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Sonja Pregrad looks into the spectacle of plant life with a team of six dancers and vocalists from Zagreb and Bratislava. They look into the way plants pass time, the ways their body parts move, the ways they flirt and procreate, the ways they are dying.
As one of the performers says: “You can’t observe nature and think that you will see it - understanding the playful and ‘artifice’ position of us as humans (and creators) being both of nature and in conflict with it. In the imagination of the performance, the plants become drag acts. They make you look at them from a very close and intimate place and then from another, high up in the hill… to them overgrowing the imaginary, so called 4th wall of the theatre.”
The movements that unfold withi this performance come from different places - sensorial, affective, formal and historical, vocal and poetic, conjuring up an energetic geometry of this dance which is also a poem to (plant) life.
Rather than subject verb object but subject subject subject I enjoyed a symbiosis I could stay longer with something A different kind of literal Literal sensual shynessPlant mouth singing Dirty, sharp, no daylight Sitting in the garden, watching you do things  You can not go too far away from anything
Movement of the space made to have no movementHow high? Where is the light? rain? Wind? What is the ground like? Season? Scale?What landscape is? Something untouchable, distant, open without detailsGrass that will never grow Codependence Clusters of dandelions A circle, precise circle Oh Grief It was interesting to die and realize and not the end
Something nice about passivity I didn’t mind the space   Gravity is so present  I was thinking, how do I attract?  All the images from the humanity and purpose of life  Trees colliding and something about the hair  I need to be in the same position with you  Field wideningGrass that will never grow Codependence Clusters of dandelions A circle, precise circle Light and reflections, when the boundaries between things blurSlowly shifting habitatI went to the passage, spending time in the dark at the threshold
It’s still not clear for me what sentences are for and how long they might go on…

75 Minuten

Production: OBJECT OF DANCE as part of Antisezona 23 in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Sonja Pregrad is a Creative Crossroad artist 2023/24, through the international support of the Life Long Burning network The project was realised through the financial support of the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Life Long Burning, the Kultura nova Foundation, and the residential support of the TALA Dance Center and the KNAP Center.Idea and choreography: Sonja Pregrad in collaboration with Ivana Bojanić, Viktoria Bubalo, Lana Hosni, Anna Javoran, Nika Pećarina, Eva Priečková Dance: Ivana Bojanić, Viktoria Bubalo, Lana Hosni, Anna Javoran, Nika Pećarina, Eva Priečková Music and space concept: Nika Pećarina Costume design: Bruna Jakupović Scenography: Liberta Mišan Light design: Ema Kani Sound manager: Martina Gucić Visuals: Lana Lephamer Production assistant: Tea Kantoci Technical manager: Tomislav Maglečić Trailer: Sindri Uču Photographs: Nina Đurđević Friend of the performance: Silvia Marchig
Sonja Pregrad is a Croatian choreographer, performer, teacher and performance curator, who was for a while based in Berlin, after doing an MA in Solo Dance Authorship at HZT Berlin. Now based in Zagreb, she makes solo and group work that was awarded multiple times, lately around the notions of drag, plants and poetry. She has been working with Meg Stuart, Isabelle Schad, Boris Charmatz, Lea Martini and Noha Ramadan, Willy Prager and many others. She is a founder and curator of the festival Improspekcije (since 2007) and Antisezona collective, running a program of performance art at Contemporary Art Museum in Zagreb. She has been continuously teaching at New Media department of Fine Art Academy and Dance department of Dramatic Art Academy in Zagreb and at ROAR Berlin independent program.

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