Join BADco. for the premiere of our newest dance production – Spores.

PREMIERE: Thursday 27.10.2016 at 20:00
ALSO: Friday 28.10. and Saturday 29.10.2016 at 20:00

CINEMA SC, Savska 25, Zagreb

Reservations at the Theater &TD box-office (11:00-13:00 two hours before show, except Sunday):
itd@sczg.hr or +385-1-4593-510

The performance Spores departs from the problem of never ending work of maintenance. We maintain the body, the house, the family and the plants, we maintain friendships, relationships, cleanliness and clothing, we maintain infrastructure, organization, space and technology. Maintenance work is the invisible prerequisite of all work and creation. Maintenance is also a daily obstacle to undisturbed work and creation. It stays in the background, repeated as a routine and with no progression. It is in the never ending work of maintenance that progression, change or transformation hibernate.

The body in dance has been considered free of the inertia of the work of maintenance and the humility of the work of production. Movement in dance is supposedly exempt from social conditioning and left to creative self-determination. BADco. approaches this assumption of the free body in dance by analyzing the phenomenon of the turn, the rotation of the body on its axis without a possibility of progress. The turn as an element of repetition forms the ”infrastructure” of dance movement, setting it apart from every other movement, yet when the turn does not exit from its repetition the dance enters a crisis.

The initial inspiration for this performance comes from the poem What Is “Not Writing”?by American poet Anne Boyer, in which she dissects layer by layer her own experience of life as an artist, woman, mother, teacher, partner, activist, friend, unearthing the rhythms of her own daily life and their immobilizing effects.

BADco. authors:

Ivana Ivković (dramaturgy), Ana Kreitmeyer (performance), Tomislav Medak (dramaturgy), Nikolina Pristaš (choreography), Zrinka Užbinec (choreographic assistance).

BADco. is joined by:
Lana Hosni / Emilie Gregersen and Ivana Pavlović / Rebecka Olivia Berchold (performance), Helge Hinteregger and Martin Koller (music), Igor Pauška (space), Silvio Vujičić (costume), Jasmin Dasović (sound), Sara Bundalo (light), with the participation of students of the Danish National School of Performing Arts during the production process.

Production: Danijel Popović

Photographs: Damir Žižić

Thank you: Anne Boyer, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Anna Lea Ourø Jensen, Amalia Kasakove, June Kathrine Lysjø, Karin Bergman, Lydia Margareta Elisabeth Östberg Diakité, Culture Center Novi Zagreb

Premiere: 27. October 2016 at Cinema SC, Student Centre Zagreb

Staff of the Student Centre of the University of Zagreb – Culture of Change: Jelena Erceg (stage manager), Krunoslav Dolenec (technical realization), Miljenko Bengez and Mario Vnučec  (light technicians), Danijel Škrbo and Barbara Šimunović (sound technicians), Stipo Katavić (stage master), Dubravko Dolenec (stagehand)

Supported by: Zagreb City Council for Education, Culture and Sport; Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia

The work of BADco. is supported by the Foundation Kultura nova.

The production was prepared in Culture Center Novi Zagreb and the Student Centre of the University of Zagreb – Culture of Change.