Join BADco. for performances of our newest dance production – Spores.

17. and 18. 02. 2017 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 in performance by:
Lana Hosni and Ivana Pavlović