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Aughterlony & S. Božić: AGENDA
de facto theatre group
13 May, 7:30 PM, Zagreb Dance Centar
Duration: 60 minutes
Contains: flashing lights, nudity
AGENDA is a powerful, multidisciplinary dance performance that embodies the art of collage to explore themes of strangeness, diversity, and otherness. Through fragmented movement and visual layering, it examines how identity and belonging are shaped outside conventional cultural narratives. Inspired by in-depth research into the concept of the “stranger,” AGENDA invites each performer to bring a distinct, personal “agenda” to the stage – orientations and impulses that drive their interactions and reshape the space.
The ensemble, comprising artists from Croatia, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland, uses the spontaneity and rawness of collage to engage with contemporary social and political tensions. Each dancer’s unique style adds dimension to the piece, challenging viewers to rethink constructs of identity, origin, and cultural boundaries.
More about the authors: HERE
Authors: Simone Aughterlony, Saša Božić
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.
Funded by the Croatian Ministry of Culture, The Zagreb City Office for Culture and Civic Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Embassy of Switzerland in Croatia, Goethe Institut Zagreb.
The performance is part of the Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Showcase 2025, which is part of the 42nd Dance Week Festival program.
Moving Balkans project is an initiative which assembles 11 dance organizations from the Balkans region: Albania Dance Meeting (AL), Art Link Foundation (BG), Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia (SI), Croatian Cultural Center Rijeka (HR), Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (HR), DAN.C.CE UNITIVA (GR), EN–KNAP Productions (SI), Interart Culture Center (MK), Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (SI), The National Center for Dance Bucharest (RO), Students’ Cultural Center Novi Sad (RS). More about the project: www.movingbalkans.eu
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
