

Performance, creation, choreography: Francesco D’Amelio, Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger, Marcin Denkiewicz, Nikola Majtanova, Marcello Musini, Jerca Rožnik Novak

Artistic direction, creation: Editta Braun

Composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff

Choreographic assistance: Maja Mirek

Dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau

Light design: Thomas Hinterberger

TWO ROOM APARTMENT, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor (Izrael) - 11 P.M. (18+)

Two Room Apartment brings Sheinfeld & Laor to the stage for a duet that reflects on their relationship as partners in life and as creators. Both personal and political, the work examines boundaries in various contexts: physical borders such as between territories or between two rooms, but also non-physical borders, such as the one between life and performance, and the boundaries that the individual sets for himself. The work uses a simple dance language and a minimalist aesthetic, and explores the notion of life as a framework in which a precise, almost compulsive repetition of customs and behaviors takes place. The work suggests a new and contemporary reading to the original performance created by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal that premiered in 1987 in Tel-Aviv. It is considered a milestone in the development of independent Israeli choreography, and it also received impressive international acclaim: the work had won several awards at the time, among them the Bagnolet Competition for Choreography. 

By and with: Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

Based on the 1987 dance work by Nir Ben Gal and Liat Dror

Music: Ori Vidislavski (original music), Elton John, Vains of Jenna

Artistic advisor: Keren Levi

Costumes: Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

Lights: Netta Koren

Duration: 35  minutes

Coproduction with Centre National de la Danse (Paris) and Grand Theater (Groningen)

The guest performance is supported by the Embassy of the State of Israel in the Republic of Croatia.